Sentences with phrase «argument in defense»

What a weak argument in defense of promoting real estate sales.

A lawyer who has more experience in handling your type of case will have more knowledge and skill to build a strong argument in your defense.

-- John Adams, December 1770; in «Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials»

Some of you guys seem to be subject to the same lack of discrimination between Science and Scientific Method that I criticized in Steven Jay Gould back in Science 2000: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/287/5451/253.e-letters The Gould Standard Excerpt: Steven Jay Gould has constructed an elaborate hand - waving argument in defense of the Deconstructionist Theory of the Intellectual Left.

The core problem, I believe, is the interaction between our penchant for biased reasoning on the one hand, the deeply polarized political climate (which pushes emotional buttons rather than encouraging calm deliberation), and the rich misinformation environment (there's a ready - made argument in defense of anything and everything).

Lastly, Hugh Howey steps in, calmly dismantles every possible argument in the defense of traditional publishing's position, and leads us to a brighter future.

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A reader called Muel made an especially eloquent argument in defense of some of Forever's gameplay mechanics.

Andrew Cuomo made a potentially important semantic argument in defense of embattled Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's handling of a sexual harassment claim against a Democratic assemblyman that resulted in a six - figure taxpayer payment.

Does Mill have an argument in defense of altruism?

The anticipated white rejection of my equation of Christianity and black power encouraged me to write an extended argument in its defense.

A judge has ruled that Uber can't present a key argument in its defense against an Alphabet lawsuit.

Gallagher, the President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, is quite simply the most effective spokesperson making public arguments in defense of marriage today.

St. Paul gives us deeply moving arguments in defense of our need for reason in the life of faith.

(Experts on both sides present sophisticated jurisprudential arguments in defense of their positions, but most people look more to congenial outcomes than to consistent principles of law.)

Liberals and conservatives alike have resorted to religious arguments in defense of claims about public morality and the role of the state in defending public morality.

The district has made several arguments in defense of its funding scheme.

Learning and Development managers try to find killer arguments in defense of eLearning.

People who favor zeros for missed assignments have made several arguments in defense of the use of zeros.

Comprehension of the arguments in defense of the particular issue.

Michael Oppenheimer has sent a rebuttal to Nature making similar arguments in defense of global mean temperature.

An attorney can help you assert legal arguments in your defense.

You can make the prosecution's job even more difficult by asserting legal arguments in your defense.

Not exact matches

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.

Republican Sen. John Kennedy picked up where Cruz left off, asking Yates whether there were «reasonable arguments that could be made» in the defense of Trump's immigration order.

His case illustrates the difficulty of succeeding with such a defense at a time when a Colorado court is preparing to hear similar arguments in the trial over a movie theater shooting in which 12 people were killed.

The show has thrust the criminal defense attorney into the national spotlight and his eloquent and impassioned arguments in Avery's trial even inspired something of a cult following for the Wisconsin lawyer (with some even deeming Strang the show's «sex symbol»).

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 201In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 201in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

But Mnuchin extends that argument about transparency into something more like a rap sheet: take Beijing's money, he warns, and risk being trapped in a debilitating cycle of debt — something that has led to asset - stripping by Chinese practitioners of what the National Defense Strategy calls «predatory economics.»

Alan Greenspan, when defending central bank inaction in the face of the 1990's bubble, was — perhaps unwittingly — going to repeat an argument first forwarded by Professor Lawrence of Princeton in 1929, in defense of the 1920's bubble.

In his superb defense of freedom of thought and opinion, Matthew J. Franck does not carry through his unblinking realism in analyzing the arguments for same - sex marriage to his conclusion, where he evinces a Pollyannaish hope that the «strategy pursued by the advocates of same - sex marriage will be self - defeating.&raquIn his superb defense of freedom of thought and opinion, Matthew J. Franck does not carry through his unblinking realism in analyzing the arguments for same - sex marriage to his conclusion, where he evinces a Pollyannaish hope that the «strategy pursued by the advocates of same - sex marriage will be self - defeating.&raquin analyzing the arguments for same - sex marriage to his conclusion, where he evinces a Pollyannaish hope that the «strategy pursued by the advocates of same - sex marriage will be self - defeating.»

In 1971, I published In Defense of People, the first book - length critique of «the ecology movement» that was then in ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism todaIn 1971, I published In Defense of People, the first book - length critique of «the ecology movement» that was then in ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism todaIn Defense of People, the first book - length critique of «the ecology movement» that was then in ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism todain ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism today.

In March, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two appeals cases related to same - sex marriage - California's Proposition 8, which bans same - sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal benefits to same - sex coupleIn March, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two appeals cases related to same - sex marriage - California's Proposition 8, which bans same - sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal benefits to same - sex couplein two appeals cases related to same - sex marriage - California's Proposition 8, which bans same - sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal benefits to same - sex couples.

The Catholic Church, to take one prominent institution devoted to the defense of human life from conception until natural death, makes no «theological» argument about the nature of the life in the womb.

Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George Encounter, 168 pages, $ 15.99 No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the....

William Lane Craig has authored a well - informed historical account and sophisticated modern defense of the cosmological argument for God's existence which has its origin in the medieval Arabic practitioners of kalam (sometimes translated «scholastic theology»).

In other words, Craig's defense of the kalam argument upholds the position that the past of finite events had an absolute beginning a finite time ago.

A full defense of this intuition as true (i.e., as «public») demands the kind of argument and modes of reflections which I have attempted in my recently completed work on systematic theology (The Analogical Imagination).

His defense of the revivals and of emotion in religion rested on a broad argument which included God and the nature of reality itself.

This argument was first articulated in the proto - liberal defense of monarchy by Thomas Hobbes.

There was a coherent argument to be made that opposition to the war in Iraq is not inconsistent with a vigorous defense of American interests, but the Democrats» uncertain history on national security since Vietnam hurt their credibility.

Tomorrow and Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases regarding same - sex marriage... one concerning California's Proposition 8 and the other the Defense of Marriage Act.

Neuhaus had a missionary zeal, a fervor for argument and conversation in defense of the faith he loved so passionately.

«As an argument against this way of thinking, this kind of idolatry, I turn to the work of Walter Brueggemann, who, in an interview last year with Krista Tippett for On Being, explained the reason for the abundance of metaphors we find for God in the scriptures this way: «The Biblical defense against idolatry is plural metaphors.

Instead of detailing his many and manifold sins, he launched into a reprise of his argument against birth control coverage in U.S. health plans, and criticized President Obama along the way for coming to Fluke's defense.

This week, the Supreme Court justices heard arguments challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996.

Anyone who is offended by the name ought to be the one in court having to wage an argument over the defense of their mental legitimacy.

Unfortunately, Whitehead weakened his argument by an ill - advised defense of the concept of simultaneity in his first book, referring to «blind people barking both their shins at the same moment» (PNK 53), without realizing that simultaneity at the same place is not denied by relativity.

Sir Karl's The Open Society and Its Enemies has become by now a classic argument for rationalism, as eloquent a defense of scientific tolerance as most believers in the law of noncontradiction are likely to want.

It was the basis of his argument for eloquent sermons as a counter-force to the malevolent uses of rhetoric: «While the faculty of eloquence, which is of great value in urging either evil or justice, is in itself indifferent, why should it not be obtained for the uses of the good in the service of truth if the evil usurp it for the winning of the perverse and vain causes in defense in iniquity and error?»