Sentences with phrase «legitimate points on»

I think we have to recognize all legitimate points on both sides.

Not exact matches

Or perhaps I simply realize that many of the so called rational atheists who post on CNN are dedicated to reason only as long as it supports their positions and when it doesn't immediately switch to ad hominem attacks to try to get people to ignore the legitimate point that was made.

No doubt some of them are, but that is beside the point» which is, that many, many of these voters have legitimate concerns to which an effective politics must give answers, not lectures on racial etiquette.

Instead of big arguments and point - by - point apologetics, instead of reacting to slights, imagined or legitimate, political or religious or relational, I long to get on with my Father's business, to live into freedom in my real walking - around life, and I pray there's an invitation in there somewhere.

Instead of big arguments and point - by - point apologetics, instead of reacting to slights, imagined or legitimate, political or religious or relational, I long to get on with my Father's business.

Thus it follows from the principle which equates immediacy of experience with certainty of knowledge that there can be no legitimate perspective on the world by an individual subject from a point of view outside that subject, a point of view which places the subject within a larger — «objective» — context.

My * point * was that you can't accept this as legitimate on the issue of slavery, but then insist on principle that it is an illegitimate approach on all other issues.

On a team with two other legitimate stars, he turned in 37 points, 20 in the fourth quarter alone.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

If we could become a legitimate top - 25 team a majority of the time, and we were talented enough personnel-wise, coaching the guys the right way, that when we play on Saturdays, the fans that come to the game know that if we play well, we can win, then we've gotten to the point where we're successful here at Oklahoma State.

Point being, by wasting possession and not creating quality scoring chances, Roma only puts more pressure on themselves; every shot must be precise and every shot must have a legitimate chance of scoring, which only puts more pressure on Garcia's second half subs.

Miller 2.0 I think the important point on which it would be worth trying to build agreement is that almost all social democratic and liberal socialist conceptions of equality and fairness do have scope for legitimate or merited differences of outcome.

The key point is that to enjoy the benefits of credibly asking for concessions on the international stage, a leader must have a legitimate legislative hurdle on the domestic front.

While there are a number of expenditures that raise questions, several experts consulted by City & State made the point that the legal definition of what constitutes a legitimate use of campaign funds in New York State is extremely broad, and that even expenses that seemed like personal use on their face could actually be allowable based on the letter of the law.

The media herd has also reached the point where it is clear that editors (particularly Sunday newspaper editors) are putting so much pressure on political reporters to «come up with the goods» on sleaze that they report perfectly legitimate activities as possible sleaze.

But he said he thought it was «legitimate» for Labour politicians such as Mr Bradshaw and Mr Bryant to point to the Conservative voting record on certain issues.

ANDREW LANSLEY: Yes, I think he was right because the authority of parliament frankly has been brought in to crisis point and that authority needs to be re-established not just in relation to the Speaker, but in so many other ways, which is why tomorrow for example, the scrutiny panel that David Cameron has established, that is going to be looking not only at making sure that everything we do is transparent and reasonable in the future on clear, unambiguous rules, but we are going to look back, as indeed we've done in the Shadow Cabinet and said, it's not about whether we were within the rules, it's not about whether it was legitimate, it's actually about whether we have done something which is unreasonable, which the public would not regard as acceptable and that, that test, that tougher test is one we've applied to ourselves and we will apply throughout the Conservative Parliamentary Party.

In a separate case involving undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan, the court ruled that the college's mechanical point system, which granted a prespecified number of points on the basis of race, was not legitimate (14).

At one point this company that owns AdultHookups.com enabled people to purchase legitimate memberships on their strings of dating sites.

He entered the legitimate theater in 1934 when playwright Howard Lindsay selected him for a role in the play She Loves Me Not, portraying a football player in the work's London run — although the play only ran three weeks, that was enough time for Crawford to meet Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (then theater's leading «power couple» on either side of the Atlantic) and come to the attention of Noel Coward, who selected him for a role in his production of Point Valaine, in which the acting couple was starring.

This view was not universally shared among school personnel, who pointed to a track record of good results on the old state test and rankings, where Tortuga Shoals was always in the top 10 percent of the districts in the region.303 To legitimate these directions for improvement, the superintendent commissioned a curriculum audit by outside consultants, with the expectation that results from this audit would provide direction and legitimacy to a new plan for improving teaching and learning in the district.

The report, called «Public Schools in the Crosshairs: Far - Right Propaganda and the Common Core State Standards,» distinguishes between legitimate criticism of the standards — which comes from various points on the political spectrum — and the right - wing campaign to cast the initiative as a «nefarious plot» by liberals «to turn public schools into anti-American, anti-God indoctrination camps that churn out submissive automatons who will unquestionably serve the interests of the government and big business.»

