Sentences with phrase «making arguments»

In so polarized a time as ours, such divergences are inevitable, and Donald Trump widens them because of his canny rhetorical habit of coining slogans, not making arguments.

The writer was a lawyer and Episcopalian, and his open letter — making arguments Smith refers to as being taken from «this limbo of defunct controversies» — was published in The Atlantic and thereby carried the weight of the authority of the WASP establishment.

This is done in an attempt to make people who have rational arguments against church doctrine and church history seem irrational and therefore making their arguments invalid.

When we lose, we have no choice but to keep making our arguments.

But he was so taken with the book that he wanted to see me making my arguments within this ongoing project he had been shaping.

He has the virtue of making arguments for his positions.

However, I'd highly suggest defaulting your mindset to transparent - first (and making arguments for why things shouldn't be transparent, instead of the other way around).

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

Those expectations should be communicated to the client so that when a decision is made regarding whether to spend on traditional PR versus SEO or digital ads, data is available that makes an argument for why dollars should go toward the former.

None of this is to defend Sino - Forest or make an argument that it is simply the hapless victim of short sellers.

«Be truthful and use previous experience to make the argument as to why you're the right fit for the role,» she says.

Make the argument as to why you're a fit based on what you learned in the interview rather than what it says in the job description.

While this may be true for rarer metals, it is tough to make this argument in regards to aluminum and steel, which are plentiful in supply.

How do they make their arguments — with outlines, with lofty abstractions?

While the attack Thursday was the first of its kind by the US, Lowther said the bomb was «not even close to being a nuclear weapon» and he would «not make the argument that it's a symbol of escalation» in the conflict in Afghanistan.

Someone had made an argument attacking a public figure, someone else had defended the accused, and they would argue it out at the Fletcher School's public forum.

As well - outfitted as this tablet might be, it is unclear if the company can make an argument for the cost of such a tool.

I could make every argument for why I should be flying first class everywhere.

«You want to make the argument that your skills will help you get off to a running start.»

But she has developed a method to make those arguments more productive and beneficial.

You could describe this as social media with training wheels, and make the argument that it's helpful for kids to learn to use social media under the eye of an adult.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

But that dynamic is likely on account of growth - minded economic policy in those countries rather than a specifically detrimental economic policy in the U.S.. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have not made this argument.

Nonetheless, DraftKings and FanDuel will attempt to make that argument.

In fact, some have made the argument that the arrival of Amazon could help flip a state from red to blue in future elections.

Using the savings from those benefits to reinvest in American business — of all sizes — through reduction in taxes (and, since we're making the argument, reducing some of the regulatory burden to boot) would help business owners to grow their operations, increase sales and, yes, hire workers.

Redford did not make that argument, perhaps because she thought that 75,000 jobs still sounds better than a marginal decrease in the price of gasoline.

I think everyone, anyone who's ever made an argument in, since arguments began, has chosen evidence to support their arguments.

The point of the ad is to make the argument that some of the big game's festivities should carry over into the day after the Super Bowl.

Critics of the toys to life movement have made arguments that the industry is bound to slow down because of the need for constant purchase, but the move towards customizable options provides a cost effective solution for both toy makers and parents.

On a side note, when I make this argument, sometimes people argue the point.

There's still a chance to do something effective, Johnson says, but it will require a strong and independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency and the dismantling of the six American banks that have grown too big to fail — and if he isn't the first to make the argument, 13 Bankers nonetheless lends it a good deal of substance.

In her 2012 TED Talk, Melinda Gates makes the argument that many of the world's social change issues depend on ensuring that women are able to control their rate of having kids.

You have to make the argument that these folks are furthering the mission of the university.»

As she made her argument, a lightbulb came on for me.

«If you apply our tool [and] measure your outcomes against your costs,» she said, «you can clearly make an argument for many of these new advances.»

In fact, you can make the argument that they have very little in common, save for a commitment to create and foster a high - performing culture.

You could certainly make the argument that they operate one of the largest ad networks in the world and that network is predicated on being able to track people,» Maier said.

The key to making this argument isn't any kind of investigation into the Trump Foundation, it's the basics of Trump's business ownership.

Stagnating incomes and soaring housing prices have led to an affordability crisis, and the government could make the argument that this should be addressed with a policy intervention.

To make the argument that Quebec judges do it, why can't you, is like the kid who grows up on a country club saying «I can play polo, why can't you?»

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.

Moynihan makes the argument against using the idea of not taxing an amount of income as something equivalent to an expenditure.

Compare a 4 % drop to the fact that unemployment grew across the country from around 4 % to almost 10 % in the same timeframe and you could make the argument that broker employment has actually held up better than that of most professions.

«I think it is usually when you have a point of maximum fear that you have got the greatest opportunities, so the Chinese market is so large and so deep that you can't just make an argument out of a few market movements and out of a few stocks,» he told CNBC.

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 Hilsenrath.

You could also make the argument that, at some point, there is a significant increase in the per barrel cost of transportation and that the cancellation of Keystone XL would shift more barrels onto that more expensive, marginal means.

I can make an argument that the most important aspect of any business is not marketing or sales.

In previous posts, I've made the argument that consumer debt, particularly for middle - income households, is still too high.

This is why I don't believe in bonds, ETFs, or any other paper investment although you can make the argument that stocks are paper investments.