Decina argued, inter alia, that he had not engaged in criminal conduct because he did not voluntarily strike the school girls.

Former Attorney General William Wirt, the Cherokee's lawyer, argued that the challenged Georgia statute was void, inter alia, " ecause it is repugnant to a law of the United States passed in 1803 entitled ' an act to regulate trade and intercourse with Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers.

Furthermore, they argued that many of the typological features of the supposed Altaic languages, such as agglutinative morphology and SOV word order, usually co-occur in languages.

Kant argued that the goal of humanity it to achieve perfect happiness and virtue ( the summum bonum ) and believed that an afterlife must exist in order for this to be possible, and that God must exist to provide this.

Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance survival and reproductive success.

Supporters of the withdrawal argued that it was a necessity in order to test and build a limited National Missile Defense to protect the United States from nuclear blackmail by a rogue state.

He faced him and argued with him in order that he might arouse his anger so that he might be tortured and martyred, but it did not happen.

Chomsky argued that in order to explain language, we needed a theory like generative grammar, which not only attributed internal representations but characterized their underlying order.

Carrington argued that a warrant from a Government minister, the Earl of Halifax was valid authority, even though there was no statutory provision or court order for it.

Instead, these efforts, it is argued, were made in order to advance Western development and reinforce Western hegemony.

Some call the modern development of classical liberalism " neo-classical liberalism ", which argued for government to be as small as possible in order to allow the exercise of individual freedom, while some refer to all liberalism before the 20th century as classical liberalism.

As Gegenbaur argued, the task of comparative anatomy lies in explaining the form and organization of the animal body in order to provide evidence for the continuity and evolution of a series of organs in the body.

Many scholars have argued that Matthew is simply an expanded version of Mark, but it is also a creative reinterpretation of the source, stressing Jesus ' teachings as much as his acts, and making subtle changes in order to stress Jesus ' divine nature – Mark's " young man " who appears at Jesus ' tomb, for example, becomes a radiant angel in Matthew.

Vladimir Dedijer argued that this rejection was " one of the primary personal motives which pushed him to do something exceptionally brave in order to prove to others that he was their equal ".

They argued that existing neural models had failed to produce intelligent behaviour because they were too small, and that in order to create " artificial brains " it was necessary to manually assemble tens of thousands of evolved neural modules together, with the billion neuron " CAM-Brain " requiring around 10 million modules ; this idea was rejected by Igor Aleksander, who said " The point is that these puzzles are not puzzles because our neural models are not large enough.

Hence, he argued that the reformers, " had to leave them in order that we might come to Christ.

Today, Hakham Meir Rekhavi has argued that chicken is kosher because it is a member of the same order as quail, Galliformes.

Voroshilov initially argued that thousands of Polish army officers captured in September 1939 should be released but later signed the order for their execution.

The strongest opposition came from the French delegate, Gabriel Hanotaux, partially in order to protect French, which he argued was already the international language.

Debord argued in 1967 that spectacular features like mass media and advertising have a central role in an advanced capitalist society, which is to show a fake reality in order to mask the real capitalist degradation of human life.

He argued that Indians should support the war efforts in order to legitimise their claims to full citizenship.

Although a Chinese nationalist, Chen argued that in order to progress, China must look to the west, adopting " Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science " in order to cleanse itself of superstition and autocracy.

Friedman argued for stronger basic legal ( constitutional ) protection of economic rights and freedoms in order to further promote industrial-commercial growth and prosperity and buttress democracy and freedom and the rule of law generally in society.

These categories, he argued, are " of the highest order of abstraction ", but he defended them as those necessary to " make possible a coherent account of what grammar is and of its place in language " In articulating the category unit, Halliday proposed the notion of a rank scale.

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 ''.

he reasoned and argued, pointing out that Jones or other Confederate commanders would need it should troops pass that way in retreat.

If only state funds were used to pay for the vocational education, it could be argued that the state should not have to bear the cost of vocational training which would benefit employers in other states.

Cox argued that the bill is `` probably unconstitutional '' since, he said, it would impair contracts.

He argued before and during his election that the eventual extinction of slavery would result from preventing its expansion into new U. S. territory.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

Most observers believed that without expansion slavery would eventually die out ; Lincoln argued this in 1845 and 1858.

Garry Kasparov argued that Karpov would have had good chances, because he had beaten Spassky convincingly and was a new breed of tough professional, and indeed had higher quality games, while Fischer had been inactive for three years.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

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 ".

Amontons therefore argued that the zero of his thermometer would be that temperature at which the spring of the air in it was reduced to nothing.

British philosopher John Locke argued that moral rules cannot be established from conscience because the differences in people's consciences would lead to contradictions.

While the house is clearly intended for a wealthy family, Aalto nevertheless argued that it was also an experiment that would prove useful in the design of mass housing.

Several scholars have argued that Acts used material from both of Josephus ' works, rather than the other way around, which would indicate that Acts was written around the year 100 or later.

This, he argued, would have been more persuasive and would have produced less controversy.

Neoliberal doctrine argued that untrammeled free trade and reduction of public-sector regulation would bring benefits to poor countries and to disadvantaged people in rich countries.

Some have argued that in defensive postures, for example, the primary intention of a soldier is not to kill, but to save, and the act of killing in that situation would have minimal negative karmic repercussions.

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

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

The mainstream view is that Gigantopithecus was quadrupedal, and it has been argued that Gigantopithecus's enormous mass would have made it difficult for it to adopt a bipedal gait.

Styblo and Meijer argued neonatal immunization protected against miliary TB and other noncontagious forms of TB, and not pulmonary TB which was a disease of adults, and that mass immunization campaigns with BCG would therefore not be expected to have a significant public health impact.

However, from a conservative approach, Joyce G. Baldwin argued that " old, authentic stories would have provided comfort to sufferers of later generations far more convincingly than a book of new parables.