On that reasoning, if the retirement age came down to 25 we would all be as rich as Croesus.
The reasoning: If bacteria become resistant to current antibiotics, then bacterial infections will be as deadly as they were before the advent of penicillin.
If courts adopted this reasoning, what would stop them from limiting the First Amendment's speech and press clause to the use of 18th-century communication technology?
Under this reasoning, if the public had known that they would be choosing the people who will pick the next chief, they would have turned out in droves.
These days, tech companies are rushing to be all-in-one providers of everything from instant messaging to email to calls to video chat, reasoning that if you offer everything in one place, consumers will have little reason to go anywhere else.
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Deductive reasoning stipulates that if the premises of an argument are true (1 and 2), then the conclusion must also be true (3).
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If all companies use that same reasoning, pay scales invariably keep rising.
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Ms. Feinstein's new proposal also calls for gun registration, and the reasoning is straightforward: If a gun has been left at a crime scene and it was registered to the person who committed the crime, the registry will link the crime gun back to the criminal.
That split reasoning could sow further uncertainty if and when Congress and the White House were to revise or entirely rework health care reform in the wake of the court's decision.
Totally eliminating stereotypes would mean eliminating inductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning is just too valuable even if we could.
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"If he is true to that line of reasoning, then I would think that he'd be for repealing it, " Lindsey said on CBS's "Face The Nation".
The cannibalisation of higher-margin sales must be painful, but the reasoning is easy to understand: if the retailers do not undercut themselves, thousands of resourceful web-surfers will.
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If stocks are chosen by networks and without sound reasoning, then a disservice has taken place.
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If our potential entrepreneur were to follow the typical reasoning governing risk, he would do in-depth research to estimate not only the size of the market, but also all the risks he might face (competitors, changing market conditions, etc.).
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Obviously Gaikai wants to make a splash with quality titles, but the reasoning goes further than that -- if gamers play a demo through the service and decide the title's not for them, that game's publisher ends up paying for a negative outcome.
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And it is my sincere hope that even if you believe I have occasionally errored in my reasoning as a fellow conservative, you will still allow - that I have in many ways important to all of us - maintain the record of a conservative.
If our potential entrepreneur were to follow the typical reasoning governing risk we have all been taught, he would do in-depth research to estimate not only the size of the market, but also all the risks and challenges he might face (competitors, changing market conditions, etc.).
But if Democrats go it alone, by one line of reasoning, there is no reason not to get as much as possible.
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Because if this is their view, then by their own reasoning, Israel's presumed nuclear arsenal is necessary to deter Teheran from attacking.
The more governments that gather around America's tent, if not inside it, before a war (the reasoning goes), the less likely they will be to squabble over the rebuilding of Iraq afterwards.
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Only if the court of one state is convinced that the reasoning of a court in another member state is erroneous should it depart from a point that has been authoritatively decided there.
And if the rules of the game change (or the reasoning behind the original plan), like they did in Indianapolis, how far must the government go to ensure that everyone is on equal footing?
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If the figures turn out to be accurate - if - there will certainly be more colourful metaphors to come and some tough reasoning to be done.
Moody's goes a bit further, reasoning that governments can and will rescue an individual bank, even if they lack sufficient resources to bail out the whole system in a crisis.
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If they are forced to, they may do so intuitively, rather than by reasoning.
The reasoning is that Cyprus might, indeed should, stay in the euro if it is going to save its banking system and avoid a massive deflation of the economy by doing so.
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But if the amendment is voted down next month, and the court sticks by its original reasoning (as it's expected to do), the debate ends.
However the Greek right's reasoning is similar to that of the UK government - you can survive austerity if you pump prime business investment with tax cuts aimed at stimulating it.
But if, within our own species, we don't regard differences in intelligence, reasoning ability, or self-awareness as grounds for permitting us to exploit the being with lower capacities for our own ends, how can we point to the same characteristics to justify exploiting members of other species?
If Google and Amazon have 7-inch tablets, then Apple needs one too, or so the reasoning goes.
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