Sentences with phrase «general argument they make»

The general argument they make is that e-readers are single - function devices and people are buying tablets instead.

Not exact matches

As the argument went, social networks and the internet in general have made it easier for extra-marital dalliances to happen, just as they've made it possible for people with oddball interests to connect and become friends.

In general, these comments reiterated arguments made as part of the notice and comment process for the Rule and PTEs.

Arguments have been made that banks in general often do not face criminal prosecution for violating anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regulations, but instead, according to the author of the aforementioned article referred to above,» (accept) settlements that either defer or erase the threat of criminal suits.»

That's an argument Sun CEO Scott McNealy makes frequently when defending his company's general reluctance to enter the services business but instead rely on partnerships with consulting firms.

Part of my argument is that the general credit quality, and ability to make any down payment, in the remaining pool of potential first time buyers is dwindling.

It's an argument I've been making for years, with little success: Social observers in general and religious folk in particular vastly overestimate the influence of the news and entertainment media.

The Wahhabi movement in Arabia was a reaction against the worship of saints, but it made use of force rather than arguments, and failed to establish a general reform.

While I do not believe that the Resurrection was a historical event, your poorly phrased argument makes not only you, but atheists, agnostics, and non-Christians in general look like fools... primarily because we get associated with silly arguments like this.

Hall's general take is that the question of online church is forcing evangelicals to re-evaluate the presuppositions they are making in their own churches (an argument I am rather....

I'm not going to enter into the argument / discussion that's in progress, but I will make some general comments.

To speak for a moment of the general argument of the Intelligent Design movement before getting specifically to Professor Johnson's latest book, I would like to make the following point clear.

While they amplify understandings of the structures of becoming that seem to be exemplified everywhere in history, and while they build general arguments based on those structures, they can not be said to be primarily interested in examining any particular historical society This is not to deny that, say, Whitehead or Charles Hartshorne made pungent and perceptive commentaries on the histories in which they lived — for they did.

It makes an argument based upon shining examples of resistance, but such examples can not in themselves disprove that Lutheranism creates a general ethos of passivity among the broader population.

The present book serves the worthy cause of bringing together converging arguments and making them accessible to a general audience.

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.

«They've been making arguments saying there's no scientific basis for requiring this type of label,» Kyle Landis - Marinello, assistant attorney general assigned to represent Vermont told Vermont's NPR News Source.

the reason you don't get the goalkeeper argument is because fans in general don't know how to assess keepers we think if he makes a few saves he great, but thats not how it works, its a specialist position, where the lay man fan can't really see the defeciecies, the fact that Bob Wilson Wengers ass wiper himself cast doubts speaks volumes.i don't think Wenger will do whats required for us to push on hes not capable of it, not ruthless enough.We all know Arteta, Flamini an Diaby should be gone, but will they be gone thats the question.If they are still in our squad next season then Wenger has failed us again like the last 10 years

Yes, I know the argument about referees only being human and mistakes can be made but the general standard is poor.

A politics of fairness and equality is about both (i) making an argument across the whole of society that a fairer and more equal society is in our collective enlightened self - interest, using the arguments of Richard Wilkinson, etc on issues like crime, general well - being, and that there are benefits of fairness for those at the top too.

There could be an argument made that Trump is also angling for general approval bump in a «rally around the flag» manner.

The General Welfare argument is about as weak as they come (not sure if you're making the argument, or just outlining what arguments are made).

The court adopted the argument canvassed by Adewale Afolabi Esq, the immediate past Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Osun State and Counsel to Governor of Osun State that Kanmi Ajibola failed to make available to the court facts which showed that he suffered extraordinary injury by Governor Rauf Aregbesola's failure to appoint Commissioners and Special Advisers.

«It was influenced by one question only, and what I thought that question was: Can I make an argument to the public to give me a chance to work for them once again as I did as attorney general, as assistant district attorney, as governor?»

