But if you argued your corner and the grounds were sound, she did reveal a grudging respect.
If all power corrupts, power which has to argue its corner corrupts somewhat less.
"The amounts involved for the banks are enormous and they're clearly going to argue their corner.
Blythman, who will argue her corner at the Real Food Debate, denies that ethical and organic food is a luxury.
A shadow fell between Mr Shapiro's idea and Monsanto's reality, because he decided to leave his managers to argue their corner.
Chancellor Winston Churchill is trying to make up his mind about the gold standard: Norman, whom Churchill could not stand, is not invited, so senior treasury officials argue his corner.
He could also stand his ground: a great admirer of Thatcher, he would nonetheless argue his corner with her on Welsh affairs and realised by the late 1980s how self‑centred her views had become.
We both argue our corner – me, that the girl is in need of and entitled to a bed for the night due to her mental state, and the manager that a bed is not available.
Murray's silver and Spence's world title are likely to give pentathlon a position of considerable strength from which to argue its corner for funding to Rio 2016.
In this paper, we argue that corner transformation preserves the clustering property such that objects having similar sizes and positions in the original space tend to be placed in the same region in the transform space.
"I should say I completely understand that Wales and the Welsh government wants to argue their corner, but of course if Scotland becomes independent then we become financially independent - we raise our own taxes and we decide how those taxes are spent.
