Often called "prayers," these were earnest arguments against slavery (or the death penalty, or alcohol), most often appended by collected signatures.
While there might be some arguments imaginable as to why states should pay something to sports leagues for a role they play in supervising sports gambling, the purported claim of some intellectual property right is clearly not among the more earnest arguments.
In earnest, a similar argument goes back to the year 1990, when an Illinois state legislator by the name of E.J. "Zeke" Giorgi proposed legalizing sports gambling in his state to fund the cost of a new domed stadium for the Chicago Bears.
"Was that for real...?" Was there really an earnest and impassioned argument taking place over whether or not an international icon of racial hatred, coopted by the Ku Klux Klan and friends, is actually appropriate to position on a State Capitol lawn in America in 2015?
Bruni, reached on the telephone, fresh from a jog, said that he doesn't normally read criticism of his criticism ("It can be sort of ickily onanistic"), but he seemed to have given Chodorow's arguments earnest reflection.
Rubio has begun to make that argument in earnest this week as he braces for a backlash among the right wing of the Republican Party.
After the introductory bloviation and half-told history, the "Restoring Internet Freedom" proposal begins its argument in earnest.
But where those works were technically straightforward, and their moral arguments tiresomely earnest, Walton breathes life into his characters.
The failure to do so, despite such an earnest effort, is the strongest argument yet for why the Barnes should not be moved in the first place.
We have not overlooked California's argument, buttressed by earnest briefs on behalf of other states, that improvements have been made along and near the shores at great expense to public and private agencies.
In order to argue for lateral transfer in earnest, either make a quantitative argument that involves the number of branches, their topology, and gene gain-to-loss ratio, or present case studies of gene tree and species tree incongruency (the same type of statement is at the end of par.6, the same criticism).
