Sentences with phrase «familiar argument of»

The bulls make the familiar argument of low interest rates, strong demand, low inventory levels, limited land supply etc..

Cuts are coming at a time when local government faces flat revenues: «We must also consider demographic demand - we do not need to go into the familiar argument of what an ageing population means - and the fact that recession leads to income being constrained from things such as tourism, and car parking and planning charges.

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Before this starts to sound like the annual lecture from management — perhaps you're one of those corporate employees forced to sleepwalk through an intranet quiz once in a while to prove to your higher - ups that you're familiar with the company's code of conduct — consider DeMars's argument for the value of the ethical office from a personal standpoint: «In order to live happily and at peace with ourselves, we have to live in ways that are congruent with our morals,» she argues.

I did read the article, yes — and I am familiar with the arguments around Bitcoin from a number of different perspectives.

Scalia, attorney for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the lead plaintiff, opened with a smooth presentation outlining familiar arguments: the DOL lacks the authority to regulate advisors, acted in an «arbitrary and capricious» manner, and violated plaintiffs» First Amendment rights.

(If that sounds familiar, it's because the same argument was made twenty - five years ago in the early stages of the battle over legalized abortion.)

The arguments Cooperman and Smith give about why polling about religion isn't all that bad are quite familiar to those of us who follow polling.

Thanks to social trends, especially those arising from technology and transhumanism, our familiar forms of argument are becoming obsolete.

Assume for the sake of argument that extraterrestrial life exists, and that it is based on proteins and DNA like the life on earth with which we are familiar.

Written in an engaging and aphoristic style, Against Christianity is a splendid little dustup that will be of particular interest to those familiar with the main players and their arguments.

Those who have read Phillips's The Cousins» Wars (1999) will be familiar with his ability to draw together a web of historical correspondences to serve his thesis, though this strategy is less successful in Wealth and Democracy, tending to diffuse the core argument.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

However, already familiar elements of the cosmological argument also received fresh and vigorous handling by Second Isaiah.

Many readers will be familiar with some of the traditional «arguments for the existence of God», such as that everything has a prior cause, but that the causal chain can not be continued back indefinitely, so that there must somewhere be a First Cause; or that since there are various degrees of perfection there must be a Perfect One by whom all lesser degrees are measured; or that all change in a thing is caused by something else which leads eventually to some Prime Mover.

Today he's in the business of training missionaries for overseas work, and he's very familiar with the argument that missionaries should be upfront about their intentions when they go overseas.

What won't be as familiar is his argument that the effects of this revival — what else can it be called?

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

If later selves have content in them that resembles the content in earlier selves, then by an argument made familiar by Bertrand Russell, this resemblance would seem to require grounding in a monadic or dyadic universal which is a multiply exemplifiable entity in each, perhaps the relation of resemblance itself.4 In order to be veridical, my present memory of a past experience must have identical qualities instanced in it as were instanced in the past experience when it was present.

The areas Eberstadt explores will come as no surprise to those familiar with the arguments of these near ubiquitous «spokesmen of the New Atheism».

Afraid of being branded as moralists, or even worse, proselytizers, politicians cling to surface arguments that remain in the public's comfort zone, choosing sides in the familiar debates on school prayer, pornography, media immorality and abortion.

This argument, the cry raised in Soweto and San Salvador, is painfully familiar, and it is impossible to hear it without feeling the deep pain of those who make it.

Instead of «deep narratives,» we get familiar tropes or arguments - for instance, that ethnicity is primarily symbolic or that immigrants will save us from our materialism - that often have a straw - man quality to them.

Some of this will of course already sound familiar because it is consistent with arguments put forward by Clifford Geertz in his 1966 essay, or with arguments that have surfaced more prominently in Geertz's recent work as well as in the work of Peter Berger, Robert Bellah, and others.

The other side of the argument (the one were are more familiar with) claims that eating breakfast boosts brain power, prevents less snacking during the day, provides you with the nutrition you need after fasting all night, and reduces risk of heart disease and kick - starts your metabolism.

On Sunday, the Houston Chronicle ran my opinion piece about pink slime, the content of which will be somewhat familiar to Lunch Tray readers as I've advanced many of the same arguments here.

