Sentence examples for arguing if only from inspiring English sources

"Harsh interrogations would work, they were arguing, if only they were harsher".

Echoing Tony Blair after 9/11, he rounds on the soft left that "lump all Muslims together, compiling a list of grievances and arguing if only governments addressed them, this terrorism would stop".

So first, instead of ignoring this extremist ideology, we as governments and societies have got to confront it in all its forms". Echoing Tony Blair after 9/11, he rounds on the soft left that "lump all Muslims together, compiling a list of grievances and arguing if only governments addressed them, this terrorism would stop".

Our collective lot would be improved, they argue, if only we were all digitally bound together.

Liberals are less paranoid, Chait argues, if only because they do not have the same kind of "movement" to betray.

"People like to argue if only poor black and Latino families were more responsible and made better decisions, then inequality could be dramatically reduced," Hamilton says.

Obama's administration has raised taxes on the rich, expanded public spending, pledged to withdraw troops from Iraq and argued – if only halfheartedly – for universal healthcare.

The unexpected size of its election victory in 1997 forced Labour to come up with a rural policy, he argues, if only because it suddenly found itself with MPs from rural constituencies.

"It is better to end the theatrics and have some clarity," Mr. Bahgat argued, if only to convince former revolutionaries of the danger that the authoritarianism of "the Mubarak state" may be re-emerging in a different guise.

But, they argue, if only six of Europe's leading economies were to raise their "digital density" to match the American level, they would produce €460bn of additional economic output per year.

As Mr. Clemens argues, if only 5percentt of the population of poor countries were allowed to migrate to richer ones, the global gains would exceed those made from removing all policy barriers to merchandise trade and capital flows.