But even their most optimistic proponents talk in terms of several election cycles, when the scientists tell us that we have no hope of holding the rise in the planetary temperature below two degrees unless global emissions peak by 2015.
He said: "Obviously climate change is a key challenge as well as our future energy needs but there are a lot of unanswered questions about the barrage from the proponents - in terms of the engineering, in terms of the impact on ports.
Along with this person-level characterization of simulation, simulation is also conceived by most proponents in cognitive-scientific terms.
Alternatively, proponents might characterize this position in terms of clinicians' obligations to others in general: clinicians should not perform procedures on others unless doing so promotes the individual's clinical interests.
Opponents of the theory of natural selection have long claimed that the theory is so treated by its proponents as to define fitness in terms of rates of reproduction, thus condemning the principle of the survival of the fittest to triviality: the claim that those organisms with higher rates of reproduction leave more offspring is an empty, unfalsifiable tautology bereft of explanatory power.
But watchdog groups like the National Fire Protection Association and Underwriters Laboratories believe that lightning rods are essential; one proponent likens them to plumbing in terms of lasting usefulness.
In terms of simplicity, proponents argue that the DBCFT would eliminate the need for complex provisions existing under current law relating to topics like transfer pricing, depreciation and amortization, controlled foreign corporations and foreign tax credits, among others.
I argue that regulators should reject this alternative because, despite it's proponents' tendency to justify the rule in terms of fairness, this proposal is unlikely to foster fairness in any meaningful way.
Breaking boundaries is something of an everyday occurrence for de la Peña, who has been one of the foremost proponents of virtual reality technology, particularly in terms of mining the possibilities for journalism.
Blind to the fact that their own misunderstanding fuels opposition, proponents of privatization resort to explaining opposition in terms of a simple, but inaccurate, for-or-against-catch-shares dichotomy.
For this reason, many proponents of a mentalist analysis of meaning in terms of belief have sought instead to analyze meaning in terms of conventions governing such regularities.
