Major Steven E. Walburn argues in a 1998 article in The Air Force Law Review that this form of guilty plea should be adopted for usage by the United States military.

As a result, according to philosopher Steven Crowell, defining existentialism has been relatively difficult, and he argues that it is better understood as a general approach used to reject certain systematic philosophies rather than as a systematic philosophy in itself.

Steven DeRose argues that HTML's use of descriptive markup ( and SGML in particular ) was a major factor in the success of the Web, because of the flexibility and extensibility that it enabled ( other factors include the notion of URLs and the free distribution of browsers ).

Steven May, the reigning authority on Edward de Vere's poetry, argues that Oxfordian attempts to relate the Earl's poetry to Shakespeare are based on ' a hopelessly flawed methodology ', in that Looney assigned to de Vere some poems he had not written.

For example, Steven Pinker argues in his book The Language Instinct that thought is independent of language, that language is itself meaningless in any fundamental way to human thought, and that human beings do not even think in " natural " language, i. e. any language that we actually communicate in ; rather, we think in a meta-language, preceding any natural language, called " mentalese.

Steven Pinker argues that critics have been overly swayed by politics and a fear of biological determinism.

The American legal scholar Steven M. Wise argues that speciesism is a bias as arbitrary as any other, a point conceded even by some critics of animal rights.

For example, psychologist Steven Pinker argues that while the brain is " programmed " to pick up spoken language easily, it is not programmed to learn to read and write, and a human generally will not spontaneously learn to do so.

University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt argues in his paper, Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do not, that available data indicate that neither stricter gun control laws nor more liberal concealed carry laws have had any significant effect on the decline in crime in the 1990s.

Linguist Steven Pinker goes further and argues that traditional grammar prescriptions regarding the use of singular " they " are themselves grammatically incorrect:

Steven Redd argues that the decision in Gibbons v. Ogden survived until 1895, when the court began to limit the congressional power with the case of United States v. E. C. Knight Co., 156 U. S. 1 ( 1895 ).

Steven Urkowitz ( a staunch opponent of the theory of bad quartos in general ) argues that the difference in the two scenes is an example of " the finely Shakespearean first choices recorded in the Quarto.

Steven Zipperstein, professor of Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University, argues that a belief in the State of Israel's responsibility for the Arab-Israeli conflict is considered " part of what a reasonably informed, progressive, decent person thinks.

Slate writer Steven Landsburg argues that " psychic costs shouldn't count because they're too easy to exaggerate.

Economist Steven Suranovic argues that negative reciprocity occurs when an action that has a negative effect upon someone else is reciprocated with an action that has approximately equal negative effect upon another.

Her book Pinker's List is a response to Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate, in which she rejects his claim to objectivity and argues that the " blank-slate " beliefs he caricatures have long been extinct.

Steven Pinker argues that males have greater variance on many traits which is due to males having more variable reproductive success than females.

Steven Malanga argues that while Frank portrays the electorate in Kansas as voting against its self-interest, the state's economy has actually fared better than average since the conservative and Republican tilt of the state began.

In the beginning of the third act, Bart argues that modern writers like Steven Bochco, one of the creators of the television series NYPD Blue, are more talented than Shakespeare.

" The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime " is a controversial paper by John J. Donohue III of Yale University and Steven Levitt of University of Chicago that argues that the legalization of abortion in the 1970s contributed significantly to reductions in crime rates experienced in the 1990s.

Steven Zhang of the Cornell Daily Sun has described the graduates of elite schools, especially those in the Ivy League, of having a " smug sense of success " because they believe " gaining entrance into the Ivy League is an accomplishment unto itself.

Although the defense teams in both McVeigh's and Nichols trials suggested that others were involved, Judge Steven W. Taylor found no credible, relevant, or legally admissible evidence, of anyone other than McVeigh and Nichols having directly participated in the bombing.

Steven Anthony " Steve " Ballmer ( born March 24, 1956 ) is an American businessman who currently serves as the CEO of Microsoft, having held that post since January 2000., his personal wealth is estimated at $ 15. 7 billion, ranking number 19 on the Forbes 400.

