They took nearly a month to investigate, marshal statistics, and put their arguments down in black and white.

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

Yet he also put forward arguments that suggested that polytheism had much to commend it in preference to monotheism.

When a principle becomes customary law is not clear cut and many arguments are put forward by states not wishing to be bound.

1984 ), we sounded " a cautionary note to those who would persistently raise arguments against the income tax which have been put to rest for years.

The government should not have been put to the trouble of responding to such spurious arguments, nor this court to the trouble of " adjudicating " this meritless appeal.

The following arguments have been put against it:

In April 2006 he declared that he did not support the arguments put forward for the separation of Quebec.

It is noteworthy that the United States, the defaulting party, was the only Member that put forward arguments against the validity of the judgment of the Court, arguing that it passed a decision that it ' had neither the jurisdiction nor the competence to render '.

By analogy the same term is used in politics and public affairs to refer to the informal process by which statements, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents, are deployed in the media.

As a result, those who kill others ( non-accidentally ), even in arguments, crimes of passion, and self-defence could be put to death, or have to pay blood money.

A variety of historical, philosophical, and scientific arguments have been put forth in favor of the idea that science and religion are in conflict.

As the historian E. P. Thompson has put it, Paine " ridiculed the authority of the Bible with arguments which the collier or country girl could understand ".

Thus, in the beginning of the 18th century, a French travel writer, the Baron de Lahontan, who had actually lived among the Huron Indians, put potentially dangerously radical Deist and egalitarian arguments in the mouth of a Canadian Indian, Adario, who was perhaps the most striking and significant figure of the " good " ( or " noble ") savage, as we understand it now, to make his appearance on the historical stage: Adario sings the praises of Natural Religion.

According to Aristotle, Eudoxus put forward the following arguments for this position:

In opposition to the arguments put forward by economist Donald Wittman in his The Myth of Democratic Failure, Caplan claims that politics is biased in favor of irrational beliefs.

Black's short book (" about an even shorter book ," as he put it ) was succeeded — as an E-book published in 20l1 at the online Anarchist Library — by " Nightmares of Reason ," a longer and more wide-ranging critique of Bookchin's anthropological and historical arguments, especially Bookchin's espousal of " libertarian municipalism " which Black ridiculed as " mini-statism.

An alternative position on rationality ( which includes both bounded rationality ( Simons and Hawkins, 1949 ), as well as the affective and value-based arguments of Weber ) can be found in the critique of Etzioni ( 1988 ), who reframes thought on decision-making to argue for a reversal of the position put forward by Weber.

" Thus, in debating and disagreeing over the meaning of the Torah or how best to put it into practice, no rabbi felt that he ( or his opponent ) were in some way rejecting God or threatening Judaism ; on the contrary, it was precisely through such arguments that the rabbis imitated and honored God.

Many plausible arguments were brought forward by both parties, and those of Sthenelas were considered as fair as those of his opponent ; so the people, who were sitting in judgment, put off, they say, the decision to the following day.

However, Gore dropped the case, because he was not optimistic about how the Florida justices would react to further arguments and, as one of his advisers put it, " the best Gore could hope for was a slate of disputed electors ".

In November 2008, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, regarding whether Pleasant Grove should be allowed to have a privately donated Ten Commandments monument to be displayed on public property, must let the religion of Summum put up a monument to its " Seven Aphorisms " alongside, which it refused to do in 2003.

He put less enthusiasm into the work, leading to escalating arguments with Lewis.

The Deus deceptor is a mainstay of so-called skeptical arguments, which purport to put into question our knowledge of reality.

The arguments advanced by those individuals and groups who oppose the system in force and who would drastically curtail or do away entirely with hospital care for the non-service-connected case, seem to be coldly impractical and out-of-step with the wishes of the general public.

It is by no stretch of the imagination a happy choice and the arguments against it as a practical strategy are formidable.

The programs were so well received by the British public that the arguments have been published in a totally engrossing little book called, `` Rival Theories Of Cosmology ''.

Such cooperative behaviors have sometimes been seen as arguments for left-wing politics such by the Russian zoologist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin in his 1902 book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution and Peter Singer in his book A Darwinian Left.

Doherty suggests that the personal relations of the two kings were strained by constant arguments, though this in not confirmed by historical sources.

With more ardor than depth, Ibn Yasin's arguments were disputed by his audience.

That said, some people are challenging this, using arguments similar to those used by peyotist religious sects, such as the Native American Church.

Most of the European parties eventually came around to the arguments made by the Americans, but France and a few others held out for a shorter cell length.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

Despite the arguments by the Giants, the league upheld O ' Day's decision and ordered the game replayed at the end of the season, if necessary.

His arguments were opposed by many of his contemporaries like Eddington and Lev Landau, who argued that some yet unknown mechanism would stop the collapse.

It is one of five arguments from the " properties, causes, and effects " of true motion and rest that support his contention that, in general, true motion and rest cannot be defined as special instances of motion or rest relative to other bodies, but instead can be defined only by reference to absolute space.

The use of Bayesian probabilities as the basis of Bayesian inference has been supported by several arguments, such as the Cox axioms, the Dutch book argument, arguments based on decision theory and de Finetti's theorem.

Most psychologists and neuroscientists have not accepted these arguments — nevertheless it is clear that the relationship between a physical entity such as light and a perceptual quality such as color is extraordinarily complex and indirect, as demonstrated by a variety of optical illusions such as neon color spreading.

Although Confucianism is often followed in a religious manner by the Chinese, arguments continue over whether it is a religion.

Conversely, these arguments were disputed by those who claimed Dominion was widely misunderstood, and conservatively inclined commenters saw the change as part of a much larger attempt by Liberals to " re-brand " or re-define Canadian history.

The coalition partners, if they control the parliamentary majority, can collude to make the parliamentary discussion on the issue irrelevant by consistently disregarding the arguments of the opposition and voting against the opposition's proposals — even if there is disagreement within the ruling parties about the issue.

Ironically, one of the stronger arguments against this position came from an individual highly respected by their theological quarter, Bliss Knapp, who claimed that Eddy understood through her lawyer that these consent clauses would not hinder normal operation after her decease.

The practical motivation for partial application is that very often the functions obtained by supplying some but not all of the arguments to a function are useful ; for example, many languages have a function or operator similar to.