Sentences with phrase «challenged on an assertion»

In a philosophical setting, if challenged on an assertion you made, you must prove it.

Justice Halprin frequently sparred with Mr. Brudz, challenging him on his assertions about availability and level of technical competence that is prerequisite for an attorney to make an informed judgment about either premise or cloud - based tools.

Not exact matches

That account was questioned in 2013 and 2014 by investigators working for the Senate Intelligence Committee, which also issued a lengthy report in December that challenged the CIA's assertions on the effectiveness of torture.

That coming from a person who runs away when challenged on his constant random assertions is quite funny.

In our country people are able to speak their minds, challenge, and make assertions all day long, every day without anybody or anything crashing down on them.

I would challenge the assertion he has made on his blog «That person, even after I corrected them, still took that to mean that I said, «God both exists and does not exist» — yeah, right!»

Every time I make a challenge to your assertions, you go off on another tangent, that quite frankly seems to have no bearing on reality or the truth of what is going on.

It may well be true that self - consciousness about standing on such shaky ground is the reason why the talk of a woman's «right» to abortion services has become an uncritical mantra, rising to a aggressive assertion when challenged, for this kind of feminist.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

But responding to the claims on Accra FM, Koku Anyidoho rubbished his assertions and challenged Dr Bawumia to account for how much it cost the country to re-denominate the cedi in 2007, when Dr Bawumia served as the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana.

Congressman John Faso's letter («Decision made in best interest of state, nation,» Dec. 11) challenging a constituent's assertion that Faso's flip - flop vote on the tax bill was less than altruistic was most curious.

While Exxon Mobil provided plenty of details about the company's thinking on climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to meet regulatory and other challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be met with low - carbon energy alone.

She has headed a number of studies on the content and effects of trans fatty acids in America and Israel and has successfully challenged government assertions that dietary animal fat causes cancer and heart disease.

An interview published this week with NPR asks education professor Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University about her motivation to gather the research on academic redshirting in her recent article for Education Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being among the oldest in one's peer group is always an advantage.

It requires instructional strategies on teachers» parts that enable students to explore concepts and discuss them with each other, to question and respectfully challenge classmates» assertions.

Your original comment made assertions that are false on their face while challenging the authority and experience of others who are well established as an authority and as having a plethora of experience.

Today on Your Money, Your Wealth, he offers several reasons you may not be getting the returns you've enjoyed in the past, and he challenges Jason Zweig's assertion in the Wall St. Journal that it's because there are fewer stocks to choose from.

On the other hand, the trend challenges the assertion made by HAHF (and the Florida DOH in its Rabies Guide) that TNR — which has become increasingly popular over the past 20 years — leads to an increased risk of rabies exposure.

Further immersive and engaging installations contributed by a variety of territories such as Argentina, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia will build on this assertion, offering new insights into how creative practice can express and aid challenging socio - political topics including migration, civic responsibility and pollution.

One of the great challenges — and opportunities — in twenty - first - century life lies in finding ways to navigate the sea of assertions and facts we face on the Internet and come away with some sense of what's really known and unknown, or simply feared or imagined, in a complicated, dynamic world.

Kennedy's most convincing points were on the economics of nuclear energy (an area the film avoids tackling), while Stone effectively challenged assertions about health risks.

(This study builds on earlier work challenging assertions that sea ice was poised to pass some irreversible tipping point.)

I encourage you to weigh in on particular assertions, either supporting or challenging them.

Clinton says her reasoning behind calling for the probe is because she believes «there's a lot of evidence» ExxonMobil «misled» the public on climate change and that the organization promoted «skeptics» who challenge global warming assertions.

That assertion was a direct challenge to Mr. Bush, whose approach relies on voluntary reductions, and it guaranteed that the McCain - Lieberman bill would face stiff opposition, particularly after next week, when Mr. Lieberman is to announce that he is seeking the Democratic nomination for president next year.

Why is EMH trying to challenge commenters here with his «deniars are those that are willing to ask questions, research and form their own opionions» vs «those on the left who accept the highly questionable science because it conforms nicely with their progressive, big goverment ideology» assertions rather than challenge the scientists at the CSIRO or BOM or NCAR or NASA or NOAA or Hadley CRU... or any relevant department of any leading university?

Officials of another nine states, including New York, have challenged that assertion, while pointing out that the program has yielded more than $ 700 million for participating states, most of it spent on programs aimed at reducing energy consumption and investing in renewable energy.

The coal companies and states challenging the plan have crafted a legal argument that essentially focuses on one core assertion: that the rule is «unprecedented.»

I sat disappointed in silence instead of challenging my colleague on his assertions about women or over the appropriateness of his very public tale telling and I bit my tongue at the urge to correct the man on my other side on both his assumption about what type of bucks I made and whether or not I was a scumbag.

The assertion that Mexico will make a substantial capital investment in a wall that is to be built on US soil is a difficult one to comprehend if it is considered critically, and without answering how he is going to make it happen, Trump certainly faces a logical and logistical challenge.

Yet the Court's mistakes and dubious assertions about its role (about which I might have more to say separately) are cause for worrying, and the possibility that it is right about the high evidentiary threshold that a constitutional challenge must get over before even being considered on the merits is, if anything, even more distressing.

The program concentrates intensively on three key skill areas: awareness and strengthening of current coping methods, challenging self defeating thoughts, and assertion skills to discover needs and ask appropriately for support.

Ross, I challenge your assertion on the basis that I've requested and have been denied from individual boards, such as Edmonton, Moncton, and Toronto, to access (online or download) the same dataset I can access as a REALTOR ® manually.