Sentences with phrase «back on the assertion»

Franck surveys the many ways in which proponents of gay marriage and other progressive social causes ignore the arguments made by conservatives, falling back on the assertion that resistance is based on «hate.»

Not exact matches

«Women are trained to keep their attention on themselves,» she said, an assertion that's backed by some of the latest social science.

The assertion rubbed Trump the wrong way, and he hit back with a series of tweets on Saturday.

It is more like: «Look, I don't know if you're a pyramid scheme or what, but some people think you are, so I want my money back,» which is less an assertion of fraud on Herbalife's part than it is an assertion of red - blooded American litigiousness on the plaintiffs» part.

CNN's Alisyn Camerota hit back at Loesch's assertion on Friday.

BlackBerry surprised Wall Street by getting its bottom line back into the black in the fourth quarter, but sales shrunk significantly again, putting in question CEO John Chen's assertion that the company's turnaround is on track.

I've been searching for textual references to back up this assertion, with mixed - ish results and no real smoking gun, but whatever — the fundamental holds: Central bankers should offer opinions on what fiscal policy ought to be when fiscal policy is a problem for them.

Nobody said it was an accident, you on the other hand argue that «go did it» with nothing to back up your assertion.

You have thus far completely refused all questions given to you in attempts to discuss the issue, have made absolutely zero effort to prove your assertion that homosexual activity is sinful, and have chosen instead to fall back on theatrical bravado.

First he attempted to apply a logical argument, whose history extends back at least as far as Cicero's On Divination.4 According to this view, contingency (chance) and foreknowledge (fate) are contradictory assertions because a contingent event, being unnecessitated, can not be known until it occurs.

I would love to see what sort of thoughts you have on either question, then again as we can see from the begining of this thread, when people answered your intial idiotic assertions, you refused to even try to back them up, lets see what happens this time...

I did say, «I would love to see what sort of thoughts you have on either question, then again as we can see from the begining of this thread, when people answered your intial idiotic assertions, you refused to even try to back them up, lets see what happens this time...» And you proved me right!

Replying to Gandhi's assertion that «Palestine belongs to the Arabs» and the Jews have no right to settle there, Buber, while granting and upholding the claim of the Arabs, staunchly upholds the prior and also vital claim of the Jews, which goes back some 3,000 years and is based on what they experienced as a divine mission to hallow a particular land and build a good society there.

Krauthammer relies on one case in which a child died being delivered at home to back his assertion that home births are unsafe.

Following state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long's assertion that he is too moderate for NY - 23, Matt Dohney is firing back, casting himself as in the same camp on abortion rights as another of Long's endorsed candidates, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio.

The NDC's assertion comes on the back of reports that the three - time flag bearer of the NPP will be travelling to Kwahu in the Eastern Region during the Easter festivities during which he's expected to join the people of the mountainous area in a massive cleanup exercise.

And he offered no detail on where Labour would cut spending to back up his assertion that Labour would be more humane when it came to tackling the yawning budget deficit.»

His wild assertions come on the back of a petition forwarded by some unanimous petitioners demanding the removal of the Chair of the Electoral Commission on allegations of contractual and administrative lapses under her watch.

The mayor pushed back mildly on that assertion on WNYC.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee made a $ 10,000 cable television buy Friday afternoon for an ad that pushes back on Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman's assertion that he'd stand up to Donald Trump if he's elected president.

Lillikas's assertion that Cypriots would rather leave the euro than meet the troika's demands are backed up by an opinion poll published on Thursday.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and the Working Families Party are pushing back against Cuomo's assertion that there's «no reason or appetite» for a tax hike on the rich this year.

«Despite assertions to the contrary, the Government has rolled back the progress made over decades on equality and we see the adverse impact this is having on teachers and pupils in our schools.

When asked by Gotham Gazette during a question - and - answer session after his presentation whether he agreed with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's assertion that the state could pull back on funding toward the city since the city is experiencing such good economic times, de Blasio said absolutely not.

