Sentences with phrase «arguments stand against it»

If so, what arguments stand against it?

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

So, instead of trying to make Arsene's stand against these decisions an argument against the manager, let's support him.

There is no rational argument against the introduction of safe standing in Premier League stadiums.

I'm not sure exactly where I stand on the question of whether the school lunch program should exist altogether, but I am baffled by the «nanny state» argument against improving nutrition for children.

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.

Yesterday's announcement does not change any of the long standing arguments against a third runway

This idea that anyone who stands against Labour must therefore be pro-Tory uses such obviously false logic that it is almost embarrassing to hear it and yet it is an argument you hear Labour using time and time again.

-------------------------------------------- When you speak out against corporate welfare, then you have a foot to stand on with me with your wealth redistribution argument.

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.

A long - standing argument against finding intelligent extraterrestrial life has been roundly challenged.

«This is too logical a transition for anyone to have an ideological argument against clean energy, because it stands against economic growth and good business sense,» says Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, and science envoy for the U.S. State Department, who is attending the talks, «That's what people are saying here — they're incredulous that anyone would want to back off on this.»

You have discussions over whether girls and guys can be best friends, you have the «sex complicates things» talk, you have the wedding announcement, you have the one night stand that leads to an argument and you even have a race against time to tell the one you love how you truly feel.

Anyone who thinks the movie takes a stand either for or against gun control or that it makes reasonable arguments for that stand is reaching.

Generally speaking the counter arguments against each individual car stand to reason.

Writing a persuasive essay is something like a lawyer that is making the arguing of the case before the hurry and ten the very writer will make the stand on the issue that will either for or against and will build the possible argument to have the victory over the reader.

On the surface, the senator's op ed piece seems to merely speak out against allowing Amazon to return to the top tier of ebook sales, as the lawsuit's outcome could produce; the only other argument is that a government official stands in support of anti-trust violations.

With only a few plucky, obviously highly partisan contrarian scientists to stand against it, using vague arguments that due primarily to reasons of conspiracy - driven suppression are unfortunately poorly supported by the peer review literature...

The problem is the way that seemingly a priori facts operated within the environmentalist's argument, and stood against any possibility of alternative.

Some MEPs know where they stand and thus lobby their positions but many are torn in between as there are strong arguments for and against.»

Still, I bring all this up because we often hear arguments against smart environmental policies that don't stand up to scrutiny.

That message makes sense, intuitively: Since pretty much all arguments against the basics of climate science are silly, it stands to reason that those who peddle them are silly, too.

Like I mentioned, there are and will be many arguments against Bill 94, but personally, I believe that it will stand up to the challenges.

Several primary arguments against the rules as they stand have appeared as talking points or recurring themes; they are worth considering seriously and, if possible, refuting definitively.

The court first considered the Insurance Companies» argument that the Council lacked «standing» to bring a lawsuit against the Insurance Companies.