Sentences with phrase «weak case for»

That's a long list of assumptions and best - case conditions adding up to an altogether weak case for arming teachers.

While it's no surprise that Pruitt and the president have delivered on their threat, the repeal proposal itself is an exercise in evasion and omission that makes an embarrassingly weak case for axing the CPP.

It's important for policymakers to know that graduate school enrollment is exacerbating the black - white debt gap, but there is at best a weak case for calling out for - profit schools in that trend.

Remarkably, the man who was instrumental in the first renaissance makes the weakest case for sociobiology that I have read for quite a while.

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A case in point: Beauty products, which generate about 15 % of department store visits, became a chronically weak spot for Macy's about five years ago, as it ceded market share to the likes of Ulta and Sephora.

In Chappelle's recent stand - up special «The Bird Revelation,» which premiered on Netflix New Year's Eve, the comedian did an extended bit on the women who accused Louis C.K. of unwanted masturbation, calling them «weak» for letting C.K.'s behavior affect them — or in one woman's case, stopping her from pursuing a career in comedy.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

The case for lower interest rates is weaker, but most forecasters still expect the Bank of Canada will wait at least a year to raise borrowing costs.

With its warnings of depleted bank reserves, weak governance, and political uncertainty, the IMF's account reads more like the analysis of a war - ravaged economic basket - case than the prospects for a developed economy in one of the richest economic zones in the world.

Because China begins the process with the highest investment level in history, the extent of the transformation must exceed that of any other case, and it must occur at a time when weak Chinese demand is compounded by weak global demand, thereby reducing productive investment opportunities for the private sector.

This is based on a simple economic model that states not all production (financial services in this case) will relocate to the large economy (the EU) as the small economy (UK) is able make up for its lack of competitiveness by having a weaker currency.

This generally supports the case that Living Goods offers high quality products, but because our experience on the site visit may have been non-representative and there are many other potential factors that may affect the effectiveness of drug treatments aside from following storage procedures for drugs properly, we consider it to be only weak evidence in support of the quality of Living Goods» drug treatments.

But she did suggest that the case for stimulating aggregate demand is weaker now than it was a few months ago.

The Case for Banning Payday Lending: Snapshots from Four Key States (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle of debt.

The conventional economic case for increasing short - term interest rates was really quite weak.

In the case of Cenovus, price realizations for Canadian heavy oil have been weak, thereby reducing profitability.

The labour market has also remained weak, with the unemployment rate continuing to hover around 5 1/4 to 5 1/2 per cent, as has been the case for the past 18 months or so.

Before focusing on the case for emerging markets, it is worth disposing of two myths: EM stocks are cheap and they are a play on a weak U.S. dollar.

But the case for broad - based benefit expansions — including for very wealthy beneficiaries — seems weak.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

that I am making a weak argument for my case... IM offended that a «smart» person woud assume such logic..

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Even if we are doing something good, others with weak conscience might perceive it as a stumbling block, the means of another's downfall: in that case we are in some sense partly responsible for that stumbling.

If we read carefully, we see that Paul is actually denouncing stipends, and for the same reason given in the case of meat consumption — that the strong should limit their freedom in order to avoid causing «scandal» for the weaker members.

If there's only one argument for God, and even it scarcely seems conclusive, that's a pretty weak case.

A weak case can be made for permitting abortions on the grounds that responsible people disagree on the matter.

In this explanation of why he is not a Christian, Keith Parsons discusses the role that Christianity has played in perpetuating suffering throughout human history, the bizarre doctrine of inflicting eternal punishment on persons for having the wrong beliefs, the composition, inconsistencies, and absurdities of the New Testament Gospels, William Lane Craig's flawed case for the resurrection of Jesus, the role of legendary development and hallucinations in early Christianity, and C.S. Lewis» weak justifications for the Christian prohibition on premarital se - x.

In one important way, Intelligent Design's argument is in a much weaker position than traditional cosmological arguments, for empirical results in biology could show that the mechanisms of neo-Darwinism are sufficient to explain the existence of complex biological forms, and in this case the motivation for Intelligent Design's theory would collapse.

Normally I can find massive flaws in Wenger's decisions and tactics, but in this case I must say the players were primarily to fault for the weak play.

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.

In the case of Mancity being invincible and can cope with the lost of any player is quite untrue, is noticed that when company or toure is not playing mancity tend to be a lot weaker, and that has been seen in many games for the past 2 years.

«With wages squeezed and inflation increasing, fans paying out for tickets, club merchandise and TV packages want the most value they can for their money — a weaker pound means that just isn't the case.

But if he decides to sell Gibbs, Debuchy, Jenkinson and Perez in this current window for the sole aim of to recoup and to rationalize his current first team squad and also to strengthen any weak position in his current first team squad with new incoming signing additions, no Gooner will pull any case with him for doing that.

But while the case for that was much weaker, both home fans and players were dismayed.

Similarly, in the case of twins, a carrier that works well for the bigger, stronger twin may not work well for the smaller, weaker twin.

Further, even if we were to grant that Pettit is right to characterise the republican tradition as united by freedom as non-domination, the case for his preferred counter-majoritarian institutions would remain weak.

- No, it's not the case that libertarians are so weak minded that they fall for «marketing», as you seem to imply.

The report comes amid suggestions that the case for HS2 is weaker than ever following last week's EU Referendum result.

My instinct would be that the best (and pretty weak) case for good faith, reasonable proportionality, etc would relate not at all to the group of protestors who were contained, but either to some argument relating to the resource pressures of policing adjacent events, fears of the risks of issues involved in one becoming mixed up in the other, etc, etc which (at its very best) would be a highly pre-emptive and precautionary approach to a situation where there was no existing problem to be contained.

The economic case for it is weak and the grant should be scrapped instead saving # 451 million.

While this newspaper would not have made this change at this stage, we acknowledge that the economic case for the higher rate is weak.

The case for an additional station at Heathrow, which would cost an extra # 2 billion, was dismissed as «weak», although the transport secretary said there may be a «strategic case» for considering the link.

«I believe people will see the case for us being stronger together and weaker apart, for a UK founded on the devolution of power, but also on the partnership that brings us stability, cooperation and mutual support,» Mr Brown said.

«It's astonishing that the attorney general's office felt that their case was so weak they would withdraw five felonies and accept a misdemeanor in full satisfaction... I think the reason for their decision is they have no confidence they could convict George of any felony of any kind at all,» Jones said.

Speaking to Politics.co.uk, a case worker for the Nigerian national said he was now so weak he had lost his sight and could not stand up.

In this case, centrist voters might fear that a vote for Labour would be a vote for Nicola Sturgeon as the puppet - master of a weak Labour government.

Yet the case for them is weaker now than it was when Conservatives and Lib Dems fought heroically against them five years ago.

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

When it comes to other changes, including land use, habitat fragmentation and extinction, the case for a global tipping point is even weaker.

Myers has produced worst - case and best - case scenarios for each region, but I think that these are perhaps the weakest part of the book.