Sentences with phrase «lost at arguments»

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The decision to label Cohn a «globalist» on his way out the door is, at a minimum, a suggestion that he lost not a specific policy argument about steel but a much larger argument about the overall direction of the Republican Party.

@ grassroots: I would like to believe that you were sincere in claiming that atheists have a ``... duty (as if being responsible to some authority) to debunk...» (I presume you to mean a belief in God) ``... via the Internet... [etc]», but when you mix sarcasm with rationality, then you lose creditability with me because you join the ranks of those who just want to poke fun at believers for entertainment and invite a heated argument with no intentions of converting such people.

God is not reducible to social issues, no matter how worthy, and if we give the impression that these are all our faith is about, we are tacitly accepting that we've lost the intellectual argument about whether He exists at all.

There is no proof, since the time that Darwin came up with that foolish argument just because he was upset at God for losing a love one in death!

We don't know what he felt at losing an argument.

Observer, wrote on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 3:27 pm, stating, «Richard, It's always easy to see when someone has lost an argument and is out of facts, they resort to juvenile name - calling.

So based on your argument, Professor King, it is no coincidence that some of the strongest arguments about the potential damage of this Coles pricing policy have been made by other milk processors, given that you outline that milk processors are probably the ones at the greatest risk here of losing profit margin?

Captain Joshua Slocum was lost at sea in the Spray in 1909, and arguments about the lines, the seaworthiness, the condition — and the fate — of the Spray have gone on ever since.

Of course, losing two star receivers at the start of the year didn't help McAdoo's chances, so you could make the argument that he was dealt a losing hand, but with the organization moving on we're led to the next logical question: who will replace him?

Having lost just one of their last seven games, there's an argument that Bolton Wanderers» supporters are being spoilt rotten at the minute.

From what was, at times, a confused and halting justification for this position your correspondent gleaned three interrelated strands of argument: that the lands of Judea and Samaria are the Jewish people's «homeland;» that while the area is also claimed as a homeland by the Palestinians this merely means the territory is contested and does not detract from the Jewish claim and finally; that the Palestinians lost their right to this land by engaging in violence in 1948 and 1967.

Certainly, Labour constituencies see fairly high levels of UKIP support (notably at the recent Heywood & Middleton by - election), suggesting there is credence to the argument that Labour is losing its disaffected traditional and typically working class voters to UKIP.

When at a shadow cabinet meeting on 6 July Andy Burnham, the leadership front - runner, cautioned against embracing austerity, Harman acidly replied: «But Andy, we lost that argument.

The New Labour argument will be that Miliband lost those seats right at the start of the parliament when he failed to reassure Middle England that its money would be safe in his hands.

The judge rejected Reid's argument that he allegedly «relied on the blanket assurance of the human resources manager» at the state School Boards Association, who Reid claimed told him that he was eligible to receive unemployment benefits after losing his job there.

At a London debate the argument for changing Britain's voting system was narrowly voted down and OurKingdom's Co-Editor was on the losing side.

Yes, there are issues surrounding the presidentialisation of British politics, and debates over whether they have any affect at all (2010's «Cleggmania» didn't stop the Lib Dems losing seats); but I believe that televised debates, when done properly, allow the public to get to grips with the key arguments and policy issues.

The argument at the time, was that New York State needed a system of public financing to take big money out of politics, the irony is not lost on anyone I'm sure.

At times, the reader is liable to get lost in the web of argument and counterargument, but on the whole, the book is rigorous and clear.

There are arguments that you should not be cheating at all if you are trying to lose weight.

I argued with her for days and eventually lost that argument, but not before confirming with a friend at The Washington Post that I right.

Starring Viola Davis as an embattled family court judge with a fraught marriage of her own; Hayden Panettiere as a recent law - school grad flung into a custody case; and Catalina Sandino Moreno as the single mother at the center of the case who risks losing her two children over an ill - timed argument.

«There's an argument to be made — and indeed which is made by film - makers like Michael Haneke or Jean Luc Godard — that says that since the advent of television, computers, mobile phones, etc, the image has lost its power to impact upon us,» says Dr Catherine Wheatley, a lecturer in film studies at King's College London.

As for the President, he is never at a loss for words, never on the losing side of an argument, never far from a folksy, front - porch anecdote, and never in doubt about his own righteousness and wisdom.

Do you shut down arguments about gun control or athletes taking a knee at football games because you fear losing control of the discussion?

They might be dealing with a stressful situation at home like a parent losing his or her job, or maybe something more momentary like an argument with a friend.

You could argue Alfa Romeo lost the plot when it switched to building front - wheel - drive cars, but then you look at the 156 GTA and that argument becomes difficult to make.

And the argument that self - published books are not widely reviewed in mainstream publications loses steam when you realize that only a tiny percent of traditionally published books are reviewed at all.

