Sentences with phrase «usual argument»

«Juries are not buying the business as usual argument.»

«Life is easier with a degree,» «we'll be very embarrassed,» all the usual arguments you hear.

The usual arguments from the far right («we can not afford this,» they say, or «if you pay people for not working, people won't work») join with those on the far left («this is just a way to reduce pressures on the minimum wage or cut back all the other programmes that are vital») are mutually reinforcing, even though they're largely inaccurate.

Aside from the very beginning, he pressed his usual argument for the existence of a value - making process, while pointing out that the argument's flip side (the existence of evil and hence of its causes) limited the extent of its claim.

The usual argument against God is not a defensive one, but an offensive one.

For Hartshorne, much of the usual argument for personal immortality seems to reduce to a sort of «dog - in - the - manger attitude to the universe; and since the basic drive through the entire created order is unselfish action towards fuller good, this attitude appears to him to be in flat contradiction to the purpose of creation.

«With the usual argument,» notes Wright, «which sees «scripture» simply in black and white, almost on a take - it - or - leave - it basis, it is hard to see what on earth is going on.

I explained the techniques of abortion, the fallacies in the usual arguments, the judicial history, and so on, and he was just about convinced.

After the usual arguments about what everyone was wearing — my 5YO is as maddeningly stubborn as his sister — we left the house and were on our way.

The usual argument «crying produces stress, stress = cortisol and cortisol will damage your baby's brain development, therefore cry - it - out is bad for your baby» is based on misinterpretation of research done on the effects of long term stress on the brain.

The conversation will expectedly spiral into the usual argument about Buhari fighting corruption.

What's more, the headline rate of 7.8 per cent may be far from the whole picture, and not for the usual arguments about whether it hides underemployment.

At least, that's the usual argument.

When my friend first told me she was doing ESE style fasts, I dismissed her with all the usual arguments.

Will it stoke the usual arguments about graphic violence in response to rape being just another form of exploitation?

The usual arguments about building tension and audience immersion just won't wash.

In addition to the usual arguments about how such a system diverts funds from needy school districts and / or skims away the best students and their highly - involved parents (an argument that is also applied to charter schools yet, strangely, not to NYC ’s

The usual arguments were put forward; Catholic schools are exclusive, discriminatory, and promote segregation; arguments that the most basic examination would show to be unfounded.

We are now well into the summer term, and are faced with the usual arguments over the appropriateness of standard assessment tests (SATs) in the primary years.

His talk about «edu - localism» connects with his usual arguments about how improved transit infrastructure in urban settings makes everything better — he wants kids to be able to easily commute across town to access better schools that might be far from the neighborhoods they live in.

Discussion of «What publishers need to do to continue to add value» soon got bogged down in the usual arguments about how they should spend all the money they're apparently saving through not manufacturing print.

Despite the usual arguments of «Singapore is land scarce so property sure make money wan», the truth is nobody really knows what will happen to any asset class, whether it's real estate, stocks, bonds, or bitcoin.

I tried all of the usual arguments to no avail...

The usual arguments in the industry for revenue - based programs is «Delta is doing it and Delta is really profitable.»

There's the usual arguments about how this is ripping off the consumer or saying that it's necessary to keep costs down so Nintendo can make a profit off the system, but Nintendo are now saying its nothing to worry about at all.

So the concept of intelligence is not only complicated by our usual arguments about whether it's unitary or there are different flavors («emotional intelligence»).

I won't make too much of my usual argument on the sun, except to say that the Sun has been substantially more active during the warming period of 1950 - 2000 than it has been in other times.

The Brixton Pound is billed as a currency that «sticks to Brixton» with the usual arguments of facilitating the local economy, building community, and supporting independent businesses.

Ellen cites the usual arguments for why poor families can't eat more healthily — expensive electricity and gas needed to cook food from scratch; time spent working several jobs takes away from cooking time; the high cost and limited accessibility of fresh ingredients; the quest for calorific foods; the total exhaustion of being poor and working so hard to make ends meet.

In it he trots out the usual arguments against local food:

Lomborg makes the usual arguments; wind is too inefficient, it's more expensive than coal, and it's unreliable because the wind isn't always blowing.

If Canadian law schools truly seek to diversify their student body, it is imperative to look deeper and beyond the usual arguments about the comparative aspects of the LSAT and its focus on logical reasoning.

State Senator Rodney Ellis and Innocence Project director Barry Scheck marshall the usual arguments in support -

Am I missing something, or aren't the usual arguments for having a strict standard of review — primarily, the relative competence of the factfinder — absent in the context of instant replay?

We have all the usual arguments against Bitcoin.

Yes Rob, that's the usual argument but that's not how the economics of supply and demand actually works and real estate services is not different or immune to reduced pricing because of competition.