Sentences with phrase «as my argument about»

Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

Here's the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at....

This is why arguments about what god wants are as discredited as arguments about who people were in their last life or what Xenu wants amongst the rational.

Some may object that my original small essay in the New York Times was misleading because it was too easily misunderstood as an argument about the details of science.

The 2008 presidential race, particularly on the Democratic side, has been framed as an argument about change.

The truth doesn't set you free on Justarsenal lol, you'll state a known fact that Giroud went 15 games without scoring a single goal for Arsenal then someone will use his form France as an argument about his credentials as if his goals for France will somehow contribute to Arsenal winning titles!

As the arguments about AV and the coalition get increasingly heated over coming months, the mysteries of who said what during those few fascinating days may be worth a lot more examination.

In other words, consciousness controversies can be finessed in just the same way as arguments about God.

Surprisingly, I found in the character Corbin O'Brian argument for the justification of data gathering and surveillance programs as well as arguments about the dangers of such awesome powers in the hands of the wrong people or in service for the wrong cause / purpose.

Motherhood, and the complicated relationship that exists between mother and daughter, is as central to the book as the arguments about genetic inheritance and learned behavior.

Read on for the survey responses as well as my argument about what I think a logical next step is to make these results valuable.

As arguments about climate change rage, it's becoming increasingly common for policy makers to tout «clean» nuclear energy as the only viable alternative to fossil fuels.

Joshua: I find «burden of proof» arguments about as useless as arguments about what constitutes an ad hom.

I find «burden of proof» arguments about as useless as arguments about what constitutes an ad hom.

Since you'd have to be a party to the agreement to qualify and actually have a target, this could get around the fugitive emissions problem, as well as arguments about offshoring.

What you think of as an argument about global warming, they perceive as an attack on their entire world view.

Not exact matches

No doubt, an interesting argument could be had about whether a future of self - driving, electrically propelled automobiles could be as clean and efficient as better public transit.

Avoid endorsing their viewpoints, because this individual will not think twice about drawing you into a third - party debate or argument as an avid supporter of their opinions and actions.

Now, you may or may not find that to be a persuasive argument about the state of income inequality in Canada — as our own Chris MacDonald has pointed out, determining the fairness of CEO pay is more complicated than it seems.

As the controversy grew, the owners and players met to try to resolve the issue, resulting in a contentious meeting featuring arguments about Trump, Kaepernick's ongoing unemployment, and the protests.

Shah's argument about «an inferior competitive landscape» makes no sense, however, although it's of a piece with other Tesla mega-bulls, such as Loup Ventures» Gene Munster, who seems to think that Tesla can basically sell 11 million cars in the US alone.

In fact, there's an argument to be made — as Dennis Berman does at the Wall Street Journal — that the Verizon bid for AOL says more about Verizon's difficulties than it does about any intrinsic value that its target might have.

DUBNER: So, to summarize your overall argument about our rise and fall of American growth: would it be an overstatement to say that there was a lot of low - hanging fruit — physical and labor, and all other kinds of fruit that we picked beautifully and ate hungrily, and we did really well with — and that those things, once used up, that kind of gain will never appear again as far as you can see?

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

In short, the arguments about the difficulties of influencing activity should make central bankers cautious and modest about their role as cyclical stabilisers, but do not excuse them from taking the cycle into account in setting policy, and doing what they can to lop peaks and fill troughs.

Even among her Fed peers, she stands out as a nerd: «As Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon Hilsenratas a nerd: «As Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon HilsenratAs Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon Hilsenrath.

Gross's argument about the stock market, which in his characteristic bombast he referred to as a «Ponzi scheme,» took a completely opposite stance.

Of course it matters to anyone who wants to understand the economic cost of the adjustment, but arguments about whether the reported data are overstated, and by how much, have become part of the bull vs bear debate about whether Chinese growth is merely slowing temporarily, and not as part of a major economic reversal of the growth model.

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

In the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the world.

I appreciate your argument about how certain dividend stocks will never be able to to match the returns of high growth stocks such as Tesla.

However, rank manipulation is only a secondary motivation when you're using links to support your arguments or cite facts — as long as your content quality is in check, you shouldn't have to worry about a penalty.

What about the argument that the equity - risk premium (the premium that investors demand over risk - free assets such as government bonds) has fallen close to zero because of greater economic stability?

These are precisely the same arguments that were made near the end of the 1920s and also in the late 1990s, as the dotcom bubble was about to implode.

If you make assumptions about why demand for loans is slack among small businesses and then treat that as a fact which underpins your whole argument, it makes it difficult to treat this as anything beyond opinion.

Nevertheless, there were numerous critics expressing worries about the growth of margin lending, but the financial press tended to play their arguments down, even going as far as charging the critics with trying to undermine confidence for ulterior reasons (Barron's and the Wall Street Journal both published editorials to that effect).

Susan Morse and Stephen Shay have blogged today on Procedurally Taxing about the Ninth's Circuit oral argument tomorrow in Altera Corp. v. Commissioner, as has Dan Shaviro on his blog, Start Making Sense.

I have heard many arguments about how a downtown arena could revitalize the area, but I have not been convinced that our current arena, Rexall Place, is as bad as its detractors would characterize it.

As a result, arguments about media freedom fell on deaf ears in the jury box.

Much of your argument such as I've seen, for your sky fairy (and I really think that is an appropriate term for your obviously fictional deity with all the self - contradictory tales about it in the bible), really seems to consist of a combination of willed ignorance and arguments from ignorance.

Economists are rightly skeptical of moral arguments about market abuse, as such arguments are usually followed by legislation that protects companies of the old, stodgy type from young upstarts or that just feathers a nonmarket or quasi-market nest.

The moral problem, as MacIntyre describes it, is evident enough: arguments about just war, abortion, capital punishment, or equality lead inevitably to shrill and sterile debate.

nothing which you've outlined as an argument supports your premise that you're about to disclose «truth» and «fact» about why atheism is bad.

Your arguments about mistreatment being a reason to not believe in ID is akin to an alien coming to earth and pointing at an insane asylum as a reason for believing all humans are mentally handicapped.

After about a year or so of his loud and passionate arguing many of us would just avoid him as we did not feel that the arguments were valid nor important enough to listen to.

The fact that you resort to petty little insults shows the depth of your character and arguments, which are about as shallow as a drop of water in an empty pool.

Your «PROVEN» holds about as much water as the screwy intelligent design arguments.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

He was unsatisfied with the reception to Paul VI's Humanae Vitae of 1968, and unsatisfied, too, with the state of the argument in the Church, thinking that it did not go as far as it could in answering certain basic puzzlements that humans have about themselves.

The irony of this whole big flap about Jesus is that He is just as mythical a figure as Santa Claus, maybe even more so, thus making the whole argument moot.