Sentence examples for argued for trying from inspiring English sources

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Michael Chertoff, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, who had argued for trying terror suspects in the U.S. courts, was also bypassed.

While Mr. Ashcroft and his deputy, Larry D. Thompson, were closely consulted, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, Michael Chertoff, who had argued for trying terror suspects in federal court, saw the military order only when it was published, officials said.

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Our solution is a messy one; but a century of manifest failure argues for trying it.

He is instead likely to argue for trying many different things and erring on the side of overreaction.

Lacayo and Willert argued for at least trying some palliative chemotherapy to prolong Andrew's life.

The international court's order, published Thursday, rejected Libya's request for more time to argue its case for trying Mr. Senussi in Libya.

Earlier, as an appellate lawyer for the administration, Mr. Katsas had argued for the government in trying to deny basic legal rights to terrorism suspects imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay naval base.

By satellite, Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, argued for invading Iraq and tried to read from The Congressional Record, waving pages in his hand, while Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi dissident, spoke from London but hardly got a word in, except to call Mr. Ritter "a comedian".

However, Smith's legal counsel Alexander Doniphan successfully argued for him to be tried instead as a civilian; in so doing, Doniphan probably saved Smith's life.

Questioning Assistant Solicitor General Leondra Kruger, who argued for the EEOC, Justice Breyer tried in vain to find a way for Perich and others like her to have their day in court, but just couldn't "see how you avoid getting into religion to some degree".

During the Arab revolt of 1936 39, when the British government imposed quotas on immigration to Palestine, Buber argued for demographic parity rather than trying to achieve a Jewish majority.

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