«I have many correspondences from Dave Tellier at Nawrocki Smith about Mr. Cohen's assertions, and none of them say he was correct on anything...» Mr. McCracken's response, which came back on that same day and which lies at the crux of the dispute, stated that the comptroller never sent Mr. Cohen any such correspondence and asked Mr. Bernard to «please keep us updated regarding Mr. Cohen's assertions.»

Frank's admission that more than 22 PDP governors were backing Atiku on his ambition to succeed Obasanjo then further confirms Chief Anenih's assertion on the subject.

«The coupling of these two models is predicated on the assertion that climate change drives changes in extreme events, extreme events interact with human perception of risk to influence emissions behaviors and emissions behaviors then feed back into climate change, leading to a fully interacting model.»

I have made an assertion and I have no problems with you disagreeing with it — but because I can not find exact metrics on something so difficult to measure, does not invalidate it — all you are doing is using a well - honed, but transparent, form of rhetoric, going back to the time of Cicero.

With certain characters (who shall remain nameless to avoid spoilers), you can even push them too far with your questioning and result in them refusing to cooperate, similar to L.A. Noire (though in Aviary Attorney this is not dependent on whether you have evidence to back up your assertions; you can simply frighten away characters by being too forceful).

As you can see in the chart below, the Xbox One X's assertion that it is the most powerful console on the market can be backed up in a number of ways.

What I have said is that your assertion that some unspecified geoengineering scheme or schemes «CAN» — and that was your word, «CAN», not «conceivably might» or «possibly could», but «CAN» — control the Earth's temperature as accurately and reliably as a simple elecromechanical on / off thermostat controls a furnace, has no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

Answering of continually answering my question with a question why don't you merely back up your assertions by pointing me to some studies that could tell all of us on this forum what temperature reduction could be expected by the aggressive mitigation measures proposed.

Coming back on topic: the assertion that climate is within normal limits is both positive and falsifiable — all you need to falsify it is to show that climate has exceeded the bounds of normal variation.

The study — «Possible Artifacts of Data Biases in the Recent Global Surface Warming Hiatus» — was published by Science magazine in June 2015 and pushed back against assertions from other research groups that found a pause in rising global temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the earth's temperature has been on a steady incline for decades.

As you, Bill, should realize, it is difficult for an honest peer review officer — even one who does not have a personal pecuniary or professional interest in the support of a particular point of view — to contest an assertion in a manuscript which is clearly supported by a previously peer - reviewed article, a copy of which has come to said review officer along with the manuscript in question, all highlighted and redlined «with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.»

But as journalism, its analysis and conclusions should rest as often as is possible on some form of original reporting or on peer - reviewed or government - sponsored research to back up significant assertions of fact.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

But scroll up through the comments and you will see eleven prior ones from Rado going back three days to # 10 where Rado first makes an assertion that Connolley has to correct, and then, on raising complaints about bias, asks about where to complain... followed by one more gem in his comment # 11:

«With very few exceptions, governments all over the world have fallen into the trap of paying renewable energy scammers on the basis that it is necessary, at least politically, to be seen to be doing something about climate change,» Sloan writes, before providing readers with an avalanche of economic data to back up her assertion.

It's like phi wants to turn back the clock to the dark ages of science, and rely on assertions and voodoo.

I then pointed out that records of extreme weather events going back many centuries cast doubt on your assertion.

A little while back I wrote about a planned 8,100 cow mega-dairy, and followed up on a spokesperson's astounding assertion that «cows do not belong in fields.»

The public is demanding greater openness about what goes on in courtrooms across the country, and approaches like falling back on sketch artists and smug assertions that the courtrooms are open to attend in person no longer suffice.

Back on the point of unreferenced reasonability, their assertion is that there is no doubt that the combination of these deficiencies places the data at risk.

Instead of assessing whether two - for - one sentencing credits serve to further any of those six objectives, you (on the basis of an assertion backed by no evidence whatsoever) focus only on one objective, sneeringly mischaracterize and dismiss one objective, and completely ignore the other four.

Make sure you can back up any assertions on your resume with some concrete details.