Sentences with phrase «arguments about the merits»

The corollary would be that a diminution of the public honor accorded to those who died in combat might be desirable in helping Mr. Hayes win his next round of foreign policy disputes with John McCain - disputes that he might otherwise lose in public argument about the merits of the military operation in question.

I have had many a discussion / argument about the merits of Brussels sprouts.

Governor Cuomo, who championed the casino bills in the legislature, says the argument about the merits of gambling and whether more should be allowed in New York is really over.

Cuomo, who championed the casino bills in the legislature, says the argument about the merits of gambling and whether more should be allowed in New York is really over.

It's possible to have a reasonable and respectful argument about the merits and drawbacks of different approaches for evaluating and compensating teachers, assessing student learning, or improving school performance.

Looking at this from the angle of whether the case is worthy of a Supreme Court review (without getting defocused by arguments about the merits), I'm not overwhelmed by Apple's filing, but anything else would have been a major surprise.

Not exact matches

«Elliott has always behaved ethically in its disputes with corporate managements and boards, and it is regrettable and disappointing that certain parties adverse to us would choose to promote false allegations about us rather than engage on the merits of our arguments in good faith.»

With that in mind, it's an interesting argument, not only for its own merits but also because of what it tells you about the vision of boundless meritocratic «disruption» that startup investors are trying to sell to the world.

While both arguments have their merits, here are two very good reasons you should choose a blogging niche that you're passionate about:

With all due respect that seems to me to be thin skinned in the sense of an argument not being able to stand on it's own merit and it being ironic about you alleging that in me.

Gould's argument has the merit that it warns us not to be too simplistic about attributing trends in evolution.

«PETA's arguments about the value of the science fails on its merits, so they resort to these deeply personal attacks.

Also, I thought I had made it abundantly clear that the main reason I want online implemented in all of the aforementioned games is so I can play with FRIENDS, so your argument about only playing with complete strangers online has little to no merit.

With a combination of journalistic drama and well - merited concern about our current educational outcomes, Green sets out a compelling argument that effective pedagogy embodies a highly complex set of skills and knowledge that can and should be taught to teachers.

While your argument about the struggle of differentiating for 25 students in a classroom has merit, there is no group larger than one which does not require differentiation.

As you read this, are you thinking mostly about ways to defend dividend investing or at least considering the merits of my arguments?

I have the feeling that in raising some of those arguments here he might well become unstuck when faced with correspondents whose day job is in climatology and atmospheric physics... pretty much like an atmospheric physicist would feel, I would imagine, in commenting on the merits of something like, say, â Polyclonal antibodies raised to phycocyanins contain components specific for the red - absorbing form of phytochromeâ Planta 176, 391â 398 (not that there appears to be much to argue about there, not that I'm qualified to express an opinion on it anyway).

I suspect 95 % of the people arguing about this have chosen their position ideologically and won't be able to explain the merits of the various arguments.

Now, if we had learned something of value about the «something else», then there could have been merit in his argument.

Considering the readership numbers about which Latimer Adler just bragged, considering (at least for argument's sake) that newspapers have some kind of intellectual impact, and considering that David Rose did misrepresent climate science results in a manner that may make readers doubt of his honesty, even Stirling English will have to admit that the claim of harm BartR was alluding to earlier might have some merit.

What this anxiety speaks about is much less the merits and demerits of one form of energy production over another, and much more the inability of public figures to make arguments without recourse to fearmongering.

One could argue separately about the merits of calculating the global average one particular way, or another, of one QC scheme vs another, but those really are separate arguments.

Challenging the scientific merits of someone else's arguments is what science is all about.

Do you really want to side with the coal industry on this subject, or can you let nuclear power win or lose on its own merits, without silly arguments about extreme scenarios or tail - chasing arguments about economics?

But the argument above has no merit - all the points in this post, even in the previous paragraph, which is well - established knowledge about climate change, demonstrate the paucity of the «hypothesis».

(which would be fun to have a technical argument about, on its merits, starting with «Oh reallllyyyyy??»).

If Chris Monckton, common bloke, reading the scientific literature, finds fault with the methodologies of researchers, and has laid out his objections in excruciating detail, could we give those objections a look, and ascertain whether his arguments have any merit, without resort to ad hominem diversions about his alleged delusions of grandeur?

Comfort words like literally, clearly, and obviously alert your reader that what you're contending isn't literal, clear, or obvious, and they have the perverse effect of sowing doubt in your reader's mind about the merit of your arguments.

Researchers will have greater difficulty making accurate judgments about whether an argument has merit and will thus advance marginal theories and cases with greater frequency.

The column reports on different instances where appellate lawyers were personally sanctioned for their conduct: one for making «utterly frivolous» arguments in a series of appeals of foreclosure actions; another for misrepresenting the trial court's ruling and disrespecting the court's orders (in an appeal of an earlier sanctions award), and a third for a brief that the appellate court said was both «unintelligible» on the merits and vitriolic in speaking about the appellate court itself.

This national survey shares voters» opinions about the merits of the arguments in favor of electing versus appointing state supreme court justices, as well as public campaign financing of such elections.

However, Mr Justice Langstaff ruled that the legal challenge had failed, stating the transitional order was «properly made, whatever the merits of arguments about its consequences».

Although additional efforts to refine an adverse childhood experience checklist that predicts later health outcomes has scientific merit, an argument can be made that enough is known about certain harmful childhood experiences22 that more testing of parts of this model should be carried out through experiment rather than correlation.

This deduction argument is so weak and without merit when used paying off your own home but it really reaches silly levels when we're talking about investment properties.