Sentences with phrase «common as the argument»

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[20] In essence, this was an early version of the conflict of interest argument made below: promoters were using nonvoting common stock as a way of maintaining voting control for themselves.

The most common argument banks use in favor of this practice is that it ensures that customer's largest expenses, such as a mortgage or car payment, get paid ahead of smaller debits.

The most common argument you hear from the pass - through lobby (which includes, notably, lobbying firms themselves, who organize as partnerships) is that pass - throughs face a higher rate than C corporations.

Common people, I saw that my comment upset you enough to reply to me, but not one of you could share a candidate that you prefer, or structure an argument as to why they have more experience than Romney to pull our country out of this mess?

In his final two sentences, however, he recognizes the contemporary urgency that is intrinsic to his argument: «The hope of solidarity itself, and the recognition of its attendant burdens, still weighs upon us today It has remained a fragile aspiration, as much in need of condensation into symbolic forms of requisite density and imaginative power as it ever was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of the Common Era.»

Indeed, those who belong to the same religious group can be fierce in their disagreements, even though they have a great deal in common, as has been shown by the recent arguments in the churches about whether women should be ordained.

The argument is that the Chicago school arose in the context of the social gospel, a movement that had much in common with contemporary political theology and that, under the stimulus of political theology, this school can recover something of what it had lost as well as move forward in new ways.

I am sympathetic to the common - sense argument that the book presents — especially as it is remarkably well documented and proceeds with a lawyer's precision.

It may also become increasingly difficult for any argument against any research on early embryos to command a hearing (including arguments against «therapeutic» cloning) as other procedures that involve embryo selection and disposal become more common.

Perhaps evangelicalism's most common argument concerning Biblical authority runs as follows: If one will grant the general reliability of the New Testament documents as verified historically, then, as the Holy Spirit uses this witness to create faith in Christ as Lord and Savior, the Christian comes to accept Jesus Christ as authoritative.

This is important to our current argument because it shows that our common sense — and even our medical science — recognizes that even our physical health, much less reality as a whole, can not be reduced to physical processes alone.

I don't bother with many other comment sections on the internet, so if she wants to explain to me how a complete lack of proof led her in one of the worst possible directions or how her lack of understanding of morals and ethics lead her to choose the most criminal of religious cults to join..., then that would be great and I'm sure we could all enjoy picking apart her arguments for her «conversion» to those of us who know the difference between reason, logic, common sense, and ethics and morals and empathy and sympathy... as I would guess she doesn't give a crap anyway I doubt she'll show up here.

As soon as we can get their two parties to agree, and then get them to be reconciled on civil matters with northern Baptists, and then have all Baptists come to terms with the Catholic bishops» statements against the Bomb, or get all Catholics to do so, then the tradition will settle arguments and produce common valueAs soon as we can get their two parties to agree, and then get them to be reconciled on civil matters with northern Baptists, and then have all Baptists come to terms with the Catholic bishops» statements against the Bomb, or get all Catholics to do so, then the tradition will settle arguments and produce common valueas we can get their two parties to agree, and then get them to be reconciled on civil matters with northern Baptists, and then have all Baptists come to terms with the Catholic bishops» statements against the Bomb, or get all Catholics to do so, then the tradition will settle arguments and produce common values.

My argument is that just as the Lovins have succeeded in persuading an important sector of corporate leadership that efficient use of resources is profitable, someone will need to persuade corporate leadership that all will benefit in the long run from restraint in the exploitation of the global commons.

Root post by «Founders1791» contains a variety of common fallacies, including instances of the ad hominem fallacy and the the circ - umstantial ad hominem fallacy, as well as Straw Man arguments and non sequiturs.

Indeed, Smith supplemented his common - sense argument with an invocation of the equity principle saying «It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged» (Vol.

She makes the common sense argument that failing to pay for more healthful meals up front will only result in higher health care costs on the back end, and she considers a variety of ways to pay for universal lunch, such as a tax on soda or soda advertising, an increase in the capital gains tax, or by reducing income guarantees and price supports to producers of corn and soy.

I don't think that bringing up the Netherlands is arguing that they're bad, though, so much as undermining a common NCB argument, and there are many countries, including the Netherlands, that have homebirth and midwifery led care and better mortality rates than we do.

There is a strong argument that the cultural resources made available online should be treated as a global cultural «commons» that supports the self - development of the individual and the artistic and intellectual development of human society at large.

@MarkMessa... but it is an argument, or a point that appeals to the typical liberal, and proves as a good counter point to the «guns are only people - killing machines» sentiment that's common on the left.

Their central argument is that when austerity and Conservative governance have been intertwined, namely in the 1930s and 1980s, both Baldwin and Mrs Thatcher respectively presented their Tory prescriptions for recovery as «common sense».

Moyo was thus uncriticically regurgitating the old Malthusian argument about «tragedies of the commons» occurring, mostly in developing countries, with population growth and environmental factors as the cause of growing poverty and civil strife.

