Sentences with phrase «argument would stand»

The argument would stand next year in that a majority Labour government could almost certainly not be returned, and Labour as the largest minority party probably not, without most Scottish MPs being Labour.

Do you think the father's argument would stand in court?

Not exact matches

I could be wrong — and all five of the Republican candidates for President still standing would tell me I am — but Apple's take on CALEA strikes me as a compelling argument.

In his letter, Dimon defended Mexico as well as NAFTA and even refuted some of the President's arguments regarding illegal immigration into the U.S. «Mexico is a long - standing peaceful neighbor, and it is wholly in our country's interest that Mexico be a prosperous nation,» Dimon wrote, noting that J.P. Morgan has business in Mexico worth $ 400 million in sales.

Two previous arguments by the Standing Rock tribe - that the construction had threatened sacred sites, and that the presence of oil in the pipeline would damage sacred waters, had been rejected by the court.

Oh, so this is that «wait until your father comes home... THEN you'll be sorry» argument... So you have no proof that Carl stood before God on Dec 20, 1996.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

Countering these arguments, Andrew Cuomo has cobbled together a coalition to support his amendment, the most vocal of which have been the business leaders who stand to profit from casinos and public sector workers, primarily teacher's unions, who will be the beneficiary of increased state revenues.

@ Jillienne «Stand YOUR own ground, don't expect people to forsake God by telling them how «impossible» it is for a man to be swallowed by a fish, an argument that really bears no weight actually, because frankly, if you believe that Dinosaurs once roamed the earth (a proven fact) there is nothing wrong with believing a man could have been swallowed by a giant whale... it's really not that strange..»

Once you start swearing and name calling, you pretty much have told everyone your argument can not stand up.

I appreciate that Julie has acknowledged some of that, but think that — as someone that stands outside the inner circle — your argument may hold much for you than for those in the inner circle.

Not to mention, this entire post is one long and contra - biblical argument that you / we shouldn't argue about theology, without ever setting forth clear and logical propositions that NOT arguing (again, fill in whatever verb you're more comfortable with, the result is the same) theology honors God more than standing in the gap and defending the truth he has set forth once and for all.

I stand by my argument that saturating our labor markets and swelling our already ample underclass with third - world economic migrants is exhausting our capacity to aid the vaster numbers who are left behind, let alone the needy Americans who have nowhere else to go.

But it seems more likely that the «traditional family» argument is just a smokescreen to get more people to stand aside who otherwise wouldn't while he kills the people he hates.

Garry Wills has for years stood out among those few critics able to convey complex arguments to a broad readership.

It is you who has no argument... not one that stands ground in the 21st century and not one that isn't circular.

I wish he had developed that argument further since, as it stands, I do not follow it.

Carl Trueman's powerful argument that any who care for the future of Christianity in the post-Christian West should stand with Calvin would suggest that we don't make our invitations conditional.

In the face of that kind of argument, buttressed by an expectation that, problems or not, the research on life extension will go on anyway, those whom Ronald Bailey has called «the mortalists» must especially be taken to task for standing in the way of progress.

While the prosecution had more than fifty witnesses testify, Gosnell himself never took the stand during the arguments, and McMahon» did not call either fact or character witnesses for his client.»

... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself.

The arguments for God's existence have stood for hundreds of years with the waves of unbelieving criticism breaking against them, never totally discrediting them in the ears of the faithful, but on the whole slowly and surely washing out the mortar from between their joints.

I have heard this argument a lot on this site — about how David is being «exlcusive» or whatever other lament is thrown his way for taking a stand.

The members of the New Testament community knew that they stood at the great climacteric moment of all history, that in and through the things which had happened among them and of which they were witnesses, God had visited and redeemed his people, that no argument is needed.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

I don't think Jesus would stand for this argument veiwing how He rebuked men over Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalene was the first witness to His rising from the dead.

The union itself explicitly encouraged moving classes, so the students making that argument were standing in a long tradition of Yalies ready to speak on behalf of those who had not requested their advice.

