Sentences with phrase «early arguments for»

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Various studies at the time suspected sugar was bad for the heart, and the latest JAMA suggests the Foundation paid the researchers to counter those arguments and «downplay early warning signs that sucrose consumption was a risk factor in [coronary heart disease].»

Fed vice-chairman Stanley Fischer explained the arguments for and against an early increase in US interest rates, Spanish economy minister Luis de Guindos said.

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

Earlier this month in his outlook for September, the head of the world's largest bond shop employed the Lindy dance craze, former Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, the Wimpy cartoon character and his «dying cult of equity» argument in a mash - up of prose to describe the «age of inflation that is upon us,» which he claims typically «provides a headwind, not a tailwind, to securities prices in both stocks and bonds.»

First, the Bank of Canada convinces the Department of Finance and the Conservatives that it «needs» expanded powers to purchase a broader range of securities (see my earlier post for why their arguments are not very convincing).

If you restate his argument in an uncharitable way, he is saying that the solution for the problem of excluding non-accredited investors in value appreciation is not to let them participate in private markets, but instead to suffer them to populate an earlier public market for private investors seeking liquidity.

[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.

Aaron Wright of Cardozo Law School, for example, has made a detailed case arguing that the SAFT is itself a security, from contract to token, an argument that looked prescient when earlier this year rumors began to swirl that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was going after lots of initial coin offering (ICO) projects.

My argument is that China's growth model, which is not at all unique and for which there are many historical precedents, is usually wealth enhancing in its early stages, and then becomes wealth destroying once capital is systematically misallocated.

These and other trends seem to make a good argument for buying a home in California earlier in 2018, rather than later.

It pains me a bit to say it, because I was a shareholder in Core Labs in the early 2010's — I talked to David Demshur before and he was a great guy, and I really believed in the bull argument for this stock — but I do happen to agree with Einhorn after reading through his presentation.

Although the various scriptural arguments for the resurrection of Jesus are open to question, modern writers insist that some explanation is needed of what empowered the early disciples to spread the message of Jesus across the world.

I haven't heard that argument used for movies since the early days of pornography when hard - core pictures were preceded by a warning from a man wearing a doctor's smock about the terrible things viewers were about to witness.

«Full and free discourse» is, in other words, a summary expression of the internal conditions of discourse noted earlier: equal freedom of all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it, and uncompromised commitment on the part all participants to seek the truth.

As early as 1946 Jacques Ellul published a theological argument for human

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

Given that so many good Protestant couples have accepted the creation, cryopreservation and disposal of early embryos, it may be almost impossible for an argument against ESCR to gain traction.

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.

There were a few voices in the late sixties and early seventies who spoke of the importance of this cardinal principle (Faith Magazine, for example) and the consequences of overturning it but for very many laity and clergy it was the «hard case» argument that won.

But for your sake - I made three earlier - that Luke's arguments were contradictory, unsubstantiated and circular.

Peirce's argument against determinism in «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» published a year earlier than his paper on evolutionary love, clearly lays the basis for the affirmation of radical creativity and the need for the principle of agape (6.36 - 65).

For Besançon makes clear that without the tremendous hold that Origen's Platonism held on all the Eastern churches (despite his condemnation two centuries earlier), iconoclasm would have been robbed of its most plausible argument.

Really, if you go back and look at it, many of these early arguments were primarily about power and control, but we'll leave that alone for now...

But early on, Dr. Plantinga defended a variety of arguments for the existence of God, marking the beginning of his efforts to put theistic belief back on the philosophical agenda.

In an earlier attack he argues that (for some reason) using the «if, then» argument (if torturing a man will held defend our troops, then we ought to torture him) to support the use of torture by government officials on our enemies, isn't legitimate, because (crazy logical leap) many interrogators say torture doesn't work -LRB-!?).

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 this man.

But if my arguments for his early theory, and extending it, are correct, these doctrines are unnecessary.

This demand of the prophetic school for humaneness is seen in Deuteronomy's plea for mercy to slaves because the Hebrews had themselves been slaves in Egypt, (Deuteronomy 15:15 [the same argument had already been made earlier, in the Book of the Covenant, Exodus 22:21.]-RRB-

Equally puzzling is the inclusion of Edmund Leach's essay «Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness,» which has little to recommend it but the author's eminence as perhaps the world's leading structural anthropologist — who here wishes to demonstrate that structuralism enables a style of biblical exegesis not unlike «the typological style of argument employed by the majority of early Christian writers.»

Contrary to Liébert's argument, Nietzsche never became a rationalist after the Socratic or the Voltairean manner, and he essentially persisted in his early taste for Dionysian life enriched by myth and comprehended in music.

This would be the earliest date for a Muslim in Indonesia but doubt has been expressed, supported by very strong arguments, as to whether or not this headstone actually belonged there.

Robinson, in his address as outgoing president of the Society of Biblical Literature in December 1981, presented a detailed case for the argument that the earliest resurrection traditions were luminous appearances of Jesus, while stories of physical resurrection were secondary.

The complexity of such a theory, when fully spelled out, is exhibited in the baroque character of Nobo's argument.2 More importantly, such a theory violates Whitehead's understanding of temporal atomicity, for his analysis of Zeno's paradoxes concludes that «the act itself is not extensive, in the sense that it is divisible into earlier and later acts of becoming» (PR 69) 3

Radical arguments for and against historicity are balanced out with a careful review of the ways that the story does fit with the early second millennium, 2200 to 2000 B.C.E.

This symposium devoted to critical discussion of the thought of Charles Hartshorne provides an opportunity for me to press further some points I raised earlier in reviews of two of his books, The Logic of Perfection (1962) and Anselm's Discovery (1965), both of which had to do with the original ontological argument and the import of Anselm's meditations.

By moving the dates back a bit earlier, you could substi.tute Christianity for Islam and have an equally valid argument.

It would largely also agree on much of this top 25 in August, after Signing Day, the NFL Draft, quarterback battles, assistant coaching changes, early enrollees, arrests, injuries, suspensions, and bizarre news events alter every team in some way, along with hours and hours of study of each of these teams introducing new arguments for and against everybody.

I can't possibly buy the argument that Stone leaving three years early, playing in seven NBA games in two years and fighting for a job in the G League is «what was best» for him.

I don't think that early toilet training warps a child psychologically, and I think the environmental arguments for it are compelling.

So there is certainly a good argument for starting the process earlier rather than later.

Children want what they have grown up with (which is an argument for very early separation if the couple are really unable to co-operate).

The argument for using them is that they help you to cope and enjoy early motherhood and therefore benefit both you and your baby in the long - term.

The comments cast doubt on Grayling's argument, made in Politics.co.uk earlier this week, that a ban on parcels across the prison estate needed to be imposed for security reasons.

So an early election is possible, and Corbyn's re-election might be the best argument for May to do it.

Mr Brown secured US support for the resolution earlier this week and China and Russia agreed to back the proposal in the face of the prime minister's argument.

Theresa May has a new argument for calling an early election.

A department spokesperson said: «The government believes that some very strong and persuasive arguments have been put forward for cases where, perhaps because the child is suffering from a terminal illness at a very early age, the current consent requirements in the bill are not appropriate and should be revised.»

Earlier this year, Mr Blair said a more «sensitive» approach to tackling climate change needed to be reached, one that would include India, China and the US, and today he repeated this argument, and called on the Tories to support his plans for a climate change levy.

The argument fails immediately on this point and this is a major reason for such an early preference for violence.

As more people hear his arguments, we aim to build on his early support with new policies and ideas for a fairer and more prosperous country.»