On the other side of the argument, there are specialists who are maintaining recent direct studies have been done that show once babies are born they have the innate ability to recognize their mothers» voices and may respond to familiar music that was played during the time they were in the womb.

Flanagan's comments amount to a familiar closing argument for Republicans in their bid to keep control of the narrowly divided state Senate: The chamber is the GOP's last lever of power statewide and Democratic control of state government could prove problematic.

This article treads familiar ground that has been covered by both the Post and the Times.The problem with the WFP, goes the argument, is that the party, financed largely by unions, works on behalf of the candidates it supports.

So at this point, the Miner argument is familiar in political circles beyond the walls of her first - floor office, adorned with a Barack Obama coffee mug, pictures of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and SU football pioneer Ernie Davis.

I am plenty familiar with the arguments against giving up direct control of our cars.

If you have heard any of those names before, are familiar with the concept, and were persuaded because of the evolutionary arguments, then we share something in common.

The other side of the argument (the one were are more familiar with) claims that eating breakfast boosts brain power, prevents less snacking during the day, provides you with the nutrition you need after fasting all night, and reduces risk of heart disease and kick - starts your metabolism.

Many of my clients in private practice and in my courses are aware of what I call «familiar arguments».

He assumes a relatively well - informed reader, one already familiar with many of the intertwined historical and ongoing debates charted throughout, and who is perhaps occasionally prepared to pause and read up on a given concept or argument in the event of feeling the need to engage with it more extensively.

These are familiar arguments against testing, cases of individuals who do not «test well» or who fall just below a cut - off score for qualification.

On that score the arguments have been familiar since James Coleman's research on Catholic schools, and they remain sound, in particular on the effect of functioning communities around religious schools.

I printed these on card and laminated them and I have used them in many different ways; here are some examples: - Sorting activities: encourage children to become more familiar with the instruments and calling them by the correct name by inviting them to sort them according to their own or pre-defined criteria, e.g. tuned / untuned, metal / wooden... - Children select a card at the start of a lesson... this is the instrument they will be using (saves arguments and also prevents against six sets of cymbals crashing all lesson!)

In terms of criticism of the Common Core, there is very little substantively new in the report — the arguments are all very familiar to anyone who's been following the backlash over the past several months.

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.

Just as the debate once raged about the state of print - versus - digital book publishing, magazines and newspapers are feeling the pinch of that familiar argument.

So begins the high school melodrama of Strawberry 100 %; Junpei and his friends begin the hunt for the mystery girl and her strawberry panties, and everyone gets mixed up in a strange, all to familiar love circle where everyone is sure that two people are perfect for each other, but intervening relationships, arguments, and other such tomfoolery end up keeping them away from each other.

... In learning philosophy you have to learn to argue for or against philosophical opinions and to understand and assess philosophical visions and you have to become familiar with some of the arguments and outlooks that have been advanced on certain topics in the past.

Many of the arguments that Mr. Bogle makes in the book would be familiar to readers: the drawbacks of investing in mutual funds, the importance of keeping down frictional costs such as fees, commissions, sales charges and taxes, the virtues of index funds etc..

Today, I'm the CEO and co-founder of a marketplace for buying, owning and selling single - family rental investment properties — so I'm pretty familiar with both sides of the argument.

I was also familiar with some of the naysayer arguments.

I won't make the argument that the lack of challenge makes for bad or unenjoyable games, but being familiar with the series» past, I know that Zelda games are capable of so much more.

She renewed her acquaintance with a battery of critical discourse, familiar from her year at Bennington — treatises on feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and structuralism — and listened to all the old arguments about painting.

Institutional critique has certainly had its effects on both artistic and museum conventions, often liberating ones, and Buskirk illustrates this argument with the familiar practices of Fred Wilson, Andrea Fraser and Sophie Calle, the usual suspects.

Point being, often firms put a grayhaired elder partner up to present an argument that was crafted by young junior lawyers who have become intimately familiar with the details of the argument, which the elder partner may not fully understand.

In a scientific paper, a selective or misleading graph may be of little consequence (except for the author's reputation), as scientific readers are familiar with the further data and the previous scientific discussions, so they can easily judge the merits of an argument.