Sentences with phrase «defend our position for»

We're trying to defend our position for saying no, but really you don't need to do this.

Mathematician — that's the same argument that Chris Anderson has been using to defend his position for years now.

Once someone stakes out their argument there is natural tendency to defend that position for longer than is perhaps scientifically justified.

Not exact matches

The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

The more learned - sounding books position this point as asking for the most you can reasonably defend.

The corollary of that is an enfeebled fin de règne in which Merkel defends a centrist legacy against attacks from both sides, accompanied by a gradual loss of party discipline as potential successors jockey for position.

For years, I defended the position challenged by my first question.

As the head of the National Economic Council Cohn didn't have responsibility for Trump's social positions, and he wouldn't have to defend them publicly.

NEW YORK Wells Fargo & Co's two biggest competitors have been nabbing market share in lending to commercial and industrial customers in the American heartland, a sign of how difficult it has become for the scandal - tarnished bank to defend its position against rivals.

A price tag of $ 43 a share is «probably the cheapest and most efficient way for Google to get a strong IP position in wireless and defend the Android eco-system against legal challenges,» he writes.

Those pushing for change are dismissed as quixotic, he argues, and those who oppose new laws aren't forced to defend their positions.

Sometimes on the belief blog, I've been very vocal defending my position because I do not believe... it's time for the theists to do the same.

Perhaps, but I can't help but believe that when people in a position to defend a belief system for this they have no evidence after a while there must be some shred of doubt that sneaks in.

Defending one's position is not the only valid option at this point, particularly for the called out ones.

[In light of his position on gender roles, Piper could not bring himself to endorse Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election, but conceded that «defending abortion is far worse a sin for a man than serving as Vice President is for a woman.»]

With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole, still tempted to defend old conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.

For we shall neither defend her former social position as far as at all possible, nor shall we want to make her give up whatever is still left of this historical position as fast as possible and of her own free will.

For if he had truly grasped the position Arkes defends he would understand that his own judgment — that Arkes is mistaken at points — is itself dependent on moral notions not contingent upon relative circumstances or the contingencies of history.

7Whitehead's position could be defended on other grounds as well: e.g., it gives us a single type of experience for all existing things; it provides a single metaphysical basis for the natural and social sciences; it stresses the difference between the becoming of a not - yet - existing occasion and the relations between existing things.

Ironically, Lindsell's book may very well prove to be a potent force for undermining the very position he defends.

Week by week she fought for an evangelical view of scripture, in spite of the liberal disposition of her tutors, having to work harder than her fellow students in order to defend her position in one - to - one tutorials.

On the other side, for Beegle and Davis, pressure to defend their position (now, by locating «error») brings equally unsatisfactory results.

Someone else «defended premillennialism over against postmillennialism rather than arguing for the posttribulation Rapture as opposed to the pretribulation position.»

Proponents of «intelligent design theory» refuse to answer such questions, because it is rhetorically advantageous for them to take a purely negative position in which they criticize Darwinian theory without defending a positive theory of their own.

These essays are crucial for any assessment of MacIntyre's position: Arguments and observations he makes in his books were often first developed in articles, and defended later in other articles, not widely available.

In culture wars, as in philosophical debate, words are often like towns along the battle front: they offer a strategic position and must be fought for and defended, and not relinquished as soon as the enemy advances.

And as for the athiest, unless he has 100 % of all knowlege in the entire universe, he can not defend his position that there is no God, even though the universe declares it to be the case.

Accordingly, since the purpose of Griffin's goal is not simply to defend his own approach to the problem of evil but to argue that «the [defensive] strategy proposed by Plantinga is inadequate» (ER 47), the fact that Griffin has misidentified the basis for Plantinga's position is significant.

For some reason, these people felt compelled to blame Warren for the death of his 27 - year - old son or defend their position that suicide is an unforgiveable sin and therefore Matthew Warren would never be received in heavFor some reason, these people felt compelled to blame Warren for the death of his 27 - year - old son or defend their position that suicide is an unforgiveable sin and therefore Matthew Warren would never be received in heavfor the death of his 27 - year - old son or defend their position that suicide is an unforgiveable sin and therefore Matthew Warren would never be received in heaven.

