Sentences with phrase «rhetorical statements»

Now they defend it on the blogs and make «if - then» rhetorical statements.

The Question Time method has two major problems: firstly, it allows those on the panel to offer quick responses without much of a come back, opening the space for Griffin to offer his vague rhetorical statements without a sustained critical response.

-- as a rhetorical statement here, in the States.

One of his most humorous statements, was more or less a rhetorical statement, «What other American industry has companies still in existence after two centuries.»

The thought that «I could do this better,» positively enervates me now that it's not such a rhetorical statement any more.

Not exact matches

Many companies have mission statements, and they're handy to reference in all - hands meetings or a quarterly report, but they're more for rhetorical purposes than anything else.

It also was a rhetorical one: most central banks, including the the Bank of Canada, resort to explicit statements about their policy intentions only in the case of an emergency.

Add further Arendt's «self - contradictory» statements on major themes, and what one ends up with is an assertion that Arendt is guilty not only of empirical error but also rhetorical calamity.

The prophets often make sweeping statements about social justice, but there are always specific injustices they are trying to combat — sometimes through rhetorical overstatement.

Cain looked good for a while but it is a lot easier to look good when the media aren't looking into your statements and your opponents are either ignoring you or throwing you little rhetorical bouquets while they attack each other.

«47 This is almost Rorty-esque in its cavalier vacuity, especially given that if one removes the questionable rhetorical epithets «half - Cartesian» and «Plato - loving,» one could then switch the names of the two thinkers and still have a more or less accurate statement of their respective views.

clearly you are a muslim or arab and your beleif is to assimilate or exit from existence jesus himself or any one claiming to be of similar character so you are rhetorical in your statements.

Did he mean that God actually demands so much of us, or did he mean only that God asks a reasonable regard for others, the extreme form of the statement being merely rhetorical?

So when Jesus says that we must be born of Water and Spirit, and if you believe and are baptized you will be saved, I agree with you that in a strict sense God does the saving and we need only immerse (baptize) ourselves in the grace he offers us, I believe that the statement Jesus made about marriage to be applicable, «Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate» and echo Peter's rhetorical question, «Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water?

As for the Eye — Creationists only ever refer to the rhetorical portion of Darwin's statement in which he said «to suppose that the eye... could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree» — but they never point out that he then went on to describe the evolutionary path of the eye — a theory which over a hundred years of careful research has confirmed.

Sen. Greg Ball, no stranger to lobbing rhetorical grenades, issued a lengthy statement this afternoon knocking Gov. Andrew Cuomo for what he says is giving away $ 400 million in tax breaks to companies with a history of outsourcing American jobs.

They now claim that their statements were merely «expressions of opinion and rhetorical hyperbole... not assertions of fact» — which could be proven false.

The statement «everything causes cancer» has become a popular hyperbole and one that some people use as rhetorical fodder to excuse their own dietary and lifestyle failures, particularly as they pertain to cancer risk.

This simplification of Aristotle's rhetorical device for thesis statements can become another tool for developing young writers.

That said, there are hints of her hopes and goals hidden in and between some of the rhetorical choices of the statement.

On the hook aspect, the writer can also use some rhetorical questions, some of the well - known facts or statistics or even a direct statement.

Note that your statements, as well as rhetorical William Ockham's (I don't know his real name), are pontifications, if measured against this criteria.

On the hook aspect, the writer can also use some rhetorical questions, some of the well - known facts or statistics or even a direct statement.

Cause and effect essay writers need to use rhetorical method of writing which includes the following elements: Presentation of the topic; Clear purpose of writing; Consideration of audience; Critical overview of the causes (outcomes); Strong thesis statement Continue reading

There's a little rhetorical sleight of hand in this statement (which I'm guilty of on occasion in my haste to get a post finished).

His films, often described as «visual essays», move from rhetorical questions to factual scientific statements, presenting concepts and ideas that emerge through philosophical texts and research.

The defendants have argued that their statements were rhetorical hyperbole, and that fraudulent is often used in a colloquial sense to merely suggest a work is «bogus» or «flawed» as the EPA suggests.

Was his statement intended as rhetorical hyperbole or did he intend to convey that the article was written with an intent to deceive?

Solomon took this as a rhetorical challenge, and began searching for evidence to cast doubt on the statement.

The Court is not buying the Defendants arguments in their Motion to Dismiss that their statements are protected speech under the First Amendment, mere «opinion,» «rhetorical hyperbole,» or «fair comment.»

They now claim that their statements were merely «expressions of opinion and rhetorical hyperbole... not assertions of fact» — which could be proven false.

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

The statement that «more than 40» houses have been «abandoned» because of wind turbines in Australia is a factoid promoted by wind farm opponents for dramatic, rhetorical impact.

Just as the statements that Anthony or Judith make can and should be fairly criticized when they are made for rhetorical and unscientific effect.

Whether or not what he said was accurate (and I'm not saying that it isn't a problem if he makes inaccurate statements about climate change), misrepresenting what he said for rhetorical purposes is counterproductive.

Jackson's aphorisms used a rhetorical technique known as «inversion,» which transforms a direct statement into a complex proposition or even a paradox, which the aphorism then solves.

The Court of Appeals agreed, finding that most, but not all of the statements attributed to the Plaintiff were largely true, although laced with «imaginative expression» or «rhetorical hyperbole», which it concluded were protected speech.

Instead, the statements merely expressed Dr. Baker or Mr. Smyth's opinions, and, at most, constituted «rhetorical hyperbole.»

It is a statement of facts — the opinions expressed on the basis of those facts are really no more than rhetorical responses to the defamatory facts.

This elegant statement is chilling in part because technology is personified, and given some consideration, the rhetorical choice makes sense as a reflection of its glorified presence in our lives.

The court found that Horowitz's statement was an nonactionable opinion which should have been understood by the audience to constitute no more than rhetorical hyperbole.