Similarly, some have argued that playing the national anthem before the start of a film is actually an insult to the anthem.

This is similar to the thinking of the Greek philosopher Socrates, who argued that knowledge is virtue.

Most of these wars were fought over the title of count of Holland, but some have argued that the underlying reason was because of the power struggle of the bourgeois in the cities against the ruling nobility.

He argued that light is substantial matter, the propagation of which requires time, even if this is hidden from our senses.

However, one delegation argued that good policy rather than policy space should be the focus of the debate

However, other people felt the problem needed to be addressed.

Some are believed to consist of diamond fields.

I know that some will respond that numbers are not that important.

He nevertheless argued that human rights mechanisms would still be relevant to human rights violations that might have occurred and could play a complementary role in such cases.

Some claimed the opposite, arguing that, given the scale of the task, there was no time to lose.

12. Recognizes that the eradication of poverty and the achievement and preservation of peace are mutually reinforcing

Some in Europe are pleased that the economy may have bottomed out.

Many government representatives argued that existing human rights documents were sufficient.

In his evolutionary model of history, he argued that human history began with free, productive and creative work that was over time coerced and dehumanised, a trend most apparent under capitalism.

Others argue that China s government is simply losing its grip over local authorities.

Some would have us believe that getting China and India on board will be easy.

Accordingly, the 13th century scholar Li Ye, who argued that the movements of the round heaven would be hindered by a square Earth, did not advocate a spherical Earth, but rather that its edge should be rounded off so as to be circular.

Some of it s embarrassment and some of it is because they just don t believe that what emerges is necessarily valid.

These authors argued that, in part, corporate stock buybacks for U.S. Standard Poors 500 companies surged to a 500 billion annual rate in late 2006 because of the impact of options.

Maintaining that humans had no free will, Priestley argued that what he called philosophical necessity (akin to absolute determinism) is consonant with Christianity, a position based on his understanding of the natural world.

, which argued that the Bible, alongside our senses, supported the idea that the earth was flat and immovable and this essential truth should not be set aside for a system based solely on human conjecture .

Hernando de Soto is a contemporary economist who has argued that an important characteristic of capitalism is the functioning state protection of property rights in a formal property system where ownership and transactions are clearly recorded.

Recognizing that the enhancement of international peace and security and the promotion of nuclear disarmament mutually complement and strengthen each other,

Anti Americanism, they say, will persist because some people see America as a cultural threat.

A number of authors (Boix 1998 Esping Andersen, 1990 Huo, Nelson et al.

There are also speculations that a certain quarter is trying to get rid of these political icons and use the space to clinch power.

Before the crisis, some thought risk premia for developing countries were irrationally low.

Corsica, although belonging to the Italian geographical region, has been a part of France since 1769.

Some Montaigne scholars have argued that the essay was in fact the work of Montaigne himself.

This encourages the use of multiple actors who act either in concert with each other or else independently from each other but with the knowledge that the personal information is being gathered and transferred for criminal purposes.

Those of us who think that science and religion dwell in different domains, and who recall that Socrates argued that science did not teach you about morality or meaning, find that our case is undermined by the literalists and fundamentalists in every religion.

At first it was about whether the girl's action should be regarded as self defense. Though legal experts agreed she is likely to be charged, some in Xing Dao Daily, a Hong Kong newspaper, argued,

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Some, indeed, suggest that the EU often acts to erode the welfare state.

It seems these people are obsessed with order, to the extent that a joke says that the British, when they find two people one behind another, think there is a queue and start to stand behind these two.

Jeremy Bentham Four years later, one of the founders of modern utilitarianism, the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748 1832), although opposed to the concept of natural rights, argued that it was the ability to suffer that should be the benchmark of how we treat other beings.

But I really do think it makes sense, and I think that the first step to world peace is for people to meet each other.

And it's speculated that some of their interest in the arts was designed to counter Soviet communism and promote what it considered to be pro American thoughts and aesthetics.

It was Bukharin who formulated the thesis of Socialism in One Country put forth by Stalin in 1924, which argued that socialism (in Marxist theory, the transitional stage from capitalism to communism) could be developed in a single country, even one as underdeveloped as Russia.

Many of you probably subscribe to our polite cultural belief that we should respect religion, but I also suspect that a fair number of those secretly despise religion as much as I do.

The constant ability of Africa's leaders to betray their people is the root cause of Africa's current misery.

Some may cooperate others do not.

Philosophy of mind Both John Dewey in Experience and Nature (1929) and half a century later Richard Rorty in his monumental Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) argued that much of the debate about the relation of the mind to the body results from conceptual confusions.

Not only did human beings have a direct kinship with other animals, but the latter had social, mental and moral lives too, Darwin argued.

Plato (c 427 c 347 BC) looking only at his work on natural patterns argued for the existence of universals.