Sentence examples for argued almost from inspiring English sources

At that time Robespierre had argued almost alone against the war that Brissot passionately advocated.

That is, as Andrew Sullivan argued, almost certainly not the case.

You go in the chicken shops, you don't know — you got a mouse in there," Rich argued, almost plaintively.

Her barrister, Anton Trichardt, had argued almost 900,000 votes cast at early voting centres breached the electoral act because voters failed to make a declaration that they were unable to vote on election day.

When Brown v. Board of Education was argued almost 60 years ago, two of the great American lawyers squared off, Thurgood Marshall for the winning side of desegregation and the renowned Wall Street lawyer John Davis for the principle of separate but equal.

He argued, almost from the law's passage, that no society anywhere has brought 100percentt of students to proficiency, and that the annual gains required to meet the goal of universal proficiency were unrealistically rapid, since even great school systems rarely sustain annual increases in the proportion of students demonstrating proficiency topping three to four percentage points.

He argues almost the reverse.

Why, ultimately, does experience argue almost always in favour of publication?

One can, of course, argue almost all of his hits feature American artists.

Social uplift hasn't been at the center of hip-hop's consciousness for, you could argue, almost two decades.

However, Torry argues almost regardless of the level at which the citizen's income is set, the poor cannot be compensated for withdrawal of both the personal tax allowance and means-tested benefits without the scheme becoming too expensive.