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The MoD argued that McEleny's standpoint lacked cogency. It also stated that Scottish independence would have no impact on foreign countries, and that the debate surrounding independence was not worthy of respect in any democratic society outside the UK.
He added that what made Qatar's position stronger in this lawsuit was the cogency of its documents submitted by third parties with no involvement in the crisis rather than Qatari authorities.
The exquisite lyrical cogency becomes even more delectable when David brings down the tempo, as he does in the wistful ballad, 'Maybe I Can't': 'If you come back to me again/ I'll make the blue sky rain/ I'll make it snow in mid-July/ Make the midnight shine/ I'll slap the cuffs on the hands of time/ Well, maybe I can't, but I'll try').
Concurrent with this, UAE's political vision led to the creation of a post for a Minister of State for Youth Affairs in 2016, as well as the setting up of the Emirates Youth Council (headed by the Minister of Youth), two apex entities that provide more cogency to the efficaciousness of youth power at the highest levels.
Isn't it about time we forgot the story of Glazunov's drunken conducting sabotaging its premiere and causing a nervous breakdown in the young composer, and instead concentrated on its qualities of cogency and emotional allusiveness, looking forward as it does across half-a-century to the gritty Symphonic Dances?
With his usual cogency and eloquence, Hadley Arkes laments the failure of the dissenting Justices in Obergefell v.
This paper will analyze and evaluate their arguments, then seek to provide an assessment of their cogency.
"Aristotle's Empiricism: Experience and Mechanics in the 4th Century B.C." sheds light on the classical Greek understanding of imitation and device, as it questions both the claim that Aristotle's natural philosophy codifies opinions held by convention and the view that the cogency of his scientific ideas depends on metaphysics.
She considers both the theoretical roots and cogency of the concept, and its multiple application in a clinical setting.
Sutton's claim that analysis of the reception of the masculine woman elucidates the gender politics of the Weimar era is quite convincing, yet its cogency could be bolstered by research into how representative the subcultural texts were of the subcultures themselves.
HE argument could not t have been put to the Government with more cogency or power.
It is important to note that this book understands itself as investigating Christianity as "world Christianity," a term that we are told by sociologist Robert Wuthnow reaches back to 1929, although it has more recently been given cogency by missiologists and historians such as Dana Robert, Philip Jenkins, and Lamin Sanneh.
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