His beliefs and politics: Burns, who identifies as pro-life and supports a «Christian America,» rallied for Trump starting in the primaries — defending in particular the candidate's position among Christians and African Americans.

But as many «culturist» critics of science note, this belief is belied by the fact that apologists for science tend to defend their position by passionate appeals to the universality and immutability of the «laws of nature» that science progressively and objectively discovers: laws that it would be absurd to view as socially constructed.3 Such an objection, however, fails to take note of the fact that, as Whitehead puts it, «Nature is patient of interpretation in terms of Laws which happen to interest us» (AI 136).

That anyone should have bothered to defend so tenaciously the merits of a universally accessible gender orientation over another testifies to the incompatibility of the many strains of gender revisionism jockeying for position within the progressive agenda.

And he should learn to do this not only to defend the Christian position, but to understand and stand with his people as they take their place in the world, even though standing with them will sometimes have to be out of his weakness and lack of answers for the profound questions they are raising.

The State Department defended his nomination for the position, which facilitates international cooperation over refugees, internally displaced persons, and other migrants.

Such persons should be serving as police, security... personnel, defending and prosecuting attorneys — not only as counselors and workers in halfway houses, the more usual positions for the reform minded.

And if that's all you've got to defend your position I truly feel sorry for you.

It is important to add that I have not tried to defend Whitehead's position, nor to suggest that this is the only stance possible for a process theologian to take on this issue; I have only sought to establish that Whitehead did possess a discernable theory of social differentiation.

«I've come to believe that white onions are really the best for all - purpose use, though it's not a position I could defend readily,» he says.

Buy sufficient cover for the defense & for the defending midfield positions.

Arsene playing a balanced team will give you positive results, especially playing against a big team, over the past years we have continued to use players not suited for certain positions, we actually had a player who used left foot on the left side of the field who got in attacking position, Kolasinac to me was the most important player going forward and defending.

I disagree.A wingback can be viewed as a defensive winger.Whether the Ox likes it or not he's been blessed with the qualities of a winger.To me that's his best position.He's only doing well as a wingback because of his attacking abilities.As I said earlier a wingback can be viewed as a sort of defensive winger.That's why CB's who are used as RB or LB can not play wingback.Wingback needs the player to be able to adapt himself like a winger while also being solid defensively.Ox has the attacking part but not the defensive part.With Bellerin we have the best of both worlds.He can attack, defend and also has the speed necessary to play wingback.I fear Ox being played at wingback will cost us when we play teams with tricky wingers.He should rather be challenging Sanchez or Ozil for their positions and not wingback.The guy hates to always have to defend which in truth he can't.

Still, Shaw showed his old defensive lapses once again with some shocking positioning on Alan Dzagoev's opener for CSKA on the night, and it is that kind of slack defending that will surely see him continue to miss out.

What amazed me is that after Özil goal our team collectively relaxed on the defensive end and was happy to sat so deep as if we were in the late stage of the game... we should have better mixed up our game plan sitting deep to defend in a more compact way is good but when you have the ball you must take good care of it and find teammates in good positions quickly... both Cazorla and Ramsey were poor and I do feel that they both should've been subbed of early for Rosicky and Walcott!

Never in a position to really defend and when he is, it's all too easy for the opposition to get past him.

until wenger really stresses on defending and forgoes this «attack the whole game» policy, arsenal do nt stand a chance to win major honours.also do keep in mind, attacking whole game drains out the players.better to put handbrake on and play when team has a 2 or 3 goal lead focussing on keeping posession and positioning... but i guess wenger will always go for the «u score 3, we score 4».

Which may be one of the reasons barca is not too keen and is waiting for him develop more, his defending is kind of suspect but his speed makes up for his lack of positioning.

But the Jazz rookie has been everything and more for a Utah team now in position to defend home court and take command of their first - round series back in Salt Lake City.

If not for a loss to defending national champion BYU (1984 is next), Air Force would have positioned for a title claim.

Can you blame Sanchez for not passing the ball to WIDEBECK, lately this man is never in position, WHY because he is defending and running all over the place, the clumsy GIROUD let's face it, he is better than WIDEBECK and works better for our team game, but far from being a surgical finisher.

@ Budd, Chambers loves attacking too much for a DM, in order for him to maybe become succesful on that position he really needs to learn to balance attacking and defending without fouling too much in every game.