Sentences with phrase «just arguing for»

Many feel they're not just arguing for their own position, they are representing their tribe — whether that be pro-immigration supporters, or true Brits, or feminists, or battered women, or a radical Labour leader under attack by the press.

Either you don't understand basic finance or you are just arguing for the sake of it.

However, Atheism is a lack of belief and as such Atheists are usually just arguing for rational thinking, not a belief.

And if the argument is that businesses can have personal beliefs, then you have just argued for getting businesses out of healthcare altogether and moving to universal healthcare.

I did this debate with my Year 6 and they were at full stretch, so I wouldn't suggest it for younger children unless you simplify the concepts, i.e. remove the «compatibility» element from the debate and just argue for one side or the other.

Not exact matches

Others argue that this may just be a natural correction for biotech stocks after a remarkable five - year bull run, which has been the greatest in the industry's history.

Some have argued the resource sector isn't all that crucial to Canada's well - being, since mining and oil and gas extraction directly account for just 4.5 % of the economy.

Margrethe Vestager, the EU's commissioner for competition, argued shortly after presenting the decision in the summer that the ruling was «based on the facts,» which showed that Apple was paying a corporate tax rate of just 0.05 percent in Ireland.

Given where we are now, and given the prospects for actually getting a legislated solution, you could argue that you on DACA, just like Sen. Collins on marketplace fixes for health care, simply got taken.

Tanner argues investing even just a portion of it would allow for the government to purchase a commanding share of almost every major company in the U.S. Even if that money were invested in index funds (which is the approach Munnell supports), the way the government managed its voting rights could effectively allow it to «pick winners» among corporate entities.

He devoted a chunk of his maiden speech to challenging the notion that further regulation is needed for credit cards, arguing two - thirds of Canadians pay off their balances every month, meaning they incur no interest at all, and that credit cards account for just 5 % of total household debt.

While some in the industry believe the printed word will attract a decent market for a long time to come, others argue it is just a matter of time before remaining newspaper advertisers follow the classified crowd online.

He also argues that fixing tomorrow's problem today is not just a way of fending off inspectors and avoiding pesky fines but a practical strategy for putting Cascade ahead of the curve.

For most folks, the only way you are going to really change your life, she argues, is if you just quit.

«We need to invest every defense dollar to meet the threat that we're facing right now as a nation,» she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer later on Wednesday, arguing that the Obama administration's decision to allow transgender people to serve would cost $ 1.35 billion over a decade just for sex - reassignment surgeries.

But you could argue that the deal — and Zuckerberg's overall success, for that matter — is just as much a tribute to his talent for cultivating connections.

As technology advances and businesses become more globalized, creating a truly diverse organizational culture that incorporates basic human principles and fosters diversity of ideas and perspectives is not just good for employees, Webster argues.

«I just don't know how Uber can argue with a straight face that as a $ 40 billion dollar company it can't afford to insure its drivers, pay minimum wage or pay overtime, or be reimbursed for their expenses.

As for North, the good reverend argued in court that he had stopped just for a minute to run into a store and get change.

It looked like a paper towel»), bake and frost 24 cupcakes at 1 a.m. for the class party at 8 a.m., try to make sense of third - grade math (just no), or switch lanes on the BQE while three kids argue to the death about which of them likes cheese the most (seriously, and it's me),» writes Kate Levkoff on the site.

The case was tossed not just because of bad punctuation, but because Ms. Cammelleri argued that she was unable to understand the specifics of a city ordinance banning parking vehicles for more than twenty four hours.

As I've argued before, when you are as massive a media entity as Facebook (despite its desire to avoid that label), it is incumbent on you to address your responsibilities directly, and possibly even ask for help, rather than just waving at the algorithm behind the curtain.

Like Uber, the night clubs were arguing they were just a platform for dancers, despite keeping a percentage of the earnings and charging the dancers for each shift.

