Sentences with phrase «used in opposition»

Don correctly observes that this kind of argument can be used in opposition to reform, and is therefore inherently conservative.

Used in opposition to «global average temperatures» from those same models, as discussed in the previous paragraph.

Some people don't want to have to look at wind turbines, and wind power does have some valid problems, which the Heartland Farmers could have used in their opposition campaign, but instead — like most other anti-wind power groups — they have built lies on exaggerations quite shamelessly.

I'm all ears for arguments that claim to have the best, most reliable or valid approach to problems, but the achievement of objectivity tends to be a rhetorical device, often used in opposition to what are declared as non - objective / non-scientific arguments, rather than something which can be defended on epistemic grounds.

While the physical and digital are frequently used in opposition, the linguistic use of biological terms in technology — where software and the body are spoken about in terms of generations and viruses — underlie conceptual relationships of sequence and variation, both desirable and detrimental.

Even if anyone else controlled to scouse borrow the Soul Stone clear of him, Warlock may face up to the powers of the Stone when used in opposition to him.

In that case you have to remember the truth that you can not share your personal details since it can be used in opposition to you.

hard to spend $ 3 where people will notice the impact, but the price tag of «Billion» resonates when used in opposition attack ads next election.

He set up a rapid rebuttal unit similar to the one he had used in opposition.

Ironically, during a recent debate in Parliament on dangerous dogs, I was struck that the same arguments used in opposition to microchipping horses were now being deployed against the suggestion that dogs should also be chipped.

One of the key arguments used in opposition to cryptocurrency is the lack of real - world value.

Five prominent non-profits have launched the «Polluter Fraud Hotline» (1-866-363-4648), inviting average citizens or industry insiders to blow the whistle on any deceptive or illegal tactics that big polluters and their lobbyists are using in opposition to clean energy legislation.

The district court found that the TTAB's determination of priority of use in the opposition proceeding was the same as the determination of priority in an infringement action.

Not exact matches

Though the 36 - year - old now sits in opposition as MP for Calgary Nose Hill, she's still making an impact, not least through her frequent and often combative use of Twitter.

For example, drone strikes are similar to Special Forces in their direct targeting ability in remote locations, but are less likely to create domestic opposition to the use of force because they don't put U.S. lives directly at risk.

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

After Alex Jones used his platform to rant about the Comedy Central host, Klepper weaved his comments about «The Opposition» into a bit at a test screening in New York.

«They are providing arms and weapons to the Syrian opposition that can be used in fighting against the Damascus government [the seat of Syrian government].»

Melenchon is certainly not the first politician to employ such technology — in 2014, then - Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan used a huge hologram of himself to attract wider support, while India's Narendra Modi trounced the opposition with a campaign that included holograms of his speeches in villages across the country.

And the Bundesbank mounted a lonely opposition in 2016 to the ECB's decision to retire the 500 euro note, its highest denomination, due to suspicions it was used by criminals.

But the opposition party has sometimes used the blue slip process to stonewall nominations and prevent the president from naming judges in their states.

The issue has also divided opinion in Ireland, with opposition MPs suggesting the government should use the windfall to repair the country's economy.

The incumbents in Beijing seem convinced that the communist regimes in the former Soviet bloc fell mainly because their rulers were too soft and unwilling to use force to crush opposition movements.

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

Second, implementing the tax changes early would reduce the surplus available to the Opposition parties to use in their election platforms in the 2015 election.

The resources they produce could be used to relieve capacity problems in the Northeast, but continued legal challenges and political opposition have stalled or slowed planned infrastructure projects such as the Constitution Pipeline and Access Northeast pipeline.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

A new website, www.RachelWasWrong.com, explains the unintended consequences of her opposition to pesticide use, including millions of preventable deaths in developing countries.

And in 2012, Obama has used the so - called Buffett Rule — and Republican opposition to it — as a hammer with which to bash Republicans and as a way to highlight Mitt Romney's support for lowering taxes on the rich.

Chalkstone was born out of counter-insurgency tactics used by troops in Afghanistan, but its unique methodology is now being used by miners, which can map - out power structures and counter the potentially crippling risk of strikes and political opposition.

In essence, Nunes alleges that the FBI used opposition research put together by a Democratic political operative to go after the Trump campaign without disclosing that clear conflict of interest to the court.

The confusion around what exactly happened at the XL Foods meat packing plant in Brooks, the slow reaction of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to the E.coli outbreak, and the late reaction of the slaughterhouse owners will certainly be an issue the opposition will use to tackle the government during the fall sitting.

As an Independent, the former Tory toyed with joining all of the four opposition parties, but eventually used his status to help propel him to win the Liberal Party leadership in 2011, defeating party stalwarts Hugh MacDonald and Laurie Blakeman.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

We, the opposition, speak only of diversity in terms of using science and technology differently.

Kenyan opposition areas such as the streets of Kisumu, as well as several Nairobi slums are reportedly quiet, though police used tear gas to disperse crowds in the slum of Kawangware.

any religion that takes the driver's seat in government will use the state to drive out any opposition.

Milbank's intelligent and theologically informed analysis of what we mean by «the Other» gives us the resources to undo from within the work of the deconstructionists» those postmodern philosophers and critics who hunt down and denounce any construction of identity forged in opposition to others, and yet who depend on those wicked «other - using» others to forge their own identities.

Consider again the case of the United States Catholic bishops, this time in their official opposition to the use of armed force to eject Iraq from Kuwait after Saddam Hussein's army had aggressively annexed that country in 1990.

In fact, their greatest strength derived directly from their opposition to the use of physical force at all.

It is important to point out that the belief was used in the early church as a way of affirming Jesus» full humanity; «born of a virgin» in the Apostles» Creed has the force of «really born of a woman,» in opposition to heretics who denied that Jesus was truly human.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Kass ably led the council members in a long debate on cloning, with the result that earlier this year they came out in opposition to human cloning but divided on the use of cloned embryos for research purposes.

«Polemics,» as I use it here, does not denote or connote simple hostility, or opposition for its own sake — even though the term has come to mean something like this in ordinary English usage.

It was only after I started to look into how controversial issues like abortion and divorce were handled in other liberal democracies that I realized how my dean's slogan has been used not only to silence religiously grounded views, but to silence all opposition to abortion.

As a result, Prof. Cole makes Yoder's pacifism appear to be constituted by individual pacifists in enclaves of the similarly minded, rather than the presence of a global community of followers of Jesus opposed to the use of force on behalf of, or in opposition to, particular nations precisely because it is transnational.

Problem is most people do not like to follow the rules, we use free will to go in direct opposition to God's principles.

We needed someone who could answer off the cuff the detailed attacks made on Church history and policy: opposition to the use of condoms to combat AIDS, magisterial teaching about homosexuality; the Church's historical attitude to slavery, involvement in the crusades, relations with the Jewish people; someone who could properly confront and contextualise the evil actions of some members of the Church - in Ireland or Rwanda, for example.

Ann Bodine documents that, in the late 18th century, «they» became identified incorrectly as a plural pronoun only, in direct opposition to its consistent use with both singular and plural antecedents.