Sentences with phrase «more obscure reason»

But her confirmation will also prove historic for another, more obscure reason.

Not exact matches

DO the math, more people have been killed or died in the name of some obscure god or religion than any other single reason in the recorded history of mankind.

As the divine right monarchy came increasingly in the eighteenth century to defend its positions on the grounds of administrative reason and enlightened reform, the discourse of those resisting its rule also relied less on traditional religious appeals and more on secular ones, but the religious roots of all sides of the political and social debate were only obscured, never severed.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

The «news» that a referendum with more options would be preferable is hardly news at all, and to a degree risks obscuring this reason for supporting AV.

Nevertheless, Cox and his colleagues press on, for the same reasons that researchers flocked to Guam in the 1950s: If BMAA exposure accounts for at least some of the most devastating neurological disorders, learning more about this obscure compound could have huge implications for understanding the underlying disease.

There may be very real reasons you're not getting the dates you hoped for — some obvious, others more obscure.

Prey for Rock & Roll never gets much more clever than the homonym of its title: you want it, it eats you up — and through it all there's glaring musical evidence that Clam Dandy is obscure and unsuccessful for a reason.

Since education clauses provide little textual substance, it is unsurprising that their analysis by courts is occasionally nothing more than a bald assertion obscured by fallacious reasoning.

Now, that being said, if you're writing about an extremely obscure subject that you don't know much about and that there is much information available for, than having lots of words means you'll have a lot more «fluff» in the content than valuable content, which is another reason your word count is so important.

Here are just a few of the reasons, with some obvious and others a bit more obscure.