Sentences with phrase «argument against the principle»

There can be no argument against the principle of individual as opposed to household registration — and last year I brought in with cross-party agreement a new law to do just that.

Not exact matches

That's not a knock - down argument against any and all principled refusals to do business, but it's a point worth making.

As a matter of principle, any argument against same - sex marriage that invokes the reproductive end of sex necessarily implicates contraception.

With these principles in mind, I want to push back against some of Azumah's arguments.

Newman recounts his realization of this principle in the Apologia: «It was difficult... to find arguments against the Tridentine Fathers, which did not tell against the Fathers of Chalcedon; difficult to condemn the Popes of the sixteenth century, without condemning the Popes of the fifth.»

Peirce's argument against determinism in «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» published a year earlier than his paper on evolutionary love, clearly lays the basis for the affirmation of radical creativity and the need for the principle of agape (6.36 - 65).

One of the main arguments used by advocates of gay «marriage» is that the current definition of marriage (as pertaining exclusively to man and woman) breaches the principle of equality and thus discriminates against same sex couples.

You are right in your definition of the principle of debate, but that's why we get nowhere with many serious issues of the world, we debate and argue without thought or understanding of the other side, we just learn enough to put together arguments against others.

George's arguments in principle against coerced religious practice succeed only if he can establish the distinctiveness of religion as an aspect of human fulfillment.

But it is question - begging to use that argument to defend the very existence of such a deity against the appearances (which is very different from Whiteheadians using their principles to illuminate the appearances).

There is no coherent jurisprudential argument against it — no principled legal view that can resist it.»

And in the absence of any such compelling reason, the moral principle that it is wrong to kill people constitutes a powerful argument against capital punishment.

For instance, the judge granted summary judgment against the NCAA on its argument that scholarship rules «improve [e] the quality of the collegiate experience for student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.»

The principle that children under three should not stay overnight with their separated or divorced fathers, when parents can not agree on co-parenting arrangements, has recently reappeared as an argument against co-residential parenting for very young children.

There are possible arguments of principle against this.

The principle argument used against the railroads in the campaign for government regulation — that they were monopolies that had to be controlled to keep them from exploiting the public — had no validity whatsoever for trucking.»

... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

As was «discussed» on Twitter, I do not at all agree with section 2.5's thesis, one which has been used as one of the principle arguments against dendroclimatology practice generally, at various blogs, especially McIntyre's, but several others also.

As for the argument raised against the principle of specialisation — to avoid creating a court with a «rigid» jurisdiction that might not be justified in the light of future workload — well, the same argument could actually be invoked against the creation of a «super-GC» whose future caseload is unlikely to double in the near future.

It's true, of course, that many disputes settle only when both parties have been so beaten up and impoverished by the adversarial system that they just give up, but that doesn't seem to be a very principled argument against mediation.

After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.

For Auld LJ, there were two «knock - out» arguments against a narrowing of the prohibition: - the impossibility of identifying a boundary between party political matters and other matters of public importance and controversy; and - he contended, it would not have been «a principled or logical distinction to limit the prohibition to... election periods,» if airtime could be bought outside them (para 80).

The primary argument I have heard against this principle is the contention that future machines will have the capacity for discrimination and will be more moral in their choices and actions than human soldiers.

Quite a lot of the time, the arguments made against specific alternative cryptocurrencies are justified; however, a strong case can be made that the position provided by Krawisz — that altcoins are bad in principle, and not just in implementation, goes too far.

Promoting blockchain technology while dismissing cryptocurrency is becoming a common argument among those against the core principles of decentralized currency.

The Statement of Principles details the current «marriage crisis,» refutes arguments against marriage, defines marriage, explains the importance of marriage and the costs of divorce, describes several ongoing pro-marriage movements, and outlines a call to action for government entities, married couples, and others.