Sentences with phrase «business as an argument»

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On the other side (social impact), the argument says that the community the business serves is also a shareholder and so deserves consideration as well.

As it turned out, they needed us to reframe the argument for conserving wetlands and present a business perspective.

In his letter, Dimon defended Mexico as well as NAFTA and even refuted some of the President's arguments regarding illegal immigration into the U.S. «Mexico is a long - standing peaceful neighbor, and it is wholly in our country's interest that Mexico be a prosperous nation,» Dimon wrote, noting that J.P. Morgan has business in Mexico worth $ 400 million in sales.

As Harvard Business School lecturers John Neffinger and Matthew Kohutobserve observe in their book, «Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential,» when a discussion becomes an argument, it's no longer an exercise in logic and reasoning.

As business leaders we routinely find ourselves in the middle of arguments.

Recent history offers examples of how candidates with business acumen position themselves during debate and campaigns, as well as to the limitations of the business experience argument.

That argument is taken from the position of the employer, usually the small - business owner who has to adjust her growth plans to not cross the 50 - worker, full - time threshold that requires companies to provide qualifying health plans to its workers or face the penalties known officially as the «shared responsibility payments.»

But as opposing experts (and a small army of writers) feud over the issue here in the United States, across the pond several top universities are eliminating the underlying logic of the argument by creating programs to help budding business owners get their start - up dreams off the ground — while they get their degrees.

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.

The event consisted of as many as 20 panelists and 10 speakers who addressed the attendee's participants and put forth arguments and discussions which would help accelerate growth in the business sector as well as help scale new businesses to convert startups into successful sustainable companies.

McKay cites his own recent three - part investigative series for The Energy Mix as «an evidence - based argument that there is no credible business case to support an expansion of oil sand exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL pipelines.

My father was a lawyer and used his own life as an argument in court against his idea that it was utopian and that we couldn't build a compassionate world or business structure because he did it.

As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute» by his pragmatic observations, so the application of process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.

Further, reducing all marriages to civil unions by recognizing marriages as business contracts removes the argument from debate by recognizing equality for all regardless of their beliefs.

Best Argument: Daniel Kirk with «Gay Marriage in New York» «As long as the state is in the marriage business, Christians should support gay marriage as an embodiment of our calling to love our neighbor as ourselves.&raquAs long as the state is in the marriage business, Christians should support gay marriage as an embodiment of our calling to love our neighbor as ourselves.&raquas the state is in the marriage business, Christians should support gay marriage as an embodiment of our calling to love our neighbor as ourselves.&raquas an embodiment of our calling to love our neighbor as ourselves.&raquas ourselves.»

«Corporations must have the freedom to make business decisions and hide behind an ethical argument as they deem fit for the corporations they run.»

To escape the whole shenanigans and rollercoaster of arguments, discussions and debate as to whether or not Liverpool will have a successful summer of transfer business, I've took a step back in time to two of Liverpool's best ever transfer windows.

Yes, there is an argument for increasing capacity, but as the NAO found, long distance inter-city journeys for the business elite (and MPs of course) is not where any rational person would chuck at least # 50 billion to start the fight against crush - hour conditions.

The tobacco industry is using the same tired arguments against plain packaging as with smokefree law — namely that it would have a major impact on small businesses like me.

Nannytax clearly has a business case behind such an argument — it is as firm an enemy of this particular black market as the taxman.

Leaving aside the argument that that role may already be played by the VAT, there are some difficulties with this, arising from the fact shown above that the profits margins that business make differ between sectors and indeed between businesses of different sizes, as economies of scale can apply.

But they crashed into the wall of the status quo, as taxi operators from New York City and elsewhere repeated their arguments that opening the door to Uber and Lyft without subjecting them to the same level of regulation could put them out of business.

Attorneys for Silver are making the argument that all of this is business as usual in Albany, and at the end of the day, there are always conflicts of interests that don't amount to federal crimes.

His bid to outline the government's approach was overwhelmed by comments from the Liberal Democrat business secretary, who was quoted as saying Mr Cameron's arguments were «very unwise».

On the other side of the argument has been business organizations who are pushing to keep the cap as it is.

There were arguments at an Assembly roundtable yesterday both for and against ride - sharing, an airing of concerns about worker protections and insurance coverage as well as pleas from business leaders to do something about current taxi service in the state Capitol.

