Sentences with phrase «convincing case of»

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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.

Finland may not be the first place you think of to celebrate the arrival of spring, but Helsinki makes a convincing case thanks to its «Vappu» celebration, also known as May Day.

Stanford University professor David Larcker, who directs the school's governance research program, says the case of Apple and Jobs's health has convinced more shareholders and institutions to demand that corporate boards establish detailed succession plans.

The company, which operates a tracking application called NetMarketShare, makes a convincing case that StatCounter's methodology isn't robust enough to give an accurate account of worldwide browser usage.

(Assume that the body of the second email makes a convincing case that meeting is appropriate.)

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.

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.

If you're still not convinced that tech has a culture problem, consider the case of the CEO who directed a reporter to a sex hotline.

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 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 midst.

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

Marcel Schwantes speaks passionately to both secular and faith - based audiences on the power of servant leadership, drawing from convincing research, case studies, and illustrations.

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.

Going on cable news and making a preemptive, point - by - point case for Trump's innocence is the surest method of convincing the base that they needn't pay attention to investigation - related hysteria anymore.

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!»

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.

to go with the wife analogy, sure you don't have any evidence that she hasn't cheated on you, but you probably have a huge pile of evidence that she loves you, which makes a convincing case.

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.

Yet we must also make a convincing case for the uniqueness and transcendence of the human personality within the scheme of material life.

Schubert Ogden made a convincing case for the complementarity of the theology of Hartshorne and the anthropology of Rudolf Bultmann.

We've been convinced of the lie that the truth about ourselves exists outside our hometowns, when that just isn't the case.

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.

Given Eberstadt's reputation it is a shame that this book, coming from a Catholic publishing house, is unlikely to be read by many who are not already convinced of the case she lays out.

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.»

Hatch makes a convincing case that much of the distinctive nature of American Protestant Christianity can be attributed to its populist and democratic orientation.

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.

However, a circus of errors — first legal mistakes by a local part - time magistrate, and later the incorrect assignment of a court date for Weaver's case — convinced the family that a Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG) plot was afoot,.

Christian theology must make its case, I have argued, by presenting a worldview that is intrinsically convincing to people because of its rational coherence and its adequacy to the facts of experience.

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.»

Moreover, the mound of contradictory statistical evidence gives the impression that neither the declinists nor the anti-declinists can make a convincing case.

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 suicide.

While Mary Eberstadt makes a convincing case for the consequences of the so - called sexual revolution, she simplifies its cause.

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.

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.

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.