Sentences with phrase «moved by an argument»

Heather Dietrick, Gawker's president and general counsel, presented a more hopeful view of the case to Capital, and suggested that the Florida jury would be moved by their argument that Hogan had turned his own sex life into a public spectacle long before Gawker published this tape.

I might be moved by an argument that appealed to our national honor.

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The bureau isn't moved by any of these arguments, saying that if brokers already give out the data in print, it's in the public domain.

Even the people who I spoke to who disagreed were intrigued and moved by the eco-systemic argument,» Hanauer said in the email.

(This is organizationally verified by United Methodist agencies» maintaining membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice [RCRC], a political lobby that defends and advances all abortion rights, and that opposes all moral arguments, political moves, and legal decisions against abortion.

As a participant in that 1998 Ramsey Colloquium, a longtime supporter of the cautious use of rights language, and a frequent critic of its misuses, I was moved by Reno's arguments to ponder whether the noble post — World War II universal human - rights idea has finally been so manipulated and politicized as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good will.

«Maybe Hispanic Catholics were not as moved by religious liberty - type arguments as by immigration and economics,» he said.

I am amazed by the Son of God, and His encouragement to move to the higher arguments.

In these arguments the move from data consisting of Biblical texts construed in a certain way to conclusions concerning what truly is a tenet in some Biblical theology is warranted by process hermeneutics, strictly understood, i.e., a process theory of understanding.

For one, it easily moves from a bracketing of religion for the sake of argument to a faulty view of religion as private by definition.

In his encyclical Paul VI moved the Catholic Church away from the traditional natural law arguments (contrary to Harold O. J. Brown's assertion) that were based on an «objective» teleology, i.e., one that emphasizes the causal link between sex and procreation (as suggested by J. Budziszewski) or the natural law arguments by design (as asserted by Eric Chevlen).

My argument will be that Whitehead's move from Trend I to Trend II does not involve arbitrariness, that on the contrary this move is not only entirely coherent, but that it is indeed necessitated by the basis upon which he proceeded in Trend I.

We move quickly to arguments that express views that have been shaped by other forces and only subsequently grounded in theology.

His argument for «building constituencies for change» is a plea to move beyond the intervention mode that passes for «international cooperation,» beyond the patronizing practices of private aid agencies driven by business competition rather than by civil constituencies and emancipatory agendas shared with others.

Likewise, some of the «unconverted,» perhaps particularly among those with strong religious convictions, may yet be moved by more idealistic arguments for a different sense of what human life as such deserves, the horror of a particular individual's behavior notwithstanding.

Secondly, you are doing the classical Christian Apologetics move by attempting to take a flaw in your position and ask for the other side to make your argument for you.

(CNN)- Opening arguments are scheduled for Monday in Philadelphia in the first case in which an official of a Roman Catholic archdiocese has been accused of protecting abusive priests by moving them from parish to parish.

Odds are, there will be some people at your church will get into a social media argument about such a move by a team they probably don't like and would normally never pay attention to.

This is a decidedly anti-intellectual move, and perhaps the adoption of this anti-intellectualism by modern users of the argument isn't as at - odds with Pascal as I have previously stated...

Metaphysics XII employed a similar argument but relied ultimately on finalcausality: the First Mover moves the universe as the goal of motion: «He moves by being loved.»

Aristotle's argument for a First Mover in Physics VI appealed to efficient causality: a stone is moved by a stick, moved by a hand, moved by the man.

I have not had to appeal to that oldest and best argument for the institution of academic tenure, the unqualified freedom of a scholar to move as his or her research and thinking lead, without being bound by past assumptions or present colleagues.

St Thomas Aquinas wades into the argument by afrming that «divine causality alone can move man's will from within, yet leave it free» (I - II q. 9 a. 6).

By moving the dates back a bit earlier, you could substi.tute Christianity for Islam and have an equally valid argument.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

Alex Donohue of Ladbrokes attempts to make the argument for why the Chilean would make the most acrimonious move possible: «Sanchez wants a capital city club with a winning mentality and now that Spurs are back in the title race, the odds of a sensational switch across the North London divide are shortening by the minute.

That's part of the argument in a recent report by the Citizen Engagement Lab, «Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics.»

Lawmakers led by Senator Simcha Felder, Democrat of Brooklyn, said they were moved by pity for those who need their nickels to buy bread and eggs, two props that Mr. Felder held up to illustrate his argument.