Knowledge in the sense of direct first - hand encounter has so much higher standing than abstract argument based on logic that one could almost speak of anti-intellectualism in n - any groups.

Now, after defending Prop 8 at trial in U.S. district court, and in the Ninth Circuit, and in arguments to the Supreme Court, the proponents of the amendment have been told they lack standing to appeal the adverse trial ruling.

And since Stapp has provided no further arguments for the meaningfulness of the joint class A, B, C, and D or for the propriety of treating the four equations relating the four sets of spin - value products as simultaneous equations, one can only conclude that both of these matters stand in need of considerable clarification and that any philosophical claims which depend upon the conclusion reached in Stapp's proof are in jeopardy.

And even Blackmun might have come to see that his argument could not have stood up against the array of empirical evidence that formed that brief for the state of Texas.

As I conclude, it has become clear that the arguments invoked in the name of equality, love, protection, and of the right to a child do not stand up and can not, by themselves, justify a law.

Whether particular theories of biological evolution stand or fall would not affect this basic perspective, or arguments and insights that follow from this.

I think WENGER hates strong personaliites at his side and feels threatened, since he can't stand arguments or what some call frank discussion, which would mean brain storming and more creative thinking.

The arguments against Rodriguez can't stand up to the established precedent for legends having a great season.

Of course, there is an argument that Qatar should have as much right as any other country, established in football or not, to host a World Cup and that the European powers should not be able to stand in their way.

On a blustery October morning in 1874 a group of Tennessee sportsmen gathered together in a field near Memphis to settle a long - standing argument about who had the best hunting dog.

Earlier, Burilov had attacked his twin brother with a hammer in an argument over who should wash the dinner dishes, and his grandmother complained that «ever since taking up body - building six years ago, all he has done is to stand in front of the mirror all day and flex his muscles.

I have been wengers biggest defender, me and my dad always having heated arguments for the past 8 seasons, he can't stand wenger..

If we win the FA Cup and get top - four then you may have an argument, but as things stand things look much worse than last season by any measure that counts IE.

This from a commenter on The Villa Blog: «Martin O'Niell [sic] and John Carew had a stand up argument in the Dressing Room Area after MON told him he was only a substitute for the Wigan match.

Following my loss, I was very committed to respecting the individual decisions of my clients, recognizing that they can make an educated decision and choose which risks and benefits better align with their ideals, and as importantly I would stand on principle (and with a good argument) when persecuted rather than abandon my clients pretending I had never participated in their care.

That's actually the basis for a long - standing phony argument where a «family farm» would have to be sold to cover the tax, but when asked for an example, those offering the argument could never find even a single instance of that happening.

However, even if you believed you'd found a brilliant and unassailable argument as to why failure to prosecute in this case constituted one of the rare exceptions to the general presumption that a prosecutor is acting permissibly when exercising prosecutorial discretion, you would still run into the problem of standing.

You're saying if they stood in his way, if he did indeed have a delegate argument, that it would be the end of the party as you know it.

That conclusion, based on a full but complicated analysis of every possible measurement ¬ — complaints to Ombudsfolk, audit reports of all kinds, measurement of times and numbers, review of agency work and outsourcing — stands up against every possible reservation, such as the argument that costs and complaints would have risen even more had the reforms not been undertaken, or that social change made it necessary for government to run faster to stand still.

«I remember some strong arguments where I would be berating the government and she was standing up pretty vigorously for Gordon Brown.»

None of the three main parties has stood up and made the only logical argument possible in the face of Ukip's crafty and increasingly well - organised crowd - pleasing: that the greatest problems facing Britain are not caused by excessive immigration, and that an excessive clampdown on people coming in will have thoroughly unwanted consequences.

At the end of the oral arguments, Fisher asked the plaintiffs to submit further written arguments concerning whether they have standing in the case, and on the «political question» — presumably, whether or not this is a matter to be decided by the courts or political system.