Sentences with phrase «fail as an argument»

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Obviously, so the argument goes, if we want to cut teenage pregnancies and abortions we must have access to sexual health services — in other words, teenagers are less likely to get pregnant if they are using contraception; failing contraception, then we should give them access to the morning - after pill, which may be seen as preferable to a twelve - year - old getting pregnant.

Because of the «ism» at the end, making it appear as if it were an ideology, and the fact that they do not understand the definition of the word... and many seek to use a «false equivalency» in a bid to bolster their failed arguments, too.

Just proves atheists babble vainly most of the time and more so when they FAIL an argument or FAIL to see reason as is the case above.

The chief arguments used to support the traditional view of the empty tomb story — known as «bodily resurrection», and why many scholars today fail to find them convincing.

This article fails to bring up the argument of religion vs. science as well.

But what makes Ivan's argument so disturbing is not that he accuses God of failing to save the innocent; rather, he rejects salvation itself, insofar as he understands it, and on moral grounds.

But such arguments fail to recognize that Scripture treats most of the sexual mores mentioned above as moral, not cultic, issues.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

You said, «as said before, your reasoning only works if God is bound by our linear time... as He isnt, the argument fails.»

Scott's argument is essentially that art — which tries to explore the problems of existence — is failing us today, when our challenges are just as big as they ever have been.

as said before, your reasoning only works if God is bound by our linear time... as He isnt, the argument fails.

Arguments from Treasury Wine Estates proponents such as Willibald Hajszan («Treasury Wines class action unrepresentative», AFR Letters, July 7), fail to acknowledge several issues in trying to discredit the current securities class action on foot against the global wine giant.

One could argue that these injuries are influenced by the pies / medical team as one of the strong arguments around failed title challenges since 2006 have been down to a significant amount of injuries.

When adversaries stick it to you from outside the club, always trying to cause a stir within and among us and we have so called fans agreeing with these failed pundits who prolly do nt even have a voice in their own households, we like illegitimate children back up their unsincere arguments, hell Piers Morgan does it from a place of genuine concern, the AKBs and AOBs too, Fatboy gooner and NY gunner on here even and we are happy to have them but when we thoughtlessly indulge and endorse those who would rather see us fail by always coming up with.unsolicited advise especially without any reasonable bases, we are as much enemies of the club we claim to love, cutting of our nose to spite our face... shame again.

Your argument is one of the reasons why we are failing as a club.

So unless he was lying publicly to help cover failings behind the scenes (seems unlikely to me) then I don't see your inertial argument as persuasive given the recent influx of PL TV money and the addition of CL money too as outside forces acting upon FSG's past behaviorial pattern.

She makes the common sense argument that failing to pay for more healthful meals up front will only result in higher health care costs on the back end, and she considers a variety of ways to pay for universal lunch, such as a tax on soda or soda advertising, an increase in the capital gains tax, or by reducing income guarantees and price supports to producers of corn and soy.

As to the latter, to take an extreme case, if a new type of government comes to power, and in the course of it two drunks in a bar have an argument about whether the new government is better than the old and they throw a couple of punches, and that is the only violence, would you say that that means it failed the «no violence» test?

«We've made that case as persuasively as we can and we have failed to persuade the party thus far of our argument.»

The argument that hunting is supposedly insignificant in managing the fox population, as claimed by the anti-hunting groups, once again fails to understand that as a wildlife management process, it is not about the numbers killed, but the health and reduced level of the population left alive that is important.

The brief ruling says the Empire Center, which has complied all manner of public spending records on its website See Through NY, failed to make a «persuasive argument» as to why the information should be released.

For instance, the «limits to growth» argument put forward by the Club of Rome in 1972 failed to materialize, thanks in part to some of the innovations listed here, such as increased nitrogen use in industrial agriculture.

Indeed, rational argument seems strangely absent from campaigns such as the one waged last year in Texas, which demanded that the state board of education ditch texts that fail to teach the «weaknesses of evolutionary theory.»

I almost want to encourage you to go see this because, if Lucy fails, the studio fatheads will use it as more fodder for their arguments that female action stars can't carry a movie.

Una is a character and a story that fails to engage and the argument for its existence as a film is a sadly unsuccessful one.

«Nicky Morgan has failed to provide a single compelling argument as to why these changes are necessary when the vast majority of schools affected are already high performing schools.»

