Sentences with phrase «arguments against their work»

Climate scientists have done an admirable job pursuing their science under great political pressure, and they have tirelessly rebutted pseudoscientific arguments against their work.

«Climate scientists have done a great job in pursuing their science under great political pressure, and they have tirelessly rebutted pseudoscientific arguments against their work.

Not exact matches

Let's hope that when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the case on October 2, the Justices will side with regular working people like Hobson, not with the big bosses and corporations who want to use the fine print to rig the rules against the rest of us.

The problem, for Aristophanes, is that there's no argument against incest from the point of view of pure reason that works on the individual level.

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

Your argument works just as much against MLK's birthday.

It may indeed seem that what I have done so far is to offer a tentative argument against the claims of an exemplarist interpretation of Christ's work, namely, that if he is offered us as an exemplar his experience is in crucial respects too relative and limited to offer a wholly significant guide - post to men and women in all the circumstances of their lives.

Although the classical economists pointed this out in order to support national markets over against local ones, the argument works equally well for a global market over against national ones.

Perhaps the best argument against a super-intelligent agent creating the universe is that moderately - intelligent science fiction writers often dream up universes that are way cooler and often even «work» better than the reality we all experience.

In several recent works, William Lane Craig argues that there is nothing to commend Hartshorne's view, that there are positive arguments against it, and that absurd consequences follow from it (PT 103; PS 16:201;...

The man they really need to consult is, once again, Cardinal Newman, who leveled devastating artillery against the argument from design, especially in The Idea of a University, which despite its well - deserved fame has long gone underutilized by philosophers of religion, perhaps because his critique of their work is so devastating.

In his historical tour of the proofs for and against God's existence, Nathan Schneider, a journalist and activist whose last work treated the Occupy movement, unfolds the story of provers and their arguments from the ancient Greeks through medieval Muslims to today's analytic philosophers and New Atheists.

That argument worked for Kennedy in 1960 when he was running for president against anti-Catholic prejudice.

Plantinga's first important work, God and Other Minds, re-examined the classic arguments for and against God.

That argument actually works against you, Ferdy.

for in atlas and in other rand works she puts forth the most eloquent and reasoned arguments against slavery ever written.

In a more recent work, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against NATURALISM in Science, Law and Education (P. 3), Johnson continues his argument, and makes clear what was implicit in the earlier work.

«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.

Against the rationalistic arguments of his brethren, Emerson bid the young students turn within and find the divine at work in their own lives.

This intellectual formation works against the metaphysical foundations of natural law reasoning, and therefore most people find the arguments remote and unconvincing — «academic» in the bad sense of being about something other than the real world we live in.

this blog is not working with me... I'll have to catch you guys on another post... it will not accept long post... This is my main point against the scientific method argument; it is consensus in the scientific community that most of our Universe is unseen.

First, discussion of Intelligent Design's argument against neo-Darwinism is out of place in a high - school science classroom because most scientists working in the area do not accept the Intelligent Design criticism of neo-Darwinism and because understanding the scientific issues involves sophisticated arguments far beyond the capacity of nonspecialists, let alone high - school students.

science sorry, your carbon argument works against your position as Earth is miraculously water - and carbon - poor.

One of the NFLs stronger arguments could be that the prejudice against concussions is actually a symptom of participation trophy culture where everyone gets a healthy brain - by coddling our kids mental health we're actualy doing them a disservice and leaving them ill - equipped for the real world when their brains eventually stop working altogether.

Well, this same argument can be made against Benz and true, he's not as indispensable as some say he is and CR will definitely not suffer too much in his absence if we bought another striker but we mustn't reduce his work to nothingness and rubbish him at the slightest chance we get.

Anyone who puts Up an argument against a tactic or an issue shud b an example frst.one can't just say hey ure doin it wrong do it ds other way witout having proof of succeeding at it.at ur job ure experienced dan mi so for mi to convince u to do otherwise I must show u proof of wer it's worked before or when I dd it mysef

i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??

Instead he wrote, in 1946 in «Why I Write» that «Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it», which was the argument for justice and liberty.

At 10:15 a.m., leaders from New York's organized labor movement will hold a news conference as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, the latest in a series of attacks by the wealthy and corporate interests against ordinary working people, outside the Senate lounge, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Crook hit out against the government argument that prisoners were still able to acquire books by spending their prison work salary on them in a new statement this afternoon.

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.

One prediction about the media's election can be made with complete confidence: the argument about malign media influence working against Labour will revive.

To the extent this is true, it works against the argument that getting people «covered» will encourage preventative care.

Not only that, but if the Lib Dems» argument boils down to it not being reasonable for Coalition MPs to work against Coalition Agreement policies, they may have to watch out for some uncomfortable moments in the coming months, should Tory MPs wish to push the British Bill of Rights, recall of MPs, and so on.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

The report briefly sets out the arguments for and against a written constitution for the UK, and outlines three fully worked up options for future codification of the UK constitution, including a model Written Constitution.

Raising his voice to nearly a shout, Rep. Brian Higgins last week summed up his party's argument against the Republican tax cut plan as the House Ways and Means Committee finished its work on the measure.

After a Cabinet discussion about the Union on Tuesday, ministers who attended the meeting said that Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, argued strongly that arguments against independence would not work.

«It is the same old excuse of an argument against giving people a say and it's completely at odds with the other rights we already give to 16 and 17 - year - olds, which include the right to work, pay tax, join the armed forces,» Mr Benn said.

Without indicating what action he might take in the Ivy case, Soares insisted he was working to prevent a defense attorney from raising a potentially disastrous legal argument against any district attorney who might bring charges in a case that falls into what Soares characterized as the executive order's ample ambiguities.

While Treinis Gatz worked to construct a web binding allegations against Edward and Linda Mangano and Venditto together, Mangano's defense attorney did what he could during his opening argument to rip them apart.

«It was independently verified by two different labs, working on two different continents,» says Keim, a strong argument against contamination.

So much so that choosing the right opponent today for Daniel Kaluuya's justly nominated work in the lead gave me pause - arguments could be made to face him against Catherine Keener or Betty Gabriel here.

Gavin Hood (Rendition), working from a script by Guy Hibbert, thoroughly examines every facet of the arguments for and against the strike, while letting us get to know the characters — before and during the operation — just enough to have an investment in them and feel the gnawing uncertainty that they feel.

The film is an argument against mythical gangster work like The Godfather trilogy (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-74-90).

If they try hard enough, that argument goes, and if they work longer and harder than their peers, they too will surmount the incredible odds against them and acquire a proper education.

Includes the task for group work (preparing arguments for / against the right to be forgotten).

Although he voted against legislation that would permit a voucher experiment in Washington, D.C., he has since said, in perhaps an unguarded moment, «If there was any argument for vouchers, it was «Alright, let's see if this experiment works,» and if it does, then whatever my preconceptions, my attitude is you do what works for the kids.»

Howard Smith, a professor of bicultural - bilingual studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, explained: «One of the arguments levied against African - American children, especially in the poor areas where the dual - language programs are springing up, is that, «Well, these kids don't speak standard English anyway, and we need to work on their standard English.

Yes on 2, despite outspending the «no» camp 2 - 1 couldn't find a message that worked, and was never able to counter the single argument that most resonated with voters against charter schools: they take money away from public schools and the kids who attend them.