Sentences with phrase «in rhetorical»

Bachelors in Rhetorical Communication and Public Affairs, 2008 - 2012 California State University of Long Beach

More recently, in Rhetorical Grammar (2003), Martha Kolln notes the George Orwell used don't in Politics and the English Language, and says that some contractions are acceptable even in formal contexts:

Josh received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Arts and Sciences with a concentration in Rhetorical Theory from The Pennsylvania State University.

Limiting discussion to radiation results in rhetorical excesses, but if the EM route is added, new insights become possible.

«Comprehensive,» «balanced,» «measured» are the high cards in this rhetorical deck.

Meanwhile, the logarithmic effect of CO2 is excellent «concession» to make in the rhetorical sense, since it concedes the obvious state of our knowledge about the effects of CO2, while at the same time providing us with the solid argument that even if we double atmospheric CO2 levels from 400ppm to 800 ppm over the next 100 years the largest amount of warming possible — assuming all else remains the same and Gaia has no homeostasis negative feedback systems which tend to moderate any runaway trends — is 1.2 c.

See Lindzen's Seminar at the House of Commons for details on the numerous fallacies in your rhetorical arguments.

(Jaques et al, 2008) As we shall see, these think tanks developed the ideas, communications and media strategies, literature and press releases that have been widely deployed in rhetorical strategies to defend conservative interests by creating doubt about mainstream climate change scientific claims.

You tossed in a rhetorical question «is it accurate»

This is not to say that I should expect Hillary to mirror or channel Bill, but the contrast in rhetorical and political skills is jarring.

More troubling, however, is how divisive environmental issues have become in the rhetorical landscape.

Other essays in Nothing If Not Critical call a named art dealer a «sleazeball» and take on the artist Julian Schnabel in a rhetorical standoff involving bullwhips, motorbikes, and, of course, Hughes's utterly damming judgment of Schnabel's work.

Her dissertation explores the role of mental images in rhetorical theory from Aristotle through the Second Sophistic.

Morgan also spurned an opportunity to follow Gove in his rhetorical demands for tougher action to deal with Islamist extremism.

While Barak Obama has proven to be both eloquent and persuasive, Secretary Duncan lacks the polish of his boss, but what he lacks in rhetorical skills he more than makes up for in tenacity.

Our world is in a rhetorical crisis, and in so many respects we are simply not hearing each other.

He has won several teaching awards and is considered a leader in rhetorical research.

«Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt,» the Court said in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), in a rhetorical phrase commonly attributed to Kennedy.

And Collins is doing nothing more than engaging in rhetorical subterfuge to suggest otherwise.

These arguments invariably devolve into snippy exchanges about the Genesis version of creation and unfold in a rhetorical no - man's - land somewhere between King James and Watson and Crick.

Here's the real story of how Gov. Cuomo got himself into the Moreland mess, the story he's tying himself in rhetorical knots to avoid telling: His Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption was an elaborate bluff — and the Legislature called him on it, not once but twice.

ALBANY — In a rhetorical shift, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he's open to renewing New York's «millionaires» tax» before it expires next year — if the state needs the money the tax is currently bringing in.

There was immediate suspicion that Cuomo was the official who was quoted, based on similarities in their rhetorical style.

Freshman Rep. Alan Grayson (D) seems to revel in his rhetorical bomb - throwing, which might not be a great fit for this swing seat.

This is a big change in the rhetorical ground rules he has followed since late 2013.

When used in a rhetorical manner by opponents of a particular district map, the term has a negative connotation but does not necessarily address the legality of a challenged map.

It shows how little they have in the rhetorical armoury to respond to moves like this.

Although Marx does so again and again in rhetorical flourishes, «society» can not be seen as an agent.

Any critic of her work needs to put it in its rhetorical context.

The claim that there is a governmental / white conspiracy against blacks in America has been a weapon in the rhetorical arsenal of the left for two decades.

In rhetorical theory (the study of how to persuade), there's a term for what we need in the gun control debate:

In rhetorical theory (the study of how to persuade), there's a term for what we need in the gun control debate: stasis.

But what happens when it becomes obvious that this group was already in the partisan bag for one candidate in the rhetorical spin that they gave to the campaign issues and stories?

George Kennedy, a renowned classical scholar, became interested in rhetorical criticism of the Bible when graduate students in Old and New Testament asked to study with him.

Unfortunately the exchange of views is carried on with little attention to underlying assumptions and in a rhetorical mode that leaves no space for compromise.

centeredpiece «You obviously are unschooled in the rhetorical devices common in 1st century Jewish culture.»

The challenger would have to argue that Trump has made the country a laughingstock that doesn't get respect anymore, Trump does not seem to win, Trump seems to dither with indecision when faced with difficult national security choices, Trump lets other countries attack America without responding, and Trump ties himself in rhetorical knots to avoid naming obvious enemies.

Even a leader with perfect diction and a background in rhetorical strategy can't hope to win the influence of his or her peers through speeches and arguments alone.

Not exact matches

There's a lot of hemming and hawing about how Facebook doesn't choose what kinds of information to show you, which of course is factually incorrect, and appears to be mostly a rhetorical dodge in order to get around accusations of favoring certain viewpoints in trending topics.

Many companies have mission statements, and they're handy to reference in all - hands meetings or a quarterly report, but they're more for rhetorical purposes than anything else.

From the interrobang (a question mark and exclamation point superimposed, to ask a shocking question, proposed in 1962) to the percontation point (a backward question mark, for rhetorical questions, suggested in 1580), new glyphs have arrived and departed.

After Trump signed the order on a Friday night, executives at Starbucks spent the weekend crafting a plan to address employees working in the US and abroad, as well as provide concrete steps beyond rhetorical support for diversity.

It also was a rhetorical one: most central banks, including the the Bank of Canada, resort to explicit statements about their policy intentions only in the case of an emergency.

Revisit King's rhetorical mastery in his «Letter From a Birmingham Jail,» if only to understand the travesty of the white evangelical embrace of Trumpism, even as this president continues to push for the building of a border wall and the banning of Muslims from entering the U.S.

As a rhetorical strategy for eroding trust in the media, the term dates back to the end of the 19th century.

In a presentation to the Columbia Business school he asks questions real and rhetorical to keep the audience engaged, and he looks at the next ppt slide briefly then turns to explain the top takeaway vs. the usual verbatim read along that the WSJ dubbed «corporate karaoke!»

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)-- Rhetorical skirmishes continued Tuesday in North Carolina over a law limiting protections for LGBT people, as Democrats criticized a Republican's plea to «keep our state straight.»

Retiree benefit levels in Chile were not low because of the AFP system, as claimed by many rhetorical commentators.

In the closest thing he attempted at a rhetorical flourish, he asserted that government should be «a benign and silent partner» to Canadians going about their economic lives «and not an overbearing behemoth squeezing them at every turn.»

But you can see that he wields this privilege in some ways as a rhetorical bludgeon.