In his speech, Elihu argues for God's power, redemptive salvation, and absolute rightness in all his conduct.

Latour suggests that about 90 % of contemporary social criticism in academia displays one of two approaches which he terms “ the fact position and the fairy position .” ( p. 237 ) The fact position is anti-fetishist, arguing that “ objects of belief ” ( e. g., religion, arts ) are merely concepts onto which power is projected ; the “ fairy position ” argues that individuals are dominated, often covertly and without their awareness, by external forces ( e. g., economics, gender ).

He furthermore argues that this legacy of imperialism or cultural imperialism is still very influential in international systems of power.

He argues that there is a relation between political power and democide.

Robert K. Merton comments that Sumner's additional characterization robbed the concept of some analytical power because, Merton argues, centrality and superiority are often correlated, but need to be kept analytically distinct.

In " The Master's Dollhouse: Rear Window ," Tania Modleski argues that Hitchock's film, Rear Window, is an example of the power of male gazer and the position of the female as a prisoner of the " master's dollhouse ".

The organization argues that the potential of nuclear power to mitigate global warming is marginal, referring to the IEA energy scenario where an increase in world's nuclear capacity from 2608 TWh in 2007 to 9857 TWh by 2050 would cut global greenhouse gas emissions less than 5 % and require 32 nuclear reactor units of 1000MW capacity built per year until 2050.

Although Rousseau argues that sovereignty ( or the power to make the laws ) should be in the hands of the people, he also makes a sharp distinction between the sovereign and the government.

Davidson ( 1961 ) argues that Martin's injunction against slavery was not a condemnation of slavery itself, but rather driven through fear of " infidel power ".

Historian Albert Mathiez argues that the authority of the Committee of Public Safety was based on the necessities of war, as those in power realized that deviating from the will of the people was a temporary emergency response measure in order to secure the ideals of the Republic.

Faludi argues that while many of those in power are men, most individual men have little power.

Bart D. Ehrman argues that apocalyptic parts of the Bible, including the New Testament, see suffering as due to cosmic evil forces, that God for mysterious reasons has given power over the world, but which will soon be defeated and things will be set right.

Thomas ( 2003 ) argues that Pitt's power was based not on his family connections but his extraordinary parliamentary skills by which he dominated the House of Commons.

William's biographer David Bates argues that the former explanation is more likely, explaining that the balance of power had recently shifted in Wales and that William would have wished to take advantage of the changed circumstances to extend Norman power.

Murray Rothbard argues that the amount of gold available is not a bar to a gold standard since the free market will determine the purchasing power of gold money based on its supply.

Biographer Tim Pat Coogan sees his time in power as being characterised by economic and cultural stagnation, while Diarmaid Ferriter argues that the stereotype of De Valera as an austere, cold and even backward figure was largely manufactured in the 1960s and is misguided.

She argues that subversion occurs through the enactment of an identity that is repeated in directions that go back and forth which then results in the displacement of the original goals of dominant forms of power.

This interpretation argues that any large urban center in Mesoamerica could be referred to as " Tollan " and its inhabitants as Toltecs — and that it was common practice among ruling lineages in Postclassic Mesoamerica to strengthen claims to power by claiming Toltec ancestry.

C. S. Lewis argues that when talking about omnipotence, referencing " a rock so heavy that God cannot lift it " is nonsense just as much as referencing " a square circle "; that it is not logically coherent in terms of power to think that omnipotence includes the power to do the logically impossible.

Foucault also argues that madness was silenced by Reason, losing its power to signify the limits of social order and to point to the truth.

Foucault argues between the 17th and 18th centuries a new, more subtle form of power was being exercised transnationally.

However, Pol Pot biographer David Chandler argues that the bombing " had the effect the Americans wanted – it broke the Communist encirclement of Phnom Penh ".

An exculpation is a defense in which a defendant argues that despite the fact they committed and are guilty of the crime, tort, or other wrong and have a liability to compensate the victim, they should be exculpated because of special circumstances that operated in favor of the defendant at the time they broke the law.

In criminal law, irresistible impulse is a defense by excuse, in this case some sort of insanity, in which the defendant argues that they should not be held criminally liable for their actions that broke the law, because they could not control those actions.

As a justification defense, the " urban survival syndrome " is offered to bolster self-defense claims in which a defendant argues that he or she should not be held criminally responsible for actions which broke the law, as the defendant was objectively reasonable in believing his or her lethal actions were necessary for survival.

He argues that the anti-Semitic ' Jewish financier ' stereotype was present first, and indeed was established in British culture quite some time before the scandal broke.

