Even when challenged — and these were not men accustomed to being challenged — with the argument that whatever the perceived rights and wrongs of their cause, they would inevitably be bracketed with Osama bin Laden because, especially after 9/11, few in the West cared much about how they calibrated the motivation behind a suicide bomb.
When challenged with the argument that if a policy is right with the approbation of the security council, how can it be wrong just because communist China or Russia or France or a gaggle of minor dictatorships withhold their assent, she fell back on the primacy of "order" versus "anarchy".
He needed someone to challenge him with the argument that we don't live in a world any longer where our government can protect its citizens from real, not imagined, threats without using big data — where we still have an edge — under constant judicial review.
He, too, has been challenged and the argument goes on.
Often, when challenged, quite correctly, with the argument: "How can a man who understands the history of colonisation belong to a faith that enslaved his ancestors?", I further clarify by stating that I am an Afro-centric Christian.
Even when challenged with rigorous and seemingly unassailable arguments like The tax code applies to income, but I earn a wage, or Income taxes apply to persons, but I am not a person, the courts have consistently held that such assertions are -- believe it or not -- frivolous.
Two months ago, Mr Duncan Smith freed himself from the restraints of evidence-based argument when challenged with official statistics contradicting his claims for the success of his benefits cap policy.
Michael Martin challenges the argument from conscience with a naturalistic account of conscience, arguing that naturalism provides an adequate explanation for the conscience without the need for God's existence.
The homogeneity of corporate boardrooms is generally challenged from a moral standpoint, with the argument that diversity is important in and of itself.
Mark Cuban, as he often does, stirred up quite a debate recently, with a post March 20 challenging the arguments by the owners of Boxee and others that the Internet is going to force the cable television networks to sell programming ?a carte, rather than in one big bundle.
