Sentences with phrase «make this argument less»

But the other «factual circumstances» here make the argument less likely to hold up in the same way it did for Edwards.

Leaving God unnamed does not make their argument any less theological, especially when they claim that the elements of complex design they have observed in nature are present because of the activity of their unnamed intelligent designer.

«When you consider only this portion of the deal — nuclear restrictions for the first ten years — that line of thinking is plausible, but even for this part of the agreement, the weaknesses mentioned above make this argument less compelling.»

As the years have gone by, I've have to make this argument less.

Oh, I'd never torture an innocent child (or have a robot torture her, to make the argument less psychological) to save 100 people.

Not exact matches

Research makes a blank page far less intimidating and gives you more facts to deploy in your argument.

Klepper said he noticed while covering Trump rallies that the information, language, and arguments that people were making had less in common with Fox News and more in common with Breitbart News and even the conspiracy - peddling Infowars.

But while the argument for more play for kids is easy to make - if not terribly widely heeded - the case for more adult play is less intuitive.

You could make the argument while their was less short - term volatility at the time, the greater long term systemic instability occurred after after the late 90's and 04 - 2006 tightening cycle.

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

That could be all - important for consumers, because without the deal, AT&T and Time Warner separately could be left weaker, compared to competitors such as Comcast and Disney, and less willing to deploy new services or green - light new movies and TV series — an argument made by the companies and analysts covering the sector.

Atheists currently hold the overwhelming majority of the Noble Prizes, make up less that 0.5 % of the US prison population, have less that 1 % of the divorces in America and have given us many of the scientific and technological achievements you enjoy today... your argument has just been utterly destroyed.

Taken as a whole they've made a very compelling argument that the explanations of the universe provided by both science and religion are incomplete and always evolving, and that one perspective is no more or less valid than another.

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.

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

Seriously people... try a google search and rsearch a bit before you make your arguments — all of us (myself included) could stand to do a bit more reading and a bit less talking.

Forcing the case for this kind of living moral alternative into the narrow confines of an argument that is just about religion and liberty makes the treasure we seek to protect seem smaller and less significant than it truly is.

The evidence for it is less clearly found in Process and Reality than in Religion in the Making, yet it seems to be present in the philosophy of Whitehead in such a way that this third argument is really more fundamental than the two just summarized.

Yes, they need to be taught to believe in gods, but babies don't have the ability to determine that gods are, or aren't real either, which make that argument a whole lot less compelling than the people who like to use it would like.

The less politic version of the argument was made by a Marco Rubio aide from behind closed doors.

Fairfield Osborn in Our Plundered Planet gives a less optimistic analysis, but makes the same argument that intelligent planning is imperative for the full use of the resources we have.12 Advances in medical science are so dramatic we need only to mention them.

@TC - The US government is in the red because when the argument between spending more on various programs and taking in less in taxes comes up, our politicians consistently go for the «make everyone happy» option where we spend more and tax less.

Changing your user ID and posting the same erroneous argument does not make it any less wrong or make the response any different.

I make it less about making a good argument and more about proving myself to the skeptics for the sake of improving my status.

Such arguments make even less sense today than they did in Luther's age, for the sword has been replaced by the nuclear bomb.

One of his tendencies (and limitations) was to attack the weakest part of an opponent's argument but ignore the strongest or most compelling parts» a penchant that sometimes eroded his credibility, or at least made him less convincing.

I suppose an argument could be made that if more children had more attentive parents we might have less incidents.

«We're all for arguments about the ethics of meat consumption, but we also realise that the easiest way to encourage vegetarianism is to make it seem like less of a frontier and more of a transition.

Turner has played in Stotts system with these same players for 2 years now, and technically, Nurk came late last year so you could make an argument that it has been even less time, but to keep this simple we will say two years.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

You can equally make the argument that Lacazette's goalscoring numbers are far less impressive if we ignore the 11 penalties he scored last year as he might not be afforded penalty taking duties at Arsenal.

(And based on Jay Jacobs» babbling in the aftermath of the Iron Bowl, Missouri will make the argument in less of an enraged - Golden - Corral - patron manner.)

If i recall exactly we had a whole argument over the valuation of Sterling, you refuted on numerous ocassions when i stated that Sterling would cost more than 35 million the point i made over 2 months ago and still make now and im sure most fans would agree is not that gnabry is better its just he is promising talent, and for the value City paid for Raheem (which is almost criminal considering Di Maria, cost PSG less) it would have been better to see Gnabry given a run out or sign someone actually worth 50 million

Younger children may have less ability to sense and intervene to stop arguments, possibly leading to less risk, but they also have fewer cognitive resources to make sense of events and emotions, possibly leading to higher risks.

And I suspect, I hope, that the money's just simply going to become less important and that ultimately, campaigns make a determination that hey, they might better spend their time with the candidate out doing other things and actually thinking about the argument and the message that you want to send, than constantly raising all this money that buys you maybe some TV ads that nobody's watching but nothing that's gonna actually turn the campaign in your favor.

«The imposition of such automatic penalties could have the consequences of making the courts less receptive to arguments that the GAAR applies, because in marginal cases they may consider the imposition of such penalties to be unfair.

From now on, they will have to make their arguments stick in a manner the rest of the parties have always had to - less of the rhetoric and with numbers that add up.

«An argument could be made that «outcome - based education» actually causes children to think less,» Munisteri said.

They can lead us to uncritical cheerleading, to the politics of «lesser evilism», and putting - up while shutting - up, rather than making nuanced arguments, offering critical support, or demanding policies that are not yet on the table.

If they do look into it, it makes Osborne's argument even less tenable.

«The left must avoid the trap of countering an argument about less state by making a case for more state,» he writes.

Second, because there's a good argument to be made that those non-residents have no real say since they are much less affected by the choice.

The argument that we need to make our welfare state less generous leads us to an end - point of a system which provides no security, which pays far too little to live on, which traps people in poverty, and which allows costly problems to spiral out of control.

But another group making a strikingly similar argument for the casino amendment is All In For Jobs, a labor - backed entity that references casinos and gambling even less than New York Jobs Now.

All of these factors will have a big impact on the public and make Labour's arguments for tax cuts less credible.

«Whether Mr. Silver engaged in extramarital affairs does not make it more or less likely, for instance, that he used his official position to obtain referrals from real - estate developers,» they said in written arguments.

Their strident argument on the economy was that big cuts needed to be made to pay off the deficit, but that New Labour would ease the pain by cutting «less far, less fast».

Part of my argument admittedly focuses on highly personal values, such as my concern that collective online creations like Wikipedia have made the Web less expressive by absorbing the efforts of hordes of volunteer authors into an overly regularized scheme.

We'll reduce it 40 percent by 2020, by 2020 everything we make we'll use 40 percent less energy per dollar or per yuan of value, okay; which is good, I mean, there's no argument to be made against them doing it, but their own economic projections indicate that their economy is going to grow so quickly that they'll be producing more CO2 instead of less at the end of that period.

2013 FT28 shows similar clustering in some of these parameters (its semi-major axis, eccentricity, inclination, and argument of perihelion angle, for angle enthusiasts out there) but one of these parameters, an angle called the longitude of perihelion, is different from that of the other extreme objects, which makes that particular clustering trend less strong.