Sentence examples for confronted with arguments from inspiring English sources

Support for offsetting declines when individuals are confronted with arguments concerning its effectiveness and ethicality, which suggests that future policies will require clear standards of additionality in order to address these concerns.

Another study found a comparable effect in atheists confronted with arguments in favor of intelligent design, and a third concluded that pointing out logical inconsistencies in the Bible made thoughts of death also more accessible to fundamentalist Christians.

When confronted with arguments, she couldn't do any thinking on her own.

Confronted with arguments that Congress would never have passed a statute that might undermine itself, Cannon and other supporters of the King lawsuit have argued that the exchange provision was supposed to work just like the law's Medicaid provision.

"This is consistent with the idea that being confronted with arguments against our deeply held beliefs makes us feel bad, and then we work to get rid of those negative feelings by rationalizing - discounting the evidence or the source of the evidence, shoring up our arguments, etc". the researchers observed.

During the conference, when confronted with arguments against the potential merits or value of agricultural biotechnology, it was common for some participants to respond that biotechnology was not a panacea for food insecurity and hunger problems but was just one of the possible solutions that could be used (e.g. Gibson, ; Hruska, 11/11; Fenning, 20/11; Kambikambi, 23/11; Frey, 6/12).

Aditya Chakrabortty says that sociologists take refuge in debating quibbles instead of tackling the neoliberal economic and social disaster head-on, and that a politics professor resorted to "vein-bulging outbursts" when confronted with his arguments (The academics show their anger but they can't answer my criticism that there's too little analysis of our current crisis, 8 May).

When publicly confronted with dissenting arguments Legault did not express explicit concern that his proposed policy change might contribute to a greater societal harm.

I was confronted with this argument during the Danish cartoon crisis, in 2006.

Confronted with the argument, Mr. Francken said the new law lets him withdraw the Belgian residency permits of about 20 fighters in Syria who are about to return.

When confronted with the argument that costs of electronics were following Moore's law rigorously, he refused to acknowledge the validity of  Moore's law – the guiding principle of the entire electronics industry.