Sentences with phrase «arguments against such»

Nearly half (46 percent) of those surveyed favor government rule changes to make it easier for real estate companies to offer one - stop shopping, even after hearing all the arguments against such changes.

It seems there are plenty of arguments against such games and how they are affecting our youth.

As I said, there are good, secular arguments against such preferences.

That doesn't mean that arguments against such a policy can't be marshaled.

There might be no argument against such liberation that works for the women on an individual level.

The biggest argument against such a move is that voters are looking for the minority party to stand against what they believe to be President Obama's wrong - headed agenda rather than offer an entire alternative set of policies and, by unifying behind a «Contract», Republicans will be handing Democrats something to shoot at this fall.

There can be no ethical argument against such explicit authorship, Stemwedel of San José State agrees.

The gaping hole in this logic is a sound argument against such a mechanic.

His argument against such patents was that they put both software developers and users in danger by monopolizing forms of computations.

Not exact matches

The «bank for central banks» has released a paper on the possible impact of state - issued cryptocurrencies, as well as arguments for and against the introduction of such monetary instruments.

But we argue that the underlying social purpose of such Jubilees — to keep debt within the reasonable ability to be paid without social and economic polarisation — could be recreated via alternative mechanisms, and we discuss the politico - economic arguments for, and against, doing so.

The claim of privileged access is not saved by arguing that each of us intuitively grasps this self without analysis or argument, that each of us singly grasps the essence of experience in this intuition, and that the analysis or argument is required only (1) to call it to the attention of those who have not noticed it, or (2) to defend the claim of such an intuition against those who deny it for no or bad reasons, or (3) to develop its implications and describe its content.

Such behavior does more to refute Scripture than any logical argument against inerrancy ever could.

In fact, today I had planned to write a post speaking out against tentative plans in the Tennessee legislature to adopt immigration policies similar to those that caused such controversy in Arizona, basing my argument on the inherent worth of our Hispanic neighbors.

But contemporary moral and political philosophers rarely offer sustained arguments against the metaphysical project as such.

One argument against this is that such a practice would dilute the quality of scholarship.

And that is the point of my argument; the standard theological version of process philosophy — Whitehead with God — leads me to ask such questions, leads me to wonder why such senseless, absurd disasters have plagued us at every step of our history, and this counts strongly against the centered version of process metaphysics.

Such an interpretation magnifies the evils to be expected from a resort to force, regardless of any arguments for the justice of the cause, and thus transforms the presumption against war into a functional pacifism.

There are indeed many intelligent, sincere, well - meaning people who say such things as: «Whatever the controversy, and however strong the scholarly arguments against it, I choose to believe in the supernatural aspects of my faith, simply because it is very important for me in the life of my faith to be radically aware of sacred mysteries.»

In order to cushion himself against such an obsolete inference, he distinguishes between what he calls the «argument to complexity» on the one hand, and the «argument to design» on the other.

Of course, even a genre such as rap has different subcategories, and arguments against popular rap stars such as Lil» Wayne may not apply to every rap song.

Churches and pastors who participate in miracles and prophecies don't like to be told that they are being controlled by the devil, and so they often counter with the argument that anyone who says that something is of the devil when it is actually from God is committing a blasphemous sin against the Holy Spirit and will never be forgiven of such a sin.

Here is the point: such an argument against utilitarianism stakes everything on a pre-philosophical intuition about the heinousness of murder.

Since one of Whitehead's ablest interpreters has argued the impossibility of such relationships in the context of his thought, some of the argument will be directed implicitly against his objections.

Verbal similarities are not therefore a strong argument for the dependence of Thomas upon the canonical gospel tradition, and all other factors arc against such dependence.

In what follows I will not attempt to answer his arguments in detail, still less to score points against him; the matters we are concerned with are too difficult and too crucial to admit of such treatment; I shall therefore merely try to indicate where and why I still venture to differ from him.

