Sentences with phrase «at his argument more»

Indeed, the fact that Milke's conclusion conforms so neatly to my own biases is a strong reason for me to look at his argument more closely.

Not exact matches

Quite apart from the argument over OSFI - style oversight, the former federal official and others stress this segment of the market at least requires more transparency and clearer data so regulators and the Bank of Canada can better understand the credit landscape and the extent of high - risk loans issued by private lenders.

The business community's continued failure to increase female representation at board and executive level has drawn fresh arguments for mandatory quotas and more flexible working conditions, with the

There's an argument to be made that going so far so fast could kill the goose that lays the golden egg, destroying jobs at a time when more are desperately needed, particularly for the young.

The realtors» argument reached its absurd extreme last year, with an advertising campaign suggesting homeowners will be at risk of break - ins and assaults if their personal information became more readily available online.

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.

Leon Wolf, managing editor at RedState, made a similar argument in more colorful terms.

So your argument is that because interest rates have been kept artificially low (effectively ripping everyone off with a manipulated money supply that's becoming more worthless by the day) that paying 6 % for a mortgage (which at one point was low) is getting ripped off?

But in the US, it's much more likely that someone will get angry at an argument, be able to pull out a gun, and kill someone.

And that's just at the conversational level — you would need much more time than that to understand complex legal arguments.

At least, this argument was more understandable in 1979 than it had been in 1949.

You could also make the argument that, at some point, there is a significant increase in the per barrel cost of transportation and that the cancellation of Keystone XL would shift more barrels onto that more expensive, marginal means.

In any event, there's no question or argument that my insistence on stress - testing against Depression - era data was a painful shot to the foot in this cycle, and is more painful because, at least to - date, it turned out to be unnecessary in hindsight.

It would have been slightly more palatable had she at least provided commentary on both sides of the argument, but sadly, she did not.

Neal and Taylor's argument was rooted in math: there were more consumers than there were IT users, which meant that over the long run the rate of improvement in consumer technologies would exceed that of enterprise - focused ones; IT departments needed to grapple with increased demand from their users to use the same technology they used at home.

If you tire looking at tables, and prefer more discursive arguments giving anecdotes rather than facts, this book is not for you.

«Part of our Sector Weight thesis longer term has been the view that at some point, investors might start to care that a significant portion... of the company's gross profit pool was no longer growing, and so while investors largely care about Model 3 for the moment, that S / X continue to point toward these trends makes multiple expansion arguments more challenging,» analysts Elliot Arnson and Brad Erickson said in a Wednesday note.

Using the argument of neutrality is too dismissive to the more pertinent fact at hand — likely about $ 300k was deployed to control $ 1.6 m, to be used in any way shape or form when it is all said and done... retiring abroad, funding their kids college, starting their tube meat meat truck business after they get tired of the lawyering rat race, etc etc..

Take a look at our arguments, and see which one you think is more convincing.

This community has as its core a mystery to the human experience, and a sense that story and imagery can persuade at least as well as logical, more strictly factual arguments.

As James O'Donnell has written, «Memory has the power to supplant «reality,» or at least what mortals know of reality: indeed, the whole argument of this half of Book X is that it is through memory that, after the fall, we encounter a more authentic reality.»

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

Evans concludes his fine book by recognizing that the «encouragement» of nonbelievers to «take a fresh look at the issues» will involve more than his arguments.

Halphen's argument runs like this: (1) by the end of the eighth century, Charlemagne had emerged as master of the West; (2) under these conditions, it was to be expected that a more general title should be added to his collection, to reflect his full power, when local conditions permitted; (3) local conditions in Rome in December, 800, demanded the intervention of an Emperor; and (4) Byzantine imperial power was at that time temporarily disrupted and incapable of intervening in Rome.

No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the underprivileged and marginalized lies at the heart of our Judeo - Christian heritage.

And yet he is persuaded by the most simple of arguments which amounts to no more than this: «You can do this at all events.

