A good case well-argued and well said is inherently moving.
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"It wasn't as well argued as I would have liked," he said.
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As long as it's well-argued, there's a place for opinion in the world.
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Agree with his opinions or not, they're always smart, lucid, well argued and witty.
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His talk was well argued and delivered, and it was based on actual policy substance.
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It is an effort to move souls by the reality of spoken truth, well argued.
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If limited bans were imposed in specific circumstances, there would have to be well-argued justification.
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It's a thoughtful and well-argued post, and you should take the time to read it.
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Our Student Opinion prompt "Should Graffiti Be Protected?" garnered especially well-written, and well-argued, comments.
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The Brennan Center for Justice, for example, filed a well-argued brief against this Ohio law.
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U in the top spot, the list's author Jeremy Parish defied conventional wisdom with well argued points.
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It is measured and well-argued and actually makes me want to give it a second chance.
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"Even if we get a well-argued proposal together, there is no guarantee at all this will be accepted," he said.
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It's a poignant, intensely personal and well-argued piece about the inconsistent standards for entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Haraway told Lewis that she had no choice but to "contend" with what Lewis had written: a well-argued piece of criticism.
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That may be a less than scientific form of cognitive manipulation, but it is more efficacious than a dozen well-argued treatises.
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Fighting Words is a column in which writers share their sometimes unpopular but always well-argued opinions on health, wellness, politics, and more.
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To the Editor: I commend Arthur C. Brooks for his thoughtful and well-argued article on the dangers of perpetuating a culture of victimhood.
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The well-delivered, well-written and well-argued speech largely reflected the consensus views of the generals and of the American national security apparatus.
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"We look for a concise, well-argued letter, ideally in the range of 150 words, making a strong case and written gracefully," said Mr. Feyer.
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It will take more than a well-argued academic paper, however, to burnish the image of an industry neither lender nor borrower deals with by choice.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Putin's order on Thursday "a well-argued decision" made after multiple requests from residents of separatist self-proclaimed East Ukrainian republics.
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If anyone is offended by a remark or opinion, ad hominem public attacks, public shunning and scorn is the response, instead of a well-argued rebuttal.
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And in a prepared speech from Trump last week, the de facto GOP nominee laid out his most concise and well-argued case against Clinton to date.
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Fighting Words is a column in which writers rub you the wrong way with their unpopular but well-argued opinions on fitness, health, nutrition, what have you.
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Allen Lane; £2117.99 His critics regard him as Panglossian, and suspect he cherry-picks statistics, but the author's case for global optimism is entertaining and well-argued.
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" —a man And finally, an admittedly well-argued counterpoint: "You know that line where Beyoncé goes, 'If he fuck me good, I'll take his ass to Red Lobster?
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Fighting Words is a column in which writers rub you the wrong way with their unpopular but well-argued opinions on fitness, health, nutrition, love, what have you.
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And the company's statement is a well-argued reaction to the law that sends a clear message: Signal would rather have the app banned than comply with an overreaching order.
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I have no issue with the point being made, which is sound and well argued, but the exhibit's detached intellectualizing of the Wallace's contents and history unfortunately leaves the soul unstirred.
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And very often there'd be a blowback afterwards, that it would be the long, extremely well argued Timesian email that told me exactly how wrong I was in the following ways.
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Not because some aren't true or well-argued—again, I liked God of War and my review reflects that—but reviews are nothing more than an opinion from a moment in time.
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Suppose that a judge is more likely to join an opinion circulated by his colleague the more he likes it, either because he agrees with its politics or because he thinks it is well-argued.
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This is a well-argued video: How, and why, white supremacy continues: One of the ways in which white supremacy has sustained itself is by staying in the shadows and normalizing this structure of domination.
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In a well-argued BuzzFeed essay, writer and Screener editor Jacob Clifton described PewDiePie's actions as representative of a larger masculine identity crisis, and urged readers to engage with rather than demonize the people caught up in it.
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She wrote a 2015 book on politics and race, "Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide" — "provocative and well-argued," Kirkus Reviews said — and teaches a class at Syracuse University exploring race, gender and the media.
