Sentences with phrase «case against any arguments»

They already know the truth, and so view their job as making a case against any arguments from skeptics and doubters.

Not exact matches

Rush casts its net wide; there's a macroeconomic argument woven through the book that makes the case against taxation structures that are redistributive to the point of dampening the urge to succeed.

Trump frequently villainized Garcia Zarate and cited Steinle's death during his presidential campaign, using the case to bolster his argument for a border wall and aid his crusade against «sanctuary cities.»

The first oral arguments in the string of lawsuits filed against DOL's fiduciary rule were heard on Aug. 25 by Judge Randolph Moss, U.S. District judge for the District of Columbia, in the case brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

In arguments before U.S. District Judge William Alsup, attorneys for both parties laid out their case related to Waymo's request for a temporary injunction against Uber that would force the ride - hailing company to stop testing its autonomous cars.

This argument could bolster Alphabet's overall case against Uber if the Google parent company can only prove Uber possessed Alphabet's stolen technology but abandoned it.

There are many arguments against the special case of 0.01 BTC since it is unlikely to represent anything meaningful as the Bitcoin economy grows (it certainly won't be the equivalent of 0.01 USD, GBP or EUR).

Let's hope that when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the case on October 2, the Justices will side with regular working people like Hobson, not with the big bosses and corporations who want to use the fine print to rig the rules against the rest of us.

is a convincing and remarkably candid argument that the case for homosexual relations must be made against Scripture and the Christian tradition.

The argument of the complainants might not have offered the strongest case against the incursions of the administrative state, and yet the outcome had the eerie ring of things sure to come.

Her attorney, Saif ul Malook, based the appeal on the argument that the person who brought the case against Bibi, a local cleric, should not have been allowed to do so since he didn't hear the blasphemy first - hand.

In the case of Hardin's argument, if the calculations revealed that giving aid to certain countries would result in more rather than less disease and death, it would follow then that to do so would be an offense against love and mercy.

The Challenge of Peace, without reference to the logic of prima facie duties, replicates the structure of Childress» argument exactly: just war theory begins with a presumption against war, and the just war criteria function to override this presumption (or to show that it should not be overridden) in particular cases.

It appears to me to be in any case gratuitous to read, as Gunkel does (in an argument against the historicity of the event), «dass Elias die 450 Propheten Baals mit eigener Hand geschlachtet habe» (Hermann Gunkel, Elias, Jahwe und Baal, Tubingen: 1906, p. 36).

This was Augustine's great case against the Pelagians; quite naturally it became the central Reformation argument against the compromises, the relative means and the «spiritual barter system» of the late medieval church.

Ken, none of the answers you've listed above make a strong case for / or against supporting the arguments listed.

«It seems to me that there is a persuasive case for believing that the doctrine of Humanae Vitae, regardless of the pastoral difficulty it causes, regardless of the philosophical and theological arguments thrown against it, regardless of the historical conditioning of its neo-scholastic framework, has been, and is being taught infallibly, that is, irreversibly and without error, by the Church's ordinary universal magisterium.»

John, I think the best argument against Pascal's wager is the fact that he underestimates (in the passage I quoted, actually) the cost of wagering for God if it is the case that God doesn't exist.

In any case, the argument against Christian majoritarianism influencing public policy rests more on respect for minority feelings than on the alleged disintegration of the majority.

In a more recent work, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against NATURALISM in Science, Law and Education (P. 3), Johnson continues his argument, and makes clear what was implicit in the earlier work.

This ought to be a reminder that it discloses what will always be the world's attitude to the church and what arguments will be used to the end of history in the world's case against it.

One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11

You are quite right in pointing out that I not only make a strong case against gay marriage and against abortion but also carefully delineate the arguments from the other side.

The where is God question in this case is used as an argument against God: if he is who you say he is, why would this happen?

Many of the objections put forward by pro-life agencies in Britain against recent euthanasia Bills gave precedence to the «thin end of the wedge» type of argument, often pointing to Holland as a worst case example.

José Mourinho declared the case brought against him for alleged tax fraud to be closed after he accepted the arguments put forward by Spain's Inland R -LRB-...)

(Simplistic arguments against all forms of cosleeping, in this case, do not make sense, nor are the recommendations «practical» for those for whom they are intended.)

Apart from the argument that we have a moral duty to help those who wish to come to this country (which you may or may not accept), there is an economic case in favour of immigration in that the economy benefits from the availability of cheap labour, and there is a case against in that growth in population especially in the crowded South - East creates a lot of pressure on infrastructure such as housing, transport, hospitals, and schools (and the growth in population is largely due to immigration).

One prominent legal commentator has argued that the case against the church, to force it to perform same - sex religious marriage, is «reasonable»; another has claimed that the church's argument is hysterical.

In a celebrated case brought by a group of civil libertarians to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1942, Chief Justice Robert Jackson, against the strong argument of civil libertarians on the issues of «interrogation without the due process of law» and prolonged detention of suspects, gave his famous ruling that the United States «Constitution is not a suicide pact».

Labour's argument was rejected - or failed to get across (partly because it all seemed about # 6 billion this year)- but against opponents who said cutting waste was important, but in David Cameron's case that he would reject any ministerial plan to cut public services.

Should Cameron wish to make a credible case against electoral reform, he'd better start thinking of some new arguments.

Opening arguments began Monday in the case against John Haggerty, a Queens political operative and Bloomberg campaign volunteer who is accused of stealing $ 1.1 million of the mayor's money in 2009.

It is a straw man argument, designed to over-inflate the case against him so he can defeat it.

Sunder: In the interests of intellectual strictness I have qualified the comment about the lack of intellectual and moral case against PR to refer specifically to the two lines of argument featured in the post.

Closing arguments in the case against Mangano, wife Linda Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto were scheduled to continue on Thursday.

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday promised to decide by the end of August whether to let a libel suit by Sarah Palin against The New York Times proceed after hearing 90 minutes of arguments on the case.

Prosecutors made their closing arguments Monday in the public corruption case against Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker with extremely close ties to the real estate industry.

At 2:30 p.m., oral arguments are set to begin regarding the Trump legal team's motion to dismiss a sexual harassment case against the president, 111 Centre St., Room 352, Manhattan.

«Based on this superior argument, the consultant appointed by government to investigate the alleged hidden remittances was instructed to withdraw the pending court case against some commercial entities at the federal high court, Lagos.»

Federal prosecutors, bent on telling a story of public corruption, used cherry - picked evidence, untrustworthy witnesses and innuendo to build a case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, lawyers for the men said in closing arguments yesterday.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — «Power, greed, corruption» are at the heart of the case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, federal prosecutors said Tuesday during opening arguments in the trial.

During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed smoking gun.

Without indicating what action he might take in the Ivy case, Soares insisted he was working to prevent a defense attorney from raising a potentially disastrous legal argument against any district attorney who might bring charges in a case that falls into what Soares characterized as the executive order's ample ambiguities.

In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.

Pawa also led the plaintiffs in a 2008 case, Kivalina v. Exxon Mobil Corp., in which an Alaskan village made arguments against Exxon similar to those that Oakland and San Francisco are making now.

So if you ever want to see if we have a problem in policing related to race, pay related to gender or a problem with violence against transgender individuals, in all of those cases it becomes impossible to make a scientific argument — because if those categories are never recorded in official documents, you can never do the data collection to show what's true.

But where treatment choice is in dispute, the usual situation places CAM practitioners against the rest of the medical personnel, in which case they need to have a good line of arguments and a good and widely accepted reputation.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, who earlier had ruled against the National Institutes of Health, this time came down on NIH's side in several key arguments in the case.