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Argument in sentence

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Here, the argument is almost medieval, as when the Bible could not be translated into the vernacular for fear that people would seek God on their own and forget the guidance of the Church hierarchy.
Listening to someone constructing a logically articulated argument will become an exclusive source of aesthetic pleasure and distinction.
Another tired argument is that Russia’s growth is superficial and not generated by investment.
But the most over-hyped argument concerns Russia’s feeble tax collection.
Gordon’s main argument was that the century after the US Civil War – from about 1870 to 1970 – brought an unprecedented economic revolution, as innovations like electricity and piped water rapidly raised productivity and transformed people’s lifestyles.
After all, Summers – and Gordon even more so – was making an argument about the long term.
Read an extended version of this argument in Jeffrey Frankel’s blog post, “Dispatches from the Currency Wars.”
But a basic flaw in Gordon’s argument is immediately apparent – and becomes glaringly so on closer examination.
Sorkin’s book reminds us that only 18 months ago, the US administration saw one answer in the creation of bigger and bigger banks, on the shaky argument that lashing two sinking ships together would somehow make them both seaworthy.
Indeed, successful implementation of the treaty would help debunk the facile argument made by the Kremlin and its acolytes that the liberal order has become dysfunctional.
Many of his supporters don’t seem to care much about reasoned argument – that is for the liberal snobs.
True, Germany is insisting on a “fiscal stability union” as a condition of allowing the ECB to do even the minimum needed to keep the euro afloat; but this is a political argument, not an economic one.
Finally, the argument for a joint budget to reward domestic economic reforms assumes that such reforms create large-scale financial burdens in the short term.
India agreed to begin talking again with its neighbor, accepting Pakistan’s argument that it, too, was a victim of terrorism.
Supported by extensive genealogies, including centuries of church and national health registries, their argument is convincing.
Roman Catholic thinkers have been among the most vocal in invoking the “slippery slope” argument against the legalization of voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted dying.
It is even rarer when the official’s argument both cuts to the core of the issue and amounts to a devastating critique of the existing order.
By 1811, he had sorted them into nearly 50 different types, with titles like “Attack us, you attack Government,” the “No precedent argument,” and the “Good in theory, bad in practice” fallacy.
Whereas the principle of utility calls for inquiry and argument, Bentham believes that those who advocate such pre-existing rights disdain both and are more likely to stir people up to use force.
After all, the “Authority-worshipper’s argument” was another of the fallacies he rejected.
For this reason, university faculty and students may proffer any argument or idea that they deem worthy of further investigation.
Summers is right that a university is no place for “giving a heckler’s veto to those who want to carry the day with the strength of their feeling rather than the force of their argument.”
In principle, this is an argument for humanitarian intervention in selective situations.
After all, the argument goes, economic fundamentals – not just in the United States, but worldwide – haven’t been this good in a long, long time.
This argument is both disingenuous and dishonest.
His argument is that Iran does not want nuclear weapons, and would not use them to duplicate a crime that did not happen.
Holocaust denial is not an argument about the past.
It is an argument about the future.
If it is not applied, the argument goes, there will be a massive exodus of Muslims to other faiths.
A conviction is a settled belief that brooks no argument.
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