Word: argument
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would be suicidal. To conservatives who don't love Giuliani but hate Hillary Clinton, the message is very simple: Don't bother swallowing your principles to stop Clinton because if enough pro-lifers shift to a third party, Rudy loses anyway. The purists are also making a pragmatic argument: If your conscience doesn't guide you, how about self-interest? Take abortion off the table, warns Richard Land, the Southern Baptists' political point man, and "what you do is give the Democrats a license to go hunting for Evangelical votes on other things they care about--on climate change, economic...
...were pro-life." Of course, he adds, "even if he told me he was pro-life, he also told three wives he'd love, honor and cherish them till death do us part." As for Giuliani, he responded to the third-party threat by embracing the very argument his critics despise. "Every poll shows that I would be, by far, the strongest candidate against Hillary Clinton," he said the day after the grenade landed. "There hasn't been one taken in the last six or seven months that shows anything other than I'm the Republican that has the best...
...Dane's grasp of climate science seems shaky at best. The polar bear is far from O.K.: the U.S. Geological Survey reported last month that two-thirds of the population will disappear by 2050 because of shrinking sea ice. But his main argument is still worth considering. Lomborg believes that it would be far too costly to reduce global carbon emissions enough to actually cool the climate. Since warming is coming no matter what we do and poor countries will suffer the most from it, we should instead direct scarce resources to helping those nations adapt to climate change. That...
...spokeswoman Carol Thompson said last week that the board appealed in order to “maintain fairness for all examinees and the integrity of the test.” Gary S. Katzmann, the judge who awarded Currier the break time last week, rejected the board’s argument and cited the potential for pain or medical injury from infection or breast engorgement if Currier were not given extra break time. “Such physical pain constitutes an unfair burden on the mental energies required for this examination,” he wrote in last week?...
...opposition insists that the heirs will be able to keep the castle provided that the agreement is executed in a proper fashion. "Romania does not want to to take back the castle, says Dumitru Puchianu from the center-right Democratic party. "If the royal house has a strong, solid argument they will get it back...