A 7-0 defeat at Chelsea immediately after Keane's departure has been held up by some as evidence of the board having made a mistake; exactly the opposite argument could quite easily be made.
Yet those who advocated ending Clinton's presidency on the grounds that he lacked integrity would sometimes make the opposite argument: that Clinton had an integrity -- albeit a bad integrity -- that he was practicing in secret.
The opposite argument is coming from a liberal set of social scientists, who say the data shows the public is demanding a more open and competitive political model.
In the event, of course, the result was precisely the opposite, and immediately the Bushies launched into precisely the opposite argument: the Electoral College is a vital part of our Constitution, electors are not free agents, threatening the Electoral College result would be thumbing your nose at the founding fathers, and so on.
This can be readily rationalised for the mannose/mannosidase relationship, that is, increase in the catabolic enzyme results in a decrease in substrate concentrations, but the opposite argument should hold for glucose/maltase-glucoamylase.
Inside the White House, the opposite argument is made — that after a bruising decade of misadventures, the United States is preserving American power for the moments when truly vital interests need to be protected, while teaching the rest of the world that it will have to police its own backyards.
The opposite argument — that the kind of book a child has his or her nose buried in does make a difference — has been mounted elsewhere, notably by Tim Parks, in an essay that appeared on the blog of the New York Review of Books.
Of course, the opposite argument can be made: the lack of an English education may perpetuate the misery of many of India's poor.
In fact, the opposite argument can be made--that having a union that assures fair treatment helps to improve player morale and team cohesion.
If Basra remains calm and the Iraqi forces contain things well enough to keep chaos off American network news television screens for a few weeks, look for congressional Democrats to (hopefully) use the opposite argument: "See?... SEE?!?... We TOLD you that all your fears of utter chaos are unfounded because OUR PRESENCE in Iraq is the main cause of all the violence.