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Over the past several months, commission chairman Ajit Pai has consistently said that what matters is the quality, not the quantity of the comments, saying that a well-argued legal brief is more valuable than, potentially, millions of people demanding basic protections.
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As a public service I'm putting up this post so when your parents message you with a warning about a hacker named "Jayden K. Smith" who "has the system connected to your Facebook account" you can easily retort with a well-argued piece of journalism.
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But I also know that my friend is more likely to become a bartender at SUR than she is to buy a Portal TV. CNET's review is headlined, "No one should buy the Facebook Portal TV." This is a reasonable and well-argued stance.
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He wrote "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration" in 2015, and it pulls extensively from the analytical framework he established in "The Case for Reparations" and his second book, the National Book Award–winning Between the World and Me. It is, like all of Coates's major essays, well researched and well argued, but it lacks the urgent, evocative sentences of his other work.
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In the daily newspaper Les Échos, Kevin Badeau wrote that the author's point of view “too often falls into excessive severity,” adding that “everything or almost everything is a scandal”. As for Laurent Mucchielli, “if the form of the commentary is sometimes criticizable, the well-argued textual substance reflects a widely shared anger”.
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Roger Ebert described the film as "an angry, well-argued documentary about how the American housing industry set out deliberately to defraud the ordinary American investor". A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that "Mr. Ferguson has summoned the scourging moral force of a pulpit-shaking sermon. That he delivers it with rigor, restraint and good humor makes his case all the more devastating".
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Edith was an impressive figure physically, tall and strong-featured. Her speeches in Parliament were forthright, and based upon strongly held beliefs and were well argued. She had a wide circle of mostly female friends, including left-wing Labourites. Coming as she did from an old and privileged family, her socialist views were in sharp contrast and at odds with many family members, their friends and neighbours.
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His experience in the Caribbean, where he "quickly absorbed the plantation owners' views about slavery",Hochschild, p. 186. lent weight to his position, which was perceived as well-argued and just by some of his contemporaries.Ziegler, pp. 97–99. In his first speech before Parliament he called himself "an attentive observer of the state of the negroes" who found them well cared for and "in a state of humble happiness".
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Noam Chomsky discussed briefly Kropotkin's views in an 8 July 2011 YouTube video from Renegade Economist, in which he said Kropotkin argued > ... the exact opposite [of social Darwinism]. He argued that on Darwinian > grounds, you would expect cooperation and mutual aid to develop leading > towards community, workers' control and so on. Well, you know, he didn't > prove his point. It's at least as well argued as Herbert Spencer is ...
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On 19 September 2017, he launched on his Facebook Page an absurd but well-argued idea, clearly stamped "Fake news", which will trigger the "Tintin Gate": the idea that Tintin was always perceived as a girl for his creator, Hergé.The Independent, ″Is Tintin a girl? French philosopher says theory on comic book character was a 'thought experiment'″ », 2017. The controversy goes around the world in less than a week.
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Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience is a 1991 book about the philosophy of religion by the philosopher William Alston, in which the author discusses experiential awareness of God. The book was first published in the United States by Cornell University Press. The book received positive reviews and has been described as an important, well-argued, and seminal work. However, Alston was criticized for his treatment of the conflict between the competing claims made by different religions.
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The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine"JRSM" JRSM is a scientific and educational publication featuring articles ranging from evidence-based reviews and original research papers to editorials and personal views. Edited by Dr Kamran Abbasi, JRSM has been published continuously since 1809. JRSM has full editorial independence of the RSM and features well-argued debate and dissent on important clinical topics. Although UK-based, it publishes articles of interest and relevance to clinicians internationally.
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The book was a bestseller in Australia, and in November 2008 it hit number 8 on a list of top ten best-selling books in the country in political and social science books according to data from Nielsen BookScan. The book received positive reception in books reviews and media coverage. The Sunday Age called it a "sober" and "well-argued" expose. The Sydney Morning Herald, called the book an "exhaustive study of the Exclusive Brethren in Australia". GayNZ.