Several skeptical researchers and authors have been hammering away at the foundations of the foodie cause, arguing that everything Pollan and his acolytes stand for — from the dangers of GMO foods to the benefits of local farming — is based on sketchy evidence at best, and at worst is just plain wrong.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Jobs: At the Code Conference yesterday, venture investor Marc Andreessen argued that self - driving cars will actually create jobs, not kill them, just as cars led to jobs for road - pavers, as well as jobs related to the rise in restaurants, movie theaters, motels, and the suburbs more generally.

And just about no one can argue they don't have time or appetite for ten minutes of light exercise.

This is familiar ground for the SocGen strategist, who argued back in April that the British government could «concrete over the entire length and breadth of the UK and house prices would still rise» arguing that Britain doesn't actually have a shortage of housing, just a big imbalance in supply and demand.

Apple argues that Qualcomm has abused its dominant position for mobile communications chips to charge excessive royalties, with the rates calculated based on the overall value of a phone, not just the price of the communications components.

But Wharton professor and «Originals» author Adam Grant argues that we should expand our conception of procrastination to include not just laziness but also waiting for the right time.

The research revealed older Americans were turning to the gig economy for flexibility, supplemental income, and a means to stay engaged and social — just as Farrell argues.

But in a new e-book coauthored with Ross Walker, a 2005 graduate of Stanford's MBA program, they argue that networking ability is not just important for career success — «it is also crucial for getting things accomplished and making change inside organizations in both the public and private sector.»

Fortune: But even more than just the principle at stake, you would argue that it makes long term economic sense — even for a media entity that doesn't rely on subscription revenue like the New York Times?

I'm not arguing for full ratchets — just explaining them.

Plus, 3D manufacturing and just - in - time production capabilities argue for smaller supply chains; as does greater decentralization in energy production and markets.

Even Krugman spent years just arguing against austerity because it was impolitic to attack his own party for timidity, ignorance, and corruption.

A New York Times op - ed written by Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, and Stephen Moore argued that since tax reform is hard, Republicans should stop worrying about how to pay - for tax reform and just pass a giant business tax cut.

And as for everyone arguing that we're suffering from «Dutch disease», just ask Ontario's manufacturing sector what's actually screwing them: exchange rates, OR fundamental flaws in our one - customer, tied - to - the - US economy manufacturing base?

We would argue it is the potential for increased protectionism, which mostly just took the form of rhetoric in 2017.

Also, in «The Peter Principle», the author puts forth a bell - curve for competence — whether in terms of performance or assimilation — and argues that it is not just the incompetents who get the sack.

If you wanted to be a contrarian — and you ran a TV network that didn't have sports — you could argue that ESPN was in more danger than it looked, because most people didn't really want to pay for it — they just had to pay for it.

The authors argue that America's predisposition for favoring small business is not just misguided but has had a pernicious effect.

While many digital coin «investors» would argue that neither does a dollar, I counter that just about nobody thinks of American cash as an investment, except for perhaps currency speculators.

With minimal distraction for the investment team (yes, some would argue not involving us helps), FASF units starting trading on ASX just prior to Christmas.

Some would argue, myself included, that bull markets don't start at the depths of a bear, but whatever, let's just go with it for the purposes of moving past a dead and beaten horse.

If it's the case, as some argue, that policymaker approaches around the world are evolving in that direction, then that provides yet another basis for valuations to get pushed higher, just as it provided a basis in our earlier example for a depositor to keep money in a bank despite being paid a paltry rate.

When investors have to argue among themselves about which news event is causing them to worry, the news is probably just providing day - to - day occasions for investors to act on more general concerns, like extreme valuation.

So, I would argue with both of you that most (not all) of the men who are «just in it for the sex» are as gay as those in long - term relationships... they're just in a different state of self - acceptance.

You could argue that the church just wants more butts in the pews by not paying for the pill but it also does not recommend IVF either.

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»