Sentences with phrase «own standards his argument»

The standard argument goes something like this: the culture war is either over or increasingly irrelevant to younger generations of evangelicals, who respond to a much broader array....

But, please note that the majority of Jews living here are not from Israel they are Europeans, or Americans, even by your own standards your argument is unsound.

To dismiss «chance» out of hand betrays a standard argument of personal incredulity based in a lack of familiarity with what the science actually says and how it is validated in application.

Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself of the right to life.

A standard argument advanced by partisans of judicial supremacy is that the only alternative to tolerating the unrestrained judicial usurpation of democratic legislative authority is «legal anarchy.»

The standard argument is «free will.»

God overrides the standard argument in the minds of the Jews and, in doing so, also acts «contrary to nature.»

The standard argument was also applied to blacks in the American South during slavery and segregation.

But to show that, we will need first to consider the standard argument for free trade.

To those of you claiming I am lying or wrong, I'll defer to your standard argument.

Citing the standard arguments in support of quotas, he contends that the passage of 209 «would mark a major setback to our nation's tenuous commitment to creating a discrimination - free society.»

Cardinal Dulles paraphrases the standard argument this way: «By giving the impression that human beings sometimes have the right to kill, [capital punishment] fosters a casual attitude toward evils such as abortion, suicide, and euthanasia.»

But it seems like every standard argument and rule of logic gets kicked in to touch; we play well it is down to the players and not AW, we play shite and it is down to AW and not the players.

To say the least, it remains highly questionable as to whether the living standards argument will enable Labour to make incursions into the electorate where the party's appeal has so far been rather limited.

The standard argument is that the creatures» eyes, long unused in darkened caves, accumulated so many mutations that they withered away.

Today I'm addressing the standard arguments levied against high protein intakes.

Ever since the rise in popularity of electronic reading, the standard argument has been that ebooks cost less to make and do not require additional expense or material to duplicate, therefore, the price should logically be far less than the price of a print edition.

The paper itself (both versions) is a collection of standard arguments for why everything is uncertain and nothing can be concluded, but did actually include a little analysis.

Consider the three standard arguments for a green economy: climate change, energy security, and jobs.

And yes, you can make the «well, government enabled it» standard argument and say the the solution is to sprinkle magic Libertarian pixie dust and make everyone into Randian supermen, but in the real world where we have billions of people who need to coexist in a functioning society with legacy social structures we need solutions that work, not philosophical wankery.

After about three weeks starting mid February, 2006 of being what it was designed for, a convenient place for me to keep my standard arguments handy for sci.environment threads, and with only a trickle of visitors, I was outed by RealClimate and things really took off.

You keep pretending that the standard argument has visible light causing warming, ignoring direct infrared from the sun.

At both events, Gray gives his standard arguments about global warming, bracketing a dispassionate discussion of the upcoming tropical storm season by his young protege, Phil Klotzbach.

The standard argument that we can predict climate better than weather is certainly based on some kind of ergodicity, perhaps not for the full phase space but for a fraction of it at the minimum.

These seem like the standard arguments to me.

Until he has accomplished this, by his own standards his argument is invalid.

I have elsewhere published a lengthy critique of the standard case for a carbon tax; I disagree fundamentally with every plank in the standard arguments.

If you're here, reading an e-discovery blog article, chances are we don't have to go through the standard argument about the importance of e-discovery: The ever - expanding amount of structured and unstructured data in the world and in business The volume of civil litigation faced by enterprises in the US and the world The proportion of costs of civil litigation that are tied up in the discovery process These facts roll up into some basic truths about e-discovery.

Adapting Standard Arguments (1) Pain and Suffering (a) Measuring Physical Pain and Suffering (b) Constitutional right to be free from pain (c) Pain is life's window into hell (d) Job ad — catastrophic injury (e) Minimum wage (2) Value of Human Life (3) Full Justice

Not exact matches

So while there are certainly arguments to be made in favor of a rules - based Fed over the pure discretion of the current PhD standard, such reform should not be viewed as a solution to the real issue, which is a central bank having a monopoly on money at all.

However, unlike the arguments of Liu and Hanauer, they are compatible with standard macroeconomics.

One of the arguments that I've made is that we had the mother of all housing bubbles, we had a vast erosion of credit standards, we had really easy money, we had the Bush tax cuts plus the Iraq war, and all that got us in the precrisis period was adequate growth.

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

Finally, the observation that the transition is proceeding smoothly is not an argument that the tightening in lending standards on interest - only loans was unwarranted; far from it.

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

He rejected Sulyma's argument that it should adopt a «willful blindness» standard for actual knowledge, saying the cases cited by Sulyma are unpersuasive and do not address ERISA.

Bell makes a number of arguments; the US ads may not meet Canadian advertising standards, simsub allows Canadian businesses to advertise their products to Canadian viewers, it fosters a strong and financially viable Canadian broadcast industry, contributes to the Canadian economy through job creation and ultimately helps generate the revenues that allow Canadian networks to provide sports and local news to Canadian viewers.

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

There is a certain asymmetry in the cost comparison that turns the resource - cost argument against paper standards.

In terms of trying to impose some sort of a nondiscrimination remedy or neutrality standard, the main argument you hear is that it would negatively impact investment.

The editorial shines a bright light on arguments against the fiduciary standard that the brokerage industry, understandably, tries to keep under wraps.

General District Judge Dean Worcester said the legal standard for establishing probable cause to send the case to a grand jury is low, and that arguments about planted evidence are better suited for trial.

Atheists, the bottom line is this: if there is no God, no afterlife and as a result of that no standard of behavior, your arguments to disprove him are pointless.

It is well - reasoned and provides excellent arguments to use against all the standard polemics of those who want to drive religion down your throat.

Seems you get more and more desperate as your standard old (and badly flawed) arguments get taken apart.

The argument for no standards is an argument against the very idea of public decency.

TomTom, I see that folks that disagree with you, your standard is not to give arguments but offer simple flame insults.

Classic atheist argument — raise Leviticus as the true standard, face the truth that it doesn't apply to Christians, then raise another, unrelated argument (go ahead, try and deny it).

In addition to this being a case of special pleading via definitional fiat, the immutable good nature of god argument places the «objective / absolute» standard beyond the control of the god in that god has no choice but to obey this good nature (which also confounds the notion of omnipotence in that god is restricted to only a limited set of possible behaviors).

If we had to condense the account of the experience, it would run roughly in this way: No one would get away with arguments that were just not good enough, just not up to standard.