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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.
It was hardly possible to get any argument on the subject.
The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.
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.
After every money argument, she rebuffed her husband's overtures until the matter was settled in her favor.
The argument was typically advanced in terms of U.S. `` prestige ''.
It was obviously the sound of this argument that caused Lizzie to close her door.
Added to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she wouldn't have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.
An argument with Orville Torrence Killpath was as frustrating and as futile as a cap pistol on a firing range.
He was also pleased with the wide distribution because he thought it proved again his argument that Dallas investment men can do just as good a job as the big New York investment bankers claim only they can do.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
Mordell's theorem had an ad hoc proof ; Weil began the separation of the infinite descent argument into two types of structural approach, by means of height functions for sizing rational points, and by means of Galois cohomology, which was not to be clearly named as that for two more decades.
An argument for the value of art, used in the fictional work ' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ', proceeds that, if some external force presenting imminent destruction of Earth asked humanity what it's value was -- what should humanity's response be?
While the British foreign affairs were in favour of support of the Canadian argument, the event resulted in what was thought of as a betrayal, leading to alienation of the British from the new nation of Canada.
Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.
After killing a religious leader during a theological argument, Nehor was tried and executed for his crimes.
Following the efforts of some figures of the National awakening of Bulgaria ( the most notable among them being Neofit Rilski and Ivan Bogorov ), there had been many attempts to codify a standard Bulgarian language ; however, there was much argument surrounding the choice of norms.
The first part of Einstein's argument was to determine how far a Brownian particle travels in a given time interval.
It is believed that his argument with Paul was resolved.
Though there was much argument in the past, it is now generally accepted that brochs were roofed, probably with a conical timber framed roof covered with a locally sourced thatch.
There is the argument that the Heer ( the German army ) itself was not ready for blitzkrieg at the start of the war.
" 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.

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Hence, such an appellate court will not consider an appellant's argument if it is based on a theory that is raised for the first time in the appeal.
Paneloux's argument is based on the theology of St. Augustine, on which he is an expert, and it is accepted as irrefutable by many of the townspeople, including the magistrate, Othon.
He shows how a satisfying argument for the validity of experience can be based neither on demonstration ( since " it implies no contradiction that the course of nature may change ") nor experience ( since that would be a circular argument ).
German philosopher Immanuel Kant devised an argument from morality based on practical reason.
In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:
Kiernan ’ s argument against an early dating based on a mixture of forms is long and involved, but he concludes that the mixture of forms points to a comparatively straightforward history of the written text as:
His argument is based on a conceptual switch from the " ensemble " of Brownian particles to the " single " Brownian particle: we can speak of the relative number of particles at a single instant just as well as of the time it takes a Brownian particle to reach a given point.
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.
The Dutch book argument was proposed by de Finetti, and is based on betting.
Abelard in his Dialectica made an argument against the idea that the copula can express existence based on a reductio ad absurdum.
This argument is based on the view that the surviving anti-Treaty members of the Second Dáil delegated their " authority " to the IRA Army Council in 1938.
The Polish position is based on the argument that Poland owns a longer coast line than the Danish island of Bornholm.
Instead, under the influence of Locke and Newton, deists turned to natural theology and to arguments based on experience and Nature: the cosmological argument and the argument from design.
* Doomsday argument, a probabilistic argument based on demographics predicting how many people will be born.
Martin Luther, when urging the secular authorities to crush the Peasant Rebellion of 1525 in Germany in his Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants, based his argument on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 13: 1-7.
" A common example, as shown below, is an argument based on tax protestor claims.
The following derivation is based on a similar argument made in Berg 1977 ( see references ).
During the gradual process by which Homo erectus made a transition from furry to naked skin, their hair texture putatively changed gradually from Afro-textured hair or ' kinky ' ( i. e. tightly coiled ) to straight hair ( the condition of most mammals, including humanity's closest cousins — chimpanzees ) This argument is based on the principle that curly hair impedes the passage of UV light into the body relative to straight hair ( thus curly or coiled hair would be particularly advantageous for dark-skinned hominids living at the equator ).
This argument is made based on the principle that straight fibers better facilitate the passage of UV light into the body relative to curly hair.
# Natural Rights / Justice Argument: this argument is based on Locke ’ s idea that a person has a natural right over the labour and / or products which is produced by his / her body.
Lokeans argument for intellectual property is based upon the idea that laborers have the right to control that which they create.

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