The phrase "argued to constitute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is claiming or asserting that something qualifies as or is equivalent to something else.
Example: "The researchers argued to constitute a new category of mental health disorders based on their findings."
Alternatives: "claimed to represent" or "asserted to be".
For example, in 2000 the Catholic theologian Eberhard Tiefensee identified what he called an "East German folk atheism" which could be argued to constitute a substantial part of a regional identity against West German Catholic domination.
Such unstructured/semi-structured, yet semantically rich data has been argued to constitute 95% of all Big Data [6].
The appeals court also said notices sent by INA to policyholders informing them of the split "implied that nothing of consequence had occurred" and thus were "likely to deceive," which could be argued to constitute "fraud".
The performance of Buddhist preaching events was ultimately argued to constitute a form of bodhisattva practice that required formal training and discipline in refining the entire corpus of communicative tools available to the preacher – from the body, to the spoken word and finally to the written text.
In the argument from ignorance, a lack of evidence for one view is erroneously argued to constitute proof of the correctness of another view.
Strongly-conserved elements in the genome have been argued to constitute cores of conserved networks.
It seems perverse to claim that public health professionals are primarily interested in other kinds of benefit over and above maximising health and opportunities for health; thus a specific principle of health maximisation, we argue, needs to constitute the third of the mid-level principles that form the content grounds of our short course teaching and learning.
Godfrey-Smith argues that for a mapping to constitute a genuine implementation, the microscopic physical states that are clustered together (to correspond to a given computational state) must be physically similar to one another — there cannot be arbitrary groupings of arbitrarily different physical states, as in the arguments for unlimited pancomputationalism.
According to the literature and the authors' clinical experience, it can be argued that women constitute a higher risk in the development of temporomandibular disorders [ 16– 16].
Thus it can be argued that HSPs constitute a third functional group of adjuvants.
The latter, Democrats argue, could constitute a full-blown Constitutional crisis.
