Sentence examples for accept the force of from inspiring English sources

JP: You don't accept the force of Peter Hain's point the other day, that that would be likely to encourage what he calls "isolationism" in the Muslim community?

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Updated at 9.34pm GMT 8.36pm GMT The Guardian's media commentator Roy Greenslade warns Leveson to expect a rising torrent of criticism from the right wing press: Some editors may be prepared to accept the force of Leveson's arguments, though they will wish to explore in more detail exactly what happens should Ofcom be displeased with the regulator.

If one does not accept the force of Berkeley's arguments, then neither Reid's conclusion or Kant's story have much force to them.

Let's accept the force of nation states and the desire for community control as conditions that will not go away.

Rather, it is that war will drive a wedge between them as France accepts the force of American evidence while Germany remains captive to the isolation created by its rejection of a military solution.

Among the diverse groups were the aristocratic and conservative Sadducees, who accepted only the five books of Moses (the Pentateuch) and whose lives and political power were intimately associated with Temple worship, and the Pharisees, who accepted the force of oral tradition and were widely respected for their learning and piety.

Of course, every intellectually serious mode of Christianity has had to respond somehow to these challenges – this was the sense of Stephen Sykes' announcement that we are all liberals today; the particular character of liberal Christianity has been to find a response in accepting the force of the challenges and seeing a profound need for doctrinal reformulation to meet them.

The strongest tack for hedonists to take is to accept the apparent force of the experience machine objection, but to insist that it rests on 'common sense' intuitions, the place in our lives of which may itself be justified by hedonism.

All of them postulate that there exists an international society of states that accepts the binding force of some norms of international behaviour.

Pope Paul VI said that "the Church cannot accept violence, especially the force of arms".

The AU has also given Burundi 96 hours to accept the deployment of the force, to be called MAPROBU, the French acronym of "African Prevention and Protection Mission in Burundi".