Sentence examples for advocates arguments from inspiring English sources

The Senate Internet tax debate revolved around advocates' arguments that applying sales taxes online is only fair, since traditional brick-and-mortar retailers must levy such taxes already.

Similarly, on plans to allow courts to be televised, the government had announced that it wanted "to start by allowing the broadcasting of advocates' arguments and judgments in the court of appeal before extending this to sentencing remarks in the crown court".

Courthouses have never been officially classified as sensitive locations, despite lawmakers' and advocates' arguments that doing so would encourage undocumented victims of crimes to show up to court.

Consumer advocates' arguments haven't persuaded the Education Department, which has gone around Congress and the FCC by simply requiring borrowers to consent to auto-dialed calls and messages at the time they sign their paperwork to take out federal student loans.

In this paper, we seek to formulate effective tools for communicating the fallacies contained in the anti-evolution advocates' argument that speciation by evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics (see, e.g., Morris 1987, 38 64).

Reid's arguments for God's existence are Newtonian in the sense that limitations of physics and Newtonian strictures about attributions of causes prevent Reid from advocating arguments for God's existence from physics (Callergård 2010).

There are certain serious events and issues simply reported as news stories, or condemned in the media without the need for a "devil's advocate" argument.

There is also, as briefly mentioned earlier, a second fairly widely advocated argument for phenomenalism, one that starts from the premise that all intelligible ideas or concepts are derived by "abstraction" from immediate experience, so that we arguably could not even understand the idea of objects existing outside of that experience.

I'm just sort of proposing a devil's advocate argument.

Since Dolezal's reveal as a born caucasian woman there have been plenty of intelligent, mostly white, liberal-minded individuals – like Newsnight's Emily Maitlis – voicing a "well… maybe", devil's advocate argument, likening Dolezal's choice to tan and wear certain hairstyles as potentially akin to people who opt to change their religion or gender in later life.

Sometimes, citing a scholar who goes against the tide of established thinking provides you with ammunition for a compelling devil's advocate argument.