Quotes about proponents (16 Quotes)


    The misinformation campaign promoted by the pro- abortion camp is unbelievable. Scientists know that a human being begins at conception. Yet many in their community, the media and the culture of death proponents deny the facts in order to dupe women and advance the body count.

    will not be adopted by Congress this year, nor next year, nor any time soon until a substantial majority of Americans are persuaded that such a consequential action is as vitally important and necessary as the proponents feel it is today.

    At the same time, there is a growing pile of tidbits, in Roberts' opinions and in the Reagan-era documents dribbling out of the White House, that indicates he has strongly held and far-right views on major frontsabortion, religion, and executive power. There's ammunition for principled opposition to be mined here. But the key attribute Roberts lacks from the point of view of the legal liberals, at least on the record, is an overarching, burn-the-house-down judicial philosophy. As a result, proponents of judicial restraintan approach to the law that's become as fashionable among liberals as conservativesare eager to embrace him as one of their own. Leftish advocates of restraint celebrate justices who don't reach out beyond the facts of a case to decide more than they need to and who respect existing Supreme Court precedent. They wrinkle their noses at justices who overtly seek to impose a rightward agenda (Antonin Scalia) and are willing to jettison past decisions to do it (Clarence Thomas). Roberts has never declared himself one of the bad guys, Sunstein pointed out hopefully in a recent piece in the New Republic . Instead he has styled himself as deliberate, lawyerly, process-oriented. His opinions on the D. C. Circuit court of appeals avoid broad pronouncements, ... They do not try to reorient the law.

    The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

    Our meetings probably last around 30 minutes. We introduce the current directors and any new nominees for their position, as well as address stockholder proposals. Proponents have the option of making a statement about their proposal, and our independent auditors are also in attendance. Then we have a 10-minute presentation on finances and a question-and-answer session.


    Secretary Albright asked the State Department's senior human rights officer to undertake the mission to further develop the administration's understanding of the dimensions of the conflict in Kosovo and to emphasize U. S. support for proponents of democracy as well as victims of human rights abuse in the region.



    There's a bigger area from which to attack, ... I was one of the proponents of this kind of hockey several years ago. We built our early team in Toronto around that. But it became clear (the league) didn't want style and speed, they wanted people who could knock heads off.

    SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.


    In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax ... the dead. If proponents get their way, grave sites will be taxed 5 dollars per grave, per year for eternity. In Colma the dead outnumber the living by a ratio of roughly 1000-to-1, including such notables as Wyatt Earp, Levi Strauss, and William Randolph Hearst. And they, apparently, haven't paid their fair share. For liberals, when it comes to taxes ... nothing is sacred.

    Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.


    Wolf proponents expound that more cattle and sheep die of disease, or from coyote or dog predation than they do from wolves, ... I don't know what I'm missing but that doesn't sound like a good argument to add wolves into the mix to me.

    The argument by proponents is if consumers have more skin in the game, they'll choose wisely. When you look at the facts or figures, especially bankruptcy from medical costs ... consumers already have skin in the game. We all understand the costs.



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