That is why, the argument runs, the squares are so fearful of jazz and yet perversely fascinated by it.

Ideas need to be tested, and not merely by argument and debate.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.

Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.

The hypostatization of the secret nonetheless guarantees that the division of analytical and synthetic philosophies shall not be overcome by even the most persuasive argument ; ;

Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.

If the argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point, it remains for us to consider whether the patient's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense of touch can be explained by his defective visual condition.

Even a hasty reader will easily find in it numerous blind spots, errors of fact and argument, important exclusions, areas of ignorance and prejudice, undue emphases on trivia, examples of broad positions supported by flimsy evidence, and the like.

More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.

In such a case the defendant should serve as a clear example and not have to be tied to the issue by argument.

Added to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she wouldn't have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.

Some examples of reversible error would be erroneously instructing the jury on the law applicable to the case, permitting seriously improper argument by an attorney, admitting or excluding evidence improperly, acting outside the court's jurisdiction, injecting bias into the proceeding or appearing to do so, juror misconduct, etc.

* Oral argument, in US law, a spoken presentation to a judge or appellate court by a lawyer ( or parties when representing themselves ) of the legal reasons why they should prevail

In structure, Johnson points out the same central theme, that of cannibalism and the eating of babies as well as the same final argument, that " human depravity is such that men will attempt to justify their own cruelty by accusing their victims of being lower than human.

He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

Gurevich: "... Turing's informal argument in favor of his thesis justifies a stronger thesis: every algorithm can be simulated by a Turing machine ... according to Savage, an algorithm is a computational process defined by a Turing machine ".

Paneloux's argument is based on the theology of St. Augustine, on which he is an expert, and it is accepted as irrefutable by many of the townspeople, including the magistrate, Othon.

The Bohr model for a short time could be seen as a classical model with an additional constraint provided by the ' wavelength ' argument.

The cost argument advanced by ACSI and others prevailed in keeping religious institutions from being labeled as " public accommodations ", and thus churches were permitted to remain inaccessible if they choose.

The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another.

C. S. Lewis supported this argument and challenged the evolutionary naturalistic view of morality – that morality evolved and is a human construct – by arguing that without objective moral truths, moral scepticism would set in, leading to moral anarchy.

Parkinson challenges the argument from moral objectivity by arguing that, for the argument to be successful, it must be shown that morality is objective and commanded by God, rather than just a human invention.

One year the Department collected a file of case histories to document its argument that men in the field were paying the government's entertainment bills out of personal income.

The U. S. State Department also received a legal argument from Rabbis Wise and Silver objecting to the independence of Transjordan.

Starting with the State Department until allegations he made against military members brought him down, McCarthy used extreme tactics of argument to discredit professionals and ruin careers.

The crash was at first said by New York City to be an Act of God, with attorneys arguing that the Department of Transportation should not be held responsible for the crash, an argument that disturbed many survivors and New York City residents.

U. S. foreign policy moved into alignment with State Department officer George Kennan's argument that the Soviets had to be " contained " using " unalterable counterforce at every point ", until the breakdown of Soviet power occurred.

The law passed the House by a vote of 303 to 96 and the Senate by voice vote after divisive argument within Congress, resistance from the Department of Defense and legal action initiated by women to challenge their exclusion.

In January 1966, Flynn and Frank submitted their argument stating that Miranda's Sixth Amendment right to counsel had been violated by the Phoenix Police Department.

In a January 11, 2002, memo, Taft opposed Department of Justice lawyers to argue that the president could not " suspend " U. S. obligations to respect the Geneva Conventions and that a legal argument to do so was " legally flawed and procedurally impossible.

Attorney General John Ashcroft made a similar argument on behalf of the Justice Department by letter to the President dated February 1, 2002, when he wrote that a presidential determination “ against treaty application would provide the highest assurance that no court would subsequently entertain charges that American military officers, intelligence officials or law enforcement officials violated Geneva Convention rules relating to field conduct, detention conduct or interrogation of detainees.

Maxwell summarizes by saying that his argument is simply that lives might have been saved if the State Department had steadfastly pursued its intent to have U. S. ambassadors inform the "... heads of state of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay ... that the American government knew of their Condor assassination plans and condemned them wherever they might take place.

The main argument of the campaigners was that the Department was being closed down because of economic pressures relating to the public funding of British universities in accordance with RAE marks.

In a June 2, 2004 interview with writer Kathryn Jean Lopez, Hayes stated that his book's argument was backed up by a variety of public statements by people connected with the Defense Department, particularly by senior figures in the Democratic Party.

" His first argument relies on the part of the Detainee Treatment Act ( DTA ) ( effective December 30, 2005 ) that states " o court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Oak had an argument with him, explaining that he had finally had enough of defending Calvess and was going to turn him in to the Department.

