Sentences with phrase «reasonable argument being made»

His comment could easily be deconstructed and a reasonable argument being made for that being false.

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Republican Sen. John Kennedy picked up where Cruz left off, asking Yates whether there were «reasonable arguments that could be made» in the defense of Trump's immigration order.

It might be possible to make a reasonable argument that Mr. Trudeau has done nothing wrong — the same ethics commissioner to whom the Harper government deferred on the matter of Nigel Wright's cheque seems to have cleared Mr. Trudeau to make the speeches he made between 2008 and 2012.

For example there is no reasonable argument to be made from a secular viewpoint to oppose gay marriage that can not be said to oppose hetero marriage as well.

A more reasonable argument against wine is made based on an interpretation of Romans 14:21: «It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.»

Certainly, logical arguments can be made for his lack of existence and I'm not claiming that one is foolish for believing them, but they all have reasonable criticisms and one is not foolish for disbelieving them either.

Another thing... if so called «pro-lifers» want to make a reasonable argument against those who are pro-choice or even just on the fence, you might want to smarten up and take the religion out of your argument.

Rarely do I see anyone in these comments actually make a reasonable argument against it's teachings.

A valid and reasonable argument has been made for both positions.

Don't ever change; I wish all christians were as stupid as you — laughable and without sense to make a reasonable argument..

When academic freedom is untethered from truth, it is no longer possible to make a reasonable (truthful) argument for academic freedom.

If your argument requires that something be real and not imaginary, surely it is a reasonable thing to insist on making sure that what is imaginary be labeled correctly?

On the other hand, I could make a number of reasonable arguments to demonstrate that belief in your god is unjustified (such as the argument that I've just presented you with).

WUD BRING THE CLUB TO KNEES AND ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS OR MAKE THE OWNER AND MANAGER LEAVE.yes u cud argue fans had to be patient due to stadium and so on, reasonable argument and i wud be patient.

With Lowe I think you could make a reasonable argument that he was a young kid in his first full season, and those 2nd half numbers show growth so should be weighted more strongly than his 1st half (and especially April) numbers.

So if you're arguing that a player should be in the Hall of Fame, you're just a nice guy making a reasonable argument.

There's a reasonable argument to be made that it's the most talented MLS group ever assembled, and it's certainly the most expensive.

a reasonable argument could be made for vieira's goal against leicester city in the last game of the unbeaten season.

As you indicate, we will ultimately need to wait for the Supreme Court to weigh in on such a question, but some analysis of our own can lead to a reasonable understanding of the argument that might be made.

That's an entirely reasonable argument, but it proves the point I'm making - we don't actually know whether or not this is going to be a vote winner.

No sooner had Gary Aitkenhead, the chief executive of Porton Down, made the perfectly reasonable point that it was not his job to provide the entirety of the intelligence argument for Russian involvement, than a thousand internet warriors jumped up to show that the situation was identical to the Iraq «dodgy dossier» and we therefore couldn't believe anything the government said.

Opponents now make the reasonable argument that if the deal was underpinned by corruption as evidenced by the Percoco conviction, the state must stop the construction and review regulatory decisions in an open manner the steps that allowed the construction to move ahead.

This article makes a reasonable argument that local governments are in trouble because of the burst of the housing bubble, not your mantra of unionized public employee salaries:

Heat — It's a tough call for the number one spot this year, I imagine a reasonable argument can be made for Heat being the best.

Anyone who thinks the movie takes a stand either for or against gun control or that it makes reasonable arguments for that stand is reaching.

At the foundation of her claims was her argument that her resignation amounted to a constructive discharge, which arises when an employer makes working conditions so intolerable that a reasonable employee would feel compelled to resign.

He doesn't seem to be responding reasonably and without insult to some of the reasonable arguments that others make and when they still respond politely after being insulted or ignored by him he doesn't then come back and respond a second time even though he says that he wants to foster a debate.

