Sentences with phrase «convincing case in»

We were given the opportunity to adopt the AV system in a 2011 referendum, yet it was decisively rejected, with 68 % of voters opting for No on a 42 % turnout, in part the result of the abject failure of electoral reform advocates to craft a convincing case in favour of change.

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Social media, he said, has driven all of those phenomena — in the case of Netflix, it was people convincing the company not to split off its DVD business.

As the judge in the case ruled, Apple played «a central role» in convincing publishers that its model would raise e-book prices, which it did.

Legal experts say a defense attorney's task to convince a jury that a client is legally insane is even more difficult in cases like that of Routh, who confessed to killing the men, apologized to the family and fled from police.

I'll come in convinced I'm right and argue my case, and then I'll come in the next day and say, «You know what?

Says Neiger, «In one case, a woman's husband convinced her to put the home in her name onlIn one case, a woman's husband convinced her to put the home in her name onlin her name only.

It also faces the challenge of any greenfield infrastructure project in this day and age, convincing stakeholders (in this case, all the way down the Great Plains states) to let it pass.

Sinha and others make a convincing case that the primary culprit is a diet high in processed carbohydrates and sugar.

Although Texas hospitals have tried to make the case that lack of coverage for hundreds of thousands of people is indeed a problem for all state residents, they haven't been successful in convincing Gov. Gregg Abbott to abandon his staunch opposition to expanding Medicaid.

In the case of CNN, the media company was able to convince the FAA that it has «safety mitigations in place,» Huerta saiIn the case of CNN, the media company was able to convince the FAA that it has «safety mitigations in place,» Huerta saiin place,» Huerta said.

In that early case, officers convinced thousands of men to voluntarily turn over blood samples, building a genetic dragnet to search for a killer in their midsIn that early case, officers convinced thousands of men to voluntarily turn over blood samples, building a genetic dragnet to search for a killer in their midsin their midst.

And again, just like in the case of Brexit, they convinced the algos and the momentum chasing traders.

In his most recent blog post, Alex makes a convincing case against Trump's protectionism, which are «not good for the economy or the market» and «undermines American economic growth.»

In my experience as a business advisor and mentor, I find that most believe they are doing a convincing job, but in many cases, their key team members are not so surIn my experience as a business advisor and mentor, I find that most believe they are doing a convincing job, but in many cases, their key team members are not so surin many cases, their key team members are not so sure.

In many cases, we convinced early adopters like CheapAir, KnCMiner and eGifter to add GoCoin so as to not «limit their customer to only bitcoin».

Meeting with the national chairs of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) in Vancouver last week, Canada's International Trade Minister Ed Fast worked hard to make a convincing case that Canada is serious and is engaged for the long term.

In one case, a borrower's testimony about her mental impairment, including evidence that she received Social Security benefits, was enough to convince the court of undue hardship.

I said it to hotair already, but I will expand it a bit for you: what is evidence for some is not accepted by everyone; just as in a court case, some jurors are convinced with very little evidence while some people can not be convinced of something no matter how much evidence there is... much of this comes from how you were raised and your own personal world view, for many people God does not fit into their world view so whatever evidence there is they close their eyes and say, «No, I don't believe that!»

My own life has convinced me that, in my case, I have been «blocked» from everything i wished to accomplish.

So, again, while it may present a convincing case that the canonical gospels had to be written in that area in that near that time — beyond that — there is still a lot of unknowns — especially regarding the magic shows.

I am convinced that the question of justice constitutes the essential argument, or in any case the strongest argument, in favor of faith in eternal life.

Until then, I just assume that all these religious ideas are the creation of men who want power over others in the natural world - and every day I am more convinced this is the case.

Part of the contemporary problem in making a convincing case for the humanities is that their defenders, despite producing blue - ribbon reports about the current state of education, often do a shockingly bad job of explaining why they are important.

Enforcement will be hampered in arguable cases, and courts will make mistakes, sometimes punishing sincere but unconvincing believers while exempting more convincing fakers.

A very convincing case can be made that what we have translated as homosexuality in our modern translations in no way speaks of what was understood by the original audience.

Skip If that's where you rest your case for believing in God then it should be easy for you to understand why plenty of us on the jury just aren't convinced.

In any case, by the mid-1960s the convincing power of the neo-orthodox message was giving way to other voices.

But if these beliefs had not been presented to him at all, or were presented in a hateful way, or were presented in a true and right way but he was incapable of fully understanding them, or even if he were capable but died before being fully convinced — in such cases a man is not an unbeliever according to Almighty Judgment and will not suffer everlasting punishment.

This function of the will, though it is the responsibility of a person, is not meritorious in any way, for faith is not a work (Rom 4:5), but is simply being persuaded or convinced about what is true, which, in the case of eternal life, is being persuaded that eternal life is the free gift of God to all who believe in Jesus for it.

In Chile and during an airborne press conference returning to Rome, Francis had accused the victims of «calumny» for pressing their case against Barros, demanded they present «proof» of their claims, revealed he had twice rejected Barros» resignation and insisted: «I am convinced he is innocent.»