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They proposed the new combination of Micracanthorhynchina segmentata which implies membership of the Rhadinorhynchidae. As a result they synonymised Allorhadinorhynchus with Micracanthorhynchina. This action also had significance for the subfamily Allorhadinorhynchinae which should have fallen into synonymy, however this has not been commented on by any authors. Despite this well argued action, Amin and Sey in 1996 did not recognise the new combination proposed by Araki and Machida in 1987, stating without argumentation that it was “invalid”.
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Each summer Tirpitz would go to St Blasien with his aides to work on naval plans, then in September he would travel to the Kaiser's retreat at Rominten, where Tirpitz found he would be more relaxed and willing to listen to a well argued explanation.Massie pp. 182–183 Three supplementary naval bills ('Novelles') were passed, in June 1906, April 1908 and June 1912. The first followed German diplomatic defeats over Morocco, and added six large cruisers to the fleet.
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The President in turn appoints the Deans, and the Deans appoint the Heads of the departments. In 2014, DTU was granted institutional accreditation by the Danish Accreditation Institution (a member of ENQA). The institutional accreditation ensures that the quality assurance system of the institution is well-described, well-argued, and well-functioning in practice. Since DTU has no faculty senate, and since the faculty is not involved in the appointment of the President, Deans, or Department heads, the university has no faculty governance.
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The correspondence competition runs over the whole school year and is divided in two parts: winter and summer, each consisting of three problem sets. They are two categories: B-category (for younger students) and A-category (for older students). The aim of the FKS problems is to be more than just textbook exercises; successful solution requires creativity and original approach. Participants are expected to factually support their conclusions, construct well-argued numerical estimations, design and perform experiments or write computational simulations.
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Johannsen argued that, despite first appearances, Sentientist Politics did leave considerable room for contextual considerations. For example, interventions in wild ecosystems must be decided with reference to the specifics of the particular ecosystem. This was only one of the book's strengths, for Johannsen; he called it "well written and well argued". Though he praised the discussion of wild animals as "interesting", he questioned whether it was necessary for them to be considered members of political communities in order for them to be afforded significant protection.
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" Often these letters cite the results of investigations he has ordered, detailing management decisions and actions he considers detrimental to shareholder value. The letters usually accompany his government filings. Loeb once spent more than $4 million to increase his stake in a company to more than 5%, the statutory threshold requiring investor filings with the SEC, in order to file one of his letters criticizing the firm's management. According to New York magazine, "Loeb is proud of his letters, which are thorough, well argued, and filled with clever turns of phrase.
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Unhitched received a mixed reception from critics. Gregory Shupak, writing for In These Times, a left-wing magazine, argued that Seymour, with his "gift for reeling off an entire firing squad's worth of bullets in a single sentence" was also "plainly a caliber of intellectual that his subject is not." In a similar vein, Doug Enaa Greene of Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal characterised Unhitched as "a well-argued, concise and powerful brief that can leave no doubt that Hitchens is guilty." Unhitched was given a more mixed review in The Daily Telegraph.
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The writer Simon Raven, while appreciating Bergonzi had produced a "quiet and well-argued article", thought the critic's conclusion was naïve, and asked "Since when has it been remarkable in a work of entertainment that it should lack a specific 'ethical frame of reference'?" Raven continued, saying Fleming "by reason of his cool and analytical intelligence, his informed use of technical facts, his plausibility, sense of pace, brilliant descriptive powers and superb imagination, provides sheer entertainment such as I, who must read many novels, am seldom lucky enough to find".
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She also stated the bibliography and glossary were not fully developed. Eide concluded that the book as a whole "will serve as a useful source book for future research" and that the four primary chapters "are very well argued". Hegel wrote that the book is equally "informative" and "fascinating to read" since Wang used "great enthusiasm and authority" when writing it. While Fin-de-Siècle Splendor had bibliographic referencing for cited works that had been reprinted recently, Hegel argues that the book should have included that referencing for all of the works cited.
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The argument that the usurpation was the product of a breakdown in communications between Constantius and his general in the field has been well argued by Nutt. Late Roman historian Michael Kulikowski has argued that the entire episode was a later invention, created as an excuse to rid Constantius II of Silvanus before he became a threat. His primary basis of this argument is the fact that no coins minted with Silvanus' image have been found to date, since virtually every usurper minted coins as an attempt to legitimize his authority.
