Sentence examples for an extensive argument from inspiring English sources

In an extensive argument about the cultural irrelevance of contemporary fiction, he mentions exactly one novel — Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom" — but makes no attempt to examine it or any other recent fictional work.

In support of this teleological cosmology, Gersonides presents an extensive argument to the effect that the celestial bodies have a purpose.

Philip Kitcher's (1985) which took on sociobiology and Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson's (1998), an extensive argument for group level selection, are examples that focus on content and methodology of extensions of evolutionary theory.

This implicit acknowledgement of the importance of accessibility for human's quality of life is in line with the literature on transport-related social exclusion, and suggests that accessibility could, and perhaps should, be addressed more explicitly in the universal declaration of human rights (see [42, 43] for an extensive argument).

After an extensive argument, Lie leaves the home, saying he no longer considers Gie to be his brother.

The suggestion, then, is that Arcesilaus' beliefs in the importance of knowledge and the inadequacy of mere opinion are explicitly non-rational, in the sense that he is not persuaded that they are warranted by a rational argument or theory, or even by the extensive argument he has devoted his life to.

Following extensive argument and additional delays, the canvassing board voted 2-to-1 to undertake a countywide manual recount on Nov. 17, 2000.

In his scramble to spare the prince's blushes, not a scramble that would have been made for anyone else, Mr Grieve was, as a government minister, seeking to overrule the tribunal's meticulous verdict reached after hearing extensive argument.

Some read it as simply providing further support for Hume's extensive argument that moral properties are not discernible by demonstrative reason, leaving open whether ethical evaluations may be conclusions of cogent probable arguments.

But a draft copy of the new report marshals more extensive arguments in an effort to rebut an academic study that Mr. Spitzer has cited in his complaints about fund management fees.

Readers interested in my views can always look for them in my work, where they will find a fairly ambivalent support that was reached after extensive arguments with myself and described only after the war had gone very wrong — but nothing that resembles cheerleading.