Sentences with phrase «rhetorical because»

Ross, I highly suspect that your last paragraph is rhetorical because you know that the typical Board or Association is more inclined to rule than govern by consensus.

That's rhetorical because the answer is obvious.

That's rhetorical because I know you all do.

Anyway, @godless — I have the same questions — at this point they have become rhetorical because no one has been able to answer them in a way that makes sense to me.

@bkw, ``... at this point they have become rhetorical because no one has been able to answer them in a way that makes sense...» Ditto.

Your question regarding the most racist schools must be rhetorical because clearly the most racist schools are those that are the «historically» African American schools which still discriminate on the basis of skin color.

Not exact matches

Paralipsis is a powerful rhetorical device because it can also allow someone to make a false accusation — or spread a false rumor — while skirting consequences.

Retiree benefit levels in Chile were not low because of the AFP system, as claimed by many rhetorical commentators.

No question about it, the listening is demanding, not only because of the writer's rhetorical style but also because of the assumption that the reader knows the Old Testament and the wilderness life of Israel, a life centered in the tabernacle and the daily ministrations of the priest.

Portraying religious dissenters as favoring separation was an effective, if disingenuous, rhetorical tactic because it was so widely accepted by Americans that church and state occupied cooperative relationships.

It persists in making use of the phrase «death of God,» in spite of its rhetorical color, partly because it is a phrase that can not be adapted to traditional use by the theologians today.

So the theme of the «great surprise,» far from a rhetorical device as Stendahl terms it (7:794), is in fact the point of the passage: the righteous are commended precisely because they acted humanely without knowledge of Jesus» presence and therefore without the calculating attitude Matthew attributes to the Pharisees.

It will not do to employ the dubious rhetorical device of declaring that the other party must be wrong because I am right.

They would rather rant impotently about banning guns than go back to the 2006 strategy of running culturally moderate economic populists, because they would rather draw rhetorical blood than govern the country.

This literature contains some stimulating intellectual responses as well as several ad hominem pieces which are more concerned with rhetorical flourish and pietisms than critical reflection.1 There are some who want to rid the church of process theology because it is too philosophical, hence unappreciative of things which are distinctively religious.

This: that time is the category of the historical; that because the redemptive power of God has become time, faith - engendering witness can not be borne to that power save in a kind of preaching which is a rhetorical address to men in their time - determined and time - imprisoned existence.

I know you won't, and I know you can't because you're just throwing out rhetorical bullshit to try and avoid what the actual issue really is.

In so polarized a time as ours, such divergences are inevitable, and Donald Trump widens them because of his canny rhetorical habit of coining slogans, not making arguments.

The conquest of the political culture of the black community by the culture of the left has allowed someone like Farrakhan to gain an acceptance and support that far exceeds that of any comparable black demagogue in the past including Malcolm X, who in his lifetime, it should be remembered, was condemned and isolated by the leadership of the black civil rights movement precisely because of his rhetorical violence and racial politics.

It may thus appear that arguments to the contrary are essentially rhetorical, because existentially solipsistic.

The rhetorical question does not apply to process theists because we accept neither of the hypotheses in question.

Well, since that is a rhetorical question, most of us realise the answer to that question is because there is no actual news on Arsenal.

I think I did misread the «half a decade thing» because I've seen that phrasing used elsewhere as a rhetorical move to make an event seem more in the past than it really is.

I will answer my own rhetorical question by saying it is because all respected journos everywhere know full well there is not a cat in hell's chance of Wenger EVER doing what he should have done a decade ago and ever since, by bringing in a DCM who is any good.

And fathers should beware lest they step into rhetorical quicksand because if you say something stupid now you might never be allowed to forget it.

Even more importantly, people with high talent for persuading others (because of high verbal IQ, rhetorical training or talent, or simply good ability to lie convincingly) get unequally large chance of having their ideas promoted.

This reduces the rhetorical credibility of his argument because if the Tories can be trusted on those issues, why not Europe?

At the time many pundits and reporters saw those votes as symbolic, rhetorical and lacking substance because the disgruntled disrupters knew that then - President Barack Obama would immediately veto the measure.

You seem to be making the rhetorical point that the percentage doesn't matter because it depends on how you define it.

Obviously this is a rhetorical question I'm asking because clearly I can wear whatever I like, I mean I am a grown up after all!

These questions are rhetorical (as you've probably already guessed) because we've already reported on the Point Break remake and its Christmas premiere.

Poetry is not a given in AP Language and Composition — in fact, some teachers use only nonfiction texts because a major focus of the class is rhetorical analysis.

It's a rhetorical question because as everyone knows, the answer is no.

I appreciate the restraint, because hyperbole and grand rhetorical flourishes, as entertaining as they can be, get in the way of seeing clearly.

This acknowledgment of the game's rhetorical slips into meritocracy are important because meritocracy, as a rhetoric, re-contextualizes the entire purpose of making the player feel poor.

That's more of a rhetorical musing than a true question because space is totally heavy metal.

The question is — inevitably, perpetually — a rhetorical one; in part because so many alternatives to the white cube already exist.

McIntyre excels (like some journalists) because there's a large public demand for global warming denial, and there are those with basic rhetorical skills to meet such a demand.

That's because his question is really a rhetorical artifice.

(rhetorical...) I bring that up because in the US, since the passing of Sarbanes - Oxley (SOX) in 2002, the rules and responsibilities changed dramatically.

Because he scored a rhetorical home run with his graphed results.

But we come full circle because the questions posed are rhetorical framing questions relative to the way the media skewers those outside orthodoxy and how they don't help the process.

A simple rhetorical question for Mr Huhne, because in the Guardian / Observer it was reported that Greenpeace will be keeping an eye on things: «Chris Huhne, the... Continue reading →

That gives you a rhetorical advantage because you can berate others for not describing causes.

I see that it is the most meaningful in the context of the rhetorical war — but are you saying that surface warming is the most meaningful pause because theoretically it is what causes the most significant positive feedbacks?

It is a repugnant underhanded rhetorical attack that insinuates that they are «anti — science» because they raise solid scientific issues over the sad state of climate science and do bow to the «church of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming»

Because, it seems apparent that questions of this sort are not going to be resolved by rhetorical means.

You provided no reasons for doing so, probably because you were thinking of his statements in terms of their rhetorical value.

[Response: It's generally not the contrarians who drive better understandings of the science, because most of the contrarian points are completely irrelevant and are used as rhetorical, not scientific, points.

«It's generally not the contrarians who drive better understandings of the science, because most of the contrarian points are completely irrelevant and are used as rhetorical, not scientific, points.