Sentences with phrase «own sweeping claim»

You get guys like Nye, et al, who in their defense of evolution, make these wide sweeping claims that belief in creationism is somehow going to undermine the very foundations of science.

You said, «This is a another sweeping claim made without the slighest reason to believe it is true.

The God claim is an extraordinary, sweeping claim, usually accompanied by many other extraordinary sweeping claims that are needed to explain too many otherwise impossible questions.

Believers make numerous sweeping claims.

Be very specific Chad, your credibility is near nil anyway, but when you make such a wide sweeping claim, you'd best be able to defend it.

These are two admittedly sweeping claims, and Robert Miller thinks I'm mistaken about both.

After a century in which our science and politics have rejected any belief in the unique value of each person, surely such a sweeping claim demands substantial supporting argument.

That is a rather sweeping claim, so let me highlight each of the elements within this definition.

Yet the danger of this sense of tragedy is that it will be generalized into a sweeping claim about all of human experience, and applied mechanically and indiscriminately to every moral problem.

How literally does this powerful and sweeping claim, supported by several important texts in the New Testament and by centuries of Christian tradition, need to be taken?

It is absolutely OK to ignore facts / stats and go with your instinct, emotions, biases, visual feedback from watching games or whatever etc — nearly everyone does it, but if you do so you should at least be a little more cautious with huge sweeping claims.

If there's one thing that's guaranteed to make my blood boil it is hearing baby boomers make vague and sweeping claims about the use of technology by the current generation of parents.

So these discussions effect me more and I feel judged by those making those sweeping claims.

Hilary Benn didn't try to justify this sweeping claim.

Ms. Tenney made her sweeping claim on the «Focus on the State Capitol» radio program hosted by Fred Dicker.

There are a number of eminent marine mammal scientists who either don't buy it at all or say there is too little data to support the sweeping claims.

Many have seized on the results in order to make sweeping claims.

Ignore this sweeping claim; focus on finding a trading tool that makes sense to you — price action or otherwise.

It's no surprise that the authors of the report offer no evidence to support such a sweeping claim.

I'm also interested in alternative points of view, but if sceptics cant back their big, sweeping claims up with substance, how do you expect people to react?

Although these criticism quickly followed Mr. Savory's presentation and are broadly supported by the available science, his sweeping claims have continued to resonate with lay audiences.

So many sweeping claims and denigrations of our nation's most important governmental institutions!

The sweeping claims against Dr. Arvind Gandhi and other practitioners at Cardiology Associates of Northwest Indiana could take years to unwind, and they may change the calculus that sets surcharges physicians pay to the Indiana Patient's Compensation Fund.

The complaint is typical of tactics used by patent trolls: invoking old patents to make sweeping claims, while demanding an injunction, damages and a jury trial.

Not exact matches

Cloud computing, the buzzword sweeping the tech world, claimed the top spot in the most recent Hype Cycle report put out by Gartner Research, while a BusinessWeek cover story compared the technology's impact to the introduction of electricity.

There simply is not enough hard data to support claims that Uber has a sweeping impact on drunk driving, but nor is there evidence to the contrary.

But here's the thing: if Facebook is going to claim credit for so many sweeping accomplishments, shouldn't it also take some of the blame for the billions of dollars in lost productivity from office workers surfing Facebook all day?

If U.S. President Donald Trump's claims that he will enact sweeping tax reforms and renegotiate NAFTA are realized, our companies are likely to see their profits fall and demand for their products and services decline.

Still reeling from the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Broward County law enforcement agencies are leading the state by far in using sweeping new powers to take away guns from dozens of citizens they claim are dangerous.

Finally, you aren't even discussing your particular God character per se, you use a far more sweeping term, «Supernatural being», which would sweep in the very creatures and beings which you claim are as mythological — therefore, ironically, you confirm the analogy in the very same paragraph where you attempt to discredit it.

When cholera swept through the camp it quickly claimed the lives of the weakest.

When Secretary DeVos issued her policy changes, she was attacked from the usual quarters, with commentators claiming that she was «sweeping sexual assaults under the rug,» «protecting rapists,» and «attacking survivors.»

Two of her classmates have also said the same individual sexually assaulted them, but despite the pleas to school officials and police, he has not been expelled, and according to New York Magazine, «all of their claims were swept under the rug.»

you posted this earlier, and as i pointed out then you are just as guilty of sweeping statements, with the «majority of democrats» claim, that you are moaning about.

This is combined with an alarming tendency to make sweeping statements such as; «New Testament scholars sometimes say that the Gospel accounts of the appearances of the risen Christ are false and his followers did not intentionally claim to be eye - witnesses to his resurrection», without references to back it up.

[7] As Holloway continues, «[b] ehind the claims made for evolution of all matter, including life and mankind, was the urgent prescience of a majestic, sweeping concept which one day would be proved to have worked in and through all departments of being».

Seizing boldly on the very findings of science which were sweeping more tender minded Jews off their feet, he claimed that, far from nullifying faith in Israel's God, these were but evidences of his greatness and of his reality.

If I may make some bold, sweeping generalizations, I will claim the following.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

From their point of view, its author was indeed a dangerous man, for he claimed that one could sweep away all of their dogmatism and superstition while still upholding the essence of the Bible's teachings, and mapped out a future in which they would be deprived of their earthly power.

The research indicates, however, that the figures given particularly by the paid - time religious broadcasters in support of this claim are sweeping overstatements; they do not attempt accurately to assess the situation of the person involved in the decision making before claiming them as a conversion statistic, nor do they take into account the durability of the change which, it is claimed, is produced.

In consequence of this claim, our preaching of the gospel has a cosmic sweep.

Not only do Arsenal have to claim all three points from our next Premier League game, and all of the ones coming up at least until we travel to face the current pace setters Chelsea at the start of February, but the Gunners will be expected to sweep past the EPL strugglers Swansea City without too much trouble.

A graphic video swept the internet along with a vicious rumour claiming that Kilner was the recipient of the pooch's «love».

Xavier claimed that honor this year even as «Nova swept the two - game series in the regular season.

Anyone who claims a consistent percentage much higher than this is certain to be utilizing questionable mathematics or sweeping losing results under the proverbial rug.

The Bruins, swept by Utah and Colorado a week ago, hit the floor again on Saturday night aiming to do the same to USC — a result that would end the Trojans» hopes of claiming a share of the Pac - 12 title.

The FA has rejected claims it was «swept under the carpet» and in March, in response to growing pressure from the likes of the family of ex-West Brom forward Astle who died in 2002 from brain injuries, the governing body set out its plans to tackle the issue with the most comprehensive study done in this area by any organisation.

Jean - Gabriel Pageau was the star in the game, as his four goal effort was wrapped up with a natural hat trick that brought the Senators from two goals down in the dying minutes of the third period to claiming a huge 2 - 0 series lead after sweeping the first two games on home ice.

The West Ham Under - 19 side of 1998/99 swept all before them in claiming a spectacular league and cup double.