Sentences with phrase «rhetorical point»

If you want to have a conversation on strategies go ahead, but don't make up stuff in order to make rhetorical points.

This site is about the science of climate change, not about scoring rhetorical points.

Sanders scored a few more rhetorical points than Clinton, frequently drawing rousing applause from his supporters at the Brooklyn Naval Yard.

As to the question of scale, that too is a trick of rhetoric in this particular debate, relying on the age - old cum hoc ergo propter hoc (with this, therefore because of this) fallacy to win rhetorical points: because we haven't scaled up, we can't scale up.

The survey results «clearly show that the major rhetorical points» made by proponents of the Equal Access Act, passed by the Congress this summer, «were overstated,» according to the aasa Supporters of the act had argued that schools unfairly banned student religious groups from meeting on school grounds while opening their doors to other student - initiated...

When I say «EPUB4» to my team, I am always joking * cough, cough * I mean, making a valid rhetorical point about how their work needs to be maintainable.

For myself, as a member of the lay public selective quoting leaving the thoughts of the person she's quoting truncated and inaccurately summarized in order to score rhetorical points cements this notion.

Just as Lewandowsky couldn't take the perspectives of climate sceptics in good faith — he had to probe inside their minds, using a shoddy internet survey — Read does not take issue with the arguments actually offered by actual climate change - denying libertarians, he takes issue with his own fantasy libertarian, abandoning all the rigour and practice that the discipline he belongs to has established over the course of millennia, to score cheap rhetorical points.

I think d'Souza has an habit of stretching the facts a bit, when doing so will allow him to make a rhetorical point:

Perhaps he went to such an extreme to make the rhetorical point that he would follow the historical evidence no matter the theological consequences.

Thanks, On the Internazionale point, the intention was just to make the rhetorical point that «immigrants» only seems to get used generically as a pejorative term, eg in crime reporting, etc..

Spitzer scored plenty of rhetorical points — calling DiNapoli's selection «an insider's game of self - dealing» that «confirms the public's worst image of what this Legislature does when given discretion,» and ripping Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver for «a lack of integrity.»

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

(They are, but I'm making a rhetorical point.)

I agree it would be quicker to simply note the qualified skeptics on the list (there are probably a few dozen), but, from a rhetorical point of view, I think pointing out these immensely unqualified members of the list is more effective.

(Numbers pulled out of air for a rhetorical point.)