A YouGov poll released on October 24th hinted this argument might be making headway: 34% of Scots back independence, up from 28% in April; 50% oppose it, down from a previous high of 58%.
To sceptics there could be a more persuasive argument, hinted at in an interview with the Today programme yesterday morning.
While Kennedy hinted at both arguments, he focused on the former, and so wandered into precarious terrain.
The argument was hinted at by Clarence Darrow, their defense lawyer, who went on to defend John T. Scopes on charges that he had taught human evolution in Tennessee.
In several places (e.g., 1991, 168), Chisholm hinted at a modal argument against materialism.
Though this argument was hinted at by Haldane in the 1930s, and to a lesser extent by Darwin in his discussion of sterile insect castes in The Origin of Species, it was first made explicit by William Hamilton (1964) in a pair of seminal papers.
Already, the organization has tipped its hand in recent statements, hinting at the argument it will be making in the coming months: Yemen, their ideologues have argued, has suffered under both monarchies and democracies.
A federal appeals court heard arguments and strongly hinted that a jury should decide whether the 22-minute film was a commercial or a documentary — or perhaps, as one judge suggested, "a documercial".
Those were hints, this argument went, that the rate increases were just about over.
The brief appearance of a Confucius statue near Tiananmen Square a year ago, followed by its sudden disappearance only three months later, hinted at the acrimony of that argument.
