But it isn't enough just to assert this without argument.
She then asserts that this argument is "the whole crux of Jean-Paul Sartre's 'Roads to Freedom,' " whereupon Mrs. Conclusion barks, "No, it bloody isn't".
Western countries assert that this argument is specious, and that even though some of them like the United States are willing to subsidize modern environmental technologies in poor countries, the leaders of the latter often find it politically expedient to play to their domestic galleries and oppose measures proposed by the industrialized nations.
Justice Breyer declined to address a second argument made by the company — that the law applies only to complaints made to the government and not to private employers — because the company had failed to assert the argument adequately when the case first reached the Supreme Court.
In order for a proponent of the argument from interpretation to assert this premise, some rationale would have to be given for it.
Historically, though, the justice department has said that it can't go forward once executive privilege is asserted – an argument made by the Bush administration during the investigation of the possibly politically-motivated firing of US attorneys.
Bertrand Russell, during his early Hegelian phase, accepted the argument; once exclaiming: "Great God in Boots!—the ontological argument is sound!" However, he later criticized the argument, asserting that "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".
However, I also suggest that another, less often asserted argument might provide a more plausible ethical basis for aggressive criminal defense.
It may also be asserted that the argument offered was not without flaws in history and logic.
Nintendo asserted at oral argument that the existence of a $150 million market for the Game Genie indicates that its audiovisual display must be fixed.
Comparing to the effects of tobacco taxation on smoking, he further asserted that: " My argument is based on the fact that most countries that increased tobacco taxes saw a bigger decrease in smoking than with any other public health anti-smoking campaign.