Though it is entirely legitimate for a scientist, or anyone else, to present philosophical or theological arguments against naturalistic evolution, it can not properly be claimed that such arguments are themselves scientific ones.

Oddly enough, in The Principle of Relativity, where one expects a rigorous treatment of such topics, one does not find Whitehead's own definition of simultaneity or even an argument against Einstein's.

One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11

After that, there were a few instances when popes condemned the Atlantic slave trade for its cruelties; and in the 18th and 19th centuries, Protestant abolitionists in England and America produced theological arguments against slavery merely as such.

We must remember that Paul, the narrator, is a biased party in the dispute and that he uses the event to bolster his argument against persons in Galatia who would like gentile converts to adopt such Jewish customs as circumcision, religious holidays and dietary restrictions.

Because of them, I have a clearer understanding of why Atheists have such strong arguments against «faith» in God's existence.

In his famous interview, Danielou warned against such arguments, saying that «with the pretext of reacting against formalism» there has arisen a «false conception of freedom that brings with it the devaluing of the constitutions and rules and exalts spontaneity and improvisation» and an «erroneous conception of the changing of man and of the Church.»

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).

Madison's words were taken from a lengthy argument against a specific bill in Virginia's legislature which would have levied a tax in order to financially support the teaching of Christianity, and he argued against such a tax on the grounds that past legal support of Christianity had led to its corruption.»

That most such feelings are not conscious in any ordinary sense of «conscious» is no argument against this position.

His argument seems to be directed against a certain kind of historical «paleoconservative» who sees a Golden Age in the social institutions or social spirit of some past time; yet his refutation of such a perspective invokes progress in dentistry, rhetorically shifting the evaluative criteria from sociology to technology.

Even so, Francis reiterated the church's stand against abortion, defending it against critics who call such arguments «ideological, obscurantist and conservative.»

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.

The argument against neo-Darwinism begins from the undoubted observation that many features of living beings, like the bacterial flagellum or the human eye, are the result of not one genetic mutation but of a large number of such mutations.

The first, Why We Must Talk about Impeaching Obama is the one about the mechanics, about why it isn't decisive that the Senate won't convict, and how to consider the various arguments, touching race, elections, Joe Biden, etc., that Prudence might make against such talk.

A popular argument against the existence of God is what some call divine hiddenness: «If God exists, why doesn't he make his existence more obvious, such that it could not be doubted?»

Arguments from Treasury Wine Estates proponents such as Willibald Hajszan («Treasury Wines class action unrepresentative», AFR Letters, July 7), fail to acknowledge several issues in trying to discredit the current securities class action on foot against the global wine giant.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

is the area where there is a good argument against Babers, and it probably has less to do with recruiting and more to do with camps and such.

Their arguments against the use of chlorine - bleached products are so convincing that one is astonished that the manufacturers keep putting them on the market, that governments continue to permit it, and that anyone in - their right mind would now use such products.

Legislators considering changing their divorce laws should consider the full range of legal options available to them, such as those compiled by Americans for Divorce Reform and posted on their Internet «Divorce Reform Page «69 This site presents arguments for and against the initiatives as well as model legislation.

For example, it is now not uncommon to see a Russian on the Internet to atribute to NATO - member countries characteristics found in Russia (I've seen arguments against «NATO - propaganda» and such).

Apart from the argument that we have a moral duty to help those who wish to come to this country (which you may or may not accept), there is an economic case in favour of immigration in that the economy benefits from the availability of cheap labour, and there is a case against in that growth in population especially in the crowded South - East creates a lot of pressure on infrastructure such as housing, transport, hospitals, and schools (and the growth in population is largely due to immigration).

Earlier this week, NBC News leaked an unclassified white paper, drafted by the U.S. Justice Department, outlining the legal arguments in favour of the U.S. government's right to engage in targeted killing of U.S. citizens abroad when such citizens are deemed to be actively involved in plotting terrorist attacks against the United States.