Sentences with phrase «on rhetorical»

The environment Heated but hollow Congress embarks on a rhetorical debate about greenhouse gases

The way the question is phrased, it boarders on rhetorical.

Occasionally you'll lob in a question, but then her answer will spark a funny memory so you find yourself off again on a rhetorical mission.

Bukola Ajisola, Victoria Island, Lagos State, [email protected]: The National Assembly comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives, constitutionally empowered to make laws and perform oversight functions, is gradually morphing into a dictatorial Frankenstein where members are gagged on rhetorical and omnibus House Rules.

If you judged on rhetorical skill, the number of points made or the willingness to engage one's opponent, the Christian would surely have won (as much as one can «win» a never - ending debate).

On the rhetorical plane, no textual irregularities that suggest, and eventually prove, the existence of one or many insertions, such as digressions, unwarranted topical shifts, or grammatical irregularities, appear in Process 40.

In my SBL presidential address and in my convocation address when beginning my tenure at Harvard Divinity School, I argued that theological disciplines and institutions must explicitly reflect on their rhetorical, public, sociopolitical functions.

If Kloster wishes to enter the lists of the culture wars flying the guidon of metaphysics on his rhetorical lance, well, good luck to him.

Clinton understands, at least on a rhetorical level, that community has a moral dimension, that it demands the recognition of interdependence.

Kennedy's method has been reproduced in a number of books and essays on rhetorical method, and so it has become something of a standard.

But it is difficult to enforce rules on the rhetorical, dangerous even to say what can and can not be said — all the more so in a place that is supposed to represent all of us, even the jerks.

Not exact matches

Secondly, this focus on the middle class isn't an empty rhetorical device but a governing principle for the party as it renews itself.

After Trump signed the order on a Friday night, executives at Starbucks spent the weekend crafting a plan to address employees working in the US and abroad, as well as provide concrete steps beyond rhetorical support for diversity.

Trump has trained his rhetorical fire on the entire tech industry, but he's singled out Apple for a boycott.

Asking a search marketer for his opinion on Google's Quality Score (QS) is pretty much a rhetorical question — we all dislike it.

President Trump's Twitter bombs and rhetorical attacks on what he calls the «worst deal ever made» and his administration's vague and confusing proposals have dismayed Canada, which is now exploring backup options.

On balance, Lighthizer looks like one of the Trump cabinet members who will seek to moderate the new president's more extreme rhetorical positions and channel them through the much - despised mechanisms of the Washington and global establishment.

Her rhetorical style is decidedly not up to Trump's zany standard, but on this day it matched the U.S. president's manner of threat - making that is as ominous as it is vague, and subject to change according to the political whims, or winds.

It went on more or less like this for eight of the first 10 questions: a rhetorical stalemate, or rather a restating of the general positions.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

Ross Douthat had a nice piece recently showing the electoral and rhetorical stupidity of this strategic move on the part of Huntsman's campaign in attacking the base of what conservatives think is important.

Is all rhetorical bud... just trying to show a tiny bit of the Glaring flaws the stone age writers did nt get together on...

The final call in the Gulf resolution for an immediate cease - fire and a demand that the UN be in charge of the settlement — rather muted after the rhetorical fire — was premised on the beliefs that military force could not deal with the crisis, that sanctions could have been and could still be effective, and that the war would have destructive global impact.

That even in the aftermath of serious attacks on the homeland, reasonable American willingness to project power abroad would not be fairly criticized when it inevitably made errors and ran into difficulties, but rather be met with a deliberately - stirred anti-war hysteria of breathtaking rhetorical viciousness.

Add further Arendt's «self - contradictory» statements on major themes, and what one ends up with is an assertion that Arendt is guilty not only of empirical error but also rhetorical calamity.

Your question regarding the most racist schools must be rhetorical because clearly the most racist schools are those that are the «historically» African American schools which still discriminate on the basis of skin color.

His rhetorical question some time back about Mormonism only coming about about in the nineteenth century, some 1,800 years after the Ascension of our Lord is spot on!

Unfortunately the exchange of views is carried on with little attention to underlying assumptions and in a rhetorical mode that leaves no space for compromise.

Mockery, satire and sarcasm aren't simply mean - spirited responses, they're rhetorical weapons in the hands of those on the bottom.

George Kennedy's comment in New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism can be applied to Lincoln and King: «In religious discourse... the premises of argument are usually based on a scriptural authority or personal intuition, enunciated in sacred language.»

Will the black community of tomorrow continue to display the coherence on which King could draw for his rhetorical moment?

This is rhetorical posturing on a grand scale.

The Courage to Be will be enjoyed by many for its spiritual and rhetorical excitements but, divorced from the truth claims, worship, and life of the continuing community of faith, such excitements are but another option on offer in the marketplace of modern spiritualities.

Not for Mantel the rhetorical equivalent of the neighbor woman, bouncing on the fence and squealing.

This heady stuff turns on Montesino's charged rhetorical question: «[These Indians], are they not men?»

Rhetorical criticism of the Bible is nothing new; it can be traced back at least as early as Augustine, but the twentieth century practice of rhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early ChristianRhetorical criticism of the Bible is nothing new; it can be traced back at least as early as Augustine, but the twentieth century practice of rhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early Christianrhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early Christian rhetoric.

Wilhelm Wuellner's article, «Rhetorical Criticism,» in The Postmodern Bible outlines Kennedy's method before it goes on to raise questions about the rhetoric of interpretation itself.

The first is to introduce rhetorical criticism of the Bible by reviewing recent publications on the subject.

Watson also explains the debate over the influence of rhetorical training on Paul, arguing that his letters must be understood in light of their persuasive purposes.

Bateman goes on to show that it is probably unrealistic to think that John, Peter, James, and Jude had special training in the art and skills of rhetorical professional letter writing.

Stripped of the ominous rhetorical overtones with which the author surrounds it, the «strategy of openness» thesis does cast useful light on American motives and purposes.

The literary - rhetorical method of Kenneth Burke will be employed to this end, with special focus on Burke's idea of identification.

Finally, and much as I appreciate rhetorical high spirits, I hope Professor Griffiths will permit me the observation that it really doesn't advance the ongoing debate to suggest that James Turner Johnson is blowing smoke when he explains how James Childress» seminal 1978 article on prima facie duties and the just war tradition jump - started the «presumption against war» trope.

In part, of course, let us recognize this for what it is: a smart rhetorical strategy that gets the reader on his side over against the presumably elitist theologians.

1) Either you haven't shown this to be true or it is a «rhetorical tautology» around a «contingent enti.ty» and means nothing, i.e. if a contingent enti.ty is defined as an enti.ty which is dependent on something else, or has be caused, then by definition there would be no uncaused «contingent enti.ties».

Learning the style of populist rhetoric may make us as (un) popular as Gingrich or Perry seem to be when they wager in their own campaigns on that trope — but at the end of the day it seems to be a rhetorical and literal trap.

This particular blowhardism is a combination of positions on entitlement spending, taxation, military engagement, and purely rhetorical spending cutting radicalism that can't withstand contact with the realities of either the federal budget or public opinion.

I've argued in a few pieces now that this is emblematic of his overall approach to governance (like here)-- a rhetorical insistence on a robust populism but a reflexive tendency to replace any deference to the prudence of common folks with the wisdom of techno - experts.

It doesn't work with FDR's rhetorical invocation of a randomly expanded list of rights, most of which haven't caught on and shouldn't.

Even when on trial for his life, he attempted to use the occasion to bring the Athenians to the truth rather than employing the rhetorical devices by which he could play on their sympathy.