Your attempts to rationalize your description of the president as an «idiot» by referring to a very porous argument of the Greek origin of the word simply flies in the face of your own common sense logic that you tout to the highest heavens.

«No government - whether it's a coalition of parties, or a coalition of rivalries as in the Blair - Brown governments - is able to survive without a core set of common assumptions and aspirations,» Mr Clegg said, in an argument which emphasised the important areas where the Conservatives and Lib Dems are reading off the same hymn sheet.

This doesn't mean they're bad / invalid arguments, or that there aren't more secular people who use these arguments as a primary reason, just that in general the religious argument is the most common / important in discourse about this topic.

As is so common with Brexit rhetoric he takes the arguments he accepts and projects them onto his negotiating partner.

«Essentially we have the beginning of a tsunami, where literally we could have a hole in our community with the closing of Sophie Finn and the closing of the Kingston Hospital campus right next door which I can see every day from my office,» said Gallo during a press conference which — as he paced back and forth in the Common Council chambers before an audience of reporters, community members and at least four school board trustees — seemed at times similar to the delivery of an opening argument at trial.

Nicola Sturgeon said it was a «common sense argument», as much in the interest of the UK as an independent Scotland, to keep a currency union.

Blair wrote that he could see clearly the force of the «common sense and practical argument» against Trident, but in the end he thought giving it up would be «too big a downgrading of our status as a nation...»

«Our argument is that delineations in medicine can be arbitrary and that some disorders that are viewed as multiple disparate and independent conditions may best be viewed as a single spectrum disorder with a common genetic etiology,» says Dr. Coplan.

In October 2014, researchers for the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress cited the Pygmalion Effect as an argument in favor of the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards, a bold education reform adopted by more than 40 states starting in 2010.

The second most common argument in favor of the hook grip is that Olympic Lifters use it, but as we all know, the mixed grip doesn't work very well in their routines and the hook grip is the best option they have (the normal one is simply less secure), so that's not a valid argument when it comes to comparing these two.

Another common argument is that many games wouldn't even work as cooperative games.

Talk about common sense: Your arguments are about as absurd as your assessments of anyone who disagrees with you.

Narrative writing, as mentioned earlier, gets reduced by Common Core to 20 percent of student writing output (PDF) when they reach high school, while argument and informative / explanatory both increase to 40 percent.

In anticipation of the conference, I spent some time pondering my best arguments for why education advocates should invest their time and political capital in pensions, as opposed to everything else they might want to work on (like Common Core, teacher prep, charter schools, school funding, etc).

When the court decides, as it almost certainly has to that, in fact, no one forced Louisiana or any other state to adopt Common Core, the most effective anti-Common Core argument goes, «Poof!»

What might have gone away, had they never opened their mouths on the topic, is the political argument over Common Core, which was quietly receding into implementation challenges in the states that still acknowledge that they're using those standards — and something similar in places that put new labels on the same (or very similar) content, as well as a few jurisdictions that are still struggling to come up with anything nearly as good on their own.

So it is ironic that the left, which has made right - wing anti-government arguments, and made common cause with Republicans to scale back federal control over education, has settled on a public message of attacking liberal reformers as crypto - allies of the GOP.

Even the NJDOE uses the argument as one reason for their teacher evaluation system, the need for Common Core and their support of the PARCC test.

Under Common Core, the rhetorical triangle concept will be a cornerstone of 10th grade as students are asked to think critically about the relationship between audience and message and to construct arguments on their own.

It is an argument supporters of Common Core can actually win, but only as long as they take up the arguments, and deal with the opposition in an intellectually honest manner.

Parents, teachers, and advocates used the forums as an opportunity to vocalize arguments they feel have been left out in previous discussions regarding the Common Core.

Integration: As the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call for students to have skills such as being able to persevere in solving difficult problems, collaborate, construct viable arguments, and critique the reasoning of others, SEL skills help students master this deeper engagement and learninAs the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call for students to have skills such as being able to persevere in solving difficult problems, collaborate, construct viable arguments, and critique the reasoning of others, SEL skills help students master this deeper engagement and learninas being able to persevere in solving difficult problems, collaborate, construct viable arguments, and critique the reasoning of others, SEL skills help students master this deeper engagement and learning.

Abbott also debunked arguments presented by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) where they claimed «overlap» between Common Core and the TEKS as an issue, suggesting that «if teachers can not use the Common Core Standards «in any way,» it will result in an inability to teach many of the required TEKS.»

In recent years, for example, argument has been identified as the «core» (Wiggins, 2014) of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.

You'll see how to include it using common ZIP arguments in Bundling your EPUB file as a ZIP archive.

The most common argument banks use in favor of this practice is that it ensures that customer's largest expenses, such as a mortgage or car payment, get paid ahead of smaller debits.

There is a common argument that volatility decreases as you expand the time horizon - that returns will even out or cancel out, over time.

A common argument for buying as much home as you can is that your principal residence is tax sheltered.