Sentence examples for argument turned on from inspiring English sources

In court, the argument turned on several fine legal points, including the industry's claim that the F.C.C. was exceeding its mandate by trying to impose the rule.

The argument turned on the role of the Federal Communications Commission, the regulators charged with insuring that the radio system served the "public interest, convenience and necessity".

This was a common theme in Athens, although it was possible to imagine the argument turned on its head: that is, an adept politician had taken advantage of an unwary but overconfident intellectual.

The argument turns on the claim that this refutation of classical phenomenological thermodynamics could not have been conducted without the development of statistical thermodynamics, which is an incommensurable alternative.

Similarities are clear: in both cases, the argument turns on the claim that what we would call a "pain" in any possible world is the phenomenal sensation, not the underlying physical phenomenon that scientific information in the actual world allows us to associate with that sensation.

With Lincoln, the most vivid arguments turned on that "piety" and the politics that it produced.

During a sensational trial that followed in Cincinnati, the contentious legal arguments turned on whether Garner had committed murder or the destruction of property: namely, a girl stolen from her owner.

Pragmatists and perspectivists are not the only enemies Blackburn considers, though, and much of his book is taken up with contemporary arguments turning on subversive-sounding expressions like "holism," "incommensurability," and the "Myth of the Given".

The argument turns on ideology, and engages ideologues.

Ultimately, the argument turns on things that are difficult to value, especially RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

Dr. Verlinde's argument turns on something you could call the "bad hair day" theory of gravity.