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Over the years, the use of apostrophes has been criticised. George Bernard Shaw called them "uncouth bacilli", referring to the apostrophe-like shape of many bacteria. The author and language commentator Anu Garg, in a humorous but well-argued discussion, has called for the abolition of the apostrophe, stating "Some day this world would be free of metastatic cancers, narcissistic con men, and the apostrophe." In his book American Speech, linguist Steven Byington stated of the apostrophe that "the language would be none the worse for its abolition".
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He believed that the most important part of the work might be to give renewed attention to Freud's work and synthesize it with "recent evolutionary insights". However, he considered Rancour-Laferriere's treatment of semiotics the strongest part of the book. He noted that semiotics was less important to understanding human sexuality than psychoanalysis and evolutionary biology, and that it was difficult to reconcile with them, but believed that Rancour-Laferriere made a well-argued case for its relevance. Buss described Rancour-Laferriere's account of hominid sexuality as "speculative", and criticized his use of psychoanalysis and semiotics.
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On 5 April 1932 Goddard was appointed a Justice of the High Court and assigned to the King's Bench Division, receiving the customary knighthood later that year. In 1938, the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act authorized the appointment of three additional Lords Justices of Appeal: Goddard was one of the three new Lords Justices appointed under the Act, after only six years in the High Court. Goddard was known for turning out well-argued and legally convincing judgments. He would deliver stern diatribes to criminals, but his sentences were usually moderate, even when he was personally offended by the crime.
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A theory is propounded by historians R. Sathianathaier and D. C. Sircar, with endorsements by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund and Burton Stein.: "...the rather well argued and plausible stand that the Palavas were indigenous to the central Tamil plain, Tondaimandalam..." Sircar points out that the family legends of the Pallavas speak of an ancestor descending from Ashwatthama and his union with a Naga princess. It was the son born from this union, that would have started this dynasty. This claim finds support in the fact that Kanchipuram was where the Pallavas would dwell, and this was earlier a part of the Naga Kingdom.
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His erudite historical and cultural analyses of world events led to many publications, interviews and radio commentaries. His carefully researched and well-argued 2002 study, La Maladie de l’Islam (translated and published in English as The Malady of Islam) traces the historical and cultural riches of medieval Islamic civilization and its subsequent decline. The resulting posture, "inconsolable in its destitution", writes Meddeb, gave root to modern Islamic fundamentalism, a fact embodied by the modern Arab states' attachment to the archaic, Manichaean laws of "official Islam." The book also explores the tragic consequences of the West's exclusion of Islam.
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He had a number of well argued points which he detailed in letters to the chairman of the relevant committee, Charles Wood. He believed that they were making a big mistake in not including in the considerations of the British economy the currency of Bill of Exchange. Leatham argued that these made up a substantial part of the economy which he estimated to be of the size of £100 million. He was concerned that this currency was backed up by only a relatively small quantity of gold, most of which had been borrowed from the French government.
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So, the use of efficient vocal strategies such as matching might prove to be effective in interspecific communication. Hence, heterospecific matching could be a way of phrasing a threat in the language of the heterospecfic intruder. It could equally be well argued that these imitations of blue tit sounds have no function at all and are merely the result of learning mistakes in the sensitive period of great tits because blue and great tits form mixed foraging flocks together. While the authors agree with the first hypothesis, it is plausible that the latter also being true given the data on age and experience in primates.
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He cites solicitor Bilhar Singh Uppal as arguing that while Webster is right to open debate, there has been no wholesale fabrication of evidence. Damian Thompson writes that in Webster's view "investigations into child abuse in care homes in the early 1990s were disfigured by the zealotry associated with the Ritual Satanic Abuse affair". Chris Beckett writes that while Webster accepts that abuse occurs, he considers many convictions against former residential workerers miscarriages of justice and sees them as similar to witch-hunts. Beckett sees Webster's case against the widespread belief that the residential care system was infiltrated by paedophile rings as well-argued.
