Given its history of contention and mistrust with the NHLPA, the NHL should have anticipated that the players would consider a 14% drop in salary to be insulting, even absurd, especially when it was unaccompanied by a compelling argument.
Still, Mr. Pearlstine's central argument is compelling, particularly his contention that when a news outlet has fought a First Amendment case all the way to the Supreme Court and lost, continued resistance amounts to defying the entire legal system, a choice that should be reserved for truly extraordinary causes.
Philadelphia hasn't run the regular-season gauntlet to perfection, but it has built a compelling case for true contention with strong performances against teams of every caliber.
"If these scrape marks are really what the authors say they are, this study is pretty compelling support for that contention".
If such an argument were sound, it might provide a compelling response to the relativist contention that conflicts between moral frameworks cannot be rationally resolved.
This presupposes that the complex actions of two multifunctional neurohormonal systems are additive; however, no compelling evidence exists supporting that contention.
Overall, the authors provide a series of compelling experiments that support the contention that the target of metformin is Complex I NADH dehydrogenase.
The resulting essays provide some fascinating suggestions and compelling arguments to support the central contention that 'while Shakespeare is not history, he has shaped our reception of it' (24).
Anthropologist Kristen Hawkes of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City says the new data add compelling support for her long-held contention that the important difference between female chimpanzees and women is not the rate at which their oocyte pools shrink but adult mortality.
Another ethicist has provided compelling arguments in support of his contention that, " appealing to this right [to bodily integrity] in the context of circumcision entails a misunderstanding of the nature of this right" [ 41].
In one particularly compelling moment, the filmmakers respond to the contention of the original arson investigators that the fire Willingham allegedly set moved quickly through his home because of an accelerant; they set an accelerant-treated board ablaze.
