Sentences with phrase «long as the argument»

As long as the argument is focused on the attack on religion, they maintain an advantage.

Collins says that «any position can be argued for, so long as the arguments are based on commonly accepted premises.»

Not exact matches

This argument assumes that people will believe an organization is objective and unbiased so long as it uses words like «false» or «inaccurate» or «unsupported,» rather than the word «lie.»

One of Hartnett's main bearish arguments has long been what he describes in his most recent client note as «peaking optimism.»

As part of the settlement announced Thursday, Aruze will no longer consider itself part of the 2010 agreement, which will open the door for Steve Wynn to renew his argument that his ex-wife's claims are moot.

My argument was to let «er rip — as long as consumers have fair access to the internet and a good chunk of monthly data usage, there will be tons of competitive options that will keep the vertically integrated companies from abusing their customers.

In his letter, Dimon defended Mexico as well as NAFTA and even refuted some of the President's arguments regarding illegal immigration into the U.S. «Mexico is a long - standing peaceful neighbor, and it is wholly in our country's interest that Mexico be a prosperous nation,» Dimon wrote, noting that J.P. Morgan has business in Mexico worth $ 400 million in sales.

As Harvard Business School lecturers John Neffinger and Matthew Kohutobserve observe in their book, «Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential,» when a discussion becomes an argument, it's no longer an exercise in logic and reasoning.

This is because, even if you have a heated argument, as long as you keep in the back of your mind that the people you're arguing with do have the best in mind for the company and wider team, you'll always be able to make it to the end and remain friendly.

The strongest argument I can think of for why the Fed might wish to sit tight for that long goes as follows.

Even among her Fed peers, she stands out as a nerd: «As Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon Hilsenratas a nerd: «As Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon HilsenratAs Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon Hilsenrath.

The whole «Dow 36,000» argument was essentially based on the notion that all earnings could be paid out as dividends, earnings would still grow, and that investors would be willing to hold stocks for a long - term return of just 6 % annually.

The thrust of his argument is that interest rates need to go up as the Fed's been «adding enormous policy accommodation over the past several years» and, even while they've long been missing their inflation target on the downside, there's a risk of getting «significantly behind the curve.»

However, rank manipulation is only a secondary motivation when you're using links to support your arguments or cite facts — as long as your content quality is in check, you shouldn't have to worry about a penalty.

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The argument that can be made that having roots as a joke may not have been a good long - term strategy.

As a well - known expert in renewable energy and energy efficiency, Konrad laid out a bullish argument for the company, and disclosed that he «had a large long position» (at the time of the article).

I would summarize the argument as: in the long - run, a crypto asset's value is driven by use of the decentralized application it enables.

Other than that, congratulations, that was the finest example of the logical fallacy known as an «Argument from Ignorance» that I have seen in a long time.

She seems content to rehash John Bosewell's long since refuted arguments and pretend as if Christian scholarship has not already handled these bad arguments.

But as far as I'm concerned I just made an argument based on the premise of invisible yellow howling mute amphibian tree monkeys, so this isn't a line of debate I plan to carry on too long.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

But as I drove home, I myself became less convinced, not of the immediate soundness of my argument, but of the long - term philosophical adequacy and stability of the legal framework within which I had made it.

Ultimately, neither side is willing to be swayed, making the argument meaningless, as long as each side doesn't make concerted efforts to harm the other.

To say that it will never be forgiven as long as they don't believe removes all the force from Jesus» warning, and makes His argument redundantly self - evident.

And you claim to fall on Tony's side of the argument, that as long as your theology is correct you're going to be fine.

As for the claim that if one simply waits long enough with an open heart, God will reveal Himself — that same argument is made by just about every religion.

But, as Santorum quickly learned, he had dared to criticize a speech, and an argument, that the left has long considered the equivalent of settled law.

The argument of socialism's impracticality is nonsense which can be sustained only so long as one is ignorant of the variety and complexity of the socialist tradition.

