In short, the prime minister seems intent on throwing his personal authority behind an attempt to demolish a man of straw.
The presidential election there was a farce: Mr Rakhimov bullied what was left of the independent media, then won a two-man fight against a straw candidate who happened to be his own minister of forestry.
It was similarly discredited and abolished after a series of abuses, the last straw being the beating and death of a young man in a Custody and Repatriation center in Guangzhou in March 2003.
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So the notion of "Homo economicus, " schooled by capitalism to be shortsightedly selfish, is these days something of a straw man ("Homo stramineus"?).
In a straw man demonstration of the pitfalls in common statistical analysis, they showed that on the aggregate, women were accepted at a nearly 10% lower rate than men (35% to 44% respectively).
However, by arguing against the current system, supporters of universal government healthcare are aiming at a straw man because, since nothing close to a free market in healthcare exists, the current actions of the insurance and healthcare industries two of the most highly regulated industries are not representative of what might occur in a truly free market.
This is an example of using a red herring and straw man disinformation.
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While Saakashvilli is viewed as an agent of Washingtion, the leader of the opposition coalition, Georgian Dream, is allegedly a straw man for Putin.
Supposedly by attacking Wakefield, the primary author of the first highly publicized paper, who is a well-known proponent of the association of childhood vaccinations and autism, then the reality of cause and effect will supposedly just disappear and collapse like a straw man!
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It is not one based on an imagined straw poll of the partially informed hypothetical man on the street, but based on how a person of reasonable judgment, aware of all the facts, as well as how courts function, would decide.
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