Sentences with phrase «rather than debate»

Rather than debate ad nauseam I'm going to table this as an agreement to disagree.

And let's assume for a minute, rather than debate, that price is not a proxy for quality.

Rather than debate the issues, they attack the personalities involved.

The point is not what has happened but what will happen, and it is not controversial to say that increased incidence and severity of heat waves will create more crop failures in direct proportion with their increased incidence and severity (climate change bulls will claim offsets to cold snaps at higher latitudes rather than debate this point).

Nonetheless I blog upon that sort of perversion when I cover politics and systematic «framing» which is a technique covered in «Moving the Overton Window» — a system of changing what people perceive as reasonable rather than a debate where one deals with established facts.

Michael Mann (see linked article) writes, «Much as lions on the Serengeti seek out vulnerable zebras at the edge of a herd, special interests faced with adverse scientific evidence often... attack those researchers whose findings are inconvenient, rather than debate the findings themselves.»

So of course the response, rather than debate him, is to intimidate and silence him back.

Rather than debate it here, perhaps you can write up your analysis as a guest post and that way everyone can scrutinize it.

I'll admit there is a logic to all of them — rather than debate them all day long, I recommend a simple but effective solution: Use an average of the highest & lowest NAVs as your (adjusted) NAV.

If you're planning to attend GenCon and want to talk about self - publishing rather than debate its worth, let me know.

Rather than debate the CCSS we instead want to expose the tragic reality of the countless public schools organizing their entire instruction around trying to raise students» PARCC scores.

It focuses on discussion, rather than debate, although many of the activities will work equally well for both.

Award - winning director and Missouri native Tracy Droz Tragos sheds new light on the contentious issue by focusing on the women and their stories, rather than the debate.

Rather than debate individual responsibility, gun control, American domestic and foreign policy and civil disobedience (as Millar did), it all comes down to Cap doing everything he can to help his incredibly guilty - seeming best friend.

But rather than debate the issue, bill manager Representative David Obey (D — WI) accepted Issa's amendment.

«Rather than debate this that has no basis in reality, we may just continue to beg this government to be very specific in the indication of the assumptions underlined in the budget.

I suppose there'll be the usual «it's part of his campaign for leader» talk in the media rather than a debate of the issue.

We need a dialogue rather than a debate along with the understanding everyone's perception is relevant Racial rivalries and referring to folks as «them» and «they» all the time is not appropriate this day and age.

Although I fear it may degenerate into charges of flirting with heresy rather than a debate over what the scriptures actually say.

But, as is typical, rather than debate honestly, the creationist will seek to subvert, misdirect, and misinform.

My goal with that series is to reconstruct much of what I've deconstructed in the past, to celebrate equality rather than debate complementarianism.

But rather than debate what Luther believed, which probably would be a long and somewhat unhelpful conversation, perhaps you might simply explain to me how your view of justification by faith (whether or not it is Luther's) is not actually just another form of justification by works (with coming to a correct belief being the «work»), as I outlined above.

However, my approach has been to educate rather than debate.

In 1966 Paul VI would recall that the Council was about «voice... style... approach» in the teaching of doctrine rather than debate or apologetics (p. 426).

Rather than debate academic studies about first - century womanhood, why not try out a biblical notion such as head covering and see what happens?

Rather than debate their utility, we should focus on how we can minimise the pain of the inevitable adjustment and maximise the benefits of our resource economy for all Canadians.

Rather than debate what is driving that change, established television companies should change their business models, Mr. Sarandos said.

A lot more might be achieved by focusing on that fact, rather than debating whether one man is or isn't a sexist.

Thus, given the proposition, «all relations are internal,» rather than debating the merits of this extreme against its polar contrary, «no relations are internal,» look for a reasonable principle according to which some relations are internal and others are external.

kristoman, Again I read a bog that insults someone rather than debates the issues raised.

But rather than debating the looks, spend a couple minutes listening to this speech from Jags linebacker Telvin Smith about his former teammate Paul Posluszny.

the Armenian midfielder and Giroud's one yesterday were both pieces of individual spontaneous excellence that they should be appreciated for what they are rather than debating which was

Miktarian the Armenian midfielder and Giroud's one yesterday were both pieces of individual spontaneous excellence that they should be appreciated for what they are rather than debating which was onside better.

Hardly popular, you might say, and opinion polls bear this out, which is why the policy itself is also being managed rather than debated.

«Rather than debating which sports teams we follow, we should be debating jobs, health care and climate change.»

Rather than debating the merits of acai berries over goji berries, I prefer to look at what's in season, and work with the nutritional workhorses that I can get here and now.

Rather than debating which is superior we should be looking at ways to remove the divide and promote them both for their individual superiority.

Rather than debating about how advisors are paid, we should be working to create an environment where all Canadians — irrespective of their net worth — have access to sound financial advice delivered by competent and qualified professionals.

Rather than debating the regulatory approaches, they want to undermine the conclusion that climate change is a real problem.

«Apparently rather than debating the merits of his argument in a rational and reasoned manner, Gore is left only with ad hominem attacks and smug condescension toward his critics.

I focus on the probability that carbon pricing schemes will succeed rather than debating the various estimates of the projected costs and benefits; the latter are extensively debated in the literature.

I notice that R. Gates has now taken to sniping from SkepticalScience.com rather than debating directly here.

Rather than debating scientists who don't accept false claims that humans are causing dangerous climate change, they just proclaim more loudly -LSB-...]» [58]

I would prefer that, rather than debating that sort of attribution, posters would notify me of the problem and let me deal with it, rather than get into a food fight.

[19] Rather than debating what to debate, the Working Group should devote its efforts to designing a conciliation convention that will fill a long - neglected gap in international private law.

He also believes the activation of the scaling proposal will allow everyone in the ecosystem to refocus on building on top of Bitcoin rather than debating over the base protocol.

Not exact matches

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

The debate could then take place in Parliament in something closer to real - time, rather than in the pages of magazines after it may already be too late.

They act as if name - calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate, as if anger and intolerance should be our default state rather than the optimism and openness that have always been the engine of our progress... And here in America, we don't give in to our fears.

Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill by threatening to force uncooperative lawmakers from office in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.