Sentences with phrase «more than the assertion»

It takes a lot more than assertions one way or another to libel the likes of us.

It is no more than the assertion of what has to be demonstrated, based, of course, on the plain empirical fact that I am aware of myself.

To call what the Court has done, from Dred Scott to Lochner to Roe, «natural law reasoning» is to confer unwarranted dignity on a series of results resting on nothing more than assertion.

This breathtakingly simplistic analysis amounts to little more than the assertion that clever, open - minded people voted to Remain whereas stupid, backward people voted to Leave.

We need an evidence base which is grounded in more than assertion.

Catlett's mobilizations of desire become more than assertion, belief, need and hope.

Elizabeth Catlett's art cries out in protest, proclaims solidarity, celebrates survival.i Catlett's mobilizations of desire become more than assertion, belief, need and hope.

Until you post a citation, your statement is nothing more than an assertion.

Could provide evidence - more than this assertion by yourself or others?

Her argument in respect of the «dishonest case» amounted to no more than an assertion that she would not be able to put or prove her case.

Not exact matches

And all of them argue that the proposed tax cuts, estimated to reduce federal revenue by more than $ 1.4 trillion, won't increase federal deficits, an assertion that's been contradicted by Congress's official tax scorekeeper.

But then, newspapers have often been more than happy to print ridiculous assertions by their favorite politicians, so that's not really anything new.

While the Fed certainly considers much more than the superficial headline number in its analysis of inflation, some of those who interpret the Fed's actions make this overly simplistic assertion: Inflation is too low today and therefore justifies the maintenance of low policy rates.

It is more like: «Look, I don't know if you're a pyramid scheme or what, but some people think you are, so I want my money back,» which is less an assertion of fraud on Herbalife's part than it is an assertion of red - blooded American litigiousness on the plaintiffs» part.

Thus my assertion at the top, that the story of how Microsoft came to accept the reality of Windows» decline is more interesting than the fact of Windows» decline; this is how CEO Satya Nadella convinced the company to accept the obvious.

The assertion that the gold price has been successfully manipulated downward over a great many years via the relentless selling of «paper gold» contains more than a few logical and factual holes.

The assertion that God had no beginning is no more plausible than the universe had no beginning.

Ironically, the assertion of «all truth is God's truth» creates more questions than answers.

Hardly anyone would dispute the proposition that morals are more important than mere manners, and the assertion that etiquette can and should be jettisoned for a higher good is commonly made and accepted in everyday life.

Hardly anyone would dispute the proposition that morals are more important than mere manners, and the assertion that etiquette can and should be jettisoned for a higher good is commonly made and accepted in....

Of my original assertions, none encountered more uncompromising rejection than did my claims concerning the rationality of the Christian faith in God's revelation.

Furthermore, Whitehead's famous assertion that «in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true» (PR 395f) applies exactly here.

Live, you don't suppose that the sophisticated weaponry that has been designed in the last 50 years may have more to do with it than your assertion that each and every one of these shootings were caused by prayer being taken of schools?

I used that as an illustration to your assertion that there is no way to prove being born gay is a choice, because it is not, any more than there is any way to prove that being born hetero is a choice.

While I'm more of an atheist than anything else and respect Mr. Hawking's vast knowledge of the sciences and believe he's probably correct in his assertions I also believe that NO ONE really knows what's in store for us after death... most likely nothing at all since that's what makes sense to me, but all the brains in our world put together don't really know for sure.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

Won't that carry more weight than blurting out assertions devoid of reference?

Responding to my assertion that twenty - something evangelicals are more interested in championing adoption and taking in single moms than protesting at abortion clinics, pastor and blogger Daniel Darlingwrote:

One of these classic insights was his assertion that more than anything else, adults need to work and to love (Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood, by N. J. Smelser and E. Erikson [Harvard University Press]-RRB-.

The type of atheists, like most on this post, that continue with the ridiculous assertion that there can be nothing greater than us that exists above or outside of our little physical realm, are simply either intellectually stunted individuals, or more likely, bitter people who have gotten their panties in a bunch because some religious text contains some apparent condemnation of their lifestyle.

Equally pointless and unprovably is the assertion by religionists that atheists killed more than Christians.

HG Wells How is the atheist position any more negative than the assertion that good people may still be tortured for eternity just because they didn't worship a particular god?

In truth, you're an arrogant, self - important, puffed up worthless jerk who thinks he knows it all and who would do more harm than good with your arrogant assertions that basically say, «yall listen to me because I'm the greatest... I was there when the world was created so bow down to me!!!»

He saw it more as the undefined energies of the universe, than any ent!ty, so I have no idea where you are getting you assertions, but since there is nothing of substance to refute, well just leave it at this.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

Scholars honor tentativeness more than certainty, and skill in criticism and analysis more than confident assertion.

As a woman who's been around church for more than 50 years I absolutely agree with your assertion and all 10 points.

But anathemas and condemnations are more than personal insults; they are assertions of a doctrinal identity that marks one group off from another in a division between right belief and heresy.

So all you have is more empty platitudes, assertions, and reiterations rather than actually demonstrating anything you say is even likely to be true.

One way, certainly, of making the claim for the extraordinary significance of Hartshorne's work for Christian theology is to say that he has done more than any other thinker on the scene to clarify, if not to solve, the problems raised by both parts of this assertion.

I don't know of a more profoundly failed position, or a more poorly defended one, than the assertion that a particular God is real, alive, and intimately involved in the lives of people.

On the contrary, they are as clearly differentiated from science as we take them to be, precisely because they spring from an interest or concern that is more than merely empirical and because the assertions they typically make or imply are not subject to any strictly empirical mode of verification.

I have no wish to cut off the traditional christological assertions any more than Luther or Schleiermacher did.

We may argue over that assertion, but still accept the point that students, teachers, and administrators at religious institutions respect the humanities much more than those at elite colleges and research universities do.

Felix, I'm not sure there was assertion that only Christians voted for GW Bush, rather merely that the Christians who did vote for GW Bush tend to wear their religion on the sleaves and push their agenda more so than others.

There may well be earlier theological reflections on Paul's assertion that God's weakness is more powerful than what we typically understand as power, but I have not surfaced them.

Though a middle way has intuitive appeal, Browning's own thought remains eclectic, more a set of assertions about what he likes and does not like than the formulation of a cogent position.

What is typically Jewish in this series of assertions is the rejection of the more - than - human.

This assertion by the Apostle Paul possessed considerable more poignancy for antebellum Americans than for us because, whereas they lived in death's presence, we have largely banished it from ours, making the good news seem not quite as good.

What irritates me more than anything is the ill - educated assertion that there is no proof.