Sentences with phrase «make obvious arguments»

It played a small part in the Scottish referendum last time but the SNP were able to shut the issue down to a point by making the obvious argument that Britain was able to keep the pound in the EU, so Scotland should be able to too.

Not exact matches

The first and most obvious is that what he has to say captures so well the essence of the revisionist argument, and second it makes clear that the argument of the revisionists is the same whether they are speaking of heterosexual or homosexual relations.

We must use these tools to make obvious the overlooked connections between secular and religious argument.

As Bauer made his argument, it was obvious that he was speaking directly to the reporters present.

A popular argument against the existence of God is what some call divine hiddenness: «If God exists, why doesn't he make his existence more obvious, such that it could not be doubted?»

While the recent form of the Under - 21s side might be a strong argument against that with a group of talented young players on show, the point he makes about the Italian, Spanish and French leagues providing an obvious spine of homegrown players in their respective All - Star teams is true.

I won't make this argument now, but somebody could argue that Quin's coaching was even better given those two obvious limiting factors.

From drawing our attention to the ignored but obvious, to making attractive points and arguments, to drawing sensationalist targets — he has reopened a debate on the foreign nature of the Premier League and its consequences for the national team's future achievements.

While the obvious choices like Robin van Persie and Yaya Toure are clearly also qualified candidates for the PoY Award, Ramsey fans could make a strong argument that he deserves mention with even the world's very best, at least through the first six weeks.

Caring was simply pointing out what is obvious, mainly that you are more interested in making your case by kicking a woman who is already down than you are making a reasoned argument.

(I could also ask what arguments can be made against, but I consider that a rather obvious question and can easily come up with several reasons myself)

(29) This is important, because most of the theoretical arguments about why gluten is bad for you are based on the idea that it damages your gut and makes it «leaky» — even without other obvious symptoms like bloating, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.

Sorkin seems fascinated with why Molly excelled at this unusual occupation, and his obvious appreciation for her and her accomplishments make the film play too much like a straw - man argument whenever anyone else is talking.

It seems obvious that diversity would make everyone smarter and white people less racist, but there's not enough research to make a full - throated, empirically - driven argument for integration.

In the early 1980s it was not yet obvious how neoliberals would make use of the economic crisis in impoverished communities — and the argument that school failure was the leading cause of economic misery — to make their case for a radical transformation and privatization of public education.

To me this is obvious, but I've learned to include this sort of disclaimer to make it marginally more difficult for dodgers, denialists, and dudgeon demons to avoid actual thought in favor of straw man arguments and other mischaracterizations of what I've actually said.

Given all of these problems and the lack of any obvious solution in the short run, how do you make the argument that index investing is still relevant?

That might be the dumbest argument I've ever heard regarding this and its just sounds bias and desperate to avoid the very, very obvious conclusion that this move is good and makes them money.

I'm going to put aside the obvious criticisms to throw at the numbers here (games are made by multiple people of different countries, games take more than 12 months to make, entry is elective, Terry is Irish) and focus on the core argument..

I testified at the state legislature in Louisiana against one of the no - nothing bills you mentioned, and even though it was painfully obvious that the legislators had no real intention of being affected by any argument we might make, it was a necessary «waste» of time.

That this is invalid reasoning should be obvious by simply replacing 50 % with any other value and noting that the half / half argument could be made independent of any data.

Ray's answer makes it obvious (for me) that reality is very complex and far from being explainable by simple, hand - made arguments for the general audience; that's why I think that trying to explain «simply» the very complex phenomena involved in radiation transfer is just lost time - and in my opinion the REAL issues associated with social impacts of GW are not primarily associated with the detailed physics of the phenomenon.

Further, he makes the classic logical error of «begging the question» or assuming the proposition as part of the «proof» when he says Given that global warming is «unequivocal», and is «very likely» due to human activities to quote the 2007 IPCC report, in addition to the obvious argument from authority.

When Slide 4 is taken to the logical conclusion Lindzen seemingly wants the honourable members to draw, namely that if greenhouse gases continue on their current rise we can expect a further rise of only 0.8 C over the next 150 years, he's simply using the same linear - trend argument that Girma and Arfur Bryant love trotting out, obfuscated to make it less obvious.

When I spoke to him his frustration was obvious as he said he had spent three hours talking to Professor Paul Nurse about the detail of the climategate emails, the failings of the inquiries and the many and varied sceptical arguments with respect to man - made climate change.

This series argues that NGOs, governments, and citizens should ask opponents of climate change policies questions designed to bring attention to the obvious ethical and moral problems with arguments made by opponents of climate change policies based on cost.

One obvious place to look is to see if the person making the argument has the demeanor of a disinterested party, or is clearly on one side, and trying to buttress his position.

This series argues that NGOs, governments, and citizens should ask opponents of climate change policies questions designed to bring attention to the obvious ethical and moral problems with arguments made by opponents of climate change policies.

This article, the first of three in a series, proposes what NGOs, governments interested in stronger action on climate change, and citizens should do to expose the obvious and deep moral problems with the most common arguments made by opponents of climate change policies.

A related argument is that it is * impossible * for summaries of cited sources to be plagiarized... also nonsense... but if so, then there's W. 11.4 Summaries issue tally and at the very least the 4 categorized «B» and «C» (in caps), and in Bold seem especially obvious candidates for fabrication, as they all make explicit change to the text to change meaning significantly.

Meanwhile, the logarithmic effect of CO2 is excellent «concession» to make in the rhetorical sense, since it concedes the obvious state of our knowledge about the effects of CO2, while at the same time providing us with the solid argument that even if we double atmospheric CO2 levels from 400ppm to 800 ppm over the next 100 years the largest amount of warming possible — assuming all else remains the same and Gaia has no homeostasis negative feedback systems which tend to moderate any runaway trends — is 1.2 c.

But there's an obvious argument that, having gone this far, it would make sense to keep going after 2050 with the aim of restoring the pre-industrial level (278 ppm) by a combination of massive reforestation, improvements in land use and, if necessary, technological measures to remove CO2 from the atmosphere (there are some ideas about already and this would be the last cab off the rank, giving decades to turn them into workable options).

If it is not immediately obvious the «recent research» analysis about the cold weather is trying to make an argument about weather patterns as an indicator of longer - term climate change.

The problem is a bias towards confirming what we already believe to be true can lead to an overly optimistic reading of the merits of a case and can make us blind to flaws in an argument that neutral outsiders find obvious.

It's a bit obvious to declare that this will be one of the top sellers of 2017, but has Samsung successfully made the argument for why consumers should spend this much money on mobile device?

However, even if the Contractor could make the argument about the empty pool, the court stated that the Brokerage would still be entitled to judgment because there was no duty to warn the Contractor about an open and obvious danger like an empty pool.