Sentences with phrase «first at the arguments»

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Napster co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to sell first - run movies to home viewers at $ 50 a pop has stirred up various corners of Hollywood, with big movie studios and theater chains up in arms over the Screening Room idea while multiple major filmmakers have landed on opposing sides of the argument.

(See The Curse of Microsoft Excel) I remember long arguments with clients in one of my first businesses, where we tracked customer satisfaction by making millions of phone calls each year to consumers at home to determine how satisfied they had been with a recent experience.

«I had to at some point get my sea legs as an entrepreneur,» said Webb, who added that the dispute over Sparkling Ginger was the first real argument in which she prevailed over Gurwitch.

It sounds like a rational enough argument at first glance, but it's also one that you can begin to test empirically.

I don't necessarily buy this, but for arguments sake let's just say that money flees at the first sign of trouble.

First articulated by John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford University's School of Medicine, this argument proceeds by a simple application of Bayesian statistics.

Still, without the personal level of knowledge that God exists, mentioned in my first sentence, no intellectual explanation or argument would hold much weight with me at all.

This would at least introduce the possibility of approaching the doctrine of analogy without sheer bewilderment, but before reconsidering the argument in these terms, we must first note that the acknowledgment that some terms can be applied to God univocally has very significant consequences.

The «at first breath» argument is offered most comprehensively in To Gaurus: On How Embryos are Ensouled, a text believed to have been written by Porphyry, a third - century student of the «founder» of Neoplatonism, Plotinus.

First he attempted to apply a logical argument, whose history extends back at least as far as Cicero's On Divination.4 According to this view, contingency (chance) and foreknowledge (fate) are contradictory assertions because a contingent event, being unnecessitated, can not be known until it occurs.

It then analyzes how even an ostensibly logical argument is rendered problematic and even self - contradictory by extraneous details or slippages in meaning which at first appear peripheral and unimportant.

Ahh the «Reverse Probability» argument... Pitty you fail at the first step.

Hi Muneef — First let me say, that while I routinely disagree with your theistic perspective and arguments, in my readings of your posts, I find you to be one of the most respectful posters here at the Belief Blog and I sincerely appreciate this.

Although at first this argument was used to support a conservative form of Catholicism, as time passed it could also be used to derive norms by which religious beliefs could be judged.

However, few philosophers are panpsychists; and if the ontological argument presupposes the validity of that view, then things are certainly much more complicated than they at first appeared.

Well, FAITH, there's the problem... that gibberish in the bible was just made up by «some guy» to keep the peasants behaving in a manner that whomever wrote it thought was a good way to behave... some of those guys were wise, yes, and there are benefits to following some of the «guidelines» set forth in the Bible... but it's a circular argument to use the Bible as a reason to have faith, because you have to first BELIEVE in the deity, THEN believe that the deity inspired the writings, THEN you can take the writings as «truth»... I'm two steps back, not believing in the deity at all (Yay, Atheists!

But at the end of the day, after we've filtered through the political arguments, let's remember why we have rights and where they came from in the first place.

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

First he secured by specious argument a following in the city of Shechem and then broadened and supported his rule by violence — until at length violence in turn happily removed him.

This argument has quite an appeal at first until it is realized that the parallel is a false one.

Indeed, their full meaning is likely to become more apparent in the future than at the time of the book's first appearance, as thinkers from other world traditions engage its arguments.

The whole question of Jesus» baptism by John was the more important and disturbing because at the end of the first century disciples of the Baptist were challenging the primacy of Jesus over John and were doubtless appealing to the baptism as one of their principal arguments.

Then again I guess you could make the argument that every rock on Earth is technically space rock at one point or another when we first formed so I guess I continually get my wish every second I take a step, but lets just say for arguments sake that rocks that didn't form on earth are pretty neat.

I have four of my own arguments against the reinterpretation of creativity as the substantial activity at the base of things; (a) first, assuming that we reject a nominalist interpretation, and assuming that this substantial activity can not be parsed as a factor in one or more actual entities, it would have to have some kind of identity of its own.

Guiseppe's argument sounds good at first, but it's hypersensitive nonsense.

First, on office: Paul's argument at the end of Romans 12, affirming a flat prohibition on vengeance, is fully consistent with the magistrate's coercive activity in Romans 13.

