Sentences with phrase «making points against»

What argument do you think you are making points against?

James Franklin needs a way to keep his team motivated heading into the offseason — especially losing some big - time contributors to the NFL — and he'll look to make a point against the Huskies.

Did you see Arsenal come back like they wanted to make a point against Man city after a loss against Everton?

For sure, the men from down the King's Road will be eager to make a point against their old rivals as they look to salvage some pride from a dismal campaign.

Republican ultra-Tea Party types like Glenn Beck love to invoke Nazi Germany's history, to make a point against President Obama, or a sitting Democrat so I'll do the same here with Governor Chris Christie.

He was trying to make a point against me — boy, did that hit him hard.»

He seemed to think he was making a point against Einstein, rather than for him, for he added: «There is only one fault with his cosmical religion: he put an extra letter in the word — the letter «s».»

He comes out and says «Obviously, when you're selling units so inexpensively, you're going to sell more of those than, for example, a $ 14 paperback print book» and thinks he's making a point against eBooks.

Anytime this occurs, it makes a point against you on your insurance score and can make things difficult for you later when you try to price check around.

Not exact matches

Rush casts its net wide; there's a macroeconomic argument woven through the book that makes the case against taxation structures that are redistributive to the point of dampening the urge to succeed.

Valleywag points out that this whole situation is really weird: «So, our elected officials, in their effort to find a scapegoat for crimes against sex workers like the murder of Julissa Brisman, have taken a site that never made a dime from the hookups it helped set up, and turned it into a full - time, for - profit sex money machine.»

That's not a knock - down argument against any and all principled refusals to do business, but it's a point worth making.

But my point is we should be empowering families to make the choices they think are best for their kids, and that should entail ending discrimination in the tax code against single - income, two - parent families.»

It does not make picks against the spread, though we like to include the point spread (in parentheses, courtesy of Vegas Insider) for comparison.

«Qualcomm has confirmed publicly that this lawsuit against our clients is intended to make a point about Apple and punish our clients for working with Apple,» Theodore J. Boutrous, a lawyer for the four companies, said in a statement.

She made some huge saves in the U.S.'s 1 - 0 group - stage victory against France, but Solo's howler against Colombia cost the U.S. two points in a 2 - 2 tie.

But he implied that it would be patriotic for private Russian citizens to «start making contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

However, having the government sell annuities could make sense if you believe Canadians need to ensure against longevity risk (point 7) but the fees that insurance companies charge for these products are too high (point 6).

New York Times columnist and «World is Flat» author Thomas Friedman, makes the point in his that while China is certainly exhibiting signs of over-inflated markets, he wouldn't want to bet against it too soon.

In his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debate:

On this point, it's best to avoid «common knowledge» because the common arguments consumers make against refinancing can be quietly misleading.

The first argument against refinancing goes that it doesn't make sense to refinance unless you're lowering your mortgage rate by one percentage point or more.

XRP is currently at a point where it has the potential to make one of the fastest gains against Bitcoin compared to other cryptocurrencies.

I compared all the ESeries against the equivalent mututal index fund and the normal funds are all one point lower which makes since given the higher MER.

«Competitors are already having a tough time competing against the $ 399 iPad 2 and $ 499 iPad, and we believe lower price point iPads will make it even more difficult.»

CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo has made a point of taking an aggressive stance against fraud and manipulation in virtual currency spot markets, with the agency filing a number of enforcement actions similar to the fraud case against Patrick K. McDonnell.

It is kind of wacky to make a point that a group of people must stop their war against christmas by accepting it.

The outrage comes against those who make provoking statements just for the point of being provocative, see any post by Reality.

This paraphrase is, I know, a parody that is both unfair and unnuanced, but it serves well enough to make the point that to espouse as one's purpose the promotion of the knowledge and love of God is, in our time, an act that runs against both theological fashion and the spirit of the age.

Those who make a point of hurling invectives against others» religions need to chill out.

There are plenty of sound points to make against gun control.

De Chardin made two important points: firstly that the science of man seems to come out decisively in favour of monophyletism and secondly that any decision for or against monogenism must ultimately elude science in view of the depth of time that has elapsed since the creation of man.

I believe you could probably make some good points against what you think are my faults.

To check the loss of zeal in the churches and to assure a common point of view over against growing opposition, an attempt was made to furnish a careful check on the pastors and congregations.

To be honest Dennis, I have nothing against you as a person, but your thinking is faulty to the point where to you the cracks are made to appear as part of the structure.

But on this point we make a stand about what is theologically and pastorally helpful: do we ignore the meaning of Jesus» warnings against darkness and delight in the question mark, or do we let His love of the light impact our theological method and pastoral instinct?

Sherburne tends, in his argument against regional inclusion, to quote passages in which Whitehead is making the point that when the region of an actual occasion is divided the subregions correspond to its physical feelings but that these physical feelings are not actual occasions capable of independent existence.

Even if at this point God in heaven and all his angels were to offer to help him out of it — no, now he doesn't want it, now it is too late, he once would have given everything to be rid of this torment but was made to wait, now that's all past, now he would rather rage against everything, he, the one man in the whole of existence who is the most unjustly treated, to whom it is especially important to have his torment at hand, important that no one should take it from him — for thus he can convince himself that he is in the right.

Why could they not focus on the graduation of students without feeling the need to be intrusive and over-bearing with their religious views to the point that a legal case could be made against them?

Some years ago Horst Symanowski made this same point (against a more secular and more hopeful background) when he declared that people do not lie awake anymore worrying about Luther's question, How can I find a gracious God?

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

Congrats, you have once again shown your intellectual dishonesty and inability to actually address points that are made against you.

The only point Bultmann can make against philosophy is that the New Testament bears witness to a fact which (presumably) could not be produced from a Socratic understanding of Being or transposed into that understanding.

You've successfully refuted your position that «morality is relative» just by arguing against the points I've made.

But he makes the point that this only modifies what Darwin proposed, and he also argues against creationism.

You make several points, and they try to argue against one little part as if it somehow made the hard questions go away.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

While all of these factors will not operate equally on every level, a combination of one or more will be found at work on each of three levels: (1) factors which make one vulnerable to alcoholism; (2) factors which determine the selection of alcoholism as a symptom, as over against all the other types of psychopathological symptoms; and (3) factors which cause alcoholism to be self - perpetuating once it has reached a certain point.

But my hope is that every Christian who has decided to vote for Trump has, at some point, spoken out against his comments regarding sexual assault, immigrants, women, and additional issues that defile all people who are made in the image of God.

Let us consider what objections might be made against our argument to this point.