Sentences with phrase «leaving little argument»

After all, his ear had been cut off by an inmate they called «Nam» the first week Mickey had been released into the prison's general population, leaving little argument that surviving on his own would be difficult.

Not exact matches

Not only is this disassociation apparent but it seems to leave theology particularly exposed; for while the metaphysician may be criticised for paying insufficient attention to empirical enquiry, and the natural scientist too little to abstract argument about ultimate principles, at least both appear to be directed towards describing the structure of things: metaphysical and natural, respectively.

Since Jose Antonio Vargas's original report that only Ron Paul and John McCain had so far agreed to participate in the September Republican version of last week's CNN / YouTube debate, plenty of folks on the left, right and center have dogpiled on the candidates, lacerating defenders» arguments and leaving me with little doubt that Romney, Giuliani, et al will ultimately grudgingly deign to take questions from The Common Man.

Geison uses the example of Pasteur as an argument that modern ethical standards «leave too little room for risk - taking and simple human courage», especially when dealing with an inevitably fatal disease such as rabies — or AIDS.

A clear, direct, one - to - one relationship between pesticides and polio over a period of 30 years, with pesticides preceding polio incidence in the context of the CNS - related physiology just described, leaves little room for complicated virus arguments, even as a cofactor, unless there exists a rigorous proof for virus causation.

But whether she's working closely with her editors or she's leaving them little choice in how to cut her films because of how lean her scripts and footage are, this kind of short, snappy, collage - like approach to storytelling has become Gerwig's «style» — which undercuts the argument that there's nothing distinctive about the way her movies look and feel.

What makes the report so curious is that they actually accept four facts about the Common Core that leave little of their argument intact.

The argument goes something like, «The Little Book and the free website have made it so easy to find good, cheap stocks that there's nothing left.»

I will confess that I was initially baffled by this post, for it was my prejudice that the general increase in OHC over the last ~ 50 years leaves so little room for benign warming due to some internal variability, that is I failed initially to see what case had to be answered and hence I failed to comprehend your argument.

Carvin did forcefully make some First Amendment arguments, but, in doing so, too often failed to observe that various opinions were not only permitted, but reasonable... Because Steyn and National Review have parted ways, Carvin and National Review seem to have been unaware of the long backstory and more or less presented the dispute (from National Review's perspective) as little more than a purely academic controversy over the validity of tree rings as a temperature proxy, leaving the judges completely mystified on why Mann, as opposed to any one of hundreds of scientists, was at issue.

While I argued humanity was good in a crisis and we'd get through it, my argument left the techno - optimists a little shell - shocked, as they are more used to being uplifted with stories of optimism and endless opportunity.

Even the tired old cliche that environmentalists all hail from the political left is a little hard to swallow these days — with Wal Mart's Lee Scott talking about rethinking the way we consume, and T Boone Pickens investing in wind, Exxon backtracking on man made climate change, and plenty of Republicans talking green, the argument is rarely whether we should care for the environment anymore, just how we should go about doing it.

[45] I have considered the argument made by Defence Counsel that a sentence lasting an inmate's natural lifetime leaves them with little incentive to abide by prison rules.