The German army Chief of Staff, Hans von Seeckt, moved doctrine away from what he argued was an excessive focus on encirclement towards one based on speed.

It has been argued that the approach of Mrs Gaskell transferred the focus of attention away from the ' difficult ' novels, not just Charlotte's, but all the sisters, and began a process of sanctification of their private lives.

In his paper " The Function of an International Auxiliary Language ", he argued for the benefits of a regular grammar and advocated a critical focus on the fundamentals of language, unbiased by the idiosyncrasies of national languages, in the choice of an international auxiliary language.

As head of the Open Source Initiative, he argued that advocates should focus on the potential for better products.

He argued that if a focus of a conic section were allowed to move along the line joining the foci, the geometric form would morph or degenerate, one into another.

In Castellio's Treatise on Heretics ( 1554 ), he argued for a focus on Christ's moral teachings in place of the vanity of theology, and he afterward developed a theory of tolerance based on biblical principles.

The Luftwaffe, the OKW argued, was still an offensive weapon, and its primary focus was on producing bomber pilots.

Some social democrats known as " economists " argued that the party should focus on helping industrial workers improve their lot in life.

Rand argued that the primary focus of man's free will is in the choice: ' to think or not to think '.

Some economic experts have argued that the development gap between China and other emerging economies such as Brazil, Argentina and India can be attributed to a large extent to China's early focus on ambitious infrastructure projects, notably mass transport and transit related projects.

Critics since the 18th century have argued that slavery tends to retard technological advancement, since the focus is on increasing the number of slaves doing simple tasks rather than upgrading the efficiency of labour.

It could be argued that because of Rickover's singular focus on reactor operations, and direct line of communications with each nuclear submarine's captain, that this acted against the captains ' war-fighting abilities.

This view was challenged by Leon Morris who argued that because of the focus in the book of Romans on God's wrath, that the concept of hilasterion needed to include the appeasement of God's wrath ( Morris, Apostolic Preaching of the Cross, p 155 ).

Some people have argued that communitarianism's focus on social cohesion raises similarities with nationalistic communism, or various forms of authoritarianism, although supporters contend that there are substantial differences between communitarianism and authoritarianism, and that communitarianism has very little in common with Communism, which they see as not really valuing individual liberty at all.

The passing of the Act seven years later enfranchising " male persons " was, however, a more significant event ; it has been argued that it was the inclusion of the word " male ", thus providing the first statutory bar to women voting, which provided a focus of attack and a source of resentment from which, in time, the women's suffrage movement grew.

While he appeared to have momentum in the early stages, the campaign came to be focused mainly on law-and-order issues, in which, it was argued, the government had not achieved convincing results ; this coincided with a strong focus of the media on a number of egregious crime cases.

Richelieu's motives are the focus of much debate among historians ; some see him as a patriotic supporter of the monarchy, while others view him as a power-hungry cynic ( Voltaire even argued that Richelieu started wars to make himself indispensable to the King ).

In this they were following their training in the Prussian military tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, who had argued that the focus of the offensive must be the enemy's " centre of gravity " ( Schwerpunkt ).

On the other hand, he argued that while Torah was to be the focus of all study, it was also important to integrate the Torah's teachings into one's life.

Psychoanalyst Helen B. Lewis argued that, " The experience of shame is directly about the self, which is the focus of evaluation.

Finkel's opponents argued that the pure focus on the Talmud would automatically create greatness in both scholarship and ethics.

In System Conflict Theory, it is argued that clearance rates cause the police to focus on appearing to solve crimes ( generating high clearance rate scores ) rather than actually solving crimes.

Jerome Skolnick has argued that clearance rates demonstrate the reality of the criminal justice conflict model by encouraging police to focus on appearing to do their job, rather than on actually doing their job.

Wehler, who favored the Primat der Innenpolitik approach, for his part contended that diplomatic history should be treated as a sub-branch of social history, calling for theoretically-based research, and argued that the real focus should be on the study of the society in question.

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

The curve on the card the computer spat back at him couldn't be argued with, however.

Like other scholars of his day ( such as Edward Tylor ), Morgan argued that human societies could be classified into categories of cultural evolution on a scale of progression that ranged from savagery, to barbarism, to civilization.

Austrian economist Jesus Huerta de Soto argued that Friedman's conclusions are based on misleading data ( such as GDP ).

The US Chamber of Commerce argued that the costs of the ADA would be " enormous " and have " a disastrous impact on many small businesses struggling to survive ".

In his sermons on capital sins, Alain argued that sodomy and homicide are the most serious sins, since they call forth the wrath of God, which led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Beginning in 1906, Pennsylvania conservationist Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania argued that President Theodore Roosevelt ’ s conservation speeches were limited to businessmen in the lumber industry and recommended a campaign of youth education and a national policy on conservation education.

However, it has been argued that if both texts were written by the same individual, they should have exactly identical theologies and they should agree on historical questions.

In contrast to romantic theorists Sircello argued for the objectivity of beauty and formulated a theory of love on that basis.

Beauty and Truth have been argued to be nearly synonymous, as reflected in the statement " Beauty is truth, truth beauty " in the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.

Defining it requires a description of the entire phenomenon, as Wittgenstein argued in his lectures on aesthetics.

With the House undecided on whether to mobilize for military action against the encroaching British military force, Henry argued in favor of mobilization.

Some Buddhists have argued on this basis that the act of killing is complicated, and its ethicization is predicated upon intent.

His theological works argued that religious experience is a fundamentally human impulse, not just a Jewish one, and that no religious community could claim a monopoly on religious truth.

This, Thom argued, was a notch on the horizon where a double sunset would occur at midwinter.

It has also been argued that much of the research into long-term antipsychotic maintenance may be flawed due to failure to take into account the role of antipsychotic withdrawal effects on relapse rates.

Critics argued that Whorf's ideas were untestable and poorly formulated and that they were based on badly analyzed or misunderstood data.

has argued that in this report Whorf's linguistic theories exist in a condensed form and that it was mainly through this report that Whorf exerted influence on the discipline of descriptive linguistics.

Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic movement that had been going on at least since 1907 when van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial prototypes.

John Miles Foley held, specifically with reference to the Beowulf debate, that while comparative work was both necessary and valid, it must be conducted with a view to the particularities of a given tradition ; Foley argued with a view to developments of oral traditional theory that do not assume, or depend upon, finally unverifiable assumptions about composition, and that discard the oral / literate dichotomy focused on composition in favor of a more fluid continuum of traditionality and textuality.

Krantz has argued, based on his extrapolation of the shape of its mandible, that Gigantopithecus blacki could have been bipedal.

Many nations and NGOs argued for a total ban on shipment of all hazardous waste to LDCs.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.