Sentence examples for argument hold from inspiring English sources

The phrase "argument hold" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a misinterpretation or a truncation of a more complete phrase.
Example: "The argument does not hold under scrutiny."
Alternatives: "argument stands" or "argument is valid".

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Would your argument hold up if it had gone just the other way?

My next post will examine how well these argument hold in light of the most recent data available.

Now a respectable American pundit, Michael Lind, has tried to detail the case in a respectable British magazine, Prospect.Does the argument hold water?

Yet if circumstances change such that pre-existing services are seen to cause substantial damage to those same players, why does not the same argument hold good?

Does the same argument hold where the seller enjoys a degree of "market power" (i.e., is able to raise his price and still sell at least some goods — a result that would be impossible in a perfectly competitive market)?

Let us, for the sake of argument, hold our noses and simply grant that equation up front that Moscow's actions abroad are no better or worse than America's.

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Yet somehow the aesthetic argument holds sway.

I'm not sure that the credibility argument holds up.

The same argument holds for footballers and rugby players.

Neither argument holds much truck for Carroll: "I've always thought that a glib, lazy argument.

The same basic argument holds whenever a so-called default option is provided.

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