Sentence examples for a controversial argument from inspiring English sources

A young Shiite scholar named Amal Saad-Ghorayeb has advanced what in Lebanon is a controversial argument: that Hezbollah is not merely anti-Israel but deeply, theologically anti-Jewish.

Underlying this legislation, Kroeker is making a controversial argument about the power of states to nullify federal law.

It was not until early 2006 that the coloured rains of Kerala gained widespread attention when the popular media reported that Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam proposed a controversial argument that the coloured particles were extraterrestrial cells.

A provocative and controversial argument, indeed.

"Why Women Still Can't Have it All," written by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former advisor to President Obama, makes the controversial argument that unless a woman is "rich, an entrepreneur, or a super-woman," it's impossible to have it all in both work and family life.

However, this was precisely supposed to be the conclusion of a substantive and highly controversial argument which Nagel has since rejected (on the strength of an argument from Nicholas Sturgeon; see Sturgeon 1974).

Hempel's most controversial argument appeared in an article about induction entitled "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation" (1945a), where he evaluates the conditions under which an empirical generalization would be confirmed or disconfirmed by instances or non-instances of its antecedent and consequent.

She asked, "Where are the beat cops?" John McWhorter, a linguist and professor at Columbia University, proposed the most controversial argument of the day - support for the decriminalization of narcotics.

In what will no doubt be the most controversial argument in this first volume, Mr Strachan makes a convincing case for the outbreak of war in 1914 as a product of blunder and delusion, not of deliberate German aggression.

Perhaps his most controversial argument was that the writing system needed to undergo a major reformation, with characters that had evolved over thousands of years to be replaced by a phonetic Latin script.

But Mr Everett's most controversial argument, and his biggest challenge to linguistic innatism, is about grammar.Mr Chomsky has argued that "recursion" is the key feature of all human language.