Ideas, after all, are best argued on their merit, and the First Amendment of the Constitution appears to encourage debate even on issues of received wisdom.
During 15 minutes of testimony, Mr. Best argued that the Council did not have the authority to regulate the powers and duties of police officers, which, he said, were governed by state criminal law and federal constitutional law.
What works best, argue the authors, is a mix of big-firm capitalism and entrepreneurial capitalism.
But the ones that work best, argues Jon Quah, a professor at the National University of Singapore, are centralised, independent agencies such as Thailand's National Counter Corruption Commission.
Mr. Miele said he was doing his best, arguing that contending with the many stakeholders in the region — state, federal and local governments, environmentalists and business interests — was complicating his work.
Here Ed Balls has performed best, arguing that cutting fast and deep is unnecessary and counterproductive, since the best way to shrink a deficit is to have people in work paying taxes – not sitting at home on the dole.
Those who know the president best argue that leaving the legislative haggling to his staff is merely the style of an executive used to delegating the small stuff to his underlings.
In each of the subsequent sections devoted to explaining the categories, we will use this tale to demonstrate how our fictional protagonist should best argue her case to her CEO.
"Because we're the first to try this, we're picking from the best," argues Jones.
"The outlook for [SRA's] organic growth in the relatively near term is very modest at best," argues Jordan, whose company has no banking or other relationships with SRA.
Of course, we should never stop doing what we do best: argue, debate, challenge and rebuke.
