Sentence examples for adduce from inspiring English sources
'adduce' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when you want to present evidence in support of an argument. For example, "She adduced several studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of her approach."
verb
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
- Reasons ... were adduced on both sides. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Commentators who envision Barack Obama running on his foreign-policy successes in this year's campaign generally adduce examples like the assassination of Osama bin Laden and the crippling of al-Qaeda.
Most important, he was able to express optimism that China, North Korea's sole ally of any weight, will exert pressure on it to abandon its nuclear programme.He could adduce some evidence for this: China's failure to celebrate the birthday; changes in its travel restrictions; its leaders "chastising" North Korea (without naming it).
Labour optimists adduce 1992, when a fag-end prime minister scored an unexpected triumph.
Surveillance, which the research's proponents adduce as an example of how mutation data can help protect human health by flagging up potentially dangerous strains to nip them in the bud, may be fine in theory.
To adduce the erroneous neoconservative theory that "the root cause of terrorism was the absence of Arab democracy" (Lexington, February 5th) only serves to prove that Mr Bush was as clueless as he was ineffective in dealing with issues in the Arab world.Terrorism has long thrived in free countries.
Here, one could adduce terrific foreign language teaching.
To reinforce his position, one might also adduce the United States, noting that the Mason Dixon line is (though not in the field of general literature) a dividing line: the American South, even including the Uncle Remus stories, has supplied very little good children's reading.
One cannot adduce this as support for an interpretation of Greek politics in terms of class struggle because the democrats may simply have made the more handsome offers.
What makes the noise inside his hands, and is he likely to suffer in the future?" The bubble theory is then adduced by Brian Ford, of London SW1, who also advises against the habit.
(Loud cheers).Christopher Rawdon, Esq., most sincerely wished that he could add anything in the way of novelty or strength to the arguments adduced in favour of the cause which they were assembled to support, but as he could not do so, he would content himself with most cordially seconding the resolution.The Chairman then put the resolution, and declared it to be carried unanimously.
Good arguments can be adduced for such arrangements, but only in a country where the branches of government are clearly separate and independent, and where there are firm controls on the exercise of power.
