Sentences with phrase «old arguments of the past»

We are focused on using the powers of our Scottish Parliament to invest in the future, rather than re-running the old arguments of the past.

Not exact matches

I sometimes find myself in the comic position of publicly debating liberal Catholics and suddenly realizing that they are consorting with the old liberal Protestant strumpets of my seedy past, while I am setting forth their own traditional arguments from their magisterium.

Moreover, if the argument from synchrony is to decide, what is to be done with the fact that the religious age par excellence would seem to be old age, when the uproar of the sexual life is past?

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.

Does this website need perspective — you keep regurgitating the same old argument for the sake of clicks — or am I just stuck in the past?

Honestly, when one of the debates in the film turns into an all - out brawl because one candidate brings up a story the other wrote when the opponent was 8 years old and calls it his «Communist manifesto» (See, one character in the story gives a pot of gold to a leprechaun, and that, according to the first candidate, is an example of his foe's innate belief in the redistribution of wealth), we're laughing in part because we've heard arguments of this variety before and with seemingly more frequency in the past few years.

I don't think the verification or otherwise of 15 year old predictions should be counted as a major argument in favour (at the same time, I don't think that the skeptics assertions that past GCMs have been hopelessly wrong are worth anything).

There will be all sorts of old arguments that you may be tempted to bring up, but try not to let past events interfere.