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

`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.

My argument is that there was no Saxon Shore prior to that time even though the forts had been in existence since the time of Carausius.

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

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.

The argument against this last approach is comparable to that which rejects stories about hoop snakes, about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again, or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; ;

For it is clear that the total number of ordinary intersections of C and Af must be even ( otherwise, starting in the interior of C, Af could not finally return to the interior ), and the center of rotation at T is the argument of the function, not a value.

Therefore, for any value of T the number of values of f{t} is equal to the ( finite ) number of tangent points corresponding to the argument T plus an odd number.

The Mathematical Appendix presents the rigorous argument, but is best read after Part 1, in order that the assumptions underlying the equations may be explicit.

There is nonetheless considerable argument against the clause, softened though it be, on the grounds that Federal aid is so necessary to the public schools.

The first argument is thus an ideal experiment in which we use the method of difference.

I come now to a third argument, which again is very simple.

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.

Yet, if the argument is turned awry, there may be found a great deal in Bryan's view, after all.

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.

This is the only valid, and extenuating, argument that may be advanced in defense of the reprehensible attitude of the common wine waiter.

`` The trouble, '' explained Loy Henderson, then Deputy Undersecretary for Administration, `` is that when we get into an argument with him about this thing, it always turns out that Rooney knows more about our budget than we do ''.

* ( accusative ) " man " a direct object ( e. g., toward the man, in the sense of argument directed personally ; I saw the man )

One common interpretation of the argument is that while one may have direct or privileged access to one's current mental states, there is no such infallible access to identifying previous mental states that one had in the past.

Many writers ( such as Nikos Kazantzakis ) extol passion and disparage reason ; while in politics modern nationalism is a direct result of Rousseau's argument that rationalist cosmopolitanism brings man ever further from his natural state.

Legal argument ensued over the course of the next twenty years until, in October 1966, the UN General Assembly decided to end the mandate, declaring that South Africa had no other right to administer the territory and that henceforth South-West Africa was to come under the direct responsibility of the UN ( Resolution 2145 XXI of 27 October 1966 ).

On April 1, 1961 Bull got into an argument with his direct superior over paperwork.

And, even though it pertains to Tewa Indians in Arizona rather than Indonesians, Paul Kroskrity's argument that speech forms originating in the Tewa kiva ( or underground ceremonial space ) forms the dominant model for all Tewa speech can be seen as a rather direct parallel.

This was the case up until the codification movement in the late 18th and 19th centuries, which explicitly removed the direct applicability of Roman and canon law in most countries, although there continued to be argument about whether the was banished completely or survived where the national codes were silent.

Rachman provides a very strong argument for this theory in his article: ‘’ Phobias .’’ He agrees with the statement that phobias generally concern objects that constitute a direct threat to human survival, and that many of these phobias are quickly acquired because of an " inherited biological preparedness.

A primary difference between Marcionites and Gnostics was that the Gnostics based their theology on secret wisdom ( as, for example, Valentinius who claimed to receive the secret wisdom from Theudas who received it direct from Paul ) of which they claimed to be in possession, whereas Marcion based his theology on the contents of the Letters of Paul and the recorded sayings of Jesus — in other words, an argument from scripture, with Marcion defining what was and was not scripture.

was not the direct subject of the Ferber case, but the book was prominently featured by both sides in the litigation, and it played a significant role in the oral argument before the U. S. Supreme Court.

This argument is much more complicated than the direct argument by reduction mod p. It does however allow one to see, in terms of algebraic number theory, how frequently Eisenstein's criterion might apply, after some change of variable ; and so limit severely the possible choices of p with respect to which the polynomial could have an Eisenstein translate ( that is, become Eisenstein after an additive change of variables as in the case of the p-th cyclotomic polynomial ).

Also in 2005 he was involved in an argument over the funding of a housing charity which had called for direct action following the eviction and deportation to Albania of an Kosovan family seeking asylum from a flat in Drumchapel.

Arvedui used this, as well as the fact that he was a direct descendant of Isildur and she was a direct descendant of Anárion, as an argument to claim the crown of Gondor.

However, the idea of Butskellism has been challenged as a myth, with claims that there was in fact a sustained argument over the use of physical controls, monetary policy and direct taxation.

It's based on the political argument that a direct military response will only increase the likelihood of further terrorist attacks on the West.

" Note that the shared argument need not fulfill the same role in both clauses ; in this example the same man is referred to by the subject of the matrix clause, but the direct object of the relative clause.

Rather than specifying the address of the next instruction to execute, as in a direct branch, the argument specifies where the address is located.

A is the subject ( or most agent-like ) argument of a transitive verb, O is the direct object ( or most patient-like ) argument of a transitive verb, and S is the sole argument of an intransitive verb.

Not only are there no light rays in the head, but visual sensation ( the argument can be extrapolated to the other senses ) bears no direct resemblance to the light rays at the retina, nor to the character of what they are reflected from or pass through or what was glowing at the origin of them.

In a democracy, though, political argument is particularly important, since there is a direct relation between the beliefs of citizens and the structure of power.

There are two conflicting definitions that differ in the interpretation of the argument: the first interprets the argument as an index into the sequence of prime numbers ( so that the function is strictly increasing ), while the second interprets the argument as a bound on the prime numbers to be multiplied ( so that the function value at any composite number is the same for its predecessor ).

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

A modern form of this argument is given by Sir Roger Penrose.

As a general trend, the modern slants on the cosmological argument, including the Kalam argument, tend to lean very strongly towards an in fieri argument.

This helps support distributism's argument that smaller units, families if possible, ought to be in control of the means of production, rather than the large units typical of modern economies.

# a modern relativistic coordinate time scale, implemented by the JPL ephemeris time argument T < sub > eph </ sub >, in a series of numerically integrated Development Ephemerides.

While the standard argument for utilizing a modern text supports distillation of information into a form relevant to modern society, perennialists argue that many of the historical debates and the development of ideas presented by the great books are relevant to any society, at any time, and thus that the suitability of the great books for instructional use is unaffected by their age.

Nietzsche's argument that " God is dead " coincided with his attack on the " herd mentality " of Christianity, democracy and modern collectivism ; his concept of the übermensch ; and his advocacy of the will to power as a primordial instinct, were major influences upon many of the fin-de-siècle generation.

Bertrand Russell noted: " The argument does not, to a modern mind, seem very convincing, but it is easier to feel convinced that it must be fallacious than it is to find out precisely where the fallacy lies.

There has been some argument by modern scholars over the long jump.

Similarly, the modern economic argument for capitalism, and most modern forms of economics, was often stated in the form of " public virtue from private vices.

Clausewitz used a dialectical method to construct his argument, leading to frequent modern misinterpretation because he explores various — often opposed — ideas before coming to conclusions.

As applied to an argument in modern English the sense is: " Of a solid, substantial, ample, or thorough nature or character ".

A modern variation of the teleological argument is built upon the concept of the fine-tuned Universe.

Since Paley is often read in university courses that address the philosophy of religion, the timing of his design argument has sometimes perplexed modern philosophers.

Aristotle's assessment is intriguingly conform with the argument of modern pyschologists that pederasty produces misogyny.

The modern version of Brun's argument can be used to show that the number of twin primes less than N does not exceed

A modern form of this argument is given by Sir Roger Penrose.

A third argument for incompatibilism was formulated by Carl Ginet in the 1960s and has received much attention in the modern literature.

However, some modern scholars dispute this argument and insist that the cult of Adonis-Tammuz originated the shrine and that it was the Christians who took it over, substituting the worship of their God.