But on balance, Grayling has put forward a powerful argument for independent thinking as a vehicle of salvation, and if he gets lost in the weeds from time to time, at least it's nice to be in the presence of someone who hasn't mistaken the grasslands of the earth for the fabled Garden of Eden.

In states where Amazon has lost the sales tax argument at the hands of lawmakers who are eagerly trying to make up for revenue lost in the recent economic downturn, the online giant has attempted to make amends with legislatures by investing in jobs and distribution centers in return for coming to a consensus on the issue.

I thought he might be unhappy to see: — the adjustment (in the new paper) losing the 1998 RSS high temp shown in Zeke Hausfather's older graph, so the «cooling trend» argument gets hurt, or — the newer graph having one more recent data point than the older, so the «cooling trend» argument gets hurt, or — the newer graph showing a shorter time span and so not showing the lower temps in earlier decades, so the «cooling trend» argument gets hurt, or — the newer graph isn't directly comparable to an older graph he prefers to look at without thinking about the numbers along the side, or — I du n no.

Afraid I'm losing track a bit as to which argument was made on which thread — but for those discussing the drought issue, and particularly those recalling (from Dai, 2010, or elsewhere) that the Mediterranean basin is projected to be at very high future drought risk — this story will have really serious resonance:

And their frustration at losing the argument is palpable.

Statistical arguments will lose to personal experience and tying this or that bad storm to climate change is scientifically dubious at best.

I'm not going to review the various arguments that indicate that this is indeed the equilibrium — they are straightforward consideration of the integrals over the blackbody spectra from the two bodies that shows that the hotter one loses heat (on average) and the colder one gains heat (on average) until they are at the same temperature and have identical spectra, where the (time / frequency averaged integral of the) flux of the Poynting vector vanishes within microscopic thermal fluctuations of the sort that are routinely ignored in thermodynamics.

Pekka, I don't think you are disputing that in an adiabatic convective profile, the temperature at higher altitudes is colder, so the higher molecules are slower, and are continually moving up and down without losing or gaining diabatic energy but with their temperature changing, so I think this argument is about whether the convective profile is an equilibrium profile or not.

The argument that this change it is somehow driven by energy reservoirs in the deep ocean is clearly flawed: the deep ocean would be * cooling * as it lost energy to the upper ocean, but deep ocean heat content is increasing at the same time as OHC in the upper ocean is increasing.

But the narrower the margins get, the weaker the political arguments become and the more power utilities flinch at investing billions to switch to a fuel that may someday lose the government's long - term support.

Eric was condescending at first, then lapsed into pique once it was clear that he was technically outgunned (fighting to the bitter end not to acknowledge the results presented in the paper) and finally shut down comments at RealClimate when it was clear he was on the losing end of the technical argument.

«finally shut down comments at RealClimate when it was clear he was on the losing end of the technical argument.»

You frequently make denigrating and insulting comments directed at skeptics and tell them they have lost the argument because they don't have a model.

Willard: you lost the catastrophe argument, no matter what your acolytes say back over at ATTP where you and ken licked your wounds from the last drubbing.

At 11 a.m. ET today, C - SPAN will stream the oral arguments in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights, involving the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, requiring universities to allow military recruiters on campus or lose federal funds.

As far as the cross-appeal by the losing defendant group, the defect was that the group constituted attorneys representing themselves such that they were barred under Trope, with the argument that the attorneys were indemnified by a different third party not impacting the analysis at all.

If you had a pretty good, but still losing claim construction argument at the district court, you have an argument to the Federal Circuit that you had a reasonable believe you didn't infringe the patent because of it.

Fielding represents a cautionary tale for any counsel attempting to make a 50 - 50 NDI spousal support argument, and Jackson affirms that you can lose at trial even if you don't show up.

Back in 2008, Apple sued Psystar for copyright infringement arising from Psystar's manufacture and distribution of computers preloaded with copies of Mac OS X. Psystar lost at the trial court level, with the judge rejecting its argument that Apple engaged in anti-competitive, «copyright misuse» by requiring in its OS X software license agreement that the operating system be used only on Apple hardware.

In this case, the Board could participate without compromising the principles of finality and impartiality (at paras. 60 - 62) and, although Rothstein J. sounded a «note of caution» about the Board's suggestion that even if it lost on judicial review it would reach the same result in fresh proceedings, he felt «the Board generally acted in such a way as to present helpful argument in an adversarial but respectful manner» (at para. 72).

In addition to winning the tournament's best brief award, Chicago - Kent's team excelled at oral arguments, losing only to the team from the University of Oklahoma that eventually won the competition.

HHJ Parker accepted D's arguments that, in reality, the great majority of the costs incurred by both parties were in relation to C's main case (the splenectomy) and that C had lost every contested issue at trial.