Sentence examples for defuse objections from inspiring English sources

Some in the Bush administration now believe that the Chinese buildup may be larger -- and that by acquiescing in it, Washington may defuse objections to its missile defense plans.

This modification works to defuse Brock's specific objection about the expressibility of the falsehood of PW, but it does not defuse objections based on counterfactual situations where we would want to say that the Lewis story is not correct.

While reminders that EC is a semantic or meta-linguistic thesis helps both to defuse objections like Dretske's and Yourgrau's and to expose as misleading Lewisian presentations of the view, it sets the stage for a more difficult objection for contextualists to counter: namely, that it does not provide a satisfactory resolution of certain skeptical problems.

Earlier this week, Ergen moved to defuse some objections to his proposed $26 billion acquisition of DirecTV and its parent, Hughes Electronics, which in turn is majority-owned by General Motors.

Understanding the nature of science and the ways to deploy it to help to defuse likely objections and misconceptions on the part of the student is necessary as well.

Here are the questions to ask yourself so you can structure a presentation, from the outset, that defuses potential objections upfront and is so compelling a "yes" becomes far more likely.

To defuse this objection, however, it is important to bear in mind that Hume's categories are his translations of a traditional absolute categorical classificatory distinction between knowledge and belief that all of his contemporaries and immediate predecessors accepted.

Since a full defense of Oppy's defense of DDS is beyond the scope of the present entry, we shall focus on a second way of defusing the objection.

Mr. Bush finds himself in the position of needing President Putin's agreement to dispense with the ABM treaty -- both to defuse strong European objections to the military plans and to satisfy Congress, where Senate committees overseeing military and foreign affairs are about to come under Democratic control.

Alexander was part of a bipartisan effort in Congress to do the obvious thing and simply approve the CSRs in a new bill, which would defuse the conservative objections that focus on process and secure a measure of stability in the ACA marketplaces.

In this work he supports Lessing's side of the debate by developing a version of "Spinozism" which modifies the original in some significant respects, largely with a view to defusing Jacobi's objections.