Certainly the book makes a convincing case that Faber possessed an earlier, and perhaps deeper, appreciation of Philippine spirituality than Newman, albeit that Newman (as Cardinal Wiseman recognised) was more capable of providing a sure foundation for the Oratorian life in the English context.

In some cases, the minister's orientation causes him to feel, «I can accept the sickness conception of alcoholism only if I am convinced that the alcoholic, being a sick person, really experiences unmixed suffering.»

I do think Stillman is aware of most of these downsides, but in any case, his film convinced me that there was more to that scene than we might think, namely, that at its best, it sought and to some extent achieved a more natural form of aristocracy - within - democracy than rock ever has.

Nevertheless, in some cases — and for various reasons — the more statist members of the Supreme Court are sometimes able to convince other justices to obtain such outcomes as those deplored above.

But they feel no satisfaction from having made the «right» choices, and this feeling they can not understand; nor, in many cases, can they get a convincing explanation from the people who originally told them what the right choices were.

Nobody should want the politicizing of church leadership that comes with popular elections, as is the case in many Protestant denominations, and the Board assumes the right of the pope to appoint bishops, but they are convinced that the present pattern of the promotion of the like - minded by the like - minded within a clericalist club designed to perpetuate the habits that created the present crisis is not a promising way toward reform.

The government's rhetoric is no more convincing in this case than in its dubbing of missiles of first - strike nuclear capability as «Peacekeepers.»

In its thoroughness and even tone this carefully researched study of Woolf and her works makes a convincing case that the theme of sexual abuse appears and reappears in Woolf's work — from her earliest writing at age ten throughout her life — and that the traumas of her childhood caused lifelong depression and led to her suicidIn its thoroughness and even tone this carefully researched study of Woolf and her works makes a convincing case that the theme of sexual abuse appears and reappears in Woolf's work — from her earliest writing at age ten throughout her life — and that the traumas of her childhood caused lifelong depression and led to her suicidin Woolf's work — from her earliest writing at age ten throughout her life — and that the traumas of her childhood caused lifelong depression and led to her suicide.

For in case at a given moment a physician is convinced that this or that person is in good health and at a later moment becomes sick — the physician may be right in affirming that the person was well then, and at a later moment became sick.

The author is Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, the publisher is Doubleday, and the price should be no obstacle to a book that offers a fresh analysis of what has gone wrong with the Church in America, a convincing case for encouragement, wise counsel on how to engage the public square and, not incidentally, restored confidence in the ability of (some) bishops to teach on faith and morals.

In case anyone is still not convinced that narrowly self - interested individual behavior, far from advancing the common good, is profoundly inimical to it, let me illustrate its adverse effects in one more waIn case anyone is still not convinced that narrowly self - interested individual behavior, far from advancing the common good, is profoundly inimical to it, let me illustrate its adverse effects in one more wain one more way.

Convinced that in any case almighty controlling power is not what is revealed about God in the life and teachings of Jesus, I turn to the larger topic.

But he approves of it in the case of a physician who» knowingly facilitated» the suicide of a patient whom he had treated for a long time, knew well, and who had convinced him early on that she preferred to die rather than go through a long and losing battle with cancer.

The attempt to show how religion intersects with regional and local politics is more convincing in the specific cases various authors cite.

Teaching (didaskein) is in a large majority of cases ethical instruction.2 Occasionally it seems to include what we should call apologetic, that is, the reasoned commendation of Christianity to persons interested but not yet convinced.

In this engaging series of meditations, Jean Bethke Elshtain makes a convincing case that Augustine of Hippo (354 «430 a.d.) is a saint for our times.

Absent such a change in canon law, a bishop seeking to dismiss a priest will have to convince a canon court that the case warrants dismissal, and thus the zero tolerance policy amounts to nothing more than a declaration by the bishops that, because in their view all cases of sexual abuse warrant dismissal from the clerical state, they intend to seek this penalty in all cases.

We too are convinced that he who died lives still, and in our case too this conviction is not the consequence of visual experiences reported in the Gospels and Epistles, but of the presence of the Spirit in the community.

A strong case can be made for the view that the original resurrection appearances were in the nature of visions, and that the physical resuscitation accounts were developed for the purpose of convincing the doubtful, who thought the disciples had only seen a ghost.

In such a (remarkable, but not - miraculous) case, he could present himself with holes in his hands and feet and in his side, to Thomas, and you and I both know that this «evidence,» which does not prove death and resurrection, still would be convincing to Thomas that Jesus both died and rose from the deaIn such a (remarkable, but not - miraculous) case, he could present himself with holes in his hands and feet and in his side, to Thomas, and you and I both know that this «evidence,» which does not prove death and resurrection, still would be convincing to Thomas that Jesus both died and rose from the deain his hands and feet and in his side, to Thomas, and you and I both know that this «evidence,» which does not prove death and resurrection, still would be convincing to Thomas that Jesus both died and rose from the deain his side, to Thomas, and you and I both know that this «evidence,» which does not prove death and resurrection, still would be convincing to Thomas that Jesus both died and rose from the dead.