Sentences with phrase «opposing sides of this argument»

Napster co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to sell first - run movies to home viewers at $ 50 a pop has stirred up various corners of Hollywood, with big movie studios and theater chains up in arms over the Screening Room idea while multiple major filmmakers have landed on opposing sides of the argument.

I may be a Christian but one can always admire someone from the opposing side of the argument and I've always enjoyed reading your posts and admire your grammatical enforcement.

Following a recent discussion on the Uber Entertainment forums around whether the use of mods in competitive play was fair or not, we invited two Uber league players on opposing sides of the argument to share their thoughts.

Not exact matches

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

Our objection would be that the Catholic side of the argument in section 3, on marriage and family life, is woefully inadequate, and that the non-Catholic side is presented with unacknowledged quasi-relativist assumptions which are profoundly opposed to Catholic thinking and formation.

It was an appropriate conclusion to a genial evening in which the Catholic side, while largely failing to engage directly with opposing arguments, presented its vision much more coherently than in the Intelligence Squared debate of last November.

The strawman would be creating an argument of an opposing side that didn't exist prior to it and using that as a launching point for your argument.

But on top of that its a great educational opportunity to take a real life issue that effects them and get the kids to research the two sides of the issue, present the opposing arguments and develop a recommendation.

«It is the case in Oxford and Cambridge Union debating contests that the competitors are given one side of the argument to debate blind, and so may have to argue a case they oppose, as I remember from my own first year efforts at Oxford» What a curious remark to make!

In this session children take on roles on opposing sides of the deforestation argument.

We've been quietly bemused when two opposing sides of a major education policy debate have cited the same Toolkit strand to back their arguments.

While I definitely understand your side of the argument pertaining to how those fees pay for the operation of the banks, the part that makes me an angry customer is how those fees are targeted to the bottom 80 percent of the class as opposed to the top 1 percent.

I seem to find myself on the opposing side of a lot of arguments.

For a great overview of both sides of the argument (framed around the biofuels industry), I recommend you look at two Green Inc. posts framing the debate, one today on the industry point of view that intensified agriculture can cut land use, and one from last week on the opposing view.

They falsely cast the debate as opposed sides, without any nuance of argument or position.

Given that people on Brulle's side of the Global Warming / Climate Change argument have been making false claims for decades — for example, that New York and Washington would be under water by the year 20004 — and given that the mass media sound daily alarms about the climate threat, the statement in the National Research Council report that «some» information sources are «affected» by campaigns opposed to policies that would limit carbon dioxide emissions is scant foundation for believing a massive conspiracy exists.5

I wouldn't say she is even - handed in her criticism of the opposing sides, and I think she is taking precisely the wrong lesson from her arguments about uncertainty, but she doesn't seem more denier - ish lately to me.

On the other side of the debate, some of those who originally say they oppose a public health insurance option are also persuaded by hearing arguments often made by supporters of the proposal.