For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

An ad hominem ( Latin for " to the man "), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or unrelated belief of the person supporting it .< ref >

Eusebius said, “ The Creator of all things has impressed a natural law upon the soul of every man, as an assistant and ally in his conduct, pointing out to him the right way by this law ; but, by the free liberty with which he is endowed, making the choice of what is best worthy of praise and acceptance, because he has acted rightly, not by force, but from his own free-will, when he had it in his power to act otherwise, As, again, making him who chooses what is worst, deserving of blame and punishment, as having by his own motion neglected the natural law, and becoming the origin and fountain of wickedness, and misusing himself, not from any extraneous necessity, but from free will and judgment.

Oral sources record that in this period of devastation, a singular Zulu, a man named Gala, eventually stood up to Shaka and objected to these measures, pointing out that Nandi was not the first person to die in Zululand.

Hall and Popkin defend Mill against this accusation pointing out that he begins Chapter Four by asserting that “ that questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term ” and that this is “ common to all first principles .” According to Hall and Popkin, therefore, Mill does not attempt to “ establish that what people do desire is desirable but merely attempts to make the principles acceptable .” The type of “ proof ” Mill is offering " consists only of some considerations which, Mill thought, might induce an honest and reasonable man to accept utilitarianism ".

The intent of this charge is ambiguous, as is the Bayeux Tapestry, which simply depicts Edward pointing at a man thought to represent Harold.

alt = The back of a man in a gray jacket pointing forward, with a large crowd in front of him.

Vera demands that Al impersonate Haskell, but Al balks at this notion, pointing out that he knows nothing about the dead man.

The first reinvented show is also their last, as Wayne holds up a series of cards with questions on the front and, unknowingly to Vanderhoff, insulting phrases on the back such as " Sphincter Boy " ( with an arrow pointing at Vanderhoff ), " He blows goats ... I have proof " and " This man has no penis ", prompting Benjamin to call Wayne up to the control booth and fire him on the spot.

alt = A seated man in robes holding a sword upright in one hand and pointing with his other hand.

Behind the seated figure is a standing man pointing in the same direction as the seated figure.

The Medieval Muslim scholar, al-Ghazali pointing out that the only legitimate " preference principle " in the sight of God is piety, writes: " every time a rich man believes that he is better than a poor one, or a white man believes that he is better than a black one, then he is being arrogant.

Eddie admits to killing a man during a robbery fifteen years ago, but denies murdering Helen, pointing out that he could easily have arranged it much more discreetly.

The second man from the left has his hands raised, palms facing the camera, and the fingers of both hands pointing to the left of the image.

In Kew Gardens Hills, the mayor was booed ; one woman screamed, “ You should be ashamed of yourself .” In Fresh Meadows, a woman told the mayor, “ Get away, you bum .” During the mayor ’ s walk through Fresh Meadows, a woman called him “ a wonderful man ,” prompting the mayor to respond, “ And you ’ re a wonderful woman, not like those fat Jewish broads up there ,” pointing to women in a nearby building who had criticized him.

alt = Photo of painting displaying man standing on boat with two small dogs, pointing spear at fish

Indeed, Proteus himself seems to be aware of this mutability, pointing out towards the end of the play ; " O heaven, were man / But constant, he were perfect.

Emma is deeply disappointed, pointing out quite literally that " You're just not the man I fell in love with.

One legend says that Jesus wished to take a drink from a horse trough and the Jew refused, instead pointing to a hoofprint filled with water on the ground and “ observed that it was good enough for such an enemy of Moses ” Another legend says that when Christ sat to rest on a man ’ s doorstep, a man from Jerusalem drove him away, yelling, “‘ Walk faster !’ And Christ replied, ‘ I go, but you will walk until I come again !’” Both these legends show that the Jew ’ s rude behavior to Christ is the reason for his punishment of endless wandering.

On the morning of August 4, 1944, sitting at her desk, Miep looked up and saw a man pointing a gun towards her and saying, " Sit down!

