Sentence examples for a clever argument from inspiring English sources
"Well, if you want to define it that way, I've not got a clever argument to oppose it," he replies.
In order to get around this awkward detail, Mr Balls has come up with a clever argument, namely that he has no problem with the IMF being used to help individual countries enduring a cashflow crunch, but objects strongly to the fund being used as a firewall against contagion in the euro area.
With the help of the commonly accepted Scholastic assumption that any real being must either be a substance or mode, Malebranche presents a rather clever argument that active powers have no place in bodies (see Clatterbaugh 1999, 114 5).
"That's a clever political argument.
There is no reason because every reason usually given in support of tenure and academic freedom has been shown to undermine itself in the course of this quite clever argument.
Perhaps Dorine's most clever argument comes when she warns her boss that if he forces his daughter into marriage, she is likely to stray, and in so doing lose her place in heaven.
Perhaps not, though; perhaps some clever argument will still show that agent-relativity is incompatible with some important and independent notion of objectivity.
Socrates encourages Phaedrus' enthusiasm for clever argument, and by careful example shows him first, how the argument can be technically improved, the stuff of the CBOC, via the general rules of effective persuasion.
He eventually became one of Democrats' great bogeymen – an inexhaustible source of clever arguments and cleverer insults, pouring out opinions from the highest court in the US.
If I were a true policy salesman, my Sunday column making the case for extending the payroll tax holiday in the hopes of eventually doing away with payroll taxes altogether would have come equipped with a clever-sounding argument for why payroll tax abolition would somehow magically pay for itself.
