Sentence examples for a respectable argument for from inspiring English sources

According to Clifford: "The simple truth was that the military failed to sustain a respectable argument for their position".

A respectable argument could be made for that.

But there is a respectable argument that the cutting of tropical forests for farmland and timber, by bringing people into close proximity with wild animals that they would not previously have encountered, may encourage the spread of new diseases.

There is a respectable argument that the Pru should be allowed to get on with it.

In fairness to Maude, this is a respectable argument, albeit not the one the coalition started with.

Or she may consider the 9/11 attacks meaningless, and there is a respectable argument that they were rooted far more in malign psychological anarchy and pure hate than in activism for any clear cause.

There is also a respectable argument that risk-averse businesses never start investing again properly until they see consumers spending confidently for more than just a few weeks.

There's at least a respectable argument that they may have too much regulation rather than too little.

But, from his confident tone in lines such as: "There is no longer any intellectually respectable argument for claiming that state schools shouldn't charge fees", I suspect he wouldn't necessarily prefer the explanation that his idea is stupid and ill-thought-through.

It's a perfectly respectable argument.

President Bush made a quite respectable argument, on grounds of executive privilege, against having Ms. Rice testify.