The phrase "argument could be applied" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the relevance or applicability of a particular argument in a specific context or situation.
Example: "In this case, the argument could be applied to support the theory of evolution."
Alternatives: "argument may be utilized" or "argument can be relevant".
But that argument could be applied to federal actions as well, Mr. Smolla said.
I believe the same argument could be applied to the citizens of the Gulf states.
An identical argument could be applied to drug or arms dealers; even if it's true, you're still a bastard.
As California's pre-eminent historian, Kevin Starr, observes, "it is not surprising that an organisation set up to look after fewer than a million people should have a collective political nervous breakdown when it governs something almost 40 times that size".The same argument could be applied to the United States as a whole.
If the market tanks around the time you retire, you may end up with much less retirement income than you expected.He targets a popular type of private account in America, the 401(k) plan, but his argument could be applied to any kind of private account.The ugly truth, though, is that the 401(k) is a lousy idea, a financial flop, a rotten repository for our retirement reserves.
A similar argument could be applied to the sack-like gut of acoels (and of its sister group, the Nemertodermatida; [26], [27]) which may now be a symplesiomorphy shared with the similar state in diploblasts and independent from the similar sack-like condition of the Platyhelminthes sensu stricto within the Lophotrochozoa.
The same arguments could be applied even more strongly to Ukraine.
Those successful arguments could be applied to other letters it seems.
The government's argument also could be applied to any other pregnant unaccompanied minor in Office of Refugee Resettlement custody, and there's every indication they would be treated the same was as Jane Doe.
In regard to this argument, the 5 N load could be applied on the samples without producing cracks.
The industry's argument, he added, that subpoena power could be applied to an Internet service provider when songs were only momentarily passing through its data pipes, "borders upon the silly".