It's a perfectly reasonable argument to make and, if your requirements lean towards a tablet, you shouldn't give the Kindle Voyage a second thought — you may want to consider the Kindle Fire HD 6 or any of our best cheap tablets.

It's possible to make a reasonable argument that the average investor would be better off investing in GICs than stocks and bonds.

A reasonable argument could be made that there should be an exception to the usual way cosigning works for student loans.

Some people can make a reasonable argument that these changes are long overdue.

I do think that there is a reasonable argument to be made for using avios and the certificate for people who a. need to make the trip anyways, and b. don't mind paying a little extra for the comfort.

Check out Part One here: State of Play 2017 — Sony: Part 2 Naughty Dog Their Present: There's a reasonable argument to be made that Naughty Dog isn't just the best developer working in - house at Playstation but in fact the best development studio -LSB-...]

Their Present: There's a reasonable argument to be made that Naughty Dog isn't just the best developer working in - house at Playstation but in fact the best development studio in the world.

If you feel my rebutting of Killian's skyrocketry regarding Knoblauch et al (2018) is» exaggerating, misrepresenting, or just completely fabricating someone's argument» so as to make it» much easier to present (my) own position as being reasonable» and that» this kind of dishonesty serves to undermine honest rational debate»; if you feel all that, you would have more sympathy from me if you were able to demonstrate this alleged» dishonesty», or even better begin by demonstrating some justification for the skyrocketry.

Bruce makes a «major» error here, yet DC's argument is «mostly reasonable».

A reasonable argument could be made that the Seattle Times article author's source was Ozone Action.

Konrad has made reasonable arguments in support of a single, consistent claim: that non-truth-seeking reasoning is not needed to explain the effects of cultural cognition, or at least that you haven't demonstrated such a need here.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

And so although it may not be possible to say precisely what equity requires of nations in advance, strong arguments can be made that some national commitments fail to satisfy reasonable interpretations of what equity requires.

Personally I think he landed on the ocean heat argument as being the only reasonable way to measure global warming because he thinks he can make a stronger measurement uncertainty - based action - delaying argument on this tack... Who, me?

I read Nic's defense here, but I did not see that he refuted the argument I made on his estimate of CS on Stoat: http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2012/12/20/people-if-you-want-to-argue-with-stoats-first-read-enough-to-be-a-weasel-parrots-neednt-apply/#comment-24749 — It seems to me that Lewis» calculations are reasonable, but they lowball temperature change, ignore ocean heat absorption below 2000 m, and high - ball radiative forcing.

Carvin did forcefully make some First Amendment arguments, but, in doing so, too often failed to observe that various opinions were not only permitted, but reasonable... Because Steyn and National Review have parted ways, Carvin and National Review seem to have been unaware of the long backstory and more or less presented the dispute (from National Review's perspective) as little more than a purely academic controversy over the validity of tree rings as a temperature proxy, leaving the judges completely mystified on why Mann, as opposed to any one of hundreds of scientists, was at issue.

The «reasonable doubt» argument relies on the idea that we shouldn't make radical changes to our way of life before being absolutely sure.

One could make a reasonable argument that, on principle, this was an inappropriate thing for an officer to say about an elected official: pic.twitter.com / KiQSxCSUBQ

Seems to me that a very reasonable argument can be made about the statistical validity of any 5 run ensemble that includes a single «strange» run if you know the variability of a much larger group (eg Gavin's 200 runs).

Of course, a perfectly reasonable argument can be made in favor of building a new house.

In fact, because hunting and photography have to be separated physically, and because hunting is by definition requiring of much lower human densities (lest hunters accidentally shoot each other) a reasonable argument can be made that setting aside hunting - only preserves amidst the tourist - oriented lands will help keep photo - safaris and their attendant high impact infrastructures in check.

I wasn't stating that this was the correct rating, simply that an argument could be made that this was a reasonable rating.

The point I was making about the Spencer is that there is a reasonable argument that one could make to suggest that it should be rated as implicit reject.