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How to use the word argument in a Sentence?

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A major argument against voting is that it makes no difference, and if that’s the case, let me explain that the person’s vote does make a difference.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

If it would reveal where a family member was working, you could make the argument (for redaction), but I think that would be one of the limited circumstances.

Virginia Canter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Northern Ireland Protocol is interesting because I think loyalism has a point – and I think there’s a legitimate argument to be made that a customs border between Northern Ireland and Britain – similar to the way a border across the island, is wrong. But is The Northern Ireland Protocol the case that these are the issues that people in my community are discussing ? No. If you went out and did a survey and asked people in loyalist areas what is The Northern Ireland Protocol – I ’d be willing to bet that over half of them would n’t be able to tell you – there’s more important issues.

Joel Keys

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The argument for decentralization and the adoption of cryptocurrency has become more valid after the banks’ collapse. their blockchains are decentralized, transparent and auditable. Banks are not and, in the last few days, have become less so.

Cathie Wood

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Colleges have an educational mission, and I would make the argument that spreads to education about health and safety.

Marcus Hotaling

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let’s assume he did, for this argument, this was a plain extortion. I don’t know when we started prosecuting extortion victims. He has vehemently denied this affair. But he had to pay money because there was going to be an allegation that was going to be publicly embarrassing to him, regardless of the campaign.

Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In light of the Federal Defendants’ repeated and genuine expressions of confidence in the impartiality and fairness of this Court, it is difficult to accept their argument that ‘public perception’ – if such a concept could be beheld singularly – is meaningfully different than the Defendants.

Biden Tipton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you talk about fairness, it’s a complicated argument, but if you talk to someone who comes from poverty, or someone who’s a person of color, they are going to benefit from the forgiveness program the most because they’re the ones that have to jump through extra financial hoops in order to get where everyone else in the educated country is.

Angel Enriquez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many times the one argument that I would find would ruin a person’s case is when he ’d say, ‘ This is good for you politically, ’ he did n’t want to hear that. He did n’t want to think that way and he did n’t want his staff to think that way. He wanted to know what’s right.

Walter Mondale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Although this is a very technical ruling, its basic gist is that state supreme courts can’t rely upon novel state procedural rules to prevent state prisoners from bringing federal constitutional claims, (John) Cruz may or may not prevail on his federal claim – that he had a right to have the jury know that a life sentence would be without parole. But he now gets to make that argument in the first place.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I ’m afraid I ’m completely confused by whatever argument you’re making at the present time, so I guess I ’m thoroughly confused.

Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason’s having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.

Carl Jung

added by Normando
1 year ago

She’s trying to make the argument it’s time for a new generation. I think you’ll hear that a lot, and I think Trump will have to make the argument that, I’m best able to step into the job, I did it once, I can do it again, I can do the job well.

South Carolina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My quarrel isn’t with people who think diversity, equity and inclusion are good things, my argument and the argument of the NAS is turning them into dogma and then using them to vet faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students – creating aversive environment in which you feel you have to swear fealty to a particular creed. I think that’s wrong.

Steve Balch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a very convenient time for the regime to be making that argument because if sanctions were dropped, the ramifications of the much broader geopolitical situation would be game changing.

Charles Lister

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The incarceration argument is especially important because in these states where abortion bans have come into play, there’s a huge criminalization aspect.

Asha Banerjee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In any fair reading of the Voting Rights Act, this argument is an easy loser, but we’ll see, i don’t count anything out these days.

Rick Hasen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He considered that by making a move like this he was going to subdue the ELN. Because the only means the ELN has to put pressure on the negotiating table is precisely their terrorist actions. And if the ELN commits to a bilateral ceasefire, that will prevent them from being strong on the negotiating table, the only argument the ELN has is terrorism and Mr. Petro thought that he could take that away from them, tying their hands.

Army Colonel Luis Alberto Villamarín

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even if they brought criminal charges that were based solely on evidence that they believed was reliable, they would still have to combat an argument in the trial that a heavily dominated Democratic committee induced the Democratic Justice Department to bring criminal charges in order to sideline the sitting Democratic president’s likely rival in the 2024 election, which is not a position to want to be in as a prosecutor.

Andy McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You can make the argument that there is no reason to have this law. The voters all knew that there was a chance that (DeSantis) would not complete his term as governor and that he was at the very least considering a presidential run, no voter could say I was duped into voting for someone.

Bob Jarvis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So what we intend to do is keep the calm and keep the good inclusion, belonging, kindness, respect, but anything that creeps over into critical race theory, division, intersectionality, some voices being more valid based on the speaker and not on the merit or the virtue of the argument, we're going to separate the wheat from the chaff, keep the good and we're going to get rid of the bad.

Mike Peterson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Court’s argument [Monday] showed that it is high time to return to the constitutional norm of color blindness.

Jonathan Turley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They don't like the socialists, they don't like the abortion argument being thrust at them on a constant basis. They do n’t like the crime. They do n’t like the chaos. And they’re responding.

Hank Sheinkopf

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He had put a gun to my head before, during an argument, he threatened that if I ever came near the house he would shoot me.

Clay Higgins

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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