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The weak form alternatives to evidence-based anything include hearsay, opinion, rhetoric, discourse, advice (opinion), self deception, bias, belief, fallacy, or advocacy. The stronger forms include concerns about what counts as evidence, types of evidence, what evidence is available, sought or possible, who decides and pays for what evidence to be collected, and that evidence needs to be interpreted. Also there are the limitations to empiricism as well argued in the historical debate between empiricism and rationalism which is usually assumed to be resolved by Immanuel Kant by saying the two are inextricably interwoven. We reason what evidence is fair and what the evidence means (Critique of Practical Reason).
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Larson proceeded to publish a useful set of well- argued articles on the phenomena which he had discovered.Stanley Larson, “Early Book of Mormon Texts: Textual Changes to the Book of Mormon in 1837 and 1840,” Sunstone, 1/4 (Fall 1976), 44–55; Larson, “Textual Variants in the Book of Mormon Manuscripts,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 10/4 (Autumn 1977), 8–30 [FARMS Reprint LAR-77]; Larson, “Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies, 18 (Summer 1978), 563–569 [FARMS Reprint LAR-78]. Many of his observations were included as improvements in the 1981 LDS edition of the Book of Mormon.
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In September 2017, The Shift published the report "Decarbonize mid-density areas – Less carbon more bond", for which The Shift and the project leader Francisco Luciano were invited by the Ministry for Transportation to attend the Mobility Foundations and various governmental working groups. The report, which is aimed to be well-argued and quantitative, concludes that it is possible to strongly decarbonize mobility in suburban areas thanks to cycling, car sharing and fast public transports. The working group also studied the delivery of goods and remote work. On 4 October 2018, the think tank published a report on the digital economy impact on climate and environment.
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"The Spitting Image; New York University Press; 1998 A review published in The Berkshire Eagle called the book "Well-argued and documented." Maurice Isserman of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "The myth of the spat-upon veteran is not only bad history, but it has been instrumental in selling the American public on bad policy." A review published in the San Francisco Chronicle argued that "Lembcke builds a compelling case against collective memory by demonstrating that remembrances of Vietnam were almost at direct odds with circumstantial evidence." Peace activist David Dellinger referred to the book as the "best history I have seen on the impact of the war on Americans, both then and now.
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Mowat fought for provincial rights, weakening the power of the federal government in provincial matters, usually through well-argued appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. His battles with the federal government greatly decentralized Canada, giving the provinces far more power than Prime Minister John A. Macdonald had intended. Mowat consolidated and expanded Ontario's educational and provincial institutions, created districts in Northern Ontario, and fought tenaciously to ensure that those parts of Northwestern Ontario not historically part of Upper Canada (the vast areas north and west of the Lake Superior-Hudson Bay watershed, known as the District of Keewatin) would become part of Ontario, a victory embodied in the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889.
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Dutton was best known for the web aggregation site Arts & Letters Daily, which he founded in 1998 and which secured him a place among "the most influential media personalities in the world". The site, described as "the first and foremost aggregator of well-written and well-argued book reviews, essays, and other articles in the realm of ideas", features links to articles across the web about literature, art, science, and politics, for which Dutton wrote pithy teasers. In recognition of Arts & Letters Daily, Steven Pinker called Dutton a visionary for recognizing that a website "could be a forum for cutting-edge ideas, not just a way to sell things or entertain the bored".
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Martin's Press, 2000), which utilized postmodern gender theory (the work of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and others) to reinvestigate historical elements, such as double houses and early English religious women, and literature, including Beowulf. At the time, it was "the first and only monograph on motherhood to appear in Anglo-Saxon studies". The book received a fair amount of attention from reviewers, though opinions were mixed, one reviewer stating that "her historical analyses, however, are unsatisfying and problematic" and that Dockray-Miller too easily conflates patriarchy with heroic society. On the other hand, a reviewer in Speculum praised the book as "well argued and an important contribution to women's studies and Anglo-Saxon scholarship".
