Sentence examples for a thin argument from inspiring English sources

Because of the territory's different history, that was always a thin argument.

Taking steps to minimize driver distraction is obviously one thing, but from my experience with SYNC and the rest, that hardly ends up being a core focus on most car-focused interface-design choices, so it's a thin argument for sticking with the existing direction most are headed in.

Mr. Pelecanos also treads a thin line between cogent argument and oversimplification when he ascribes the woes of young men in "Soul Circus" to the lack of worthwhile father figures -- and lets Derek try to pick up that slack.

"He's got to walk a thin line between winning an argument with Ford and not alienating other customers," said Steven Haggerty of Merrill Lynch.

It was a very thin argument, as everyone involved knew.

But it's a perilously thin argument, for the media all but created the Donald Trump candidacy.

It's a thin line.

At first glance, the so-called "fat that makes you thin" argument looks distinctly suspect.

In 1944, for example, the court upheld President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order to remove Japanese-Americans from their homes on the West Coast and confine them in desert camps -- on the thin argument, as it turned out false, that they might be disloyal.

As the Gibbs sampler collects samples, some are saved to the hard drive (only the most recent samples are retained in memory) in files with extension ∗.dat, and the running means required for computing estimates of the posterior means and of the posterior standard deviations are updated; by default, a thinning of 5 is used but this can be modified by the user using the thin argument of BGLR.

Omand claimed there was only a thin public interest argument for publishing details of programmes such as Tempora and Prism, which has given the NSA the ability to trawl through the servers of mobile phone companies.