It's a simple, easy-to-absorb argument, and many find it compelling.
We are all still absorbing the arguments for and against the HS2 high-speed train link from London to (eventually) Scotland.
To absorb the argument fully, however, readers must shelve one premise that has long been part of the China story – the very idea of a one-party state with lack of democratic accountability, embedded in Western thinking as bad governance.
Approval of his plan has fallen as conservatives have absorbed the argument that it would create a consumption tax on top of the existing income tax structure that could be raised much higher than nine percent over time.
"I think the Australian people normally get their politics right … they do have a great capacity to absorb the arguments, they will respond to an argument for change and reform … [but] we sometimes lose the capacity to argue the case – we think that it is sufficient that we utter slogans," he continued, without explicitly accusing anyone in particular.
Perhaps because of this ambidextrous background, in conversation and in print he's more than capable of hearing out an opposing argument, absorbing it into his own thinking, and then answering with a fair but thoroughgoing counterargument.
Investors may have absorbed the arguments for avoiding risk so completely that they have lost their taste for it.
As an overworked beat reporter, I could absorb those arguments, and the opposite ones, and simply plow on in search of new facts.
It has absorbed the arguments put forward in "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, who maintain that in very unequal societies everyone's health suffers, but especially that of those at the bottom.
What will happen if all seven of the Research Councils UK firmly commit to libre OA for RCUK-funded research in time for the EC to take note, absorb the arguments, and consider amendments?
Hayward replied in a flat, even voice, absorbing the brickbats without argument.
