Sentences with phrase «arguments from across»

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Compare a 4 % drop to the fact that unemployment grew across the country from around 4 % to almost 10 % in the same timeframe and you could make the argument that broker employment has actually held up better than that of most professions.

«We've got casinos in Iowa, right across the river from Omaha, and the argument [in favor of changing the law], which is persuasive, is that Nebraskans go over there and deposit all their money in Iowa.

I think the main political argument for Pawlenty is that he will dutifully and enthusiastically read from whatever script the Romney campaign gives him and won't come across too mean when he does it.

Sometimes when we read a difficult book, seeking to follow a complicated argument, we come across a luminous sentence from which we can go forward and backward and so attain some understanding of the whole.

It's a series of predictions and musings more than a single argument, since he starts with the idea that digital tools tend, over time, to shift power away from large institutions and toward small groups and individual actors and goes on to think about how it will affect institutions across the board.

Nicco's book is a series of predictions and musings more than a single argument, since he starts with the idea that digital tools tend, over time, to shift power away from large institutions and toward small groups and individual actors and goes on to think about how it will affect institutions across the board.

Moreover, whenever such arguments have been advanced, well - known counter-arguments have been rehearsed, including the difficulties in disentangling «English» from «UK» legislation; the knock - on effects for the allocation of funding across the UK; and risk of an in - built bias in favour of the Conservatives.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats Wednesday cited plant closures from across the country — including the shutdown of the Dresser - Rand plant in Wellsville — as arguments that the Republican tax cut bill passed last year isn't bringing back jobs as the GOP had promised.

Seeing this extra-special swooshing on the runway from designers like Altuzarra, Céline, and Acne Studioswas maybe the most persuasive argument for gawk - now - buy - now we've come across.

At its launch a panel of expert practitioners from education and industry made compelling arguments for a pragmatic, solutions - focused call to action across government, awarding organisations, Ofqual and the broader D&T community.

The Common Core standards were motivated by a simple argument, that «high standards that are consistent across states provide teachers, parents, and students with a set of clear expectations to ensure that all students have the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life upon graduation from high school, regardless of where they live.»

After participating in a six - week Teaching Matters program focused on the Constitution and civil rights, 7th and 8th grade students from eleven schools across the City will offer original arguments tied to current events, and be judged on their work.

His talk about «edu - localism» connects with his usual arguments about how improved transit infrastructure in urban settings makes everything better — he wants kids to be able to easily commute across town to access better schools that might be far from the neighborhoods they live in.

Leading up to oral arguments for Friedrichs v. California E4E conducted a survey of over 1,000 members — current classroom teachers from across the country — and found that a majority of teachers support paying fair - share fees and were opposed to the plaintiffs» position in this case.

But when you come across yet another argument from Patrick Michaels, for example, the benefit of the doubt should not rest with him, but with those doing the actual science.

Over the next year or so I began to see fewer references from AGW supporters to the Industrial Revolution as a start point and more emphasis on the spread of industry in the early 20th century, until I came across anti arguments pointing out that after the rise of temps to the third and fourth decades the world began to cool again, considerably.

The End of Nature (1989) The Age of Missing Information (1992) Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995) Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families (1998) Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyous Christmas (1998) Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2001) Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape (2005) The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005) Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007) The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life (2008) American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (edited)(2008) Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change (2011) Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (2013)

The absurdity of trying to establish global average temperature from an abysmal lack of temperature series across most of the globe prior to 1980 makes the adjustments argument silly.

I would posit that this combination of most legal matters requiring relatively minimal research and a small number or matters benefiting from extensive resources is an excellent argument for libraries: they pool costs and resources so that they provide what's needed and share costs across all potential users who will use different portions of what's available as they need it.

From original motions to consolidate and arguments before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to bellwether trials, we defend these suits at every stage of litigation, across multiple jurisdictions.

Counting the output from days since the first oral argument of the term seems the most appropriate way to normalize the court's output rate across terms.