Sentences with phrase «second argument was made»

A second argument was made justifying Congress» action under the Commerce Clause, which as currently interpreted by the Supreme Court is arguably Congress» broadest authority.

Not exact matches

In the second group are existing cable and satellite companies, who will be making a number of arguments about why this opening up isn't necessary — including the argument that they are already opening up themselves and therefore don't need the FCC to barge in and wreck things.

Kirsten: There's an article in The New York Times about Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens basically making this argument that for the first 200 years of the country it was just accepted that the Second Amendment was understood to protect a well - regulated militia.

In that case, a second argument would need to be mounted to show that the exegesis really supports the generalizations made about what the text says.

It's the lying and deception that can destroy trust in these situations more than almost anything else, and the second episode even makes it a point to try and get that across through slapstick humor, until it ditches that initial argument altogether and starts becoming a wacky comedy in full with all of the usual trappings.

The first and most obvious is that what he has to say captures so well the essence of the revisionist argument, and second it makes clear that the argument of the revisionists is the same whether they are speaking of heterosexual or homosexual relations.

Thirty second ads are probably too short to make an impactful argument to people who lack any context for understanding a positive conservative message.

Nevertheless, a convincing argument can also be made for the second option.

Then again I guess you could make the argument that every rock on Earth is technically space rock at one point or another when we first formed so I guess I continually get my wish every second I take a step, but lets just say for arguments sake that rocks that didn't form on earth are pretty neat.

He writes,» [Whitehead's] argument then makes the second and crucial point that this sense of reality which underlies all our experience comprises infinitely more than is sometimes supposed....

Here enters the second caveat about the rule that public arguments be made in a way that is publicly accessible.

A second problem with Hasker's argument is that, although he claims that he is arguing that God should allow gratuitous evils, he is in fact arguing that even the gratuitous evils are not really gratuitous, because they contribute to «God's intention to make us responsible moral individuals,» which from his perspective is a more important consideration than the relative balance of enjoyment and suffering in the world.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

Second, you are making a specious argument.

The argument I was making is that it looked like you were holding up Faulk and saying that he's proof a second a round pick is more valuable then Sekera.

Forgoing the argument itself, Fil's second goal is the kind of goal a player makes on his path to becoming a star.

The bearded Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn criticised the Tory benches and their position on Human Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.»

Whereas Michael Boxer could have recommended immediate reinstatement that could have made me «whole» again, he chose to conclude his own internal report that was three years delinquent by stating that, «Serious questions are raised about Mr. Iritano and record falsification,» which was simply not true, and firmly supported by the Transit Authority's complete reversal of all misconduct allegations against me during oral argument in Appellate Court, Second Department, on May 9, 1991.

Second, because there's a good argument to be made that those non-residents have no real say since they are much less affected by the choice.

In so doing, they send out the signal that the Scottish Parliament is a second best option; essentially making Salmond's argument for him.

The argument is that making appointments to the second chamber allows high - quality, non-partisan individuals to be involved in making our laws, and that elections would serve only to create a political replica of the House of Commons.

President Mahama would be telling Ghanaians how his administration had managed the affairs of country and would use the argument to make a case for a second term in office.

Closing arguments were made in the second federal corruption trial of former Senate Majority leader Joe Bruno, who did not testify.

A second argument is that growth hormone makes the cells «ignore» insulin.

Sure, arguments can be made for others but, with his second film, Nolan was able to strike a perfect balance of all things Batman, and thus anchor a legendary trilogy.

That origins story setting means the absence of Watchtower, Purple Haze, et al. makes sense, but Ridley still toys with our expectations: every time Jimi picks up a guitar, it's only a few seconds before we cut somewhere else, to a conversation backstage or an argument in a pub afterwards.

William Shatner brings the thunder in a second half performance that either j - u-s-t redeems this sequel's existence or makes a valiant argument for its existence; that's a debate for the ages.

That failure to recognize that Rowling's moral arguments are as important as the visual and emotional spectacle of her novels is particularly evident in the changes David Yates made to Rowling's narrative in second Deathly Hallows movie.

