Sentences with phrase «than an argument over»

In a column in The New York Times last October science writer George Johnson likened Hawaiian's opposition to the telescope to the Catholic Church's oppression of Galileo, and suggested that the indigenous protesters were pawns of environmentalists who «have learned that a few traditionally dressed natives calling for the return of sacred lands can draw more attention than arguments over endangered species and fragile ecosystems.»

Said no powerlifter, ever,) not to mention that fundamentally strength and endurance athletes tend to not have much in common, other than arguments over whether or not a squat suit and Chuck Taylors look any more or less ridiculous than men's neon booty shorts and black and yellow Kayanos.But there are plenty of reasons that some of you strength focused folks may be interested in distance running (which will be the example for cardio I'm using in this article).

Not exact matches

Over the short - term, unfortunately, there is no assurance that investors or analysts will quickly recognize that this market is trading on the basis of false premises about earnings and valuation (though my impression is that those who wake up based on reasoned argument and evidence will be better off than those who wake up based on investment losses).

Neal and Taylor's argument was rooted in math: there were more consumers than there were IT users, which meant that over the long run the rate of improvement in consumer technologies would exceed that of enterprise - focused ones; IT departments needed to grapple with increased demand from their users to use the same technology they used at home.

There are reasonable arguments for adopting the measures used in Quality and Price over those used in the Magic Formula, but it's not an unambiguously more logical approach than the Magic Formula.

For some, this might be an argument in favor of going online, however, there are sometimes situations when speaking with an actual person is more helpful than trying to get your home loan over the Internet.

Despite a lingering argument over whether Bitcoin is more or less important than its underlying tech, Consensus 2016 saw keynote addresses and panel discussions on applications for blockchain or distributed ledger technology in cross-border payments, smart contracts, government, security, identity, the Internet of Things, and all different kinds of clearing and settlement.

With more than a hint of exasperation, Scalia concludes: «One will search in vain the document we are supposed to be construing for text that provides the basis for the argument over these distinctions; and will find in our society's tradition regarding abortion no hint that the distinctions are constitutionally relevant, much less any indication how a constitutional argument about them ought to be resolved.

Your position as the saver or spender will change issue to issue, but the point here is that each side is coming from a different foundation of financial values, and those core values feed the arguments over money rather than the money situation itself.

To cover all this in just over two hundred pages, Hibbs leans more on tortured judgments and rhetorical excesses (e.g., a chapter entitled «Seinfeld's Dark God») than argument, in the end coming across as someone who needs to kick back and pop in a video.

Thou shalt not fight for Jesus Aggressive argument bent on winning and humiliating the opponent rather than bringing them over to your side is so unappealing.

JEDP is an outdated understanding of biblical criticism and has been discarded by most mainline Abrahamic biblical scholars for over a decade.Other than your whole JEDP point for argument, you deliver a modestly sound criticism of biblical criticism and interpretation.

But what I detect in it is the work of someone who was never all that interested in investigating the arguments on either side of the same - sex marriage debate; whose scant interest in it has now been fully exhausted, both intellectually and morally; and whose present conclusions hover in mid-air without anything to support them other than a wistful regret that he has lost a hoedown partner in a gay man who has come fairly unglued over the issue.

We will not win people over by theological argument alone but by a different spirit in us than is in the world.

Evolution is more an attack on the existence of God and His authority over the earth and all of mankind than a scientific argument.

How much the turban is a religious symbol, rather than simply an ethnic garment that has become the standard way to protect a religious symbol, is a matter that could be argued over; there is no argument whatsoever that the uncut hair and beard are overt and conspicuous religious symbols.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

Okay, lets even agree for the sake of argument that Ozil is a better player than Cazorla, but does that justify always preferring Ozil over Cazorla even when Cazorla is having a better game?

That's surely more than enough to leave Shaw concerned over his future, and in truth, given his lack of playing time at Old Trafford, there is an argument to suggest that in the best interests of his career, he's better off finding a new challenge.

City has been performing worse than Arsenal over the past 3 seasons so don't come here with that «trophies» argument because city has been doing that less often than Arsenal.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

You'd have to get a king's ransom and even then you've put yourself in a position where rather than selecting from the «premier» players in the class you are selecting from guys about whom there will be arguments over whether or not they should be first - round picks.

If i recall exactly we had a whole argument over the valuation of Sterling, you refuted on numerous ocassions when i stated that Sterling would cost more than 35 million the point i made over 2 months ago and still make now and im sure most fans would agree is not that gnabry is better its just he is promising talent, and for the value City paid for Raheem (which is almost criminal considering Di Maria, cost PSG less) it would have been better to see Gnabry given a run out or sign someone actually worth 50 million

That may seem absurd to many but, can anyone really put forward a legitimate argument as to why a middle of the table Premier League manager was more qualified to take over the self - proclaimed biggest club in the world than a man who had already won multiple League titles around Europe along with two Champions Leagues?

