Sentences with phrase «illegitimate means»

On the one hand, we can think of cults which we know exist to extort money (and other things) from people by using illegitimate means of persuasion: brainwashing, bullying, false promises.

As such, gaming enthusiasts are faced with a difficult choice when it comes to retro games: experience only a subset of popular re-released games made for current generation platforms such as the Virtual Console or NES Classic, use original game hardware and displays from decades ago to play in a specialized game room, or resort to illegitimate means of experiencing gaming history through use of copied roms and emulators.

Notably, treating independent fact - checking as an illegitimate means of participation may have contributed to what have been termed «the climate wars.»

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Not exact matches

Essentially, this would prevent unscrupulous immigrants from setting up illegitimate, or unprofitable, businesses as a means to justify their residencies.

Trump then asked, «Does everybody know what that means,» seemingly hinting that the Russia probe itself is illegitimate.

Yet, inasmuch as they regard all arguments from theistic premises as illegitimate, the word «secular» seems to fit like a glove, one of its principal meanings (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) being «non-ecclesiastical, non-religious, or non-sacred.»

In America, that means respect for the novus ordo seclorum, carefully distinguishing its legitimate moral claims from the illegitimate philosophical claims of those who would insist that secularism can be its only sufficient foundation.

It says that because of this the pre-Christian religions, too, need not simply be regarded as illegitimate but that they, too, can very well have a positive meaning.

Breaking the myth of size means realizing that small churches are not necessarily premature, illegitimate, malnourished or incomplete versions of «real» churches.

In short, to sin is to do «what isn't done,» whether this means getting drunk, having an illegitimate baby, robbing a bank, or committing a murder.

«Interpretation does not mean or require departure from the tradition,» he writes, «Though justified discontinuity is not illegitimate, but rather that the Scripture is capable of unanticipated relevancy through reinterpretation» (CC 61).

That is was you have written and you call ME DRUNK.Ok how's this - Robert Pires was a good footballer for our club but the fact he had 237 illegitimate children by 236 different womem (he quite liked one of them and they had twins) means he obviously wasn't giving his full commitment to club and us supporters as most of his time he was tipping up any female with a pulse he could lay his hands on.I am also disturbed by the rumours of him and his pet camel.

It is considered by some parties as illegitimate, posing a serious danger to Japan's democracy since the Prime Minister circumvented the constitutional amendment procedure, dictating a radical change to the meaning of fundamental principles in the Constitution by way of Cabinet fiat without Diet debate, vote, or public approval.

In a previous post, my colleague Stefan Talmon explained that declarations that the Gaddafi regime is illegitimate does not mean that that regime is not (and is not considered to be) the government of Libya as a matter of international law (and in the domestic law of other countries).

To give her life some meaning, Edna sets up the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society, which specializes in caring for illegitimate children and offering them for adoption.

Textualists like me believe it is illegitimate to change the meaning of words or to employ interpretative techniques, such as considering «evolved» meanings or the law of foreign countries, which can lead to changed meaning.

I'd call «illegitimate» concepts which smuggle in secondary meanings by the back door.

If, by «the sensitivity,» you mean «the equilibrium climate sensitivity» (TECS) then the concept that you reference by this phrase is scientifically illegitimate for the value of TECS is not observable and thus speculations regarding this value lie outside science.

Morano then said that the oft - touted 97 percent consensus on climate change being real and anthropogenic (meaning human - caused) was illegitimate because less than 100 scientists were polled to arrive at the 97 percent value.»

By effectively drawing a line around academia and calling it «science» and persuading all the press, politicians, etc. to see those inside as legitimate to speak on subjects like climate and those outside as therefore illegitimate, it means that no matter how qualified or experience we skeptics are, that we will always be deemed as illegimate.

There is certainly a difference between legitimate and illegitimate lawsuits; in other words, not every lawsuit filed in a U.S. court is legitimate, and, furthermore, just because flawed lawsuits are filed does not mean that personal injury lawyers in general are responsible for that type of frivolousness.

If there is no legitimate government interest behind a policy enacted by, say, a state legislature, that doesn't necessarily mean they were pursuing a government interest and that interest was illegitimate.

As a result, the police have suggested some means to distinguish between illegitimate companies and the genuine ones.