Sentences with phrase «opinions on both sides of the argument»

Any discussion about life insurance as an investment after you retire is certain to draw strong opinions on both sides of the argument.

Not exact matches

It means deciding what one believes not by conforming to fashionable opinions, but by taking the trouble to learn and honestly consider the strongest arguments to be advanced on both or all sides of questions — including arguments for positions that others revile and want to stigmatize and against positions others seek to immunize from critical scrutiny.»

Opinion on whether HS2 is a good or bad idea is divided to say the very least, and I don't propose to go into the arguments here although for the sake of full disclosure, I'm on the side of the antis, but it did annoy me that many people who were protesting that it would have a devastating effect on their lives were waved away with the flick of a railway engineer's hand.

The arguments surrounding global warming have become so polarised that in my opinion there is no longer a genuine attempt to get to the truth through orignial research, but simply a process of point scoring by either side going on.

I don't speak much about the topic because opinions are so strong on every side of the argument.

In addition, in your argumentative essay papers on privacy rights you need to analyze both sides of the argument but eventually lead the reader to accept your opinion on the issue.

I've been reading a number of opinions on both sides, both of which have arguments of merit.

I think, had Exxon continued in that role, there might not be such a cacophony of anti-climate arguments that are ongoing now because there would have been somebody at the table who came from the side of fossil fuel use and would have been shown to be a leader in terms of the science and this was their reasoned opinion as to what was going on.

In my opinion the discovery process of a court case would be illuminating, because we would finally get to see all the data on both sides of the argument.

I didn't find my opinions changed, but I did find that there are wildy varying opinions presented as fact on both sides of the argument.

I'm not convinced about the other side of his argument — an overemphasis on CO2 in the policy guides — but, irrespective of your opinion of his political inclinations, it is important to give due respect to someone who argues outside the box, dares to challenge convention and has the courage to be unfashionable.

Let's not pre-judge anyone prior to their having a chance to hear different sides of the discussion, but give speakers the benefit of the doubt for having honest conviction and opinion and remaining open minded enough to consider argument on its merits.

I'm usually able to see both sides of an argument, but here, honestly, I just can not understand the logic of the other side given the pervasive utilization in the legal profession of junior colleagues to write judicial opinions, briefs, motions, articles, letters, etc. on which senior folks sign off.

While most of the curriculum at Harvard during this time consisted of lecture and student recitation, skills development was also provided in the form of weekly moot courts, during which students argued questions of law before professors and submitted occasional written disputations on legal subjects.121 Although Stearns had previously used moot courts in his teaching at Harvard, Story and Ashmun refined them.122 Cases were handed out the week before argument, and two counsel were assigned to each side.123 The cases would then be argued the next Friday, with the other students taking notes of the argument; the professor in charge that week would issue a written opinion.124

Did CJ Roberts» vote for defendant Cunningham at the Justices» private conference right after oral argument and then assign the opinion Justice Ginsburg OR was CJ Roberts» initially with the dissent until he saw that the majority opinion had the weight of nearly all recent precedents on its side?