Arguing for more freedom in school choice, Ryan cites findings that " high-poverty " schools ( like Thomas Jefferson ) consistently under-perform " low-poverty " schools ( like Freeman ) academically, regardless of the financial resources allocated to them.

Arguing that Poland had fallen prey to the radical Jacobinism then at high tide in France, Russian forces invaded the Commonwealth in 1792.

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

Here Mr. Tait had a studio and painted such famous pictures, as " Arguing the Point " in which there is an excellent portrait of Jonathan Bellows.

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 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.

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 idolatry was an unforgivable sin and that the church had no right to readmit lapsed members to communion, he argued that the church could admit to the penitent to penitence-for-life, but only God could give forgiveness.

Arguing it was the French or Westphalian state and not Hanover, which had emancipated the Jews, the government took the decisions of the German Confederation on the rights of the Jews, in Johann Smidt's manipulated formulation, as the legal grounds.

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 freed serfs were being sold into wage slavery, in which the bourgeoisie had replaced landowners, Narodnism aimed to become a political force opposed to the phenomenon.

( Arguing that since 1947 many more people had shifted from Dutch to French, French-speaking Members of Parliament demanded that those six municipalities to be detached from the Dutch-speaking area and added to bilingual Brussels, which was fiercely resisted by their Flemish counterparts.

Arguing that the study had errors, the data was reanalyzed by fluoridation opponent John A. Yiamouyiannis, whose results indicated no statistically significant difference in tooth decay rates among children in fluoridated and nonfluoridated communities.

Arguing that no vice-presidential candidate had a majority, they selected Joaquín Vicuña, brother of the president of the senate, even though he only got 48 electoral votes ( 11, 82 %).

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 the degree to which ethnic tensions stem from the dynamics of inter-ethnic disparity, dominance, and repression has been critically unaccounted for, Greg Meyjes proposes a cultural rights approach to understanding and managing ethnic conflicts.

" Arguing for a sort of contract between the sovereign and the people, they have been considered as the precursors of social contract theories.

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

" 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 the themes fitted de Vere's known interests, he proceeded to link the specific annotations to passages in Shakespeare.

" Arguing that the college suffered from " a growing attachment to the status quo that, if unattended, is lethal to Bennington's purpose and pedagogy ," the Board of Trustees " solicit ... concerns and proposals on a wide and open-ended range of issues from every member of the faculty, every student, every staff member, every alumna and alumnus, and dozens of friends of the College.

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 in favour of independence, President Mangope claimed that the move would enable its population to negotiate with South Africa from a stronger position: " We would rather face the difficulties of administering a fragmented territory, the wrath of the outside world, and accusations of ill-informed people.

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 sectional inequality resulted from the concentration of manufacturing in the North, and from the North's supremacy in communications, transportation, finance, and international trade, his ideas paralleled old physiocratic doctrines that all profits of manufacturing and trade come out of the land.

Arguing in favor of a Romanian communist society during the late 1940s, Pătrăşcanu indicated a series of essential steps to this goal: after discarding all legislation passed by the Ion Antonescu regime and purging the administrative apparatus, a political amnesty was to be declared, all properties upwards of 50 hectares were to be confiscated, the National Bank passed into state property while trade unions came under government supervision and a new labour code was enforced, and civil liberties were enhanced.

Arguing this battle proved the validity of Mahanian doctrine, the navalists took control in the Senate, broke the House coalition, and authorized a rapid three-year buildup of all classes of warships.

He also contributed original scores to several documentary films, including Arguing the World and Jack: The Last Kennedy Film.

Arguing the " renewal " plan violated the donor's original intention of the gift, Newcomb's heirs filed and lost two suits against the university to invoke the restrictions of Newcomb's lifetime gifts and bequest in her will.

Arguing against vekhovtsys ( hardly original ) idea of bringing Orthodoxy and the Russian intellectual elite together ( again ), Merezhkovsky, in an open letter to N. Berdyaev, wrote: Orthodoxy is the very soul of the Russian monarchy, and monarchy is the Orthodoxy's carcass.

Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Horace Mann ( 1796 – 1859 ) won widespread approval from modernizers, especially among fellow Whigs, for building public schools.

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 for the plaintiff Pollock was Joseph Choate, one of the most eminent Wall Street lawyers of his day.

Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers, especially in his Whig Party, for building public schools.

Arguing that it was immoral to believe things for which one lacks evidence, his 1877 essay " The Ethics of Belief " contains the famous principle " it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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

Looking back at the McCarthy era over 40 years later as an interviewee in the film Arguing the World, Glazer reflected on the stance he and some other liberal anti-communists took: " Even at the time and also in retrospect we never managed to figure out a good position, one that was respectable and moral and responsive to all the complicated issues raised ... I still don't think we have one.

Arguing that Yagan was defending his land against invasion, Lyon said Yagan should not be considered a criminal but a prisoner of war.

Arguing that Cuza's decision was " the very condemnation and crushing of the law ", Kogălniceanu worried that peasants, informed of their future, could no longer be persuaded to carry out corvées.

Arguing on behalf of the state was Oregon Senior Assistant Attorney General Robert Atkinson.

Arguing that this was never actually the case, he asks the question as to why modern westerners believe such a hypothesis, noting that in portraying past sexuality as repressed, it provides a basis for the idea that in rejecting past moral systems, future sexuality can be free and uninhibited, a " garden of earthly delights ".

Arguing that " no man deserved to starve to pay an insulting, insolent physician ", and obtaining his herbal supplies from the nearby countryside, Culpeper was able to provide his services for free.

Arguing against this view is the fact that after the SCR's Instruction the maniple — even as an optional vestment — was completely omitted from subsequent editions of the Catholic Church's Roman Missal, the book used by priests to celebrate Mass.

Arguing that agriculture was as important to national progress as commerce and manufacturing, Findlay succeeded in persuading the full Senate to divide the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures into two separate committees.

Arguing in favor of extending the revolution from Ukraine to the Balkans, and indicating his belief that the peasantry was being alienated by internationalist messages, Rakovsky cited concerns that centralism was placing Soviet influence in peril, and called for " carrying out a correct theoretical and practical solution to the national question within the boundaries of the Soviet Union ".

Arguing as to whether a pitch was a ball or a strike ( which is a judgment call by the umpire ) is strictly prohibited by Major League Baseball rules.

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 ).