The case presents to prosecutors a potential legal landmine, requiring them to balance a vigorous argument for conviction with preserving the constitutional rights of Miller against self-incrimination.
In pressing his case in the State of the Union address on Tuesday, White House officials said, Mr. Bush plans to make a vigorous argument against Saddam Hussein.
In an ideal world, Romney's coronation would be postponed long enough to have a vigorous argument between Romney, Paul and Santorum (with Jon Huntsman getting in on the action as well, perhaps).
Before the financial crisis, most policy makers and opinion leaders smugly assumed that the economy would remain on an even keel, so Madrick felt he had to make a vigorous argument that economic problems required government action.
Wolff says his team are "not dominant", even though the basic stats are queuing up to give him a vigorous argument.
"Ms. Pelosi and I expect we'll have a vigorous argument over that issue," Mr. Boehner said.
In doing so, he was also making a vigorous argument for his vision of the country, in both its soaring possibilities and the messier realities, and asking Americans to embrace their differences and work for change.
Himmelfarb mounts a vigorous argument that the British philosophy was "reformist rather than subversive, respectful of the past and present even while looking forward to a more egalitarian future".
The affinity stems in part because they have the mentality of critics as much as musicians: products of art school, well-versed in theory, always up for a vigorous argument.
We can, of course, debate the necessity of those mechanics (Anne Trubek presented a vigorous argument against the continued need for correct spelling in Wired recently, leaving me — snobbishly, she would say — appalled), but it's hard to argue that you'll learn how to spell either daughter or laughter from listening to the spoken word.
