Word: argument
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...instance, turns up plenty of blog references to Palin's claim that she could see Russia "from [her] house" as her way of saying that being governor of Alaska is a foreign policy credential. The only problem: Real Sarah Palin never said it. Fey did, spoofing Palin's argument that one can see Russia from Alaskan territory. But who can remember those details? If Real You gets in an argument with Public You, Public You wins every time...
...Williams and the colony's first governor, John Winthrop, who coined the phrase city on a hill in a 1630 sermon to describe his hopes for the settlement. That vision--of a community of God's chosen people that would inspire the world--forms the core of Vowell's argument: that the Puritans' beliefs begot an American exceptionalism that, at its best, undergirded a nation's faith in liberty and equality and at its worst helped justify misadventures from South Vietnam to Abu Ghraib...
...Part of that controversial move was the decision to also abstain from the Division I-AA playoffs, a move that Orleans became well-known for defending. The argument voiced by the Ivy League’s presidents, then and now, is that football is just different from other sports, and that the pursuit of gridiron glory would encourage Ivy schools to cut academic corners in pursuit of highly skilled athletes...
...number one priority”—and entreated the United States to follow suit. “There is a domestic part and an international part to our [environmental] legislation,” Dimas said. “The domestic part is giving us the moral argument to ask other countries—not only developing countries but also countries like the U.S.—to come along and participate in fighting climate change.” Dimas touted several recent pieces of legislation as evidence of Europe’s leadership role in environmental issues, including...
...detainees from the general prison population until individually cleared of suspicion by the FBI." The U.S. District Court of New York dismissed most of his claims, which the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in June 2007. But the Appeals court also found the parts of Iqbal's argument alleging the involvement of Mueller and Ashcroft to be plausible. Among Iqbal's evidence: a memo from Ashcroft sent to subordinates "outlining how the classification system for Arab and Muslim detainees would be carried out." What's at Stake: Defining the proper procedures for identifying and interrogating suspected terrorists...