Sentences with phrase «argument i've made with»

It's the same argument they made with registered retirement savings plans.

Waving your hands and saying «it's common sense» does not an argument make with respect to hybrids.

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In a Harvard Business Review article titled «Men Shouldn't Refuse to be Alone with Female Colleagues,» United States Naval Academy professors W. Brad Johnson and David G. Smith make a similar argument.

Basically, the argument was, if you're going to spend decades with a person you're going to miscommunicate, you're going to misunderstand each other, you're going to have situations where you don't get where the other person is coming from or you make the wrong assumptions.

The suits are part of a group of at least four other cases with similar arguments in various courts around the country, and they make legal experts wary, particularly as the differences in opinion seem to indicate their destiny to go before the Supreme Court.

However, on the other hand, the argument could be made that parodies in the adult context would qualify for a fair use defense, as with other parodies.

How do they make their arguments — with outlines, with lofty abstractions?

Klepper said he noticed while covering Trump rallies that the information, language, and arguments that people were making had less in common with Fox News and more in common with Breitbart News and even the conspiracy - peddling Infowars.

There's a depth of reporting here that suggests he took this assignment personally, and he makes a compelling argument that the interests of a publicly traded corporation and a Wall Street culture hell - bent on wringing every last efficiency from a business aren't compatible with the stock in trade of the journalism industry — reporting that earns and safeguards the public trust.

You could describe this as social media with training wheels, and make the argument that it's helpful for kids to learn to use social media under the eye of an adult.

Shah's argument about «an inferior competitive landscape» makes no sense, however, although it's of a piece with other Tesla mega-bulls, such as Loup Ventures» Gene Munster, who seems to think that Tesla can basically sell 11 million cars in the US alone.

With criticism of self - driving cars swirling, our hunch is that it's a staged video made in the hopes of driving the argument that autonomous vehicles are safe to get behind the wheel of, even when you're asleep.

(See The Curse of Microsoft Excel) I remember long arguments with clients in one of my first businesses, where we tracked customer satisfaction by making millions of phone calls each year to consumers at home to determine how satisfied they had been with a recent experience.

As the argument went, social networks and the internet in general have made it easier for extra-marital dalliances to happen, just as they've made it possible for people with oddball interests to connect and become friends.

A few of the arguments, like how the long lineups provide fans an opportunity to talk movies with their fellow attendees, made sense even though I wouldn't consider them a worthy tradeoff for all the other issues.

His whole argument that he wouldn't be able to negotiate a good deal with Play - Doh unless he had a controlling stake in Soy - Yer - Dough made no sense, as Herjevac pointed out.

This is because, even if you have a heated argument, as long as you keep in the back of your mind that the people you're arguing with do have the best in mind for the company and wider team, you'll always be able to make it to the end and remain friendly.

argument is usually made with complete lack of acknowledgement for the trade - off being consciously made for investment in growth.

While Alphabet CEO Larry Page can lean on his reputation as a tech visionary to make the case for big bets, Porat's arguments stand up only when underpinned with solid economic logic.

Stagnating incomes and soaring housing prices have led to an affordability crisis, and the government could make the argument that this should be addressed with a policy intervention.

While I truly want to be with you on the hands - off - free - market argument, I just have to believe that these rules are in place for good reasons... like making sure your sweet Granny don't get fleeced by a huckster.

I heard this line of argument in 2011, 2012, 2013 — and it's still being made, with investing sages telling people to sell stock and hold more cash.

Even among her Fed peers, she stands out as a nerd: «As Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon Hilsenrath.

That's an argument Sun CEO Scott McNealy makes frequently when defending his company's general reluctance to enter the services business but instead rely on partnerships with consulting firms.

Specifically, Mike engages critically with previous arguments I have made (on this site and elsewhere) that the TPP, as currently negotiated, could result in the ultimate loss of -LSB-...]

The arguments of Adair Turner and others seem to me to depend on a notion that you are making some kind of permanent commitment with respect to future monetary policy by engaging in money - financed fiscal policy.

Asked which province — B.C., which wants to delay the project for environmental reasons, or Alberta, which wants to avoid delays for economic reasons — is making the more compelling argument, Canadians are evenly split, with 50 per cent saying each province's government is more persuasive

Here is a post from Libertarian News that begins, «I recently got into an argument over on the Reddit Bitcoin boards where I held the position that fractional reserve banking with Bitcoins was not possible,» which sounds fun; he recants that view but does make what I think is a very valid point:

An argument can be made that there are no «regulators» that can bring down the price of bitcoin like they could with silver.

If the TAM provided sales reps with this head start, I think you could make a strong argument it would give your company a strategic advantage.

You'd probably have to come up with a statistical model that estimates what the fluctuations should be given some basic assumptions on how people will buy to make a conclusive argument that there is something fishy here.

A plausible argument can be made that the Fed should now deviate from its rule book, but the argument isn't that the economy is too weak to cope with tighter monetary policy.

Trump's lawyers have made a number of arguments to try to get Zervos's suit dismissed, but the most important has to do with the fact that Zervos is suing in New York state court.

The problem I've always had with the stocks vs bond yield argument is that if rates rise, the whole thing doesn't make sense.

Yahoo has roughly 11,000 employees and one can make the argument they can operate with a significantly smaller amount.

How convenient, once again, that something that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever can be explained away with an argument that can't be refuted.

To make gains among these voters, Republicans needed to make detailed (but pithy) arguments about what was wrong with Obamacare and the benefits of Republican health care policy X (read National Affairs to get an idea of some of the things they could have said), and do so in plain language.

If you're going to make the stupid argument that the term «belief» means the same thing whether it's applied to a god or the sun coming up, then argue with someone else.

Lincoln exploded this as preposterous, demonstrating their behavior's incompatibility with the Constitution, pointing out that if they really wanted to claim revolutionary grounds for action, they should have the courage to make that argument instead, and resting his own argument on the principles of the Declaration.

Ms. Morthole is trying to justify her continued sinning with very weak arguments on how sinning makes her feel good about herself.

So here we have «Chuck» (aka Mark) pretending nothing was said, no proofs given, no arguments made, so he can pat himself on the back for «denying» the truth and taking (I suppose) some of the sting of losing away with him.

Start with the science that shows the humanity and individuality of the embryo, and then make philosophical arguments about the equality of all human beings as persons possessing inherent dignity.

It's an argument I've been making for years, with little success: Social observers in general and religious folk in particular vastly overestimate the influence of the news and entertainment media.

Fundamentalist Chrsitians made a big mistake with this intelligent design nonsense — it's the wrong argument.

like former leader... we too have kept open house and had people live with us long and short term for nearly all our married life... we've had debate, argument, sadness, hilarity... even had someone with a disturbing psychosis... not at one stage have we felt the need to make any rules... that would almost be like copping out of relationship.

The problem with that argument is that with this new evidence they are not making a claim based on «silence» they are basing it on actual archaeological data.

It is no accident that Percy summons Flannery O'Connor to such questions as well; but unlike her, he does not anchor his response in St. Augustine and St. Paul (we have here no abiding place) nor in St. Thomas, whose argument is insistent that the poet's, the artist's, responsibility is to the good of the thing being made, not with the correction of appetites in his audience.

the burden of proof lies with the individual who is making the argument.

To go along with this, you have to believe three things, all controversial: (1) that authenticity is a valid idea; (2) that you can argue in reason about ideals and about the conformity of practices to these ideals; and (3) that these arguments can make a difference.

If what you're trying to use here is the ad hominem fallacy - attacking an argument by attacking the person making the argument - then the only people you'll convince with this tactic are those who haven't learned to think critically.