Opponents now make the reasonable argument that if the deal was underpinned by corruption as evidenced by the Percoco conviction, the state must stop the construction and review regulatory decisions in an open manner the steps that allowed the construction to move ahead.

The move was welcomed by campaign groups including Shelter, but others warned that agents and landlords could pass on the expenses in the form of higher rents — an argument advanced, notably, by the housing minister Gavin Barwell in September.

Ken Thompson also dismissed arguments that the move by government would have ultimately helped in reducing the cost of borrowing in the country as it increased money supply in the system, «The only way that the government can reduce the cost of borrowing is to cut down on expenditure.

The biggest argument against such a move is that voters are looking for the minority party to stand against what they believe to be President Obama's wrong - headed agenda rather than offer an entire alternative set of policies and, by unifying behind a «Contract», Republicans will be handing Democrats something to shoot at this fall.

There are economic gains to be made by moving to clean energy, which should convince the people who are not convinced by the climate arguments, or the clean air arguments, or the national security arguments.

By holding their limbs directly beneath their bodies, the argument went, dinosaurs would have moved faster and more efficiently than the cousins of crocodiles and relatives of early mammals that also lived at the time.

In the last two months, February and March 2018, multiple climate change accountability lawsuits moved forward: the New York Attorney General's argument against Exxon was bolstered by the Second Circuit Citizen's United decision, the Federal Government's writ of mandamus was rejected in favor of the...

We believe that the standfirst of this piece, which states that the author «takes issue with some common misconceptions about how ice - sheets move, and doubts many pronouncements about the «collapse» of the planet's ice sheets» misleads the reader by assuming that Ollier's arguments are correct.

Like many people, my anxiety is often triggered by an unsettling life event, such as a big move or an argument with someone I'm close to.

The fights themselves (choreographed by Sammo Hung, another director with an argument for being considered New Wave) are modernized as well, shot in a grainy, up - close, constantly moving style, smearing the action into a blur of dust and costume and blood.

This article aims at highlighting the arguments in favor of an admin - centered training approach, how the current challenges of a traditional Learning Management System can be overcome by moving the shift towards an admin - driven approach of conducting training programs:

The argument that all students need to be ready for college has its supporters, fueled in no small part by a certain guy who moved into that big white house on Pennsylvania Avenue earlier this year.

Moving students from a belief in the limits of intelligence can counter the argument for tracking by increasing academic achievement for all students, including high needs subgroups.

Rubio's move (based on an argument disproved both by Dropout Nation and other outlets) resulted in DeVos placing review of the guidance under the school safety commission (which will consist of not one expert on school safety and will only include three of her fellow cabinet secretaries in the Trump regime).

Throughout the science curriculum, students will move through the inquiry process by asking questions, using tools, developing models, carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, developing evidence - based arguments and using skills such as reading, writing, and math to explore science concepts.

Because many readings still need to be confirmed by looking at one's smartphone, the argument to move all functionality to a smartwatch is becoming increasingly compelling, requiring a robust, flexible display that adapts well to a variety of temperatures and environments.

Her ideas and arguments «move along,» propelled by birds that do not fly, banjos that do not play, ships that do not sail, cotton that does not grow, and servants who do not serve.

My initial reaction, after reviewing arguments by the agency and environmental and sport - fishing groups, is that this move is far too little, considering the plight of the Atlantic bluefin, which is slow to mature and reproduce and thus particularly vulnerable.

Indeed, it need not allege anything negative against its target, and it might even praise its target («my opponent is an admirably sensitive soul, who is clearly so moved by compassion for suffering that you should reject his arguments as motivated by emotion, not reason»).

Open discussion informed by moral argument and the best of our developing knowledge is the only responsible way to move forward.

Please understand that by creating a catch - all label like this, you quite literally are moving the entire discussion outside of the realm of science, where evidence and arguments are considered and weighed independent of the humans that advance them, where our desire to see one or another result proven are (or should be) irrelevant, where people weigh the difficulty of the problem being addressed as an important contributor (in a Bayesian sense) to how much we should believe any answer proposed — so far, into the realm where people do not think at all!

Newton famously destroyed their work at every opportunity, and renovating ancient Bernoulli arguments that the planets move by the action of vortices in quintessence may not be the way a serious scientist would want to go.