While automakers have struggled to simply make hybrid versions of their most popular cars, Toyota's managed to make one that's a strong argument for skipping the gas - only model altogether — and for giving a second thought to downsizing to the Prius.

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.

In the second, about games and «The Need for Rockstars», Callaghan says that «The business case is easily made, and has been made repeatedly in the past, but to really capture the eye of government and balance the arguments of established cultural crusaders, we need more than the business case — we need rockstars of our own.»

His peers were the second - generation followers — «A host of younger painters like myself who were struggling, fighting, full of energy and argument and drive, demanding, assertive, trying to make an original mark.

The second and totally serious response is to understand and embrace the argument for fracking that's being made by one leading environmentalist.

Imagine if you will, someone like me arguing evidence for AGW coming to CFACT and citing an article from, not a top - tier journal, nor even a second - tier, but more like a third - tier journal like the Asia - Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (which people generally publish in when they can't pass the more rigorous peer review of the more reputable journals), and if that paper were written by a person who's work has had to be corrected by others, not once, not twice, but FOUR times to my knowledge, and every correction takes it back in the opposite direction of what that person was arguing, and if the paper I was citing was this guy making the same old tired argument he's been corrected on before, and if this paper already had evidence of data tampering to get it's conclusions... just imagine the uproar from the usual crowd here.

In light of that, we're dependent on second - order arguments (such as the rate of change of CO2) in order to make a case that it is a dangerous substance.

But that's a completely bogus argument because it depends on detrending the second period (the graph on the left) by the man - made contribution of 0.4 C, after which you would expect the two shapes to be same given the shape of the 62 - year - period AMO.

The second most frequent argument made by opponents of climate change policies are assertions that governments should not take action on climate change because adverse impacts have not been sufficiently scientifically proven.

Last week's decision by Judge Ernest A. Goldsmith of state superior court in San Francisco offers a second look at some of the arguments being made against A.B. 32, the state climate - change law passed in Sacramento in 2006.

It is also interesting to note that if, the second term in vanishes (making any temperature a «low» temperature as) and gravity does indeed behave like additional degrees of freedom in the specific heat of the entire system while every small subvolume of the gas still behaves precisely like an ordinary ideal gas with kinetic energy $ \ frac -LCB- 3 -RCB--LCB- 2 -RCB- NkT $ and yes, with detailed balance across any vertical surface (although yes, Joe, my argument involving shifting the MB distribution was sloppy and imprecise — hopefully you like this one better but the result is the same either way).

But I get the impression that Lacis is in fact introducing a second argument, similar to that made by James Garvey in his Guardian article («Peter Gleick lied, but was it justified by the wider good?»)

I have followed your arguments about the second law of thermodynamics, and after reading your reply to Joel Shore's excellent explanation, I conclude that you are making the same mistake over and over and over.

Second, it is transparent to most people that Monbiot is mischaracterising the arguments of the people he sets himself up in opposition to — he doesn't answer objections, and he makes straw men out of the flame - war battlefield that is the comments section on commentisfree instead of picking up on the arguments that are actually being made.

Regarding one set of litigators who are making the accusation argument on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Colorado lawsuits, I already covered the EarthRights group's connections to the «Skeptic - Trashing Enviro - Activist clique» in my April 26, 2018 blog post's second half.

The second «rebuttal» argument is that he is making a fundamental conceptual error in regressing or examining differential terms.

One of the arguments against the proposal was that restricting cars to 30kph would keep them changing between first and second gears, making them less fuel - efficient and increasing carbon emissions.

When I have only 60 seconds to explain why I do nt think man - made global warming will be catastrophic enough to warrant massively expensive CO2 abatement programs, this is my argument:

[13] On the second issue, the case management judge concluded that the issues would require a prolonged examination of documents and a scientific examination within the meaning of the sub-rule, but rejected the argument that the examination of these documents and expert reports could not be made conveniently with a jury.

The courageous argument of the tenants — or at least one of the two who participated in the second tier appeal, the landlords being unrepresented after two previous outings at which they were victorious and submissions being made by an advocate to the court — was that the landlords had been under an obligation to mitigate their loss and had failed to do so by forfeiting the lease despite knowing of the tenants» plight.