Sentences with phrase «hypothetical argument»

It suggests you have to do more than plead, or make hypothetical arguments, you have to bring what you've got plus a plausible explanation for any gaps in your evidence.
The immediate threat in the United States is that dirty energy lobbyists will effectively use hypothetical arguments of WTO or NAFTA illegality to chill congressional action and provide cover for U.S. legislators who are indebted to Big Oil, Big Coal and the LNG lobby for campaign contributions, even though international trade law is not incorporated into U.S. domestic law and violations can not be enforced in U.S. domestic courts.
Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.
But for hypothetical argument let's say that your god is immaterial.
Unless there are compelling statistics that the plead guilty / charged ratio is significantly higher among aboriginals than the rest of Canada for similar offences, this is a purely hypothetical argument.
(For those of you with a 13 year old's mind: this was a hypothetical argument to illustrate the hypocrisy of conservatives, calling left wingers «America - haters» without examining truly insensitive comments from their own idols.
Well you put your house on your hypothetical arguments and I'll stick to judging what actually happened.
«I'm not going to engage in a hypothetical argument,» said Councilman Vincent Ignizio (R - South Shore), a former party chairman.
So let's be clear that this is not now a hypothetical argument, «Should we move forward?
On this hypothetical argument, it would be as if the government had proceeded through its normal process only to pick someone who had never appeared at all on the shortlist.
But it's important that those hypothetical arguments we come up with be valid arguments, or at least rational.
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