Sentences with phrase «as false alternatives»

Now formulating issues as false alternatives is the mark of a mediocre mind.

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Much as I sympathize with the questioner, I believe the question presents a false alternative.

As Lincoln recognized, these are false alternatives.

churches knew, especially in the south, if they promoted Obamacare, they would have empty churches as most of their members were republican = false alternative

To discredit completely the Marcan framework would not only leave us in the dark as to the main features of Jesus» ministry — that is an alternative which the honest historian must face — but would also leave inexplicable the fact that one who taught of himself and the Kingdom in such terms as Q, for example, relates, was also crucified as a false Messiah.

Our judgment should be this — that it is false to set them over against one another as exclusive alternatives.

I think Cobb would agree that the only alternative to this position leads to a lack of self - consciousness about one's philosophical assumptions and thus induces a false security as to the adequacy of one's theological formulations.

Since then, the debate about how the media should deal with «alternative facts» has only increased in intensity as more of Mr Trump's false claims saturate the news coverage.

We were only a few days into Donald Trump's presidency when Trump Counsellor Kellyanne Conway defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statements at a White House press brief as «alternative facts».

In anacceptance speech, the first black Brooklyn DA said voters had chosen him as an alternative to «false accusation, fear - mongering, and race - baiting.»

Even so, most mainstream and even holistic doctors, nutritionists, and most health writers, orthodox and alternative, still maintain the prevailing false dogma of saturated fat as the villain creating poor heart health.

Furthermore, the idea that pipelines are a safer alternative to rail is a false dichotomy — the oil industry does not intend to stop transporting oil by rail if they manage to force their pipeline through, as they hope to transport the oil by both pipeline and rail.

As a Brit of a certain generation such false choices always put me in mind of Margaret Thatcher's dictum of TINA (There is No Alternative).

-- snip — «Alternative facts» is a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance at Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States.

The green image of hydro power as a benign alternative to fossil fuels is false, says Éric Duchemin, a consultant for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

I personally believe that there is an urgent necessity of investing more funding in scientific methodologies alternative to the traditional GCM approach and, in general, to invest more in pure climate science research than just in climate GCM engineering research as done until now on the false claim that there is no need in investing in pure science because the «science is already settled».

The arguments presented teeter on a false premise: you describe the only possible justifications for imprisonment as, on the one hand, «because it makes us feel good» and, on the other hand, deterrence — presented with those false alternatives, it's hardly a surprise that we end up on a road which leads to an argument for less imprisonment.