Sentences with phrase «germane point»

And that brings up a germane point: the projection cited was relative to a much larger rise in global mean surface temp (GMST) than we have so far seen — that's why it's in the chapter «The Four Degree World.»

As Congressman Porter Hardy Jr., a Virginia Democrat heading the subcommittee, commented succinctly at one germane point: «It seems to me the whole thing is a little bit cockeyed.»

But here's the germane point: To reject human exceptionalism is essentially to claim that we are just another animal in the forest, which leads to the logical conclusion that killing should be an allowable remedy to illness and disability.

I would encourage Clare Asquith to consider that there are several possible reasons why, in a brief essay that dealt with several books, I might not have noted a germane point about hers.

2) it's not isolated to China (though many economists see China as the great industrial hub of the next century — so it is certainly a germane point).

In meetings, we often get bored when people raise germane points.

Not exact matches

A point germane to the discussion may be interesting and even worth saying... but it's not essential.

That's a great debate to have, and I personally believe that if you lay out Christian theology point by point and let each side objectively prove their «truth», the atheist ends up with the larger stack of chips, but that's not germane to the argument.

It is not germane to the point.

From this starting point, I arrive at six themes or perspectives that seem germane to an ethic of food and drink.

The reason why this isn't really germane to Myles» point is that we didn't criticise the paper itself at all.

The point all this begs to make — most germane to our our subject of self - publishing — is that writers whose books are in the hands of traditional publishers do not have the freedom to take their books for long walks down every possible promotion and marketing avenue, or to even have their books follow circuitous alleyways that can lead to fields of light.

She also can speak, herself, of course, she points out, as agent for many authors with experience germane to the conversation.

Traders refer to the March Corn contract or the December WTI contract since this point in the future is germane to the value and execution of the contract position.

The reason why this isn't really germane to Myles» point is that we didn't criticise the paper itself at all.

Point number 36 below is particularly germane and reflects what I've said here about transparency being unavoidable now:

The deadly tornado outbreak in the Midwest yesterday makes this final point particularly germane.

It might be far more germane to this issue than unrelated philosophical musings that fit the same pattern, and be interpreted any way one wants to simply reinforce one's point of view.

I should also point out that there is a difference between a projection and a prediction, but given the short time scales here and the amount of warming «in the pipeline» already it's probably not germane in this case.

The point about polio eradication and any number of other improvements being made despite scientific uncertainty was both germane and politely expressed.

I have said that this discussion is similar to the Arthur Smith discussion where the flaw was in the averaging which I also pointed out to Neutrino; this is germane because where averaging may establish some basic ground - rules in an atmosphereless scenario it is completely inappropriate in an atmosphere where there is radiative effect; that is, establishing the radiative principles in an atmosphereless situation is contradicted by the operation of the radiative principles in an atmosphere.

The claimant won every single legal point germane to his primary case, but by the application of the «policy» point borrowed from the House of Lords» decisions in McFarlane and Rees — that a healthy child is a blessing rather than a detriment — the decision has conferred upon the IVF clinic effective impunity from the normal consequences of their breach of contract.

The second germane fact was revealed by the AIT: «In the revised reasons for deportation letter it is noted that it is unlikely that the appellant will re-offend... [The points made are that] the court has deemed that the appellant's crime is of such severity that he will always continue to be a threat to the community, the appellant's notoriety might make him feel excluded from society as he had been before and there was a significant risk that his previous disregard for authority and the law might resurface and result in him coming to adverse attention.