Sentences with phrase «for arguing against»

Bob (Sphaerica) says: # 265 Re: 2) The fact that we can't account for all heat is an excuse that deniers may not use for inaction or for arguing against a logical, reasoned and considered climate theory.

But late Tuesday night, Harvard history professor Naomi Oreskes and her colleague Geoffrey Supran published a report conceding that #ExxonKnew was never really about what Exxon «knew,» but instead was focused on punishing the company for arguing against specific climate policy proposals.

It seems to me to be bizarre that modern scientific method (for instance backing up your statements with tests demonstrating that they have statistically significant support from the data — where data is available and the test is easily performed) seems optional for those arguing against the mainstream position.

Hachette is not falling for arguing against the nonsense salad Amazon is making.

From the get - go, the program has been reviled on Capitol Hill as Exhibit A for those arguing against federal overreach in K - 12 education.

And I also recognize that you don't have to be a political conservative to object to these incidents; they've also been used as fodder for arguing against GMOs (contained in those Ritz crackers) and against the inextricable links between agribusiness and the federal school meals program, among other issues often raised by the political left.

You see it in those Christians who argue that if you don't hold a strong stance against homosexuality, you no longer have any grounds for arguing against pedophilia or other things that actually do victimize and harm others.

Not exact matches

Tyler's petition for clemency argued that if he were charged today prosecutors probably wouldn't have used his prior convictions against him.

Carvin argued unsuccessfully against the ACA at the Supreme Court level on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business in 2011, and successfully for George Bush in Bush v. Gore during the 2000 election.

Bloom is the author of Against Empathy: the Case for Rational Compassion, which argues that we too often let our emotions get in the way of making sound decisions.

Bolton, who is regarded as a foreign policy super-hawk, had previously argued for preemptive strikes against North Korea.

Kimmel has since actively railed against Obamacare repeal efforts, arguing that various proposals being debated by the law's opponents would gut protections for people like Billy born with pre-existing conditions, either by rolling back Obamacare's mandated insurance benefits for certain health conditions or allowing states to set up rules that would let insurers charge sick people more for their coverage.

In a recent column for Politico, media writer Jack Shafer argued against the idea that the media are somehow to blame for the rise of Donald Trump.

As the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producers.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

When Mark Hurd, the recently fired Hewlett - Packard CEO, went to work for Oracle, HP sued him, arguing he would use his knowledge of the company's business strategy against it.

Arguing against will be Patrice Lee, and director of outreach at Generation Opportunity, a limited - government activist and policy network for millennials, and Matt Welch, editor - in - chief of the libertarian magazine Reason.

The fight pits strong proponents of the Second Amendment right to bear arms against those arguing for greater restrictions on the ability to obtain weapons.

Facebook denies that it is doing anything of the kind, and it argued that Liao Yiwu's account was suspended for repeated violations of a rule against posting pictures containing nudity.

What's more, they argued in a recent research paper, most tips for protecting passwords do nothing to guard against the most common forms of breaches: phishing, keystroke logging, and plain old looking over shoulders.

Morin, too, argues against any supposed cure - all for the Canadian retirement system, such as a major expansion of CPP with higher contribution and benefit levels.

Exxon argues against the transparency proposal in its proxy discussion to shareholders but omits any discussion of the requirement for disclosure of its trade association spending.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a legal brief in an appeals court case, arguing against workplace discrimination protection for employees who are gay.

Symphony, for its part, has pushed back against press characterizations of the product as a «Bloomberg killer,» instead arguing that it is an «email killer.»

The respondents argued that not only is it fair to the employer who experiences a disruption, but it's also necessary to ensure reservists are not discriminated against when searching for employment.

Of course not everyone in the Islamic world agrees with the Malaysian interpretation, arguing for a stricter regulations against money - lending.

There may be reasons arguing against including a spouse as a partner; for example, if you transfer title to your personal assets into your spouse's name to protect your personal property in the event the partnership is sued, the spouse can not have any involvement in the partnership business whatsoever, according to Ennico.

When bonds yield 1.75 % for investment - grade bonds, then it's difficult to turn that into a 5 % -10 % return going forward... If he wants to argue against that, and talk about Dow 5000 and bear and bull markets, then he's welcome to, but he's pushing at windmills in my opinion, and he belongs back in his ivory tower.

As a result, Republican lawmakers are more resistant to calls for gun control — arguing against «politicizing» mass shootings and focusing on issues like mental health instead.

Even Krugman spent years just arguing against austerity because it was impolitic to attack his own party for timidity, ignorance, and corruption.

That's part of the reason US companies spent the past few weeks lobbying against the proposed tariffs, arguing that they'd raise costs for their businesses and make Chinese - made goods, like iPhones, more expensive for US customers.

Some commentators argued that the early charges against Manafort, which didn't reference as many potential crimes as many had expected, were a sign that Mueller was leaving the door open for state prosecution and avoiding the double jeopardy issue.

The Department of Justice defended the rule when it filed papers in July in a Washington district court arguing against the case filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

I have run across Robert Farmer who argues against the natural rate of unemployment hypothesis with implications for not raising interest rates.

Although the earnings growth for the company may have slowed down in recent years, for me it is still hard to argue against a behemoth of a company like this.

Judge Brendan Shannon of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., indicated he would sign off on the plan, subject to changes, despite attorneys for the U.S. trustee and Securities and Exchange Commission arguing against the broad protections offered to third parties that could shield them from future litigation.

But we argue that the underlying social purpose of such Jubilees — to keep debt within the reasonable ability to be paid without social and economic polarisation — could be recreated via alternative mechanisms, and we discuss the politico - economic arguments for, and against, doing so.

Both points argued against a purchase: continuing to sell to other companies removed the only plausible strategic rationale for buying the company instead of simply buying robots, but to stop selling to Kiva Systems» existing customers would be value - destructive.

Carl Cohen argues that the argument that civil disobedience implies contempt for the law is «among the weakest» of the arguments against civil disobedience:

He successfully argued against forum non conveniens dismissal, obtaining the first ruling after the Supreme Court's decision in Morrison v. Nat» l Australia Bank Ltd., 130 S. Ct. 2869 (2010) to permit foreign investors pursuing foreign law claims to seek recovery for losses on a foreign stock exchange in a U.S. court.

President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen shouldn't receive any special access to evidence against him that was confiscated in a raid at the Loews Regency Hotel, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District argued Friday.

You could make an argument for 5 % in gold as a good diversifier — although I'd argue against it as compounding will become a huge factor for your son later in life and gold doesn't pay dividends.

As a personal rule of thumb I would argue for the preservation of at least 30 % of your personal assets as a cushion against total financial ruin.

Game of thrones: Turner Networks CEO John Martin, speaking at the anti-trust trial on AT&T's bid to buy Time Warner, argued that the companies need the merger to compete against Google and Facebook for ad dollars.

For centuries, he argues, courts in the United Kingdom, United States, and elsewhere recognized that wealthy people could use third - party lawsuits as a weapon against those they disliked — and had rules in place to prevent this power from being abused.

$ 40,000 extra for six weeks worth of testifying and strategy is good work if you can get it, but perhaps SQN could have found someone who didn't previously publicly argue against trade action in the anti-dumping and countervailing duty petition filed in 2014 by SolarWorld.

Renting, rather than owning a home, has positive implications for labor mobility, argues Harvard professor Jeffrey Frankel in a May 29th article posted on the Project Syndicate website, headlined «The Case Against Subsidizing Housing Debt.»

Romick argues against owning bonds at the moment, save for some corporate bonds.