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Discover LudwigThe phrase "argued required" is not correct in English and does not convey a clear meaning.
It seems to be a combination of two words that do not fit together in a grammatically correct way. An example of a correct phrase might be: "The argument required further evidence to support the claim."
Alternatives: "debated necessity" or "asserted need".
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Success, he in effect argued, required Britain's enemies to be unaware or uncertain of GCHQ's methods.
Those changes, the government argued, required the automatic deportation of aliens -- including productive legal immigrants with families -- who had once pleaded guilty to even minor crimes.
An effective health program, they argued, required a comprehensive structure based on the expansion of treatment centres, the training of more medical staff, and the adequate provision of medicine.
Amazon's "music locker" immediately ran into criticism from the record industry after its launch because it did not seek their permission to let users listen to music stored in their online lockers – a system that some labels argued required a per-play payment.
The story of Frank Sinatra's rise and self-invention and the story of his fall and remarkable comeback had the lineaments of the most essential American myths, and their telling, Pete Hamill once argued, required a novelist, "some combination of Balzac and Raymond Chandler," who might "come closer to the elusive truth than an autobiographer as courtly as Sinatra will ever allow himself to do".
Using values, they argued, required deep, philosophical reflection.
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Adherence to "the precious principle of equality," Babeuf argued, requires the abolition of private property and common enjoyment of the land and its fruits.
But the enormous size of modern institutions, it has been argued, requires efficient, streamlined procedures like class actions to address their failures.
And that goal as I have argued requires criteria for recognising linguistic and contextual correlates.
Autonomy, it can be argued, requires that one have access to an adequate range of valuable or worthwhile options (Raz 1986).
Tactics that I and others have argued requires mainstream social platforms to up their own game when it comes to combating co-ordinated hate mobs by giving users more granular controls for filtering their feeds.
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