One popular Mormon quote which is often coined by the early Mormon leader Lorenzo Snow in 1837, is “ As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be .” The teaching was taught first by Joseph Smith, Jr. while pointing to in the New Testament ; he said that " God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did.

He was also the show's dialog director, and was the man pointing " up in the sky " in the introductions of the black-and-white shows.

Within the individual the reaction has been called various names, all, however, pointing to the same basic experience.

Called the Marmara Gazinosu, it is on the third floor, with signs pointing the way there, and has a terrace overlooking the Sea of Marmara.

No manufacturer has taken the initiative in pointing out the costs involved.

Hughes said, `` This is not a plan to conquer space -- but to conserve it '', pointing out the state population has increased 125,000 each year since 1950.

Thackston argues that the name cannot be taken from babr and instead must be derived from a word that has evolved out of the Indo-European word for beaver, pointing to the fact that the name is pronounced bāh-bor in both Persian and Turkic, similar to the Russian word for beaver ( бобр – bobr ).

Chancery cases on group litigation after 1700 were a totally incoherent mess, which Yeazell has explained by pointing to the trends towards fragmentation and individualism in English society during that period ; the resulting societal pressures ultimately led to the Reform Act 1832.

Scholarly debate over the interpretation of these passages has focused on placing them in proper historical context, for instance pointing out that Sodom's sins are historically interpreted as being other than homosexuality, and on the translation of rare or unusual words in the passages in question.

In words, the acceleration is pointing directly opposite to the radial displacement r at all times, and has a magnitude:

In state I, the electron has spin pointing upward along the z-axis (+ z ) and the positron has spin pointing downward along the z-axis (− z ).

This practice, due to its illegality, has generally become favored by groups excluded from the political mainstream ( e. g. far-left or far-right groups ) who justify their activity by pointing out that they do not have the money – or sometimes the desire – to buy advertising to get their message across, and that a " ruling class " or " establishment " control the mainstream press, systematically excluding the radical / alternative point of view.

More recently this view has been contested, by pointing out that the haplotypes which Sykes and Oppenheimer associated with Spain hailed ultimately from Asia Minor.

It has even been reported, although apparently without historical documentation, that Adolf Hitler was influenced by concave hollow-Earth ideas and sent an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to spy on the British fleet by pointing infrared cameras up at the sky

However, it has been argued that anti-Semitic themes continued, especially in the depiction of Tintin's enemy Rastapopoulos in the post-war Flight 714, though other writers argue against this, pointing out the way that Rastapopoulos surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine ( or u-boat ) commander of The Red Sea Sharks ; Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official, and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

Creationist Jonathan Sarfati has described the eye as evolutionary biologists ' " greatest challenge as an example of superb ' irreducible complexity ' in God's creation ", specifically pointing to the supposed " vast complexity " required for transparency.

Multiple inheritance has been a touchy issue for many years, with opponents pointing to its increased complexity and ambiguity in situations such as the " diamond problem ", where it may be ambiguous as to which superclass a particular feature is inherited from if more than one superclass implements said feature.

Opponents of this view observe that the religion of the Torah seems different to Atenism in everything except the central feature of devotion to a single god, although this has been countered by a variety of arguments, e. g. pointing out the similarities between the Hymn to Aten and Psalm 104.

Mad contributor Tom Richmond has tweaked critics who say the magazine's decision to accept advertising would make late publisher William Gaines " turn over in his grave ", pointing out this was impossible because Gaines was cremated.

Some foreign analysts have pointed to widespread starvation, increased emigration through North Korea-China border, and new sources of information about the outside world for ordinary North Koreans as factors pointing to an imminent collapse of the regime, but North Korea has remained stable in spite of more than a decade of such predictions.

With regards to the oaths I have taken to the emperor, I will avoid perjury by pointing out to the emperor what he has done against the unity and peace of the Church and his kingdom.

The Boerne, Texas legend also has plenty of evidence pointing to the fact that polo was played in Boerne before James Gordon Bennett Jr. ever picked up a polo mallet.