Laughing is that a circular argument where life begins and ends at the place God first created it?

Unfortunately, Whitehead weakened his argument by an ill - advised defense of the concept of simultaneity in his first book, referring to «blind people barking both their shins at the same moment» (PNK 53), without realizing that simultaneity at the same place is not denied by relativity.

(2) On the other hand, the notion that there was a single written source to be designated as Q is also untenable, first because of the argument just advanced, and second because sometimes the resemblances are very close and at other times they are rather remote.

JW not for the first time I applaud you with the article you have posted.For all you AKB, s you should note the objectiveness and argument of what JW has said and the rationale he uses to at least understand and consider other fans views, to which of course you are entitled.Me I honestly believe you are Deluded, Outdated and WRONG.Wenger would have had respect if he had gone when he KNEW it was all coming apart.This is not recent this is 7 - 8 seasons ago.But I do sympathise how difficult it must be dragging yourself through these tough tough times on # 9miilion f *** ing a year.All you AKB, s really do need to wake up to the reality of the position we are in and who is responsible for us being there.Who are you going to worship when he finally goes or are you going with him.Pathetic to even try to respond to opinion that is proved by where we are as a club.JW — WE SALUTE YOU

It could be that he was angry with Olivier Giroud for wasting precious time doing his silly dance at the end, instead of rushing to try and get the winner in the last few minutes, but he was already seen to be very agitated in the first half when he had a standup argument with Aaron Ramsey.

But we'll pretend the first deal didn't have an opt - out for the sake of argument, which means Weaver left at least $ 59 million on the table (that's the $ 62 million difference between the two contracts, less the $ 3 million he's earning from the Padres this year.)

My argument is that for the first time in the last 10 years we have a realistic chance of actually competing for the title, so at the moment we need players that really can help take us to the next level.

If we sign for arguments sake the best DM money could buy, why would Coquelin, Ramsey and Wilshere who all have the talent to justifiably lock down a spot in a top - teams first XI, why would they want to stay on not getting first - team opportunities when they're at crucial stages of their development?

While the obvious choices like Robin van Persie and Yaya Toure are clearly also qualified candidates for the PoY Award, Ramsey fans could make a strong argument that he deserves mention with even the world's very best, at least through the first six weeks.

I'm still annoyed at the argument that it's wrong to scare the poor first time moms with the fact that they are at increased risk in home birth.

This is a valid argument, and if your infant may be particularly at risk, you can avoid the problem by weaning your baby off the pacifier between six months of age and his first birthday.

First, I'm not even sure I should dignify the ridiculous, straw - man argument that I'm advocating food education at the expense of academic learning.

I agree that at first sight the argument does not look convincing, but if you recall how Hobbes defines human freedom then you can see that it is at least wholly consistent.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

At first glance, research suggests that the ERS is correct in their argument: central party control over candidate selection and position on party lists tends to increase party unity in legislative behaviour.

Additional concerns about the fourth premise were also raised (i.e. «is the federal government really more efficient at managing such efforts»), but arguments about the effectiveness of the department are really ancillary to the justification for its existence in the first place.

«It is the case in Oxford and Cambridge Union debating contests that the competitors are given one side of the argument to debate blind, and so may have to argue a case they oppose, as I remember from my own first year efforts at Oxford» What a curious remark to make!

I think there's much that's good in your article but would like to ask some questions: first, you say at bullet point # 5, «This argument is wrong, because (a) important benefits obtain in marriage, which do not in civil partnerships».

It was the first time he has been physically present at the proceedings since opening arguments last week.

The government's lawyers are due to lay out their argument in more detail tomorrow but at an initial hearing earlier this month, they claimed that a first tier tribunal only has the power to identify that legislation is incompatible with the Human Rights Act - not to rule on a case on that basis.

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.

Their arguments about the best way to cut the number of managers in the NHS did not at first seem like it would lead to humour.

Councilman Jimmy Bruno said he had agreed at first that the supervisor's term could be extended, but «after I listened to all the arguments, I feel two years is the right term.»

If we wish to make an argument that some animals possess at least some sort of proto - gratitude, or the cognitive building blocks required for them to feel and express gratitude, we first have to decide what gratitude really means.