Sentence examples for arguments that used from inspiring English sources

Arguments that used to be played out in after-school fistfights are now resulting in kids dying.

The other arguments that used to be used to justify the war have become a polite after-cough.

In 1978, he told Jon Savage (then a young punk journalist writing for Search & Destroy) that he first had the idea for High-Rise thanks to "the most incredible triviality" of the arguments that used to break out in a luxurious block of flats near his parents house in Victoria.

The reasons given are, ironically, similar to the arguments that used to be made for cats before such claims were debunked as sterilizing and releasing community cats gained widespread acceptance within the humane movement and government municipalities, including many health departments.

I suppose it would have been fairer to say that they were really theological arguments, or they were moral arguments that used, in part, theological premises.

These are arguments that use the placebo effect to conclude that the mind can so profoundly affect the course of a disease that people should be able to harness this power and think themselves well.

Arguments that use both sources at once can seem almost irresistible.Academic historians are bemused at times by the inquiries they get from people with no previous interest in the nation's beginnings: what did America's creators really believe?

This is the sort of argument that used to play out slowly in academic journals and behind closed doors in seminars, today though anyone with an interest can read along in real time.

Personally, I'm not unskeptical of any argument that uses the "not-un" construction.

It is a narrow economic argument that uses Germany's exporting prowess as a template.

DAVID SCHNEIDER The Bronx To the Editor: Douthat's comparison of Mark Helprin's "Digital Barbarism" with Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture" (June 21) raises the question: Which is better written — a bad argument that uses vivid metaphors, striking analogies and near-perfect word choices, or a good argument that uses solid declarative sentences and few metaphors or images?