Sentences with phrase «with coherent arguments»

During the AV referendum in 2011 David Farrell and colleagues found that just 12 % of statements made in the print media were backed up with coherent arguments.

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There was a coherent argument to be made that opposition to the war in Iraq is not inconsistent with a vigorous defense of American interests, but the Democrats» uncertain history on national security since Vietnam hurt their credibility.

It is with the idea and in the hope of advancing towards a solution of the problem that I here venture, basing my argument on the widest possible zoological and biological grounds, to put forward a coherent view of the «thinking Earth» in which I believe we may find, undistorted but yet embodying the corrections required by a change of order, the whole process of Life and of vitalization.

If the argument in favor of the correspondence of an entertained possibility of a state of affairs to an actual state of affairs is entirely based on coherence and consistency, we seem to be left with the question as to what more is affirmed, when we claim correspondence, than that this is the most coherent and consistent belief to hold?

Yet little official Church teaching has engaged with its arguments in a detailed and coherent way.

This final part of Griffin's argument for the process theodicy turns on an assumption that he appears to have borrowed by Hartshorne, viz., that the so - called «social view» of omnipotence is the only alternative to the monopolistic (and thus to the standard) view.9 The critique of the latter thus established the former as (in Griffin's words) «the only view that is coherent if one is talking about the power a being with the greatest conceivable amount of power could have over a created, i.e. an actual world» (GPE 269).

Despite the opprobrium that Mr Blair's interventions draw from Labour's new model army, his analysis and political approach remains the only coherent argument coming from the left of centre and Labour's leadership appears to be out of step with the Party.

With so few statements backed up by coherent arguments many people in the UK are being exposed to unbalanced accounts of many of the important issues of the day.

It is original and logically coherent, the argument set out simply but with complete and convincing authority.

This is a contrarian group that is re-hashing old arguments and not using the state - of - the - art scientific literature in good faith to come up with a coherent analysis that counters the scientific findings synthesized in the IPCC assessment reports, which ARE by leading experts.

It's not that he doesn't inform the debate with robust argument; it's not that Monbiotists too, lack coherent and powerful arguments; it's that an army of ciphers exists, merely to overwhelm them.

In addition to the disconnect with reality, it lacks a coherent argument in favor of petroleum fuels.

My willingness to engage with Judith comes only because her qualifications are such that she should understand the science and form logically coherent arguments, and evaluate bad ones.

So we can see that the «democratised» model is really an opportunistic use of language — democracy is adopted as a universal virtue and associated with a value - laden cause, rather than representing a coherent argument.

Managing Associate Mirela Metea, experienced litigator with extended proven competences in Banking & Finance, Corporate / M & A and Commercial areas of practice, awarded the first prize to a talented student, taking into consideration arguments presented, logical thinking as well as a coherent and persuasive presentation.

The article is meant as a guide for lawyers, because putting Holland's strategies to work in court requires some decent legal research skills along with the ability to assemble a coherent legal argument and defend it in court.