Not just on that point, but overall, Fensterwald has pulled together a strong sampling of information and opinions, and offers a well - balanced examination of the issues — weighing the principles of parental rights and the legitimate concerns about flaws in this particular law.

Emailing these people with what can only be viewed as an endorsement of legitimacy without a disclaimer pointing out that any time you PAY for the privilege of being published you are Vanity Publishing & can not use these «published» works on your resumé for legitimate agents & main - stream publishers, is misleading.

The hardware on phones and tablets is getting to a point where you might as well call them legitimate gaming devices, and services like OnLive offer top - tier games and controllers.

Now with Oyster, his voice of reason highlights the legitimate point how authors will at least earn their extra revenue stream from the subscribers on a regular basis.

Again, this isn't the world of the smartphone, where people have a legitimate point if they can't make out text on a 3.5 - inch display.

If you have negative entries on your credit report (late payments, bankruptcies, etc.) that are legitimate and within their allowable time limits, there's no point in disputing them.

She points out that organizations in certain parts of the sector may have legitimate reasons for spending more on administration, such as higher labour costs.

In this brief article we want to discuss the key points of our research on the Free Profit Code, a recent binary options trading system that pretends to be legitimate.

From the CRA's point of view this is a legitimate practice on their part because posts on social media really aren't private.

It's legitimate help, as opposed to the surgeries done on the seven puppies, she pointed out.

Other points we covered included existing legislation in this realm, which currently is toothless and difficult to enforce — Canine Companions for Independence is gathering signatures on a petition designed to persuade legislator to create more forceful laws dealing with service dog fraud (www.cci.org/stopfraud)–an array of experiences aboard flights with both authentic and bogus service animals, how a policy seeking to root out phony users of service animals had the unintended and ironic consequence of punishing disabled people and veterans with legitimate service dogs, and much more.

Do some research on data points for Ink + approvals and you'll see legitimate business owners with $ 50K in annual revenue and a 10 - year business history getting denied while others with an imaginary or «pseudo-imaginary» business with a reported $ 1 in profit and one year history being approved.

While most of these recent developments are barely worth mentioning, there is one legitimate bit of good news: the sign - up bonus on the Citi Prestige card has gone up to 75k points.

Camping is a legitimate tactic thanks to the high vantage points, but is neatly balanced out by the fact that players can literally hit you from any direction, thus you'll always have to be on your toes.

We've already reported on the rumor that Dark Souls 3 will make an appearance at E3, and some leaked photos (that seem pretty legitimate) point to the rumor being true.

Steam has tons of data on what legitimate games sell, what is the ratio of key requests for games of specific price points, sales, etc

Still, it's something entirely different; it's not only a fast - paced, technical sort of game that depends on the user's ability to memorize every map's twists and hazards, and ultimately understand how to best get from point A to point B, but it's almost what you might call legitimate exercise.

This seems to have a motive... i.e. to present posts her eon RC that can then be used on deinalist blogs to say RC does not look at «alternative opinion» (even though those alternative opinions have no relevance to the reality that is behind the argument, that of global warming is happening, human - caused, and at this point, irrefutable... unless you have a legitimate refutation??? I'd love to see that!!!).

Will and Novak have already had their shot at countering the Time article, and rather than raising legitimate points where clarification could have been useful, they squandered their chance on baseless character assassination and rehashing of already debunked arguments.

The point at which a shift is warranted becomes a matter of judgment based on evaluation of evidence, in this case evidence for an anthropogenic influence and its consequences, but the principle that a burden can shift is a legitimate one.

I am reasonably educated but far from an expert, yet I can see legitimate points and concerns on both sides of the issue.

That doesn't mean there aren't some legitimate concerns, just that you can count on them to over estimate to the point they actually begin to believe their own estimates.

But to obsess on them and even divert from legitimate points * is silly, cowardly and unfortunately common.

Regardless of whether the other comments were on point, I do not think the quotation in front of us is a legitimate review comment for a professional journal.

While I think there is legitimate cause for concern as to whether Exxon really will pay for the damage they have caused (Ben Jervey has a good post on this point), the broader concern is that this 1980 law is currently allowing oil companies shipping tar sands oil to get away without contributing to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

I believe that the general rule should be that if the viewpoint is not inherently abusive, and if the poster is not attempting to antagonize under cover of a legitimate post (trolling), and if it is an arguably reasonable point of view, and if the site is one that purports to allow all viewpoints, then it should not be prohibited on the grounds that it is extremely at odds with the view held by many at that site.

Whether you think that diversity is a legitimate point of consideration or not, you should try to focus on it in your application if it applies to you.

Charlotte Proudman would only be punching the air if they had changed it to «Dear Oppressive member of the patriarchy who is bound to make a pass at me and comment on my looks which I will write about in the Guardian years later cashing in, oops I mean making a legitimate important point / madam»