In 2008 he became more angry and violent, she said, in one instance putting a gun in her hand during an argument, pointing it at his head and saying he was going to frame her for murder.
These itemized entries borrow their structure from the blogosphere's signature "fact-check," a form in which a skeptic affects exhausted patience as he paces through a published argument point by point to show how perniciously or laughably wrong it is.
"Before, people who had been convicted of crimes could go to judge and make an equities argument, pointing out the positive things, like their family and work history," Holguin said.
Hugh Miller would make a similar argument, pointing out that the fossil fish found in the Old Red Sandstone formation were fully as complex as any later fish, and not the primitive forms alleged by Vestiges.
There's a long line of argument pointing to an eventual end to war, in part due to the increased connectedness and interdependence of human societies for whom it was once easier to identify someone else on the planet as the "other" — and thus a threat.
And one of his ex-girlfriends, Shantel Jackson, claims that during an argument Mayweather pointed a gun at her foot and threatened to shoot a toe off.
If Scotland stays in the union, if the tight polls swing in No's favour, there is an argument that points to Brown as the unexpected late-arriving saviour of a still-United Kingdom.
This may be an argument which points to Egypt, but it is not universally conceded.
This argument points to an important feature of CoPs: they take time to evolve and mature.
Simon's argument points to a tenet of Petraeus's command philosophy, one that might be called constructive opportunism.
