Sentence examples for argued failed from inspiring English sources

The coalition that drove Milosevic's forces out of Kosovo, Ashdown argued, failed to make it explicit that the purpose of the war was to procure a state for the Kosovars.

The US, it argued, failed to negotiate adequate deals with the companies extracting those resources, failed to ensure the tribe was paid sufficiently, and bungled its investment of the proceeds on the tribe's behalf.

The Haggler, it is argued, failed to appreciate the company's side of a dispute, and the consumer should have known better, or behaved differently, or merely had the decency to shut up.

A recent report by the EEF, the manufacturing organisation, hit out at the treatment of capital expenditure, which it argued failed to take into account advances in technology and the investment manufacturers need to remain competitive.

Is it a coherent position, or does it, as many have argued, fail to distinguish what is worth conserving from what is not?

The revolution of 1994, he argues, failed because Republicans had a game only inside Congress; the trick is to have lawmakers inside pushing legislation and grass-roots groups supporting the cause from outside.

The aesthete, he argues, fails to become a self at all but becomes, by choice, what David Hume (1711 76) said the self inevitably is: a bundle of events without an inner core to constitute identity or cohesion over time.

Among other changes, he said the government had abolished the Internal Security Act, which allowed for indefinite detention without trial, amended a law to allow university students to join political parties and removed the need for newspapers to obtain printing licenses annually — changes that critics argue fail to go far enough to protect civil liberties.

Arageorgis (forthcoming) gives an example of quantum field states nonseparable across two regions which nevertheless, he argues, fail to exhibit the same kind of state nonseparability as singlet and triplet spin states of a pair of quantum particles (see Maudlin 1998).

The Conservatives, he argued, had failed to have the "clause IV" moment to prove that they had changed.

But he attacked a series of initiatives by Ofgem and the Department of Energy and Climate Change, which he argued had failed to bring benefits to consumers.