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The review argued that the book's contentions were "all perfectly to the point", and that the book was "well-argued", but due to its orthodox left-wing perspective omitted some potentially interesting lines of inquiry such as the possible influence of Hitchens's youthful bisexuality on his depictions of Gulf War soldiers. The book was forcefully denounced by Fred Inglis in The Independent, however, as "sectarian and mean-spirited". Colin Woodard of The Washington Post, meanwhile, described Seymour as an "over-zealous prosecutor" who "insists on advancing his argument from solid ground onto very thin ice." George Eaton of the New Statesman described the book as a "hatchet job," criticising its "embittered, polemical" and biased tone and its "tediously inflated" prose.
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However, Zhang Shuo, who had been made a chancellor as well, argued that public caning is inappropriate for high-level officials, and Emperor Xuanzong agreed. After the meeting with Emperor Xuanzong was over, Zhang Jiazhen, displeased, asked Zhang Shuo, "Why did you have to go into such deep talk?" Zhang Shuo responded: Meanwhile, Zhang Shuo and Zhang Jiazhen had not been on good terms, because Zhang Shuo, who ranked below Zhang Jiazhen in the precedence of chancellors, had previously served as Zhang Jiazhen's superior while serving as deputy minister of defense, and therefore resented Zhang Jiazhen for not showing him more respect. Meanwhile, Zhang Jiazhen's brother Zhang Jiayou had been made a high-ranked general, but in 723 was accused of corruption.
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She wanted to criticise the proposed tax credit cuts and to intervene before it was "too late" to stop the changes to tax credits, even though she did not wish to support the motion put forward by Labour because she disagreed with the party's overall stance, whilst also not being in favour of the Government's motion over tax credit cuts. Isabel Hardman of The Spectator described her speech as "truly brave" and "well argued". Despite her speech, she voted in favour of tax credit cuts, in line with the Conservative whip. Allen supported continued membership of the European Union in the 2016 referendum. On 5 December 2016, Allen announced her intention to put her name forward for the Conservative nomination for the election of Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in May 2017.
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The Tunnel is a novel by the American author William H. Gass published in 1995. The novel took 26 years to write and earned him the American Book Award of 1996, and was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award. The Tunnel is the work of William Frederick Kohler, a professor of history at an unnamed university in the American Midwest. Kohler's introduction to his major work on World War II, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, the culmination of his years studying the aspects of the Nazi regime in the scope of its causes and effects, turns into The Tunnel, a brutally honest and subjective depiction of his own life and history and the opposite of the well-argued, researched and objective book he has just completed.
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He described the work as "engrossing" and "absorbing and consistently well-argued". Publishers Weekly wrote that the essays included in the book presented a "formidable critique" of both Freudian theory and practice and Freud's major cases, and credited its contributors with presenting "compelling evidence that Freud habitually and greatly exaggerated his therapeutic successes" and with casting serious doubt on "confidence in free association as a curative tool to decipher the meaning of dreams or to reconstruct events from a patient's distant past." While it wrote that the book overstated the case against Freud, it praised the work Crews did in editing it, concluding that he had shaped the selections into a "cohesive whole" and "put psychoanalysis squarely on the defensive." Bresnick was unconvinced by the book's case against Freud, but nevertheless believed it had redeeming value.
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He suggested that Webster was well suited to the task of discussing the Christian roots of Freud's ideas and credited him with providing a detailed discussion of Freud's character that revealed its "unpleasant traits", though he considered his comment that Freud had a "sometimes less than scrupulous attitude toward truth" as an understatement. He found his discussion of the recovered memory movement one of the most interesting sections of the book. However, he criticized him for not providing more discussion of the cultural influence of Freudian theories, for failing to address "Freud's misogynistic teachings" and their effects on the women's movement, and for providing insufficient information about Freud's use of cocaine. Lodge considered the book "exceptionally searching, lucid, and well-argued", as well as "intellectually exciting" and "challenging", and noted that it was "linked to an ambitious project for a true science of human nature".
