In short, the prime minister seems intent on throwing his personal authority behind an attempt to demolish a man of straw.
The Democrats voted to do away with their favorite straw man of blaming the Bush tax cuts for all that troubles the economy and fiscal imbalance of the Federal government.
This is yet another clumsy attempt to employ the straw man method of trying to falsely discredit obvious cause and effect.
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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"?).
Another sop to the soft-hearted 21st-century modern man is the option of using straw to pad your socks and hopefully cushion the blows.
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).
If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.
Mr. Taylor is guilty of serving up another one of his poor straw man arguments.
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Instead, his well-written speech -- presented as a refutation of President Barack Obama's second inaugural address -- was incomplete and dominated by many of the straw-man arguments he decried.
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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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.
At the same time Gore drones on and on with character assassinations, straw man arguments and out-of-context weather anecdotes, more than two dozen global warming experts will join Watts discussing the science Al Gore hopes we will overlook.
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This is an example of using a red herring and straw man disinformation.
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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.
To stand up this straw man the president's critics recycle the same small crop of incriminating quotations time and again.
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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Many of the foot-dragging arguments against the common supervisory plan were based on little more than straw man arguments.
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