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Argument in sentence

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This argument rests on the assumption of perfect knowledge.
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as did communism.
The laissez-faire argument against income redistribution invokes the doctrine of the survival of the fittest.
The argument is undercut by the fact that wealth is passed on by inheritance, and the second generation is rarely as fit as the first.
The columnist Yaqoob Khan Bangash, for example, openly derides the hallowed Pakistani argument that, as Muslims, Indian Kashmiris would want to join Pakistan: “Despite being practically a war zone since 1989, Indian Kashmir has managed higher literacy, economic growth, and per capita income rates than most of Pakistan,” he wrote recently.
This argument is politically expedient – but wrong.
The message from both the soccer field and the negotiating room was that there was a quick and easy route to victory, complex issues could be solved by a brilliant argument, and individual superstars were the key to success.
The unavoidable implication of this argument is that when we calculate what the tax rate for the superrich will be, we should not consider the effect of changing their tax rate on their happiness, for we know that it is zero.
These recovery schemes put national interests first, using the argument that taxpayers’ money must be used to defend the nation’s companies and workers.
The argument that education matters for the economy is plausible because, at one level, it is obviously right.
Sarkozy, for example, has revived a long-standing French argument for some form of economic government in Europe as a counterweight to the ECB.
To the extent that you are cc’ed, you can also see patterns among your friends or colleagues: Which topics provoke huge amounts of stress or argument?
According to this argument, academic scientists should either publish their research openly or leave the university before pursuing commercial interests.
Instead of trading with the economically sclerotic and navel-gazing EU, the argument goes, it would be far better to form bilateral partnerships with countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, and India.
The argument generally offered is one of cultural affinity – as if centuries of common history, culture, and relations with the rest of Europe counted for nothing.
The argument that EU membership has undermined Britain’s ability to craft its own foreign policy simply does not bear scrutiny.
By contrast, the pressure for “political correctness” rests on the argument that the truth is unknowable.
That argument was quickly undermined when the judges’ union announced their support for civil society monitors.
On the contrary, they will be more likely to think that people are being imprisoned for expressing views cannot be refuted by evidence and argument alone.
But US exports are other nations’ imports, so Obama’s argument amounts to telling others to lose their jobs.
This was a return to a variant of the old gold standard argument.
The argument that US firms have been compelled to transfer their technology to China thus lacks significance.
In fact, that argument was never backed by persuasive evidence.
In China’s struggle school of diplomacy, no decision could be confirmed without a protracted argument with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.
That argument ended only when it became clear that the Chinese could squeeze no other concessions out of those on the other side of the table.
The question is whether the German public can be convinced of this argument.
This argument was always emphasized when the Chinese surplus was deemed excessive, but it is virtually ignored when it comes to northern Europe.
But vast differences between Japan and its developed counterparts in the West, mean that, like so many other Western exports, Piketty's argument has taken on unique characteristics.
Progress in economic thought after 1929 initially led to the argument that, in a depression, tariffs are justified because they would divert insufficient aggregate world demand to one’s goods at the expense of others.
A second argument put forth for a pause is the increase in the value-added tax in Germany from 16 to 19% at the beginning of next year.
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