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Then Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a statement, saying that the report "makes a well-argued and powerful case for the system it recommends" and that "it is very much a modification of the existing Westminster system, rather than any full blown PR system as practised in other countries." He also praised Lord Jenkins for his work and gave the recommendations a cautious welcome, pointing out in particular that change would help address the "complete absence of Conservative representation in Scotland", a reference to the then most recent election in which the Conservatives failed to win a single seat in Scotland, despite winning 17.5% of the Scottish vote. However, leading figures in the Cabinet at the time (e.g. Home Secretary Jack Straw, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Chancellor Gordon Brown and Margaret Beckett) and the Labour NEC, all strongly opposed reform of the voting system, and blocked the chance of change at that time.
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Oliver Mowat, Premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896 Once constituted as a province, Ontario proceeded to assert its economic and legislative power. In 1872, the lawyer Oliver Mowat became Premier of Ontario and remained as premier until 1896. He fought for provincial rights, weakening the power of the federal government in provincial matters, usually through well-argued appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. His battles with the federal government greatly decentralized Canada, giving the provinces far more power than John A. Macdonald had intended. He consolidated and expanded Ontario's educational and provincial institutions, created districts in Northern Ontario, and fought to ensure that those parts of Northwestern Ontario not historically part of Upper Canada (the vast areas north and west of the Lake Superior-Hudson Bay watershed, known as the District of Keewatin) would become part of Ontario, a victory embodied in the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889.
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The Economist magazine praised the book as "terse, well argued and utterly convincing" and "crammed with striking anecdotes and statistics." For the Sacramento News & Review, Chris Springer asserts that Sowell's selection of countries for comparison to the United States and his use of evidence was skewed to reach an anti-affirmative-action conclusion. The same review charges that Sowell simply repackaged an earlier book of his, Preferential Policies: An International Perspective (1990), and "fobbed it off" as new material under a different title. Michael Bérubé, writing for The Nation magazine, agreed with Sowell's arguments that affirmative action has gone far beyond what the Civil Rights Act of 1965 intended and that preferential benefits for ethnic groups without historical oppression in the United States are unjustified but criticized Sowell's association of affirmative action with unrest in the countries selected for the study and pointed out the United States has never implemented the racial preference systems of those foreign countries.
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Krishnaswami Aiyangar regards the Pallavas as the feudatories of the Satavahanas—officers and governors of the south-eastern part of their empire, equates the term Pallava with the terms Tondaiyar and Tondaman (people and rulers of Tonda-mandalam), and says that, after the fall of the Satavahana Empire, those feudatories 'founded the new dynasty of the Pallavas, as distinct from the older chieftains, the Tondamans of the region.'" Another theory is propounded by historians R. Sathianathaier and D. C. Sircar, with endorsements by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund and Burton Stein.: "...the rather well argued and plausible stand that the Palavas were indigenous to the central Tamil plain, Tondaimandalam..." Sircar points out that the family legends of the Pallavas speak of an ancestor descending from Ashwatthama, the legendary Brahmin warrior of Mahabharata, and his union with a Naga princess. According Ptolemy, the Aruvanadu region between the northern and southern Penner rivers (Penna and Ponnaiyar: "There can hardly be any doubt that this Aruvanadu between the Northern and Southern Pennars is the Arouarnoi of Ptolemy's Geography.
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Larson carefully examined the original manuscript (the one dictated by Joseph Smith to his scribes) and the printer's manuscript (the copy Oliver Cowdery prepared for the printer in 1829–1830), and compared them with the first, second, and third editions of the Book of Mormon; this was done to determine what sort of changes had occurred over time and to make judgments as to which readings were the most original.Stanley R. Larson, “A Study of Some Textual Variations in the Book of Mormon, Comparing the Original and Printer's MSS., and Comparing the 1830, 1837, and 1840 Editions,” unpublished master's thesis (Provo: BYU, 1974). Larson proceeded to publish a useful set of well-argued articles on the phenomena which he had discovered.Stanley Larson, “Early Book of Mormon Texts: Textual Changes to the Book of Mormon in 1837 and 1840,” Sunstone, 1/4 (Fall 1976), 44–55; Larson, “Textual Variants in the Book of Mormon Manuscripts,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 10/4 (Autumn 1977), 8–30 [FARMS Reprint LAR-77]; Larson, "Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon," BYU Studies, 18 (Summer 1978), 563–569 [FARMS Reprint LAR-78].
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