Thesis (ii) is false, because moral education is not the purpose of rhetoric (see above §4), nor could it be effected by a public speech: "Now if speeches were in themselves enough to make men good, they would justly, as Theognis says, have won very great rewards, and such rewards should have been provided; but as things are … they are not able to encourage the many to nobility and goodness".
Although Orban likens Fidesz to western Europe's Christian Democrats, his disrespect for parliament and his nationalist rhetoric -- above all directed at neighbors Slovakia and Romania -- better place him in the company of Austria's right-wing wunderkind, the late Joerg Haider.
Robert Beaver, the chief executive of Zazzle.com, above, said that contrary to rhetoric about how customization can kill profit margins, margins at Zazzle "are very good".
But a related section, "Rhetoric of Persuasion," directly above on the third floor, scrutinizes modern art's vaunted moral values and finds them ambiguous.
If grammar, like rhetoric in the case above considered, is transplanted into aesthetic, the result is a distinction between expression and the means of expression, which is a mere reduplication; for the means of expression are just expression itself, broken into pieces by grammarians.
We need national leaders to rise above empty rhetoric to protect the country in a bi-partisan manner.
The inflammatory anti-choice language, often inaccurate and undergirded by a life-and-death, holocaust-like moral imperative, can have an overwhelming power, Fladen argues, above pitched rhetoric on other topics, to push people, even reasonable ones, to violence.
We hope that now the election is over he will choose facts above rhetoric, and put tackling the root causes of the housing benefit bill above short-term political gain.
To place policy above rhetoric is not to ask what the first black president is doing for blacks; rather, it is to ask what a Democratic president is doing for the most loyal Democratic constituency — who happen to be African-Americans, and who happen to be in dire need of help.
Samoa will host the third international conference on small island developing states (Sids) from 1 September, and I want leaders from the 193 nations attending to rise above rhetoric and grandstanding, and move closer to binding international agreements on climate change.
