Sentences with phrase «causing people on both sides of the argument»

The notion that such a small group of people can hold such disproportionate influence is intriguing, but to see that they are using it to further religious ideologies in our public schools is causing people on both sides of the argument to gear up for an academic fight.

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US defamation law allows private persons to prove and recover actual damages using a negligence standard (rather than the more stringent actual malice standard) 172 on the basis that private persons are more vulnerable to injury than public figures and their reputations are more deserving of protection.173 That recognition is consistent with the argument advanced herein, namely that there is something qualitatively different about individuals who possess reputation as celebrity: their discursive power to yoke the media to their reputation - constructing ends.174 Discursive power is the ability not just to erect a website putting his or her version of the story online (which virtually anyone can now do), but also the ability to cause mass media outlets to devote attention to his or her side of the story.

Regardless of what side of the arguments you are on in the conflicts that there are in the world, the people in our armed forces truly believe in protecting us from any harm these troubles may cause and they deserve our sincere thanks for setting out to do that.

The 2016 presidential election has caused quite a stir throughout the nation, and when the Republican and Democratic conventions are held, all of the campaign rhetoric, media blitzes and impassioned arguments on both sides of the political spectrum will likely make people even more nervous about the future of the country — as well as the health of the American economy and real estate market.