Casey Ryback ( Steven Seagal ), a Chief Petty Officer assigned as a cook, is preparing meals in celebration of the birthday of Captain Adams ( Patrick O ' Neal ), against the orders of Commander Krill ( Gary Busey ), who is having food and entertainment brought by helicopter.

By 1980, he began a more active film career having appeared as a soldier in Steven Spielberg's big-budget comedy 1941 and had a supporting role as Burton Mercer, " Joliet " Jake's probation / parole officer in The Blues Brothers.

Daniel Pipes and investigative reporter Steven Emerson accuse CAIR of being a front for Hamas, having ties to terrorism, as well as " offering a platform to conspiratorial Israel-bashers.

Hitchens's mother, having argued that " if there is going to be an upper class in this country, then Christopher is going to be in it ", sent him off to Mount House School in Tavistock in Devon at the age of eight, followed by the independent Leys School in Cambridge, and then at Balliol College in Oxford, where he was tutored by Steven Lukes and read philosophy, politics, and economics.

Steven Michael " Steve " Largent ( born September 28, 1954 ) is a retired American football player, enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a former U. S. Congressman, having served in the U. S. House of Representatives for Oklahoma from 1994 until 2002.

Doctor Who remains the most prominent example of a British television programme with a showrunner, with Steven Moffat having taken over the post from Davies.

The response of the single publisher named by Wells as having revised textbooks on the basis of his work has been condemned by Steven Schafersman, President of Texas Citizens for Science, and PZ Myers.

In 1967, Pakistani Abdus Salam and American Steven Weinberg independently revised Glashow's theory by having the masses for the W particle and Z particle arise through spontaneous symmetry breaking with the Higgs mechanism.

* In May 2001 during an Australian Football League match between Geelong and Carlton at Optus Oval, Geelong's Darren Milburn executed a very late and illegal bump on Carlton's Steven Silvagni, collecting Silvagni's head with his hip, knocking Silvagni unconscious and leaving him having to be carried from the field by trainers.

A few months later when Åkerfeldt was having dinner with Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson, Åkerfeldt discussed the idea of Wilson producing the next Opeth album.

Despite having the third-worst batting average of the entire team — only ahead of Steven Foster and specialist bowler Mohamed Zubair — French was also in the squad for the 2001 ICC Trophy, where he managed to contribute even less.

This is the original 1986 short Coffee and Cigarettes with Roberto Benigni and Steven Wright having a conversation about coffee and cigarettes.

Steven deeply resented Bunny's father, Ann's former boyfriend, and Bunny's existence reminds him of having " lost " his sister in this way.

He had previously acted in six episodes of Coronation Street as Arthur Stokes, having started his career aged 15 as a pub pianist, he was a club entertainer who performed at venues around Barnsley with Steven Lee ( Wilfred Harrison ) and later as a stand-up comic before becoming an actor.

The Doctor and Steven emerge from the TARDIS sometime later, the Destructor having burnt itself out.

Steven McKenzie, author of King David: A Biography, suggests that David prevented Michal and her other surviving relatives, such as Meribaal, from having children in order to extinguish the line of Saul and deny potential rivals to the throne.

Steven James Hewitt ( born 22 March 1971 ) is the singer and guitarist in Love Amongst Ruin, having previously been the drummer for Placebo between mid-1996 and October 2007.

The story is set on the North-Eastern coast of England in late summer, 1066 and sees Steven Taylor ( Peter Purves ) become a companion to the First Doctor ( William Hartnell ) after having stumbled into the TARDIS during the events of the previous serial, The Chase.

He soon hears of the Viking invasion scouting party and, upon leaving Edith ’ s house, decides to head back to the monastery to track down Steven and Vicki, having learned they have gone there.

This prompts Vicki to leave Steven in a hiding place ( his escape in Greek armour having now been noticed ) while she mingles with the royal party that has just arrived.