Arguing in favour of this, historian Tamsyn Barton gives an example of what appears to be Mesopotamian influence on the zodiac, which included two signs – the Balance and the Scorpion, as evidenced in the Dendera Zodiac ( in the Greek version the Balance was known as the Scorpion ’ s Claws ).

Arguing that Rotuma had been ceded to Great Britain and not to Fiji, these rebels declared in 1987 independence of Republic of Rotuma and were charged with sedition.

Between 2010 and his death in April 2012 he worked on a book, Arguing for Independence: Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues, which examines six cases for Scottish independence: the democratic, the economic, the social, the international, the cultural and the environmental.

Arguing along the lines of his theoretical work of the 1950s, he claimed that anthropologists rarely succeeded in entering the minds of the people they studied, and so ascribed to them motivations which more closely matched themselves and their own culture, not the one they are studying.

Arguing against the claim that fewer poor pupils would be served by its replacement, Teather claimed that it would actually be targeted better at those who actually needed government support.

Arguing that their wartime sacrifices had not been properly rewarded, veterans claimed that they were entitled to state protection from poverty and unemployment on the home front.

Arguing that Jefferson and Madison had been elected because of de facto slave representation in the Electoral College, Federalists further claimed that Republican trade policies broke the original understanding that a balance was necessary between agrarian and commercial interests.

Arguing McCarroll was owed his part of the band's five-album deal with Creation, the case hoped to set a legal precedent, as McCarroll would have claimed compensation for two LPs on which he had not played.

Arguing that the British would retreat from India as they had from Singapore and Burma, Patel stressed that the campaign start without any delay.

Arguing that attacking helpless people was cowardly and dishonourable, Patel emphasised that Sikh actions would result in further attacks against Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan.

Arguing that a free election was impossible under the conditions that existed in communist-held territory, Diệm announced in July 1955 that the scheduled election on reunification would not be held.

Arguing that all men are born free, Louis declared in 1315 that French serfs would be freed, although each serf would have to pay for the privilege.

Arguing that the revolution needed not a mere parliamentary organization but a party of action which would function as a scientific body of direction, a vanguard of activists, and a central control organ, the Tenth Party Congress banned factions within the party, initially intending it only to be a temporary measure after the shock of the Kronstadt Rebellion.

Arguing that British naval power could not stop Russia, Chamberlain favoured a coordinated policy with the United States and Japan, in which the three powers would demand that any concessions extracted from China by Russia should be shared among the other powers.

" Arguing that things are not loved because they are great but become great because they are loved, he asserts that if merely approved of, Pimlico " will remain Pimlico, which would be awful ," but if " loved with a transcendental tie and without any earthly reason " it " in a year or two might be fairer than Florence.

Arguing that people " would only accept apologetics [...] or executions ", he contended: " After Buchenwald and Auschwitz, even honest people cannot afford being objective ".

Arguing before the Massachusetts Supreme Court, Sumner noted that schools for blacks were physically inferior and that segregation bred harmful psychological and sociological effects — arguments that would be made in Brown v. Board of Education over a century later.

Arguing would ensue between Trudy and the adult ( often involving more painful stuff to happen to the defendant ).

Arguing that condemning the Amistad Africans would render the principles and ideals of the Constitution worthless, he exhorts the judges to free the Africans.

Arguing that Miller should be confined to her home and could forego Internet access and cellphone use, Miller's lawyers suggested that " impairing her unrestricted ability to do her job as an investigative journalist ... would present the strictest form of coercion to her ".

Arguing that money spent on the BTEC program " would be better spent on research on AIDS ," Ansell considered the destruction of the animals an outrageous waste of good livestock.

Arguing that if Kripal had been loyal he would have taken the cyanide pill to kill himself, Sanathan concludes that Kripal was a police informer.

Arguing that law and politics cannot be separated, the founders of Critical Legal Studies Movement found necessary to criticize its absence at the level of theory.

Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.

Arguing that Arnor and Gondor are representative of the classical dichotomy of light and dark, blessed and forsaken, good and evil-these analyses reference the abandonment by the heirs of Valandil and the absence of a White Tree as points of stylistic comparison to Gondor, with its fortresses and heavily populated capital city, its possession of a White Tree, and its well-equipped military and armaments.

Arguing that a French-speaking person could only understand Walloon with difficulty, especially in its eastern forms, Jules Feller ( 1859 – 1940 ) insisted that Walloon had an original " superior unity " which made it a language.

Arguing that the current aboriginal leadership is unresponsive to the needs of its people, Allard argues that the federal government should pay every native citizen $ 300 per month, bypassing bands and councils entirely.

Arguing the practice to be elitist and wasteful of public funds, the Labour government of Tony Blair, upon its election in 1997, abolished the Assisted Places Scheme.

" Arguing a year later that " with nuclear weapons more widely available, deterrence is decreasingly effective and increasingly hazardous ," the authors concluded that although " it is tempting and easy to say we can't get there from here,.

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* Egil Asprem, Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture 2012

Arguing for the ultimate compatibility of Daoist and Confucian teachings, He argued that " Laozi fact was in agreement with the Sage " ( sic ).

Arguing in favor of the project, he stated famously that America absolutely must connect " the Frost Belt with the Sun Belt.

* Arguing with David Milliband over the Reform Treaty in October 2007

Arguing from his own results with the animal Nim Chimpsky and his analysis of others results, Herbert Terrace criticized the idea that chimps can produce new sentences.

* Arguing with Liberal's view on pornography in March 2004

Arguing that he completely ignores the concept that the U. S. might undertake any foreign interventions with good intentions, she asserts that his book is not easy to read, and that his " glib and caustic tone " are distracting.

Arguing against the absolutist position, Leibniz offers a number of thought experiments with the purpose of showing that there is contradiction in assuming the existence of facts such as absolute location and velocity.

" Implacable Justice: Arguing Politics and Theories of Law via the Encounter with Powerful Alien Species.

Arguing that this did not amount to annexation at the time, subsequent legal actions have been interpreted as consistent with an annexation.

Arguing that no one is entitled to direct and control another's thought, he stated that authorities should have " no concern with matters of opinion " and concluded: " We can live together peacefully only when we control our intolerance.

Arguing with Li time after time in the trip, Guan packs up to return home out of spite.

Arguing that Ulster represented a nation distinct from Ireland and Britain, they called for an independent state to be run by a series of Community Councils, with an economy based on distributism.

Arguing with the referee is authorized ; however, intelligence and sportsmanship may become suspect if it continues unabated.

Arguing that the government is insufficiently concerned with securing the U. S. border, they have organized several state chapters, with the intention of providing law enforcement agencies with evidence of immigration law violations.