Sentences with phrase «than a debating trick»

Indeed, it is little more than a debating trick.

Going on, I realised that Lomborg's professed concern for the third world was nothing more than a debating trick — otherwise he wouldn't have been so quick to dismiss emissions trading with poor countries as politically infeasible.

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When some politicians try to sway public opinion, they employ the tricks of the debating chamber: cherry - picking data, ignoring the consensus opinions of experts, adept use of a sneer or a misplaced comparison, reliance on the power of rhetoric rather than argument.