The argument behind rigor is the same as grades vs. learning: a good test - taker can do well on standardized tests, but may fail in a real - world environment.

My main point, and the reason I do read and participate in online discussions, is that most debate fails basic expectations for argument — as your comments routinely do.

And although takeovers of «failed» schools are often justified as rational responses to «urban decay» or «underutilization,» none of these arguments apply to Nashville.

As an argument, it fails to acknowledge that there are many other, and far more interesting, points of data that can be used by teachers, parents, and schools to keep far more compelling tabs on student progress throughout the year.

But even stock photos fail to humanize many of those who are engaged policy arguments on mediums such as these.

Compare it spec - for - spec with familiar opponents and that argument seems unfounded — the high - grade H2 LUX on test failing to offer memory seats, a powered tailgate, sat - nav, idle - stop or any of the now - expected electronic driver aids (such as self - parking technology, blind - spot monitoring, lane - keeping assist and autonomous emergency braking) found in many of its rivals; and those are just a few of the omissions we noted.

In the courts and publishers eyes they are a pirate site that is leveraging a court case as their sole argument and it failed.

All in all, after all the arguments both ways, I fail to understand why publishers who take less risk with ebooks as with pbooks should be compensated the same regardless of the form...

I can sort of understand the argument that «5 of 10» is more often perceived as a 50 %, which on many grade scales is a fail rather than average.

There are some arguments that flare up over people who fail to understand the etiquette of taking turns, but even these are polite as other gamers step in and explain that other people need to get some time as well.

Also, you failed to even notice that I am already renting GoW from Gamefly so your whole argument is lost on me because as I said before «why should I care»?

In my humble opinion, great games should be played by as many people as possible and I have very little time for any tribalism over systems / brands; if that's what you are after reader, please stop now and report to a meta - news site where some tiresome internet argument going on about «Why PS4 is like totes better than Xbox one» or «Ps4 Epic fail» is surely going on right now.

What some people fail to realize with the argument that Square Enix won't miss out on the install base of the PS4 and use that as their argument for this game coming to the PS4 is that with Microsoft handling the publishing and playing a big role In the development of this game, Rise of the Tomb Raider will make a huge profit for Square Enix, regardless of whether it releases on the PS4 or not.

In a gallery on the upper level of the Fridericianum, a letter Adnan wrote on behalf of a project Christov - Bakargiev hoped (and failed) to realize is tacked to a piece of wood, lending elegance to an argument about the wisdom of moving a meteorite — Argentina's 37 - tonne rock known as El Chaco — halfway around the world to an idyllic, small - town, three - month - long art show.

And as before she fails to give any quantitative argument to support her contention that human drivers are not the dominant cause of recent trends.

That is certainly a poor excuse for failing to acknowledge the great harm done to the public good by the efforts of Saunders and her kind to contaminate the public debate with distortions and discredited arguments disguised as expert authority.

As various arguments for action on global warming have failed to blunt growth in emissions in recent years, environmental groups and international agencies have sometimes tried to turn the focus to diseases that could pose a growing threat in a warming world — with malaria being a frequent talking point.

That argument fails also, as long as we make assumption # 3 above, that UP temperatures are determined by CO2 and other moieties that will act in the same direction.

The point is that to argue that «there is no such thing as global terrorism», or that «there is no such thing as global warming» is to fail to take issue with the idea that evidence of global terrorism or anthropogenic global warming is sufficient argument for the execution of the «War on Terror», or for «drastic action'to mitigate climate change.

«there is no such thing as global terrorism», or that «there is no such thing as global warming» is to fail to take issue with the idea that evidence of global terrorism or anthropogenic global warming is sufficient argument for the execution of the «War on Terror», or for «drastic action'to mitigate climate change.

Countless arguments across the web and in public life fail ever to make it plain what it is they are actually about, precisely because such esteemed scientists as Mann — who want to influence politics — have not made any progress in identifying their own argument, either.

If I read your reasoning correctly, your argument is that since Kelly has a personal opinion you disagree with he will fail in his attempt to stop the «Society» from giving opinions as a body.

Climate change deniers either willfully ignore or fail to understand this complexity — as shown in their simplistic argument that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a beneficial gas that helps plants grow and is therefore good for humans.

On the contrary, our argument is that the environmental movement has totally failed to resonate with the public, as with the political establishment generally.