So long as the existence of any finite entity is acknowledged, the basic argument follows from its insufficiency to a self - sufficient existent.

Measures such as these are not likely to be adopted as long as they appear to violate individual autonomy, which our culture prizes and which is the prime argument for physician - assisted suicide.

In the same letter he argues that Catholicism will be the only lasting form of Christianity; this argument also appears in Democracy, as Peter mentions, but without mention of the letter's key point that Protestantism is a half - way house between «reason» and «authority» that can not maintain its contradictory position over the long run, and which thus must lose its adherents to these two poles.

He here offers a persuasive practical, as well as unabashedly moral, argument that personal merit and competition are in the short and long term interests of minorities, drawing on his own rise from poverty, which he describes as an escape from «the liberal plantation.»

Bad as it is, it won't be the worst argument you've read for too long.

Art historians have long been intrigued by Rembrandt's appropriation of certain Rubensian themes and pictorial types, but Schama makes this the centerpiece of his argument, as if the primary motivating force of Rembrandt's career was to imitate, emulate and eventually get the better of Rubens.

For so long as they buy into the argument science can not explain X, therefore the Judeo - Christian god exists, there will always be an unflipped rock for their god to hide under.

One of the arguments for long periods away while everything is fine is the prevention of potential problems in the future but Sir Paul Coleridge said there were better ways to deal with any problems, such as going on holidays for couples, organised by Christian groups or with a Christian theme: «I would immensely encourage people to investigate those and take them up.»

«So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings,» John Stuart Mill observed, «it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

I will be happy to calmy and rationally debate you as long as you would like, but if you think I simply don't understand your argument because I don't agree with it, then you've made a poor deduction.

So long as the prevailing view is that they are not necessarily wrong, public policy in a pluralistic system must be indifferent to any beliefs that can not be independently supported by rational (utilitarian) argument.

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

Best Argument: Daniel Kirk with «Gay Marriage in New York» «As long as the state is in the marriage business, Christians should support gay marriage as an embodiment of our calling to love our neighbor as ourselves.&raquAs long as the state is in the marriage business, Christians should support gay marriage as an embodiment of our calling to love our neighbor as ourselves.&raquas the state is in the marriage business, Christians should support gay marriage as an embodiment of our calling to love our neighbor as ourselves.&raquas an embodiment of our calling to love our neighbor as ourselves.&raquas ourselves.»

I've long been fascinated by cosmology, although my deficiencies as a mathematician preclude my really following the arguments of astrophysicists, high - energy particle physicists, and others exploring the origins of the universe.

Religion News Service: Jewish and Christian groups at impasse over U.S. aid to Israel An established interfaith group is in danger of disintegrating as major American Jewish groups and prominent mainline Protestant churches differ over U.S. aid for Israel - a long - standing argument that the group was established, in part, to diffuse.

In sum, in the argument that a PVS patient ought to be sustained as long as possible I see the unhappy fruits of the three technological seductions I described above: death by «starvation» has now become our fault, not nature's, if we omit treatment; the distinction between omission and commission is erased in the insistence that the stopping of artificial feeding is the same as killing the patient and, as too often happens, a new technology gets legitimated and routinized by an invocation of the sanctity of life.

That formally correct fact won't matter much, so long as Farrow does not adequately trouble himself to translate his particular religious arguments into general public arguments.

I'm an atheist, and I don't really care what others believe, as long as no one is trying to force me into their beliefs (and I don't mean things like putting Bible passages in courthouses, those arguments are just petty).

They do as long as you don't apply logic to the argument.

Monster: The one you spelled out is this «Once I understood the Bible was not a good guide for morality, all of the arguments that were offered up as explanations or excuses for a book that is certainly evil by modern, civilized standards no longer held water.»

Therefore, I feel I must overcome my resistance and resentment, must dismiss the feeling of engaging in an unwilling exercise in apologetics, and try earnestly, if not to supply straight and simple answers, at least to clarify and line up some of the evasive arguments that I have harbored for a long time, and to articulate them as well as I can.