The phrase "arguing the position of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or defending a specific viewpoint or stance on a particular issue or topic.
Example: "In her essay, she is arguing the position of environmental conservation as a critical priority for future generations."
Alternatives: "defending the stance of" or "supporting the viewpoint of".
Democrats scoffed at traditional treatment in this case, arguing that the position of attorney general was too critical to the nation for blind deference to a former senator.
There was further misery for the Fulham midfielder when he picked up a booking after arguing over the position of a free-kick - he is also banned for the Russia qualifier.
Since Locke is arguing against the position of Sir Robert Filmer who held that patriarchal power and political power are the same, and that in effect these amount to despotic power, Locke is at pains to distinguish these three forms of power, and to show that they are not equivalent.
The relationships between the genera and within the genera are still the subject of debate, with researchers lumping and splitting the species and genera within the family and arguing about the position of the genera within the family.
It has been claimed that the entry point of sperm determines the prospective first cleavage plane of mouse zygote [62], but this has been challenged by other findings arguing that the position of first cleavage plane has been specified intrinsically [31], [63] or epigenetically [64] [66] rather than determined by an external cue.
The cofactor sulfur atom in the wild-type and Tyr1467Phe mutant p300 HAT domain bound to the Lys-CoA inhibitor assumes the same position, arguing that the position of the acetyl group in acetyl-CoA is not affected by the catalytic inactivating Tyr1467Phe mutation.
Finally, in the appendix to the Essay Herz also argues against the position of Du Bos that critics have no better rules for arguing about the merits of works of art than cooks do for arguing about ragouts, a position adopted from Du Bos by Hume and subsequently endorsed by Kant.
In his 1998 autobiography, Jazz in Revolution, he argued that the position of the music had become "an ideal one".
But Lord Owen – who has long argued that the position of the royal colleges will be critical to the bill's fate – accused Cameron of "reprehensible tactics".