Christopher Ehret argues on this basis that there are two possible homelands for Semitic, Northern Mesopotamia where Western Semitic broke away from Eastern Semitic ; or the Levant.

Abdulaziz Sachedina argues that the original jihad according to his version of Shi ' ism was permission to fight back against those who broke their pledges.

He argues that because a child's suffering is so horrible and cannot easily be ex-plained, it forces people into a crucial test of faith: either we must believe everything or we must deny everything, and who, Paneloux asks, could bear to do the latter?

The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if they were just to be killed ; however, the text goes on to state that Miriam, his daughter, chided him for his lack of care for his wife's feelings, persuading him to recant and marry Jochebed again.

Although this culture has conventionally been identified with the migration of the Gothic ethnos into the region from the Northwest, Todd argues that its most important origin is Scytho-Sarmatian.

In Dunn's work, Privatizing Poland, she argues that the expansion of the multinational corporation, Gerber, into Poland in the 1990s imposed Western, neoliberal governmentality, ideologies, and epistemologies upon the post-soviet persons hired.

Mircea Eliade argues that the imagery used in some parts of the Hebrew Bible reflects a " transfiguration of history into myth ".

Ambrose argues that Eisenhower, by not participating in the Geneva agreement, had kept the U. S out of Vietnam ; nevertheless, with the formation of SEATO, he had in the end put the U. S. back into the conflict.

In his book Knowledge and its Limits, Williamson argues that the concept of knowledge cannot be analyzed into a set of other concepts — instead, it is sui generis.

While going over the stolen books ( and nearly getting caught by the firehouse's Mechanical Hound ), Mildred argues with Montag that books have no meaning and questions why Montag dragged her into this.

In " Memex: Getting Back on the Trail ", Tim Oren argues that Bush's original vision expressed in AWMT describes a "... private device into which public encyclopedia's and colleague's trails might be inserted to be joined with the owner's own work.

Egyptologist Erik Hornung observes that Egyptian Christians continued to mummify corpses ( an integral part of the Osirian beliefs ) until it finally came to an end with the arrival of Islam, and argues for an association between the passion of Jesus and Osirian traditions, particularly in the apocryphal gospel of Nicodemus and Christ's descent into Hades.

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They point to the symbolism of wine and the importance it held in the mythology surrounding both Dionysus and Jesus Christ ; Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superior to Dionysus.

Music journalist Dave Rimmer argues that the " first punk kids in London envisioned waging a revolution against the corruption that had undeniably crept into a becalmed and boring rock scene.

John W. Maynor, argues that Bill Clinton was interested in these notions and that he integrated some of them into his 1995 " new social compact " State of the Union Address.

Legal scholar Kenji Yoshino argues that the history of conversion therapy can be divided broadly into three phases: an early Freudian period, a period of mainstream approval of conversion therapy during a time when the mental health establishment became the " primary superintendent " of sexuality, and a post-Stonewall period wherein the mainstream medical profession disavowed conversion therapy.

Franks argues that by keeping the ships at sea the Iraqis were deceived into believing a U. S. attack was yet to come from the north through Turkey, though Colin Powell and others have questioned his view ( Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward, 2004 ).

" Professor Paul Smith argues that, " into the ‘ progressive ’ strain of modern Conservatism he simply will not fit.

' He argues that one of the main reasons for introducing rule utilitarianism was to do justice to the general rules that people need for moral education and character development and he proposes that “ a difference between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism can be introduced by limiting the specificity of the rules, i. e., by increasing their generality .” This distinction between a ‘ specific rule utilitarianism ’ ( which collapses into act utilitarianism ) and ‘ general rule utilitarianism ’ forms the basis of Hare ’ s two-level utilitarianism.

However, the historian Kaiming Chiu argues in his The Introduction of Spectacles Into China that spectacles were introduced into China as far back as the late 13th century.

In the course of his existential analytic, Heidegger argues that Dasein, who finds itself thrown into the world amidst things and with others, is thrown into its possibilities, including the possibility and inevitability of one's own mortality.

Lysander Spooner, a 19th century lawyer and staunch supporter of a right of contract between individuals, in his essay No Treason, argues that a supposed social contract cannot be used to justify governmental actions such as taxation, because government will initiate force against anyone who does not wish to enter into such a contract.

He developed the Anatolian Hypothesis, which argues that Proto-Indo-Europeans lived 2, 000 years before the Kurgans, in Anatolia, later diffusing throughout the Mediterranean and into Central and Northern Europe.

Dr. Barbara L. Fredrickson, Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab and Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, argues that hope "... comes into play when our circumstances are dire ", when " things are not going well or at least there ’ s considerable uncertainty about how things will turn out ".