Sentences with phrase «weak arguments on»

Ms. Morthole is trying to justify her continued sinning with very weak arguments on how sinning makes her feel good about herself.

I'm a Christ - follower and I have to say that is either the weakest argument on record or you're a plant.

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Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor and expert on legal ethics, called Daniels» claim that the missing signature invalidates the agreement a «weak argument.»

I tend to invest first and investigate later, so as I was doing due diligence, I realized my argument was for a short on Impinj was weak for the precise reason that commenters had mentioned on my article: strained apparel retailers were willing to invest in a technology that could optimize their inventory.

While the book has weak points — most notably regarding Isaac Backus, the 18th - century baptist minister and author of the important treatise Government and Liberty Described and Ecclesiastical Tyranny Exposed (1778)-- who appears and then disappears without much clarity on how he fits the argument — it is generally an incisive interpretation.

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

But the letter, though good on moral arguments, was weak on tactics.

here's the argument to your stupid hedge bet... which is a weak reason to believe by the way... if there is a god, he is the all knowing, all loving, all accepting kind of god and he will recognize those that led good lives and those that led bad ones and regardless of their religious beliefs will judge them on their actions and be allowed into this heaven.

leave it to atheists to focus on small matters like consistency... sign of a weak argument pointing out flaws in The Unalterable Word of the Almighty!

I know that we've discussed this issue at length in the past, so if you've commented on the topic before, consider presenting what you think to be both the strongest AND THE WEAKEST elements of your own argument... in the spirit of the fast.

It is very interesting that when St. Thomas Aquinas asks if God could have united the nature of an angel to himself, although in the end and on — I think — pretty weak grounds he rejects this argument, he speculates: «There are some who say an angelic nature could not have been assumed because angels not being generated or corrupted are from the moment of their creation perfect in their personality,» (ST III, q. 4, a. 2).

It is, in fact, a cornerstone of an argument pursued by our editor in chief for the past three years, the war - on - the - weak motif.

Moreover, Leclerc's own argument that certain intimate actions binding minimal substances together are themselves substantial principles, is very weak, and seems to rest on the assertion that such relations must be substantial because 1) there are composite material substances, and 2) such composites are composed of other, smaller substances.

Sheila, don't let the arrogant ones on this blog intimidate you with the weak mindedness argument they throw out.

Seeding could diminish Davis» case, but that argument becomes weaker when you realize the Pelicans are just 1.5 games back of the Spurs for the three seed and are knocking on the door for home court advantage.

Giroud had 14 league goals I don't know where you get 19 from you keep adding FA cup goals to boost your weak argument, he played 26 league games the same as Costa who ended on 20 League goals!

The campaign is not only based on extremely weak arguments but also on the idea that Labour should go into the next election saying «We believe not only that free movement should be possible with the countries with which we have the closest economic ties but also from every where else in the world.

Likewise, advocates for smoking bans should be more candid about the limits of the arguments when interventions depend on weak evidence.

A smaller temperature gradient suggests weaker convection, though there's a lot going on though so «all else equal» arguments don't prove much.

Weak arguments and small effects might be hard to defend in debate, but they're still important information that lets us understand what's really going on; you can't understand the world if you're only interested in delivering a crushing blow to those who disagree with you.

Sure, having unlocked a vanity weapon skin would seem like a pretty weak argument to drop cash on a full - price AAA title, but psychology proves that it works.

«The Adventures of Tintin» was Spielberg back on form, for the most part, while Scorsese overcame a weak script to make «Hugo» something pretty magical, and the best argument for 3D to date.

President Reagan used this quip during debates to admonish opponents about falling back on worn and weak arguments.

I was going to start in on the many other weak arguments here, but it would be longer than this excessively long post.

But instead you made a ridiculously weak argument, founded not on logic but on a number of inappropriate analogies.

Such organization of arguments from the strongest to the weakest will help your readers better understand your point as well as it will convince them in to take your side on the issue / topic.

And Stephanie Meyer is a weak reed to hang any argument on, BTW.

On the other hand, a group, whose motivation for your essay is low, is not likely to develop interest from hearing weak arguments.

Yet it may be possible to use other ideas to examine fairness, though chances of success on this argument may be weak (more on that in a moment):

Thanks for once again taking on the unpleasant task of refuting weak and nonsensical arguments in detail.

Of course Mass may feel that a linear regression of average Texas summer temperatures since 1895 provides conclusive evidence for his case that AGW is currently far too weak to play a significant role in the Texas 2011 heatwave (an argument he recycles in his Aug 9 blog post), but it is strange Mass picks on Rupp et al 2012 without mentioning Massey et al 2012 in the same collection of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculation).

Arguments based on Christian morality and national security were perceived to be the weakest.

A smaller temperature gradient suggests weaker convection, though there's a lot going on though so «all else equal» arguments don't prove much.

I entirely share Nurse's disdain for the use of «scientific arguments that on the whole are rather weak and unconvincing, and nearly always involve the cherry - picking of data»: indeed, at Climate Audit, criticism of, for example, repetitive use of Graybill's strip bark bristlecone chronologies, ex post screening and use of contaminated upside - down Tiljander sediments, have been longstanding themes.

But what in fact appears to happen is that the concerns at least of some of those worried about these types of actions, have led them to try and convince society by attacking the science of the majority of climate scientists and to use scientific arguments that on the whole are rather weak and unconvincing, and nearly always involve the cherry - picking of data.

Out of context is a weak argument in interpreting the emails, but claiming they have been changed by electronic transfer tests the level on credulity to destruction.

While such a «missing heat» explanation for a lack of recent warming [i.e., Trenberth's argument that just can not find it yet] is theoretically possible, I find it rather unsatisfying basing an unwavering belief in eventual catastrophic global warming on a deep - ocean mechanism so weak we can't even measure it [i.e., the coldest deep ocean waters are actually warmer than they should be by thousandths of a degree]...

«Today's arguments revealed numerous weak points that the DEA is relying on to thwart this landmark case,» said Eric Steenstra, President of Vote Hemp.

If there is one comment that makes a strong argument on a particular point and many comments that argue the opposite side of that point with weak technical or purely emotional arguments who wins?

We were rather weak on facts and figures, on causes and consequences, and shied away from arguments about practicalities.

FWIW it is my prejudice that the AR4 claim «very likely» «most of the warming» etc. is sufficiently weak to be safe against arguments that do not rely on very high sensitivities e.g. a random walk, with the possible exceptions of some unappreciated dominant forcing or that old standby that «the climate is chaotic to a degree that permits all possible outcomes».

In my experience, the best way of establishing your credibility with technical people is not by attempting to bully or one - up them, but by focusing with laser - sharp focus on the technical issues and potential weak points of the argument.

But it is a pretty weak peg on which to hang any argument.

Also, re «any temperature records for the periods when the Maunder and Dalton minima occurred are pretty thin» and «But it (CET) is a pretty weak peg on which to hang any argument.»

«Risk» argument: Bart may know something about physics, but economics (and» economic risk») are not his strengths, and his ideas on» winners and losers» are weak.

Of all the arguments against acting on climate change, this is the weakest.

(The Hill) • A Trump administration plan to fight California's authority to set its own auto emissions standards relies on «an extraordinarily weak legal argument,» experts say.

tucci started out with an «inference» that had no basis on evidence, and went on to build his «argument» from that obviously weak foundation.

His entire «argument,» such as it was, rested on a weak foundation.

Excellent post with several significant points, but still a focus on tropospheric temperatures as «validation» for the models is a very weak argument.