" The university was not challenged about the origin of its interracial dating policy, and the District Court accepted " on the basis of a full evidentiary record " BJU's argument that the rule was a sincerely held religious conviction, a finding affirmed by all subsequent courts.

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.

In 1994 Randall Susman used the anatomy of opposable thumbs as the basis for his argument that both the Homo and Paranthropus species were toolmakers.

To motivate the German people to continue the struggle, he cited three theses as the basis of this argument:

While it was once thought that Locke wrote the Treatises to defend the Glorious Revolution of 1688, recent scholarship has shown that the work was composed well before this date, and it is now viewed as a more general argument against absolute monarchy ( particularly as espoused by Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes ) and for individual consent as the basis of political legitimacy.

This criticisms is a consequentialist criticism-interested in consequences or outcomes or results of a course of action-and does not impugn the character or intentions of the one ( s ) offering the " slippery slope " argument ( s ), the basis or bases or concerns underlying the offering of the arguments against a rule or course of action, nor the legitimacy of arguing against any specific rule or course of action.

Graham White argues, partially on the basis of Sraffianism, that the policy of increased labor market flexibility, including the reduction of minimum wages, does not have an " intellectually coherent " argument in economic theory.

* Fragmentation of proprietary interests: Justice Toohey made the argument that common law possessory title could form the basis for native title claims by indigenous Australians.

Yogananda makes an argument for the mystical basis of Khayyam's Rubaiyat.

Graham White argues, partially on the basis of Sraffianism, that the policy of increased labor market flexibility, including the reduction of minimum wages, does not have an " intellectually coherent " argument in economic theory.

The basis of this argument is an equilibrium between " stimulus " fiscal spending and future interest rates.

" Principii, genitive of principium, means " beginning ," " basis ," or " premise " ( of an argument ).

The argument asserts that an omnibenevolent God provides the basis for attributing right and wrong to any thought or action.

As a supplemental form of jurisdiction, a further argument is made on the basis of protective jurisdiction.

Regarding the argument of implausibility of Muslims fabricating the story, Shahab Ahmed in the Encyclopedia of the Qur ' an states that " the widespread acceptance of the incident by early Muslims suggests, however, that they did not view the incident as inauspicious and that they would presumably not have, on this basis at least, been adverse to inventing it.

In his fourth and final argument, which took place in the Temple of Concordia, Cicero establishes a basis for other orators ( primarily Cato ) to argue for the execution of the conspirators.

This definition of efficiency differs from that of Pareto efficiency, and forms the basis of the theoretical argument against the existence of market failures.

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 ).

On the basis of his argument according to which there were two different elements in the tantalite sample, Heinrich Rose named them after children of Tantalus ; Niobium and Pelopium, although the argument was later contested as far as pelopium was concerned.

According to this argument there is no " creator ", no deity, so that an external, " objective " basis for morality is gone.

: I later spent times of the order of five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis and always attempting a legal argument for release.

In opposition to Runciman's argument, and on the basis of contemporary Jewish Cairo Geniza documents, as well as later Muslim accounts, Moshe Gil argues that the Seljuq conquest and occupation of Palestine ( c. 1073 – 1098 ) was a period of " slaughter and vandalism, of economic hardship, and the uprooting of populations ".

Popular belief -- dating back to a 1966 Masters & Johnson study -- states that pre-ejaculate may contain sperm that can cause pregnancy, which is a common basis of argument against the use of coitus interruptus ( withdrawal ) as a contraceptive method.

It is sex that obsesses them, sex that is at the basis of their aesthetic creed.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

But is the result new barnsful of tested knowledge on the basis of which we can with confidence solve our domestic and international problems??

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

That he read some of the books assigned to him with a studied carefulness is evident from his notes, which are often so full that they provide an unquestionable basis for the identification of reviews that were printed without his signature.

He assures us, early in the Poetics, that all art is `` imitation '' and that all imitation gives pleasure, but he distinguishes between art in general and poetic art on the basis of the means, manner, and the objects of the imitation.

And it is this, particularly the establishment of archaeology and place-name studies on a scientific basis, which are immediately pertinent to the Saxon Shore.

A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.

Paradoxically the council is weakest in areas that register 4- and 5-to-1 in the party's favor, strongest where Democrats and Republicans compete on a fairly even basis.

The only hope which the public has for getting good teachers is to pay teachers on the basis of merit rather than tenure.

The purchase of compact ( economy ) cars is being made currently on a test basis.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

In the case of taxpaying corporate stockholders, the measure would be the lesser of the fair market value of the shares or Du Pont's tax basis for them, which is approximately $2.09 per share.

As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.

It is estimated that about 542,250 miles of forest development roads, and 80,000 miles of trails, constitute the system that will eventually be needed to obtain the maximum practicable yield and use of the wood, water, forage, and wildlife and recreation resources of the National Forests on a continuing basis.

With the existence of these many factors, some of them variable, it obviously has never been and is not now possible for the Commission to make assignments of AM stations on a case-to-case basis which will insure against any interference in any circumstances.

Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.