A final argument from silence relates to Josephus ' own writings and questions the authenticity of Testimonium based on the fact that it has no parallel in the Jewish War, which includes a discussion of Pontius Pilate at about the same level of detail.

On War has been seen by some prominent critics as an argument for " total war ".

Her " incredible controversy " is characterized by David Hartwell in the opening sentence of a book chapter entitled " New Wave: The Great War of the 1960s ": " Conflict and argument are an enduring presence in the SF world, but literary politics has yielded to open warfare on the largest scale only once.

In response to those opposing the independence of Biafra, the solicitor for the indigenous people of Biafra made a strong argument in both national and international law asserting that what Nigeria got after the Biafra War of Independence was a military conquest and not a political victory.

One strong argument is that Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, did not believe the Boers were preparing for war, and also believed that if Britain were to send large numbers of troops, it would strike too aggressive a posture and so prevent a negotiated settlement being reached or even encourage a Boer attack.

When she began work on this project in 1873, most Americans thought the U. S. would never again face a calamity like the Civil War, but Barton finally succeeded during the administration of President Chester Arthur, using the argument that the new American Red Cross could respond to crises other than war.

The group met regularly until the beginning of World War I and the members often inspired each other with intellectual argument and performances of their works before the group.

Complicating this argument is that the date of 2079 in Trek lore is 16 years after the events of Star Trek: First Contact, when extraterrestrial life has already been discovered and is assisting humanity to recover from the Third World War.

What has started as an argument over pay owed to soldiers by the Carthaginian Government, explodes into a full-scale revolution, known as the Mercenary War.

According to this argument, the sovereignty of Taiwan was returned to the people of Taiwan when Japan renounced sovereignty of Taiwan in the Treaty of San Francisco ( also known as San Francisco Peace Treaty, SFPT ) in 1951, based on the policy of self-determination which has been applied to " territories which detached from enemy states as a result of the Second World War " as defined by article 76b and 77b of the United Nations Charter and also by the protocol of the Yalta Conference.

Edward III of England argued, however, that although the Salic law should forbid inheritance by a woman, it did not forbid inheritance through a female line – under this argument, Edward should have inherited the throne, and formed the basis of his claim during the ensuing Hundred Years War ( 1337 – 1453 ).

When the Boers bombarded Ladysmith with Creusot ninety-four pounder siege guns, Chamberlain asked for the dispatch of comparable artillery to the war, but was exasperated by the Secretary of State for War, Lord Lansdowne's argument that such weapons required platforms that needed a year of preparation, even though the Boers operated their " Long Tom " without elaborate mountings.

In particular, Trevor-Roper criticised Taylor's argument that the Hossbach Memorandum of 1937 was a meaningless document because none of the scenarios outlined in the Memorandum as the prerequisite for war such as the Spanish Civil War leading to a war between Italy and France in the Mediterranean or civil war breaking out in France occurred.

Weston is a critic of the Iraq War, believing Tony Blair's argument for invasion simply did not hold water.

One argument for the unconstitutionality of the War Powers Resolution by Philip Bobbitt argues " The power to make war is not an enumerated power " and the notion that to " declare " war is to " commence " war is a " contemporary textual preconception ".

The old anti-suffragist argument that only men could fight a war, and therefore only men deserved the franchise, was refuted by the enthusiastic participation of tens of thousands of American women on the home front in World War I.

This argument was essentially lost in the political debate with the onset of the Gulf War.

Another writer compares the Clone Wars with World War II in general, basing his argument on the fact that Lucas was born during the baby boomer generation, and the dark times featured in the original trilogy rival the dark, uncertain Cold War.

The decisive argument for its configuration was the First Carlist War, when the Miqueletes of Biscay and Guipuzcoa and the Miñones of Alava commenced their activities.

The methods used for this " unification " were manifold and chronologically multifarious ; even in the eighties, a common " argument " was to claim that the opponents of the official Yugoslav language policy were sympathising with the Ustaša regime of World War 2, and that the incriminated words were thus " ustašoid " as well.

The League disagrees with the argument associated with Tony Cliff, who considered the revolution doomed when world revolution did not occur in the period after the First World War, and who also see it as degenerating into state capitalism.

One of the main points in Rosato's argument is that, although never engaged in open war with another liberal democracy during the Cold War, the United States intervened openly or covertly in the political affairs of democratic states several times, for example in the Chilean coup of 1973, the 1953 coup in Iran and 1954 coup in Guatemala ; in Rosato's view, these interventions show the United States ' determination to maintain an " imperial peace ".

The 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan has been cited as a counterexample to this argument ( Page Fortna, 2004 ).