Sentence examples for argument gets short from inspiring English sources
"The problem is the C.I.A. people want to collect intelligence and the D.E.A. people want to show good numbers on interdictions and the human rights argument gets short shrift," said Elliott Abrams, who was President Reagan's assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs.
Alternative energy gets short shrift.
In our time, the argument that we come out of the fires of art more finely tempered, more civilised, the better humanly for where we've been, gets short shrift.
No wonder many young European Muslims find that the umma worldwide Islam tugs hardest at their heart-strings.The argument gets blunterIn the short run, at least, there seems little chance of Europeans and Americans finding a common language over Islam.
In short, the cosmological argument gets its momentum by confusing rational or subjective necessities with real or objective ones, and thus involves transcendental illusion (cf. A605/B633).
This line of argument gets tangled.
"Kids got short memories.
LEFTOVERS get short shrift.
