Sentences with phrase «over skeptics of»

Taking Bumblebee back to the 80s is a wise choice that may end up winning over skeptics of the Transformer franchise.

And while the band and director may have had nonbelievers in mind, the film is powerful enough to win over skeptics of the modern worship movement.

Not exact matches

The fact is, says Vitaliy Katsenelson, director of research at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo., and a prominent China skeptic, China's frantic building boom over the past five years not only boosted GDP on paper and put millions to work but also produced a property bubble where neither investors nor developers are likely to ever recover their costs.

In response to a post by a Twitter user which said Musk should provide «some very strong arguments in a well written blog piece to win over the (myself included) skeptics,» the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote: «Movie on the subject coming soon...» Now, why hasn't anyone thought of that before?

Over time, the coalition of left - wing skeptics of the prevailing trade policy regime has developed an increasingly sophisticated critique:

[«While these claims have been made repeatedly over the last century, the truth of the matter is that skeptics and liberal theologians are unable to cite a single piece of solid archaeological evidence in support of their claims.

These were the conversations surrounding the emergence of the canon, says Wright, a process that has been subjected to scrutiny by both Catholic traditionalists, «asserting the supremacy of the church over the Bible,» and by postmodern skeptics, «asserting that the canon itself, and hence the books included in it, were all part of a power play for control within the church.»

I've been interacting a bit here over the past day, and I've only had ONE atheist / skeptic show a glimpse of knowledge on the subject - matter we were discussing (which happened to be biology).

I mean, we skeptics already recognize that the supposedly - universal moralities of the various religions have changed tremendously over time, but people like Christians love to say their morality is universal and unchanging.

The strident attempt to silence the skeptics who question the popular thesis that humans are adversely affecting the earth's climate hit a new high over the past couple of weeks with the release of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project (BEST) report from a group of scientists centered....

Idolatry arbitrarily elevates the worth of objects over ideas and the people who discuss them, and is cited as a bad practice by the bible and its skeptics alike.

Count me among the skeptics about that claim, both a skeptic about whether such inequalities reflect real inequities and a skeptic about whether the vast majority of women anguish over this issue.

There were skeptics at first, but customers were quickly won over by the epic marriage of blueberries, cacao powder, avocado, vanilla extract, hemp seeds, and...

Beckham may not have entirely conquered America, but he won over his share of skeptics in 2011.

«There are a lot of skeptics out there,» said County Executive Mark Poloncarz, as he stepped over chucks of slag and black coke.

Still, there are growing numbers of skeptics, particularly teachers who over the past several years have often seen their state ratings fluctuate from year to year in a complex system that many regard as statistically unstable.

That left the bill's sponsors short of the 216 votes needed, and last night, House Speaker Paul Ryan scheduled a meeting in the Capitol to try to win over skeptics.

The liberal mayor coolly fenced with skeptics during a morning budget hearing, arguing for the necessity of his proposal to raise income taxes to create full - day pre-Kindergarten slots for over 50,000 four - year - olds by this autumn.

Indeed, UKRI can only win over skeptics if it makes decisions transparently and with broad input from stakeholders, says James Wilsdon, a science policy expert at The University of Sheffield.

That two telescopes on opposite sides of the planet observed the same phenomenon won over many skeptics.

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Evolutionary skeptics often point to this kind of abrupt shift — doesn't such rapid change contradict your description of a single master tool kit and slow evolution over long stretches of time?

A leaked draft copy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report (AR5) surfaced earlier this summer and triggered a small tempest among climate bloggers, scientists and skeptics over revelations that a key metric, called the «Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised downward.

That provision — made earlier this year after scientists had charged that some of the science underpinning the project is flawed — has won over some of the last skeptics, including the Sierra Club.

More recent discoveries, particularly in China over the past 15 years, provided a wealth of evidence of feathered dinosaurs that convinced many skeptics.

1) I have no comment on the general extent of pal review, but for sure, the Climate Research / de Freitas case covered by SkS was pal review (I wrote the report that's based on, i.e., Skeptics Prefer Pal Review Over Peer Review: Chris de Freitas, Pat Michaels And Their Pals, 1997 - 2003.

In recent times, climate skeptics have been peddling a lot of nonsense about average temperatures actually cooling over the last decade.

Over the years, the legitimacy of some of his achievements has been questioned by the modern skeptics (such as his 1.200 pound squat that inspires fierce debates to this very day), but the numbers below come from official competitions:

So, before you turn down the idea of tofu chocolate mousse (or worry your vegan skeptic friends will feel betrayed to hear they're eating a tofu dessert) serve them this chocolate tart and watch as they fight over the last piece.

At first, I was a skeptic but I think only because of my shoe size (size 10 over here!)

It's unlikely to win over Merchant - Ivory skeptics, but it does represent an intriguing transition from the India - centered social realism of their earlier work to the lavish literary adaptations for which they would become famous.

Andrey Zvyagintsev's majestic portrait of casual political corruption has been almost universally praised, and even managed to win over a skeptic like myself, who disliked all his previous films.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

But taking the report as a whole, you would have to be a deeply committed skeptic to argue that nothing good has happened to very large numbers of high school students in NYC over the last decade.

(For skeptics who speculate that the survey might have been conservative - leaning by its nature, the same group of respondents also favored Democrat Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney for president 51 percent to 40 percent.)

Moreover, if winning over skeptics is any indication of success, Hensley points with pride to a comment years later from a veteran teacher who had initially opposed his changes at Atkinson: «She said, «They sent a lot of people here to fix this school.

Studying over three decades of similar policies (i.e., educational policies based on utopian ideals that continuously promote new and improved standards along with new and improved tests to ensure that the higher standards are met) does a realistic skeptic make!

Mr. de Blasio's departure from the Bloomberg philosophy of school reform has skeptics in Albany, particularly among Republicans in the Senate, who granted the mayor, a Democrat, just a one - year extension of his control over city schools, requiring him to make his case for another extension next year.

Lincoln's new flagship hopes to win over skeptics with tons of features, plenty of style, and a historic name.

Though skeptics questioned how it would affect the truck's rugged capability, the combination of power and fuel economy won over many buyers.

Hot rod Saturn wins over brand skeptics on News panel MILFORD — Steve Varady always thought of Saturn as a «brand aimed at moms.»

Skeptics and librarians can say what they want about the physical feel of paper, and romanticize over physical books, but digital has huge advantages in being more discoverable, accessible, and consumable.

I would suspect that the average age of these skeptics is somewhere well over 18.

Skeptics and supporters all over the internet debated the merits of the new service and likened it as a third party answer to PlayStation Plus or Games with Gold for the Xbox One.

I think the skeptics, at least over the past five years or so, were proven right with regard to the artists who are making abstract paintings that are perfect for the way they are consumed: They make a lot of them, there's a green one and a blue one and a pink one, and you can collect them all like toys in a Cracker Jack box, which is what they're all about.

I bend over backwards to the skeptics by including the cosmic ray mechanism as a central feature of my model.

As for the «denial industry,» please see this Senate report on how promoters of climate fear enjoy monumental funding advantages over skeptics.

I'm reminded of a «skeptic» mocking Tim Flannery over Tim's prediction more than a decade ago that Perth (Western Australia) would run out of water because of reduced rainfall.

My point here is that claims that there has been cooling over Antarctica are not simply figments of some skeptics» imagination.

«The era of «equal time» for skeptics who argue that global warming is just a result of natural variation and not human intervention seems to be largely over — except on talk radio, cable, and local television,» she tells us.