Sentence examples for basic argument in from inspiring English sources

"Her basic argument in this election — it's become clear as time has gone on — is that you can't really change Washington," Mr. Obama said.

Nike's basic argument in its brief is that in its challenged statements, not only was it not directly proposing a commercial transaction, but it was engaging in a topical discussion of broad public interest for which its "status as a corporate speaker is immaterial".

The economist Tyler Cowen offered a fluid account of the same basic argument in a brief, important book with a long title: "The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better".

This solution rejects premise (2) of the basic argument in its full generality.

The basic argument in defense of the Humean theory, presented notably by Michael Smith (1994: 119 125), is that beliefs and desires are modally separable: it is at least conceivable, and according to Smith actual, that someone maintains the belief that they ought to do something while losing the associated desire, due to depression, say.

The basic argument in absence or weakness of local financial markets is that domestic firms are devastated by uneasy access to finance and thus are unable to take benefit of the variation of know-how that is disposable to them introduced by the foreign firms (Dosi and Soete 1983).

Separately, the government made two basic arguments in its defense of the No Fly List, both of which the court rejected.

Ever since the dilemma of this article was identified, there have been philosophers who thought that something like our basic argument succeeds in demonstrating that infallible foreknowledge is incompatible with human free will.

It's the same basic argument Republicans in Washington make all the time: The Affordable Care Act simply doesn't work, and it has to go.

Dorel's basic argument was that in the case of abrasion, the strap had to retain 75 percent of its original strength.

Its basic argument was twofold: in accents that even the most red-white-and-true-blue American could endorse, Myrdal praised "the American Creed," a set of values that included "liberty, equality, justice and fair opportunity for everybody".