Sentences with phrase «convincing than attempts»

I find it far more convincing than attempts to pin survival value on every single human characteristic.

Not exact matches

(Religions act on their principles regardless of how the opposition responds) This implies that ISIS is nothing more than a business run by egocentric tyrants that happen to identify with a particular religion... thus tainting that religion with their insecurity as they attempt to use it as a platform to try and convince their selves of control and eliminate any challenge to their personal views... All because their figurative pee pees can't handle it.

Attempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of tAttempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of tattempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of this man.

Mark Maron turns some excellent scenes as director Sylvia struggling to keep his job while attempting to convince the bosses that there's a better way of storytelling than scraping the very bottom of the barrel for the lowest common denominator.

Indeed, a large number of bodybuilders use everything God has forbidden in an attempt to build muscle and mass, but there are still no convincing indications that pharmacological bodybuilders die sooner than average people.

So far, corporations have spent more than $ 50 million dollars on deceptive television advertising in an attempt to convince consumers that HFCS is «corn sugar.»

This time, he's Sgt. Rock, leading a ragtag rear guard through the snowy Korean terrain, attempting to convince the enemy that their numbers are greater than they actually are.

One of the movie's strengths is that it attempts to gain some understanding of the motivations of a character like Goeth, rather than taking the easy route of simply portraying him as an unthinking Nazi monster, and Fiennes is frighteningly convincing in his depiction of a deeply disturbed man who is all too aware of — and haunted by — his own shortcomings.

Lemkin was nominated more than half a dozen times for the Nobel Peace Prize, never won, and died in New York in poverty, attempting almost daily to convince the U.N. to formulate a world judicial system to bring to trial and punish those who commit genocide both within and outside the borders of their own countries.

He plays a schmoe working in a department store trying to convince his country girlfriend that he's really more important than he is, culminating in a brash attempt to scale the outside of a skyscraper.

At least, no purpose other than to tire drivers» arms while attempting to convince them they're really muscling a true performance car, which they usually are not.

It's enough to convince you that it's an even more serious attempt to recreate a fleeting «taste of F1» than the Enzo's predecessor, the F50, was.

Birdmen sets the engrossing story of the Wrights» war with Curtiss against the thrilling backdrop of the early years of manned flight, and is rich with period detail and larger - than - life personalities: Thomas Scott Baldwin, or «Cap» t Tom» as he styled himself, who invented the parachute and almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, the dapper daredevil who took to the skies after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador, then quickly emerged as a celebrity flyer; and Harriet Quimby, the statuesque silent - film beauty who became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

Even the dog's breeder has conceded it's not a rescue dog, despite some poorly executed spin which amounts to nothing more than a contrived attempt to convince people that it's «sort of» a rescue dog.

I'm not attempting to, say, convince you that the Wii U is better than the Xbox or PS3 or that this is the best Mario incarnation.

As well as four - player cooperative functionality, weapon customisation and RPG elements, the new trailer attempts to convince us that it will take a more emotional tack than most titles in the genre.

According to a press release sent out by XSEED today you can be prepared for more than 60 hours of game play and a unique system called «Unchain» where the players can attempt to convince monsters to join them and fight.

Hansen and his colleagues were not (at least in that particular paper) attempting to convince us of anything more than that their approach held promise in the development of future models — and they freely admitted both the complexity of their undertaking and the drawbacks of their methodology.

My problem with these attempts to convince / influence people by appealing to something other than the actual science is that they tend to work equally well both ways, whereas sticking to the rules of science really does tend to favor the truth.

Scientists draw their data from more than one piece of evidence, taking aberrations into account, whilst denialists cherry pick facts attempting to convince the world that up is down and the exception is the rule.

This blog has pointed out, however, that environmentalism is at least as much an attempt to circumnavigate problems of democratic legitimacy as it is a response to environmental problems — that it is easier to take moral authority from scientific experts than it is to elicit from the governed the consent to govern in lieu of a convincing argument.

But unfortunately, this so - called positive press for the Fusion Hybrid turned out to be nothing more than another sad attempt to convince the consumer that Detroit can compete successfully when it comes to better fuel economy.

This article is not an attempt to convince you that Macs are better than PCs.