It was Cheney who, recognising its impotence against a heavily armed nuclear power, launched the argument that a smaller version could be of value against lesser states.
Criticism mounted to the point where Cantor launched counter-arguments in 1903, intended to defend the basic tenets of his set theory.
Yet, on the very same positivistic grounds, he is not willing to launch parallel "arguments" in order to justify specific practices or indeed Jewish practice as a whole.
On such a footing, it is possible to launch powerful arguments against the claim that moral principles undergird every moral truth (Dancy 1993) and for the claim that we can sometimes perfectly well decide what to do by acting on the reasons we perceive instinctively — or as we have been trained — without engaging in any moral reasoning.
CHARLES MURRAY'S "Coming Apart," the book that's launched a thousand arguments this winter, is a brilliant work with an exasperating conclusion.
The paper further emphasizes the importance of institutional and political interests to the arguments launched against Hubbert, and in motivating change in this opposition over time.
With the Senate poised to cast historic votes on health care legislation, a host of activist groups, labor unions, and even the White House itself launched their closing arguments to ensure passage.
Bower gives a sparse few sentences to Northern Ireland in which he forces himself to acknowledge that Blair had a "success" – but only in order to launch an argument that it deluded the accused into thinking he had the capacity to resolve other conflicts.
Furthermore, there may be an opportunity to use God's standing outside of time to launch an argument that God is the creator of time.
And he launched into his argument — that, when all was said and done, these game shows were mere entertainment.