Unfortunately they have failed because the electorate simply does not believe Clegg; they think he can not be trusted because he changed his mind on economic strategy prior to the general election yet continued making arguments which ran counter to this change.

The argument made about gay men still buying the drug but under unregulated conditions has probably been accepted by the Home Office behind closed doors — but it can not accept it in public, because it is one of the key general arguments for drug legalisation.

Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.

A serious argument is being made that we can not (and should not) trigger Brexit without a vote in parliament, or perhaps even a general election.

Labour is seeking to exploit the government's weakness and press home the anti-austerity arguments made during the general election campaign by holding a series of debates on key social policy issues.

So we would never make the argument that dogs in general are a better model for the human mind — it's really just this special set of social skills.»

His argument against science funding (and science in general) seems to follow arguments made by other prominent Trump transition team figures: because science is sometimes wrong, or not clear cut, it shouldn't be trusted.

That would make the argument a lot more convincing, especially for some of my more skeptical colleges that deeply distrust results from (in their view) overly optimized and complex General Circulation Models.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) begins its letter by denying that school officials blame special education and private placement for draining resources from general education and then proceed to repeat the very argument that they deny making.

I understand if ELLs are not typically on your radar, but stay with me because there is a broader, more general argument to be made here about school funding.

Sports cars and performance cars are a favorite target of the save - the - earth crowd, of course, but I think I can make the argument that increased availability of fast cars in general — and «hot hatches» in particular — can actually make a positive impact on carbon - dioxide emissions.

Also, when writing a thesis, keep in mind that you should provide a well - reasoned line of argument, set data in a general context, and finally make a conclusion based on your analysis.

If an 9 year old can take the Amazon book I purchased for him and convert it so it works perfectly on his ePub only device, please don't try and make the general public believe your argument because you will make laughing stocks of yourselves.

These arguments were not made in 2008, and in general, it is really difficult for an insurance company to generate systemic risk.

I mentioned a general pattern in that it's much easier to make a favorable argument for a hotel credit card given their often lower annual fees, free nights, and automatic elite status when compared to airline credit cards that may offer benefits you'll use sparingly.

While Hellblade's general quality is its own argument to be made for immediate purchase (and if you're into character action / adventure games I'd argue it's a sufficient one at that) I think there's a larger point that can and should be made for its place within the economic structure of the industry as an unabashedly pro-consumer offering.

That would make the argument a lot more convincing, especially for some of my more skeptical colleges that deeply distrust results from (in their view) overly optimized and complex General Circulation Models.

I believe the release of all data, freely and easily available, would make McIntyre's arguments less persuasive to the general public.

Ray's answer makes it obvious (for me) that reality is very complex and far from being explainable by simple, hand - made arguments for the general audience; that's why I think that trying to explain «simply» the very complex phenomena involved in radiation transfer is just lost time - and in my opinion the REAL issues associated with social impacts of GW are not primarily associated with the detailed physics of the phenomenon.

It may or may not, I haven't made any general arguments for it.

I have read without comment through a number of articles and have yet to see him make one reasoned argument on any subject related to climate or science in general.

I do not insist on the latter — it is just what makes the greatest sense to me at this time and seems to be in general agreement with the arguments in physical climatology where it is recognized that the moving parcels of air referred to in deriving the DALR are moving because of thermally driven vertical shear.

He made the point well that much of the argument about climate consists of the scientists having to refute claims made by sceptics based on minutiae without regard for the bigger picture (2008 being colder than 1998 despite the general warming trend, or corrections upwards to the temperature of a single Tasmanian weather station despite the fact overall there was no bias).

In general, «we don't hate your children» is an argument made from a position of weakness.

Far from giving a voice to sceptics» arguments, then, these shows offered only a caricature of their personalities: to set them up as fools, rather than engage them in debate, to make statements about «denial» in general.

In general, I agree that it is a waste of time avoid responding to this sort of journalism, especially when it is so poorly argued and unoriginal (Will makes not a single argument we've not all heard — and shown to be wrong — before).