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The opposing view, argued by Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a number of influential Department of Defense policy makers such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, held that direct and unilateral action was both possible and justified and that America should embrace the opportunities for democracy and security offered by its position as sole remaining superpower.
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The opposing view is ethical egoism, which maintains that moral agents should always act in their own self-interest.
Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Only Joel Schumacher might have had an opposing view.
Scholars opposing this view claim that while the dagger is unusual, ghosts of murdered victims are more believable, having a basis in the audience's superstitions.
The opposing view suggests that free competition for capital investment between different countries increases the dynamic efficiency of the market place.
They may view the occult as being anything supernatural or paranormal which is not achieved by or through God ( as defined by those religious denominations ), and is therefore the work of an opposing and malevolent entity.
The " dualism " of Clausewitz's view of war ( i. e., that wars can vary a great deal between the two " poles " he proposed, based on the political objectives of the opposing sides and the context ) seems simple enough, but few commentators have proven willing to accept this crucial variability — they insist that Clausewitz " really " argued for one end of the scale or the other.
These opposing factions were mutually attracted by a view of punk rock as " politically as well as musically ...' against the system '.
In contrast, libertarian socialism proposes the traditional view of direct worker's control of the means of production and opposes the use of state power to achieve such an arrangement, opposing both parliamentary politics and state ownership over the means of production.
The opposing view states that unalterable Form, does not exist, or at least if there is such a thing, it contains an ever changing, relative substance in a constant state of flux.
Heidegger, however, has on occasion appeared to take an opposing view, stating for example that " those in the crossing must in the end know what is mistaken by all urging for intelligibility: that every thinking of being, all philosophy, can never be confirmed by ' facts ,' i. e., by beings.
The opposing view holds that, recent revelations notwithstanding, by the time McCarthyism began in the late 1940s, the CPUSA was an ineffectual fringe group, and the damage done to U. S. interests by Soviet spies after World War II was minimal.
The opposing view is that sexual identity is both fluid and socially constructed, and thus there is no " absolute " identity.
However, an opposing view sees the battle as only confirming the already-decaying power of the Ottoman Empire.
The opposing view, based on comparative linguistics linking her with wide range of other Indoeuropean deities, is that she was important pre-Christian chthonic deity that both gives and takes life.
Taking the opposing view, it is argued by many U. S. Senators and legal scholars that, since for any treaty to be enforceable in the United States, it must strictly conform to the terms of ratification issued by the Senate ; and, that no term of any treaty which is subject to the Senate's reservation ( s ) can be interpreted to have been confirmed, lawful or enforceable in the United States, according to the sovereign operation of the Constitution.
The opposing perennialist view holds that while ethnicity and ethnic groupings has existed throughout history, they are not part of the natural order.
Stockbridge City Hall blocking view of opposing candidate's signs.
However, the opposing view is that the fund may not liquidate in your timeframe and you may be forced to sell at an even worse discount ; in any case, in the meantime the fund will have incurred costs and charges imposed by the managers.
By 3: 30 p. m., Houston had formed his men into battle lines for the impending assault, screened from Mexican view by trees and by a slight ridge that ran across the open prairie between the opposing armies.
Others took the opposing view that the great majority of users at that time were performing integer-intensive tasks like word-processing, spreadsheeting and web browsing, and the substantially lower cost of the PR-rated processors allowed the user to afford a higher-spec part in any case.
Moreover, he rejected the view that the impetus dissipated spontaneously ( this is the big difference between Buridan's theory of impetus and his predecessors ), asserting that a body would be arrested by the forces of air resistance and gravity which might be opposing its impetus.
However, the Russian Communist Party took the opposing view.
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In opposing interpretations of the Bible that are supportive of homosexual relationships, conservative Christians have argued for the reliability of the Bible, and the meaning of texts related to homosexual acts, while often seeing what they call the diminishing of the authority of the Bible by many homosexual authors as being ideologically driven.
Mills argued for a new leftist ideology, moving away from the traditional " labor metaphysic ", towards issues such as opposing alienation, anomie, and authoritarianism.
The Whigs, opposing the court religious policies, argued that the Dissenters should be allowed to worship separately from the established Church, and this position ultimately prevailed when the Toleration Act was passed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution ( 1689 ).
On the other hand, some social conservatives such as Reverend Robert Schenck have argued that people can accept the " inevitable ... scientific evidence " while still morally opposing homosexuality.
However, in his first pastoral letter to the Venetians, Cardinal Sarto argued that in matters pertaining to the pope, " There should be no questions, no subtleties, no opposing of personal rights to his rights, but only obedience.
His politics differed sharply from those of Stalinism, most prominently in opposing Socialism in One Country, which he argued was a break with proletarian internationalism, and in his belief in what he argued was a more authentic dictatorship of the proletariat based on working-class self-emancipation and mass democracy, rather than the unaccountable bureaucracy he saw as having developed after Lenin's death.
Hegel argued that history is a constant process of dialectic clash, with each thesis encountering an opposing idea or event antithesis.
Following Hegel's theory of dialectic, Baur argued that 2nd century Christianity represented the synthesis of two opposing theses: Jewish Christianity ( Petrine Christianity ) and Gentile Christianity ( Pauline Christianity ).
Noam Chomsky has argued that forces opposing the development of such a world conscience include free market ideologies that valorise corporate greed in nominal electoral democracies where advertising, shopping malls and indebtedness, shape citizens into apathetic consumers in relation to information and access necessary for democratic participation.
However, it does not conduct a court hearing where opposing sides are argued.
On the opposing side, others have argued that prayer has no place in a classroom where impressionable students are continually subject to influence by the majority.
He argued that both France and Germany had a joint interest in opposing " Anglo-Saxon domination " of the world and warned that the " deepening of opposition " between the French and the Germans " would lead to the ruin of both countries, to the advantage of the Anglo-Saxon powers ".
Socialist critics of Lasalle and of the alleged iron law of wages, such as Karl Marx, argued that although there was a tendency for wages to fall to subsistence levels, there were also tendencies which worked in opposing directions.
Another faction, led by Józef Cyrankiewicz, argued that the Socialists should support the Communists in carrying through a socialist program, while opposing the imposition of one-party rule.
After retiring from the presidency, Madison argued in his detached memoranda for a stronger separation of church and state, opposing the very presidential issuing of religious proclamations he himself had done, and also opposing the appointment of chaplains to Congress.
Michel Foucault, for example, argued that attitudes towards the " insane " during the late-18th and early 19th centuries show that supposedly enlightened notions of humane treatment were not universally adhered to, but instead, that the Age of Reason had to construct an image of " Unreason " against which to take an opposing stand.
Anne Hutchinson and others espoused the Antinomianist view that the laws of the Church of England did not apply to them, while others argued the opposing Legalist position.
Wayne Gretzky, who also played box lacrosse in his youth, argued that the skills Nieuwendyk learned dodging opposing players in that sport aided his development as a hockey player.
Cyrankiewicz argued that the PSP should support the communists ( who held most of the posts in the government ) in carrying through a socialist programme, while opposing the imposition of one party rule.
Believing that it would be impossible to convince any large portion of the general population of the correct course and opposing any suggestion of a violent revolution, Nock instead argued that libertarians should focus on nurturing what he called " the Remnant ".
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