Sentences with phrase «of arguments to the contrary»

While the other part is bringing up all sorts of arguments to the contrary, such as «I'm not ready», or «how do I know s / he is the right partner for me?».

The Tribunal has not carried out a detailed analysis of this and is not aware of any challenge to the right to negotiate procedures on this basis, and accepts (in the absence of argument to the contrary) that the Act is not racially discriminatory in its application to the grant of future mining tenements.

Not exact matches

Blanchard's argument runs contrary to decades of monetary policy, but any idea to help prepare for future collapses is at least worth discussing, says Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.

Every person of every faith can make the same argument, and by that logic, it means EVERY god that has ever been posited should be accepted because there is no evidence to the contrary.

I just asked him to consider the fact that there are a great deal more that run contrary to his argument due in part because he has pulled verses out of context.

What ties together Shenk's different arguments is what I call the divine inversion — the many ways in which God acts contrary not merely to physical nature, but to what humans take to be the natural order of things in the social and political world.

My critics reject the argument that the ruling violates the religious liberty rights of Jews and Muslims; they maintain that, on the contrary, infant circumcision violates the rights of children to bodily integrity and religious liberty, since they can not consent to being circumcised.

Despite many interpretive arguments to the contrary, it seems undeniable that Whitehead intended «actuality» (or «actual») to be a proper predication of superjects.

I'm sure that you've seen my logical argument concerning the existence of God / Jesus — and since you didn't provide any evidence to the contrary, you don't have any logical reason to claim that God doesn't exist.

God overrides the standard argument in the minds of the Jews and, in doing so, also acts «contrary to nature.»

People are born into one of many religions and then manipulated using fear and guilt to not only believe everything that is told to them but to completely avoid all rational arguments contrary to it.

If you say that you believe in spite of all the evidence to the contrary and simply have faith there's really no argument for that.

The elder Hartshorne concluded that Huxley, who argued that Genesis is contrary to non-evolutionary science, «had all the best of the argument» (Darkness 192).

In both contexts, therefore, faith must necessarily begin as recognition: recognition that Jesus does, in fact, have the authority to forgive sins, and recognition that the exorcisms are, indeed, a manifestation of the Kingdom of God, all possible arguments to the contrary notwithstanding.

again, that only strengthens my point: the core teaching of the Bible is virtually unanimously affirmed by over 2 billion — a practical fact directly contrary to your argument.

One argument Reid advances is that the bill favors the religious beliefs of Native Americans over the interests of public collections and therefore runs contrary to the First Amendment's no - establishment - of - religion clause.

Even on the level of man your argument breaks down because you limit God to operating in our time line which is contrary to Biblical representations.

Put differently, the implication of Russell's argument, despite his own views to the contrary, is this: in order to talk sense about sexuality, you must have a determinative view of the family and marriage.

Argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or «appeal to ignorance» (where «ignorance» stands for: «lack of evidence to the contrary»), is a fallacy in informal logic.

The argument is only that, contrary to idle speculation perhaps, religious pluralism is not just another aspect of social differentiation but is, if anything, inimical to societal complexity.

Here's an excerpt of the Judge's decision: «A significant aspect of the IDM [intelligent design movement] is that despite Defendants» protestations to the contrary, it describes ID as a religious argument.

While our American sports fans have asserted on numerous, unceasing occasions that the best athletes in the U.S. would have become elite football players, the latest evidence to the contrary (courtesy of NBA megastar LeBron James) could very well put that argument to rest.

Utah's ban on gay marriage harms the children of gays and lesbians, despite arguments the state has made to the contrary, according to an amicus brief filed Tuesday by a group of national and state gay rights organizations.

«For the Niger Delta and the Nation in general, the advantages of having the University far outweigh every argument to the contrary.

Contrary to the arguments of those who peddle soft justice, the approach of longer sentencing is also best for the offender.