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

It's a series of predictions and musings more than a single argument, since he starts with the idea that digital tools tend, over time, to shift power away from large institutions and toward small groups and individual actors and goes on to think about how it will affect institutions across the board.

-- Vote against the finance bill after listening to the people's concerns over issues like the 10p tax rate (assuming the bill remains talking about retrospective taxation)-- Recognise the much bulkier and more vast argument against 42 days legislation and support the rebellion against this legislation rather than supporting the PR men and the policy writers to the hilt regardless of the realities of the situation.

Loeb was commenting on an argument over which faction of the divided state Senate was best equipped to lead the chamber, and he said that Stewart - Cousins, who is African - American, has done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

Nicco's book is a series of predictions and musings more than a single argument, since he starts with the idea that digital tools tend, over time, to shift power away from large institutions and toward small groups and individual actors and goes on to think about how it will affect institutions across the board.

At the end of the day, the argument over whether 100 million misdirected people is worse than zero unmobilized people will never be resolved.

His argument about Cameron's loyalty to the market was strong and much more in line with national sentiment than Cameron, but he was very vulnerable over having turned down a meeting with Pfizer.

«Arguments over the constitution are more vigorous than the race for mayor,» Peter Goodman, a retired high school teacher and UFT phone - bank volunteer, told The Post.

If they can win the argument that control orders in practice do more harm than good (for example by alienating «moderate» Muslims or because some of those subject to control orders still manage to evade their restrictions), then they can win over millions of voters.

The tone was celebratory and despite arguments over funding levels less tribal than some exchanges in the main Commons chamber.

«That,» he says, «is a kind of new biology that I find a million times more interesting than these specious arguments over whether life begins at fertilization.»

Continuing the pseudostatistical arguments, a god that can exist only within a narrow portion of the spectrum of possible gods is less likely than a god that can exist over a larger portion of the spectrum.

Men's usual performance advantage over women can be chalked up to having more testosterone, the argument goes, so if some women are more endowed than others, the contest is unfair.

A new study could add to the argument over equal pay in the ranks of medicine: Older patients treated by female doctors tend to do better than those treated by males.

By tracing the development of what we now call the «scientific method» — an approach, developed over centuries, that emphasizes experiments and observations rather than reasoning from first principles — he makes the argument that science, unlike other ways of interpreting the world around us, can offer true progress.

An argument over the «nitty - gritty» The Durack paper suggests that the upper oceans have been warming much more rapidly over the past 35 years than previously thought.

Although the Copenhagen conference could have been criticized on many fronts, it is hard to imagine that Palin's remarkable statement represents anything other than a misplaced religious end - of - days argument of the type that asserts confidence in human dominion over the earth — and that God will ensure the planet remains fine in the face of human progress, until God decides to end it all and the worthy ascend to heaven.

Now, with the debate over whether to open the refuge to more drilling, the nation is focused on its greatest wilderness and whether to keep it that way, so the arguments seem even more relevant than they were at the time of the trip.

Chris Colose @ 39 — Thanks as always, but I am baffled by your The larger thermal inertia of the ocean is important, but the higher sensitivity over land than in the ocean is also seen in equilibrium simulations when the ocean has had time to «catch up,» so that argument doesn't hold as equilibrium is approached.

Though always a complex decision medically and emotionally, she's past her childbearing and breastfeeding years, and the quality of life given by peace of mind that you'll more than likely be there for your kids is an argument winner for many women over keeping their breasts.

He voiced an argument made by union supporters through the fight over Senate Bill 5 (and the similar battle in Wisconsin over public sector union rights): All employees want is the right to bargain; they are more than willing to make concessions during these difficult times.

with defenders making the argument that nothing worse could befall our school district than to be taken over by private interests, while the privateers made the argument that the status quo had to go.

People quickly fell into one camp or the other with defenders making the argument that nothing worse could befall our school district than to be taken over by private interests, while the privateers made the argument that the status quo had to go.

But when I read the discussion that took place over the weekend at Paidcontent.org between Mathew Ingram and Laura Owen that is described as a «smack - down,» I scratch my head and wonder if anyone can make something more than an emotional and nostalgic argument to defend a practice (the likely illegal price - fixing scheme called «agency pricing «-RRB- that is just such a «subsidy» model.

The debate over the most recent accusations about how Amazon is destroying the book industry has taken a new turn with some new arguments, all of which — yet again — have nothing more behind them than the insistence that Amazon hates books, hates authors, hates readers, and basically... hates everyone.

Rather than try to build this argument myself, I'll turn things over to Larry Swedroe, who has made it eloquently many times on his blog — backed up with empirical data, as always: