From the perspective of our findings, either option seems plausible, and depends on winning
the values argument with a relatively small number of voters.
Still the TL remains an attractive all - wheel drive sedan that has
a value argument with this loaded TL SH - AWD Advance stickering at $ 46,280, while a BMW 535i xDrive starts at $ 57,400 and an Audi A6 with the supercharged V6 carries a base price of $ 50,400.
Ross continued with what he must regard as more of
his value argument with: ``... I summarized their expectations by asking if they felt it reasonable to expect a highly experienced broker who is confident in his self - worth and truly cares about his clients, to accept an over-priced, minimum term listing of a sub-standard property owned by someone who doesn't seem to value loyalty or expertise, and with a heavily discounted commission rate.»
Not exact matches
Before this starts to sound like the annual lecture from management — perhaps you're one of those corporate employees forced to sleepwalk through an intranet quiz once in a while to prove to your higher - ups that you're familiar
with the company's code of conduct — consider DeMars's
argument for the
value of the ethical office from a personal standpoint: «In order to live happily and at peace
with ourselves, we have to live in ways that are congruent
with our morals,» she argues.
Kaine started out
with a version of the «personally opposed but publically supporting»
argument based on the specious claim that the First Amendment of the Constitution prevents us from imposing our religious «
values» on public life.
Say for example a patient in a remote location must undergo surgery without anesthesia, but
with (for the sake of
argument) the assurance that he will prevent his own death by undergoing great pains and also assuming that (for the sake of
argument) he
values his own life over and above any pain he may experience in this life.
At one Evangelicals and Catholics Together meeting, writes Tom, the Catholic co-chairman of ECT, which Chuck helped found twenty years ago, some of the Catholic members questioned the
value of natural law
arguments «on the philosophical ground that no reason exists that is not already deeply saturated
with prior pre-understandings and commitments.»
If your position is that objective moral
values don't exist (which you've clearly stated) then support that theory
with a sound
argument # 4 What have you brought?
Please go over my older posts and respond
with lucid
arguments instead of just adding no
value to the conversation.
«One thing only do I know for certain,» he wrote in Civilization and Its Discontents, «and that is that man's judgments of
value follow directly his wishes for happiness — that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions
with argument.»
Plato, then» this is the heart of Nussbaum's
argument» presents us
with a «harsh and alarming» picture of love: «We see two kinds of
value, two kinds of knowledge; and we see that we must choose.
Callahan's basic
argument, so it seems to me, is that we ought not provide these persons
with food and hydration by tubal means because their lives are of no
value to them.
The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed
arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual
value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy
with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.
C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact -
value dichotomy within an
argument against ethical subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency
with which «
values» is used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional
values.»
As soon as we can get their two parties to agree, and then get them to be reconciled on civil matters
with northern Baptists, and then have all Baptists come to terms
with the Catholic bishops» statements against the Bomb, or get all Catholics to do so, then the tradition will settle
arguments and produce common
values.
However, when conservationists try to oppose polluters and developers solely
with pragmatic
arguments about the
value to human welfare of, for example, gene pools in rain forests, they have been maneuvered into fighting on the same ground as their opponents.
The biologists»
arguments transform moral
values into something else — a reproductive strategy, an unconscious one — and these
arguments leave us
with no reason to prefer our nobler impulses to our baser ones.
Moreover, it is his
argument that any truly integrated system — a brain, a computer, the Internet, but also a barometer, a photodiode, a geranium, a sheet of paper — has some calculable Phi
value; consciousness is qualitatively the same in all things, but in terms of intensity and capacity it increases along
with the complexity, «synergy,» and ordering of cognitive information in organized wholes, and along
with the richness of the information it integrates in «holographic» or «crystallized» conceptual structures.
Most of these
arguments go away if everybody in the church is on board
with the mission,
values, and vision.
Consequently, this
argument contributes very little either toward defending the cognitive significance of Stapp's proof or toward clarifying the status of the unknowable spin
values with which the proof deals; the same can be said of his
argument defending the general significance of talk about possibilities.
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.
His legacy as one of the NFL's greatest ever is unquestionable and, depending upon the
value you place on Super Bowl rings in a sport
with 22 different starting players per team, an
argument could be made that Manning is the greatest.
And there is certainly an
argument to be made that,
with as much as the students they're grading are paying in tuition, TAs produce way more
value than they're paid for either way.
It's tough to make a compelling
argument for a quarterback when his team finishes
with the third - worst record in the league, but Rivers is still a talented quarterback
with tremendous
value to the spread.
We can't forever live off our past glories... we are already missing out on players of high
value and we missed the UCL last year which really was one of our main
arguments along
with overpaying wages.
If formula is compared
with breastmilk in terms of nutritional
value, Similac loses the
argument.
While that «live - and - let - live
argument» doesn't fly
with me when it comes to truly non-nutritive foods like sugary birthday treats in the classroom or junk food in cafeterias, I think there's enough evidence (or at least controversy) over the nutritive
value of milk that I'd keep it available.
There are a number of important
arguments for why Scotland should remain part of the United Kingdom: the need to avoid further economic turbulence in already troubled times; the benefits of being a relatively large country
with far - reaching international influence; and the long history and common
values that we share
with the Scots.
While I agree
with your overall point that there is a
value of differentiating
arguments of principle and ultimate
values from political strategy and tactics about how to make change happen, I am somewhat sceptical of the implication that a significant problem has been that modern political philosophy has been too pragmatic or applied.
But to have
value today, Benson's
argument needs to be advanced
with a new twist: identities are not a given; they are constructed through social processes — processes which also condition voting behaviour.
I began intensively lobbying Tory MPs and party activists, arguing that same - sex marriage was consistent
with Conservative
values; that it chimed
with their support for the institution of marriage — an
argument that was later closely echoed by David Cameron in his pro-gay marriage speech to the 2011 Tory party conference.
His failure to do so left the impression that his
arguments had more to do
with electoral expediency than noble
values.
Cognitive psychologists tell us that we deal better
with discrete entities and integers, but the world (and particularly the world of probability) is more continuous... my soapbox
argument against limiting discussion to
values that are «convenient».
The most accepted theory establishes that the orbits of these objects, which travel beyond Neptune, should be distributed randomly, and by an observational bias, their paths must fulfil a series of characteristics: have a semi-major axis
with a
value close to 150 AU (astronomical units or times the distance between the Earth and the Sun), an inclination of almost 0 ° and an
argument or angle of perihelion (closest point of the orbit to our Sun) also close to 0 ° or 180 °.
THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently
with pro-vegetarian
arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards,
values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face
with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil
with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied
with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.
That said, an
argument could be made for the
value of BCAA supplementation
with athletes training several hours per day, but for the rest of us, it's way more sizzle than steak.
In the latest film, the restless twentysomethings who met in 1995 and reconnected in 2004 are in their 40s and married
with kids but are still having the same old
arguments about personal
values and whether it's possible to retain individual will in the context of a long - term romantic relationship.
Even an award - winning documentary is only seen by a relatively small number of people, so there's an
argument to be made for dramatizing the story
with expensive production
values and well - known actors portraying the characters.
To discuss ecosystem services
with students is a way to use
arguments that highlight our dependence on nature, financial
values?
That skill, says Georgetown professor William T. Gormley, consists of three elements: a capacity to spot weakness in other
arguments, a passion for good evidence, and a capacity to reflect on your own views and
values with an eye to possibly change them.
Given this kind of organized opposition to testing, one would expect Brookings, the very definition of a middle - of - the - road think tank, to produce a consensus document that balances the
arguments carefully, saying «yes, testing has some
value,» but «no, there are a lot of problems
with it.»
At least in some cases, and especially in the instance of Sir Dan Moynihan of Harris -
with its unblemished record of good or outstanding Ofsted reports and its at - face -
value impressive performance in league tables - the
argument can go along the lines of «they're worth it».
Kevin Walsh of the University of Alabama is quoted in Eric N. Berg, «
Argument Grows That Teaching of
Values Should Rank
with Lessons,» New York Times, 1 January 1992, p. 32.
There is a slight
value argument going for Lexus
with its $ 84,440 price tag, which undercuts the $ 94,100 M5 and $ 110,700 RS 7.
It represents the least expensive way to pick up any new Lexus sedan, but at $ 38,000 before taxes and delivery, it's tough to make the
value argument when you're staring down non-luxury vehicles that can arrive on your driveway
with much of its ride quality and way more luxury and safety options and doo - dads for much less money.
Size wise, it matches up favorably
with the Audi A5 Cabriolet and Lexus IS Convertible, but those cars cost substantially more, giving Buick an even stronger
value argument (even if it doesn't have the same brand cachet).
On a related note, there's an increasingly common
argument that we should interact
with the natural world because it makes us feel happy, or has other kinds of therapeutic
value.
I disagree
with that (I believe both are equally
valued, and equally valuable, though we should perhaps leave that
argument for another day); I suspect that the world would benefit as the rate of innovation increases in response to these freedoms.
I see and agree
with the
argument that there is
value in brevity.
Similar to the
argument we made for implementing a
value strategy
with small - cap stocks, the risk associated
with a momentum strategy would also be amplified when implemented
with small caps and would generate a higher return premium.