Sentences with phrase «of argument pointing»

Not exact matches

He's since pointed out that the popular understanding of this maxim is generally oversimplified, but that doesn't undermine the essence of the argument — sustained effort over time is a hallmark of greatness.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

The twins» argument is that people are missing the point when they try to think of cryptocurrencies in terms of person - to - person transactions.

Now, you may or may not find that to be a persuasive argument about the state of income inequality in Canada — as our own Chris MacDonald has pointed out, determining the fairness of CEO pay is more complicated than it seems.

«Retailers should brace for a backlash... The more people rely on these points and closer they are to value, the more an argument for lots of notice and some rules about convertibility sound sensible.»

The worry is that businesses exposed to such arguments will come to think of ethics from a purely instrumental point of view: we'll act ethically only because, and only to the extent, that it's good for profits.

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.

Perhaps Facebook simply sees China's side of this argument, and has adopted their point of view in the hopes of one day finding big profits in Asia's largest market.

For me, though I learned a lot in college, the skill I continue to use on a daily basis in my consulting business is the ability to look at my own argument or point of view and examine why someone else might have a different perspective.

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.

Some conservatives tried to fight back against Trump, pleading with their audiences to see what they contended to be the rational point of view, but their arguments seemed to go unheard.

from the Bitcoin world (which had a monumental impact on the community and signaled the «blowing up» point of this argument), he initiated the Bitcoin XT hard fork for the following reasons:

My argument is that a significant part of the strong productivity performance in the two decades before the crisis was due to globalization, and that the globalization process may have brought trade in the global economy to a new balancing point.

The one major point in favor of your argument that you didn't highlight is that most people using a Roth IRA assume that they'll make more money in the future than they do today, thus realizing a lower tax rate by paying taxes now than they would have in the future (even assuming tax rates stay constant).

«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.

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.

The argument a tech company lawyer might offer, namely that consent has been given through a pop - up form filled with paragraph after paragraph of 6 - point - size legalese is, frankly, bullshit.

The point being if you have other sources of support you don't «need» to rely on SS so much, or at least I suspect that will be the argument put forward.

The cost of being a fiduciary will be passed on to investors: This argument might have been true at one point..

In the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the world.

The government counters this argument by pointing out that businesses with an annual income of $ 150,000 CAD would be impacted the most.

In support of this second point, the President has pointed to overall declines in total Post Office revenue (an argument analysts are quick to counter — revenue in the Post Office's shipping and packages segment continues to grow).

The argument is that individuals could opt out of Ripple at some point when they do not want anything to do with financial institutions and banks and instead turn towards one on one dealings without the need for intermediaries.

«Part of our Sector Weight thesis longer term has been the view that at some point, investors might start to care that a significant portion... of the company's gross profit pool was no longer growing, and so while investors largely care about Model 3 for the moment, that S / X continue to point toward these trends makes multiple expansion arguments more challenging,» analysts Elliot Arnson and Brad Erickson said in a Wednesday note.

As my colleague Dylan Matthews points out, it's a bit of a strange argument, because even if a new NAFTA boosted US economic growth, funds for the wall would still come from US taxpayers.

The main argument for evergreen funding for new ventures are the cautionary tales of startups that grew too fast and quickly outpaced their business model to the point that a profitable business on one scale becomes a ruined venture on the larger scale.

Khan's arguments make the point that the public interest is missing from traditional consideration of antitrust.

The problem, for Aristophanes, is that there's no argument against incest from the point of view of pure reason that works on the individual level.

While the book has weak points — most notably regarding Isaac Backus, the 18th - century baptist minister and author of the important treatise Government and Liberty Described and Ecclesiastical Tyranny Exposed (1778)-- who appears and then disappears without much clarity on how he fits the argument — it is generally an incisive interpretation.

I'll give the main points of her argument:

------- Trey, I am very aware of you arguments, and capable of counter points.

but in attempting to make that large number seem problematic, you actually both defeated your other argument (about its irrelevance and lack of pervasiveness) while also unintentionally pointing out the very opposite of the point you were attempting to make — the primary unity underlying a vast & varied swath of people.

Ginger A., All 3 of your points are irrelevant to the argument.

I became one of those aggressive seven point Calvinists that argued for argument's sake.

When some asshat like you, just sayin, HeavenSent, Bob, etc. make blanket statements and refuse to respond to corrections, criticisms, or valid points refuting those statements, then there is no point in bringing up any kind of argument.

That is because the argument I'm making at his point in time is not for Christianity, but rather for the existence of the supernatural and the existence of God.

She does not address or refute the underlying arguments of her opposition at any point in this whole article!

I also don't think I need to point out to you that using only part of a definition fundamentally changes the word and definition itself, so to take only parts out to prove what atheism does do as «religious» is flawed and destroys your argument.

During the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, we non-Catholics arguing moral theology could point to learned and compelling arguments coming out of Rome and say, in effect, «The oldest and largest part of the Body of Christ agrees with us, and it does so with remarkable sophistication.»

Over the years, Derr has demonstrated an almost heroic patience in attending to the literature of radical environmentalism, and responding to arguments point by point.

Lincoln exploded this as preposterous, demonstrating their behavior's incompatibility with the Constitution, pointing out that if they really wanted to claim revolutionary grounds for action, they should have the courage to make that argument instead, and resting his own argument on the principles of the Declaration.

I would like to point out that those from both sides of the argument on belief have one similarity... the lack of tolerance.

Yes I know this will happen because I have been through these arguments time and time again and when I pull out my Bible that people claim to have read and match it to the scientific evidence that points very clearly to the validity and truth of the Bible they shut up and don't want to hear it.

You're points are invalid; Gar marriage is not won, it's a waste of time in our political system but it's not a battle or argument that has been won or lost.

You raise a very good point that escapes most theists and that is while they argue against atheists for not believing in their god, they forget that most of those arguments could be applied to them by somebody of another religion.

Your argument is the same as pointing out any one person didn't believe in Christ as the son of God.

«Perhaps the most powerful of the pro-choice arguments,» Ms. Crandall points out, was that illegality of abortion would leave America in «the dark ages when thousands of women died because of unsafe, back - alley abortions — between five thousand and ten thousand a year was the figure usually given» in the 1970s.

for lack of good talking points, you concoct 2 straw men arguments.

What is the point of your argument?

A computer no more remembers the files stored in it than the paper and print of this book remember my argument to this point.»