Sentences with phrase «well as some red herrings»

A typical law school exam is as follows: You will be asked to draft several long essays based on prompts (usually fact patterns), often with the aim of «issue spotting» — facts are peppered in that raise potential legal issues, as well as some red herrings designed to throw you off.

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And although you call that notion by ausphor a red herring, there is good reason to consider those two notions as distinct, especially when all of what Paul has to say (outside of his own alleged personal experience) is hearsay.

Speaking as a US parent, I believe the «disruptive» defense for putting kids «in their place» (as well as the «safety» bit - see mother and toddler kicked off a public transit bus for noise) are often mere red herring in a culture that, no matter what lip service it may pay to «what about the CHILDREN?!»

BMI is only one indicator, and not an entirely sound one, of health in children; and I think that using it as a measurement of good nutrition work in schools is a red herring.

Red herrings are solemnly dispersed, as well as a key clue, which is dropped with a disconcerting lack of subtlety.

For as ridiculous as the premise may be (and it becomes even more so as the story progresses), «Non-Stop» does a good job of building suspension by throwing an almost endless barrage of red herrings at the audience.

Other flaws are evident as well — a religious subtext that is never adequately developed, a red herring the size of a blue whale, etc. — though they are minor by comparison.

In this class you'll learn what you'll need to know about the thriller and mystery market including: what is hot in the suspense market now, the do's and don'ts of writing intense fiction, the importance of pace well as twists and red herrings, how to research, plotting and outline (to storyboard or not to storyboard?)

The discussion of earnings is a bit of a red herring unless you also discuss the profit margins of each product as well.

Arguments both for and against often appear somewhat tangential and include more than a few red herrings as well.

Their foods include chicken & turkey, red meat, herring & salmon, and weight management formulas, as well as canned foods that are 95 percent meat - based.

To attempt to bring this all back to where I began, I think that light, as splendid as it is, might indeed be a bit of a red herring, but perhaps for figurative painting as well.

Your father uses similar red herring style arguments as well.

Bringing up ground level ozone (a genuine issue with recorded increases in asthma as well) as a red herring feels like special pleading to me.

It is an example of a «red herring» fallacy — poisoning the well, as it were.

The argument to «learn what else drives climate» is a complete red herring, as if scientists are not already figuring out everything they can (which in turn is then being repeatedly re shaped to use to try to refute Climate Change by «skeptic» websites, as is everything), and is just used as another false refutation of, or confusion on, the basic assessment and risk range that the at this point fairly well known and well substantiated general concept of Climate Change represents.