Sentence examples for advancing an argument from inspiring English sources

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers pointed out that United are the champions, advancing an argument which undermined Moyes's own defence.

The editor, Maggie Fergusson, is not (thank goodness) advancing an argument about the way authors look at objects or about contemporary forms of ekphrasis.

And New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones usually opts to celebrate the coming of the winter solstice by advancing an argument full of holes big enough for Santa to drive his sleigh through.

Recall, if you will, the last time you were at a dinner party, and while advancing an argument in which you have an obvious stake – the immorality of racism, say – some impish goon at the other end of the table admonished you with, "You would say that".

Partly thanks to the inherent suspense of its journalistic detective story, "All the President's Men" is a much more compelling read than "Plan of Attack," which comprehensively chronicles the Bush administration's march to war in Iraq without really advancing an argument or engaging the question of why the administration came to see the war as necessary or desirable in the first place.

Bergson is not some kind of rhetorician, but it is critical to understand what he means when he talks about intuition, and for this you must see why his style, his music, his way of advancing an argument by a sort of layering — " Ali interrupted.

Concocting connections to advance an argument actually weakens it.

And he advanced an argument against what he called the "income defense industry".

In response, Google has advanced an argument based on editorial integrity.

doesn't advance an argument for a big interventionist state, but for a society of common bonds.

It is hard to advance an argument for the symbolic or numerical importance of the caucus in North Dakota on Tuesday.