The arguments against paid sick leave, as stated in the Capital Region Chamber's petition opposing Local Law «C» on behalf of its more than 2400 area businesses and organizations, include: the proposal will hurt our economy, reduce jobs, lower the county's sales tax revenue, and act as «an impediment to attracting, retaining and growing jobs.»

As a committed Labour supporter who has been immersed in the political and economic arguments over Britain's place in the European integration project for some forty years — from my role in overseeing JML expand its business beyond Britain to acting as Secretary of Labour Euro - Safeguards Campaign since 1975 — my views have evolved as the European Union has radically changed forAs a committed Labour supporter who has been immersed in the political and economic arguments over Britain's place in the European integration project for some forty years — from my role in overseeing JML expand its business beyond Britain to acting as Secretary of Labour Euro - Safeguards Campaign since 1975 — my views have evolved as the European Union has radically changed foras Secretary of Labour Euro - Safeguards Campaign since 1975 — my views have evolved as the European Union has radically changed foras the European Union has radically changed form.

While I am always open minded to new research and don't mind admitting if I am proven wrong, I don't have time to go around investigating every retort to my arguments — I am pretty busy running the day - to - days of my business as you can imagine.

Noel does tend to defend his business with various theories and arguments about the future of matrimony and where we're headed as a society.

It's a fine, if simple, argument that James Solomon's screenplay makes, envisioning an entire military court proceeding as political theater — to show those in the North that they mean business about unity and to scare those in the South who might have similar bloody thoughts.

There are a few on - target jabs at the music industry, but in the end, Dreamgirls is blind and empty glorification of that most disingenuous of businesses masquerading as art (although the argument could be made that they don't even try to fake the art function anymore).

There's a meeting between Alexandra and a man seeking her services, which begins as a negotiation, turns into an argument over whether or not she did her part even though he didn't get anything out it, and ends with a funny scene with Alexandra trying to calmly explain the «business» nature of their argument with a couple of cops.

To craft an even more compelling argument for a built - out training program, try framing your business case around revenue generation, as well as cost savings.

A lot of business decisions are made on a «gut feeling» as well as reasoned argument.

As business leaders and governors use international data to tout their latest reform plans, knowing the context of such arguments is vital.

And on top of that, the «like a business» argument always ignores other important facets of business, such as investment in basic needs to keep the business running.

Yeah, so far my agent has been able to defang all the toxic boilerplate stuff — and it saddens and amazes me that the boilerplate bullshit is still in there, though I guess there's a business argument that those things are there as easy targets so you don't go after other more lucrative concerns.

As examples, it cited a «business lesson, a political point of view, a scientific argument, or a beautifully crafted essay on a current event.»

With Amazon Source, Amazon is building on the latter argument and business model, with the idea being that independent bookstores have customers who want to buy e-books as much as they want to buy physical copies, and this gives those shops a route to offering the most popular device in this category.

As a business valuation expert who has critiqued many valuations of supposed experts I can safely say there is a 99 % chance (totally made that up but it has to be true) that you can find some data somewhere to support you argument.

Another way to support the argument (that the benefit to management is exactly the same as the cost to the company) is to consider a business where the owners and managers are one in the same people.

We know about an investing strategy that beats Buy - and - Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again and businesses could start hiring again), and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of Buy - and - Hold.

While every argument has their pros and cons, it is bad for business if clients are switching to advisors who believe in this approach, as opposed to proponents of active - management, who in many ways have built this industry and make up the mainstream.

Anyhow, closing in on the argument about whether Nintendo NX should usher the company into a third party business or not, Patcher says that the upcoming console «will sell more units than the Wii U. So, better than the Wii U, and that's enough to keep Nintendo continuing to stay in the console business and as a first - party.»

According to McGonagle, a feasibility study in 2008 laid out the arguments for Ebrington to have a future as a centre for arts and culture rather than purely shops and businesses — a notion that was part of the successful Capital of Culture bid.

One - sided arguments proliferate and people arguing the other side are frequently denounced as being employed by business interests rather than rebutted on the merits.

Maybe they would respond to arguments about a business - as - usual world of 2200, 2500, 4000 AD.

What we found is that the «climate change as business opportunity» message was perceived to be stronger than any of the other arguments.

In doing so, the best he can offer from moral philosophy is a reduction of complicated scientific, political, and economic arguments to facile comparisons of «business as usual» to «standing around, watching a child drown».