Sentence examples for argument in which the from inspiring English sources

There are lengthy passages of legal/philosophical argument, in which the narrator justifies his behaviour.

Marginalia create a form of extended argument in which the reader has the upper hand, taking over the text.

That jibes with the oral argument, in which the Justices appeared unpersuaded by the substantial burden question and the Solicitor General all but abandoned it.

The police said the shooting of the elderly couple, as well as of Mr. Pierce's aunt, Yvonne Hines, 29, his cousin Michael Hines, 22, and a friend Bridget Lee, 25, was ignited by an argument in which the grandparents had accused Mr. Pierce of stealing.

There follows a knotty argument in which the chauffeur talks about sentimental attachment to inanimate objects such as planes (he cites the Enola Gay as an example, leaving unsaid its historic mission: to drop the bomb on Hiroshima) and champions names as a means of countermanding mass production and sameness.

As presented by Mr. Lysaght, the firing -- which took place 16 games into the season, not long after Mr. Steinbrenner promised that Yogi's job was secure -- was precipitated by an argument in which the owner took issue with the manager's decision to start his own son, Dale, at third base.

The proof of this nonuniqueness (but not existence) result relies on an entirely new line of arguments in which the concept of generalized critical value plays a central role.

And this is a text whose moment has come, because it wins by the route of art so many of the arguments in which the memoir form is bogged down, whereby personal truth is invariably demeaned as "dirty laundry".

For that reason Finocchiaro prefers to speak of fallacious arguments by which he means arguments in which the conclusion fails to follow from the premises rather than fallacies (1987, 133).

He rejects the assumption that scientific theories are sets of law-like statements and that explanations are arguments in which the phenomena to-be-explained are derived from laws.

There was, however, a further, more troubling, point about the role of moral terms in arguments: moral terms can be used in arguments in which the moral term appears in a conditional, and so is not there contributing to the expressive force of the utterance, so not expressing any emotion of the speaker.