But the helicopter story was more than a convenient simplification, it represented a critical assumption without which the argument no longer makes sense.
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His voting record is one of the most liberal in the Senate, but in his books, he tends to present two sides of each policy argument without reaching many firm conclusions.
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One could make the argument that without it, as Liquin said, things would be much worse.
Others could give conflicting views--no man gets to be among the richest in the world without leaving room for argument.
But what about the argument that without regulation, taxpayers are at risk?
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Yet, without a cogent economic argument for payors (and, increasingly, for regulators), drug developers are going to have an increasingly difficult time getting their products into the hands of their primary customers.
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The contrary argument is that without expansion the city will stagnate, and the only room left to expand is towards the stars.
He rejects entirely, for example, the argument that going without insurance is a financial transaction due to the inevitability of running up healthcare costs sooner or later.
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Now ok, the water won't come from Welsh reservoirs - rather from boreholes beneath Birmingham - but, so the argument goes, without the Welsh water, they wouldn't have 30 million litres a day to spare for Anglian.
Allow it to function freely and without government meddling, goes the argument, and prices are discovered and internalised automatically.
The Navy knows that it will not win the argument for such expenditures without support from the other services.
An even more telling argument is that commodities without futures markets (apples, edible beans) or futures markets where index funds did not get involved (milk, rice) also saw price rises during 2006-08.
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The argument for Tavares is simpler: Without him, would the Islanders be relevant at all, let alone a potential playoff team?
But implicit to the argument is the notion that, without a strictly empirical basis, journalism is less credible, and more vulnerable to accusations of bias.
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Although tradionalists and critics claim that the new format can sometimes mean a club becomes champions of Europe, without being champions in their own country, this argument definitely cannot be aimed at the 2009 final.
Saying things without providing references to evidence is a hallmark of the denialist argument, even as they demand climate scientists make available for scrutiny every change to every draft of every paper they ever touch, as well as the proprietary source code of computer programs they create to analyze their data.
These debts have to be paid, the argument would be, in full, on time, without question.
And even if the data were commercial speech, the argument goes, New Hampshire can't ban it without a compelling state interest.
In fact it's a wonder the argument about risks to donors has gone on so long without the PSNI already having been asked for their advice.
An argument could be made that the Cuban economy would have collapsed without the oil it gets from Venezuela.
But for the rest, the Note is just too large to go without a more reasonably sized phone, which defeats the one-device argument.
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Mr. Poehm tries to quantify the damage, but his argument uses a stream of vague and at times nonsensical statistics without referencing a single source (See The Solution to PowerPoint for a good example).
Finally, and without question, Republicans for a long time have chosen to lose the prosperity argument.
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Perhaps the most frequently heard argument in favor of permanent normal trade relations with China is that without it, we will lose the China business to foreign competitors.
Instead, he spent the summer and fall slowly rebuilding the consensus behind the reform movement, patiently pushing the argument that China could not overhaul its inefficient state-owned enterprises without opening up further to international competition.
Mises carried his argument step further, though: he argued that these prices cannot emerge without exchange, and exchange in turn cannot happen without private ownership of the means of production.
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Beyond that, it almost goes without saying that this news is extremely exciting for marketers, as it legitimizes the argument to pursue social TV initiatives with the confidence in measurement that only a Nielsen can provide, thus creating a real market for new approaches, startups and content in the TV space and allowing for new lanes of marketing innovation.
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Her sons shot down that argument in elementary school, telling her they'd seen other students cheat without getting caught.
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