Sentence examples for arguments to the effect from inspiring English sources

HRW has released its correspondence with Tony Blair's office, in which it challenges him to discuss his strategy and pre-emptively dismisses arguments to the effect that quiet diplomacy is effective in places like Kazakhstan.

True, one hears arguments to the effect that the rules have changed, that this time is different.

But for many people the argument to this effect sounds a lot like supply-side arguments to the effect that tax cuts for rich people are our only sure path to economic recovery.

But trying to diminish the centrality of Lehman to the crisis with arguments to the effect that most of Lehman's big counterparties survived — because the government bailed them out — is just amazing.

Just to be clear, you can, if you choose, make moral arguments to the effect that it's wrong to seize the rightful earnings of the wealthy for other purposes; I would disagree, and argue that the real immorality is letting so many of our fellow citizens suffer.

All such agreements are per se illegal under United States antitrust law; that is, the court will assume that any such agreement is anticompetitive and will not hear arguments to the effect that the agreement actually enhances quality, competition, or consumer welfare in a particular case.

So there is no plausible argument on behalf of the claim that fiscal contraction expands output; there is, on the other hand, a very plausible argument to the effect that fiscal contraction doesn't even help the fiscal situation.

The argument to the effect that the rulings of the court as to the admission of testimony, and upon questions of general law, deprived the defendant of its property and rights without due process of law, requires us to notice the limitations upon the authority of this court when dealing with legislative acts and proceedings to enforce the same in the state courts.

Then there is the ur-multicultural argument, to the effect that banning a society's "cultural traditions" on any grounds is unforgivably disrespectful — that the most we in the West should do is to help make the conditions of the procedure "safe," or to seek to limit it to what the American Academy of Pediatrics called a ritual "nick".

It would be impossible to carry an argument to the effect that, say, paid-up members of the Conservative party, considered as an identifiable group, have rights by virtue of their group membership: for example, to be protected from sarcastic remarks or scorn, or the taking of their leader's name in vain.

Prendergast suggests that, since Proust's "extraordinary syntactic structures" are themselves "often strange even to French ears", "there may well be a respectable argument to the effect that oddly unEnglish shapes are sometimes the best way of preserving their estranging force".