«Contrary to the defendant's argument that his crime was victimless,» the U.S. attorney's office added, «the people of the State of New York are victims whenever, as here, an elected official abuses the trust the public placed in him by accepting secret payoffs from lobbyists and by covering up his conduct.»

«One of the arguments that we hear quite often is that with two year terms legislators are running for reelection and with four - year terms they can concentrate more on their legislative duties, but actually this argument runs contrary to facts,» Niebel said.

Put simply, contrary to the arguments of many White Democrats (as well as pundits such as Jonathan Chait of New York, Frank Bruni of the New York Times and academic Mark Lilla), focusing on the efforts of Black, Latino, immigrant, and low - income communities for economic, social and political equality (which has often been derisively called «identity politics»), is critical to Democrat success in winning elections as well as in winning support from younger voters who are also concerned about these matters.

Contrary to the arguments of some conservative reformers, focusing on achievement gaps even helps White middle class children by improving the quality of teaching, curricula and school environments all students experience.

Contrary to the arguments of those opposed to school choice, the result of students departing is generally an increased sum of money (per capita) for those students remaining in the public school.

Contrary to the arguments of some, we find that school choice programs, such as Education Scholarship Accounts and Tax Credit Scholarships, do not harm public schools for the benefit of private schools.

Contrary to Moskowitz's arguments, suspensions rarely help kids understand how their behaviors affect their schoolmates and the cultures of the schools they attend.

Contrary to the arguments of some traditionalists and erstwhile reformers, testing provides the data needed for improving student achievement.

Yet contrary to Firestone's arguments and that of his fellow - travelers, Paul's filibuster is a great example of democratic republicanism in action.

In fact, contrary to some of the arguments Jay P. Greene posits today on his eponymous blog, the Gates Foundation, along with other donors, have actually been successful in building the public case for reform.

Contrary to the longstanding argument by some that states are laboratories of democracy in which innovation is the norm, legislators and governors often duplicate efforts undertaken by counterparts elsewhere.

Contrary to the arguments of traditionalists, this is not a problem that can be blamed either on diversity or poverty myths.

But for the sake of argument, let's posit that Macmillan has in fact acted contrary to my interests as one of their authors.

Also, in spite of industry interviews to the contrary, it appears that EA learned basically nothing from the Star Wars Battlefront II fiasco that drove the ancient lockboxes - are - gambling argument out of weary corners of the online gaming market and into mainstream politics.

Contrary to your expectations, I'm pretty sure no one knows why you quoted the Terms of Service, it certainly doesn't support your argument.

That would be to set themselves up as precisely the sort of argument - ad - verecundiam «Authority» that they were set up to demolish, and would be contrary to their scientific principles.

So, polite and searching «criticism» overt and subtle, of other scientists, organisations and papers, is probably long overdue, but it needs to be backed up by a rational argument, and too often scientists seem afraid of stating a «contrary» position to the status quo.

My sense is she's wholly embraced the cause in an Oreskean kind of way, which holds that the dangers are so great that we shouldn't even keep our minds open to contrary arguments..

Despite decades of research and thousands of peer - reviewed publications to the contrary, AFP rigidly adheres to the denialist arguments that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities pose no significant danger to Americans — or the rest of the planet.

This leaves them in a position where any contrary piece of evidence or any contrary piece of research becomes a personal threat, needed to be defended against, thus making them totally immune to any argument contrary to their own position.

According to this logic, anybody who has any sympathy with any sort of contrary argument, if they aren't part of the organised conspiracy to «distort the science», have been brainwashed by it.

Despite Peabody's arguments to the contrary, they are convinced that additional access to coal on the international market would in fact increase consumption of the carbon - intensive fuel in Asia.

Argument from ignorance (Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance stands for «lack of evidence to the contrary»), is a fallacy in informal logic.

Contrary to Humans The argument here is that technology separates us from nature, which puts us out of touch with nature and makes us behave selfishly and maybe stupidly.

New York has decided the external costs of dirty energy makes clean energy compelling, despite arguments to the contrary.