It is tempting simply to show where Luke has got it wrong, but there is more than reason at work and simply winning a rational argument is not enough.

Your argument that atheists know more IS an emotional response because you are egoistic and a spoiled brat at heart.

but only of the plates... Christianity has MORE then ONE witness seeing the events... thus your argument is very weak and grsping at straws

To arrive at the God of Christian Theism, other evidences can be offered in addition to this more basic one (e.g. aspects of natural theology, historical arguments for the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, alleged special revelation, etc.).

And I have admit that I always give the «lawyer's argument» for the great book I'm teaching, while often merely alluding to criticisms both tentative and pointed.The Catholic approach is not appropriate for a teacher at a non-Catholic college, and my approach usually has the effect I can't completely explain of making my smart Christian students more Christian.

I would just like to point out that at least as many comments coming from the supposed religious side of the argument are just as if not more «hostile and demeaning» towards those of different or no faith.

A substantial tome at 384 pages of text plus almost 800 footnotes, Huck's Raft is more a compendium of information than a sustained argument, but it's a reasonably lively read because Mintz knows how to tell a story.

In ways even more relentless and entangled than at present, arguments about what we insist are «other» questions will be emerging from and returning to the question of abortion.

More substantively, his arguments would call Christians to find ways to be peacemakers even — especially — at this troubled moment.

In a moment I shall give the arguments which led me at that time, as they have led many more competent Christian theologians both in the past and today, to talk in a different fashion of survival as a necessary ingredient in the total Christian faith.

Greider, a senior journalist at the Nation, and Wight, an economist at the University of Richmond, understand that capitalism is more than a technical economic system and that it is supported by more than rational argument.

Perhaps if you knew a little more about what the Church was about, then you would at least be in a position to throw actual stones (i.e., reasoned theological or sociological arguments against the Church).

However, few philosophers are panpsychists; and if the ontological argument presupposes the validity of that view, then things are certainly much more complicated than they at first appeared.

The angry Muslim confronted the merchant, who denied the charge; but as more and more people became involved in the argument, the Muslims of Bauchi came to suspect, not an indiscreet merchant's attempts at corner - cutting, but rather a deliberate affront to their faith» the sort of affront that would not happen if Nigeria were governed by Islamic law.

Although his general observation is interesting at best, the problem though, is that all of his supporting arguments are nothing more than judgmental in the most narrow - minded way.

The arguments against evolution have been so explicitly and thoroughly expounded in the Catholic theology of the last eighty years, that it is not to be expected that later on they will become even more evident, in relation to the Church's awareness of what she believes, than they are now, and so become capable of providing new and certain grounds for rejecting the theory of evolution of a kind that have been declared to be not yet at present available.

[2] Smith holds that the perverted faculty argument, in at least some form, is a part of any coherent argument against contraception, [3] but claims that her argument is more than the classical version of the perverted faculty argument because it dwells on more than the physical end of the faculty.

Washington (CNN)- Few issues divide the Supreme Court - and the country at large - more than church - state matters, and arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday involving a workplace discrimination lawsuit against a Lutheran church proved especially touchy.

In the world of politics, President George W. Bush asserted the unity side of the argument more than once in the years after the 9/11 attacks - often as a way to deflect accusations that America was at war with Islam.

Indeed, their full meaning is likely to become more apparent in the future than at the time of the book's first appearance, as thinkers from other world traditions engage its arguments.

The whole question of Jesus» baptism by John was the more important and disturbing because at the end of the first century disciples of the Baptist were challenging the primacy of Jesus over John and were doubtless appealing to the baptism as one of their principal arguments.

Which is all the more reason to return to an important argument by Sherman Jackson, a black American Muslim who serves as King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture at the University of Southern California.

Attempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of this man.

But it isn't at all clear to me that he would still have widespread support or, more importantly, that he could mount a compelling argument to this end.