Sentence examples for civil argument from inspiring English sources

He was making an argument — a respectful argument, a civil argument — against the logic of pacifism.

No one is proposing — no one will ever seriously propose — banning or discouraging those who passionately believe in their metaphysical intuitions about life from proselytizing and promulgating for them wherever they will, as best they can, within the normal rules of civil argument.

No one is proposing no one will ever seriously propose banning or discouraging those who passionately believe in their metaphysical intuitions about life from proselytizing and promulgating for them wherever they will, as best they can, within the normal rules of civil argument.

The tricky part of arguing as a feisty person is balancing your own genuine emotions with the needs of maintaining a civil argument.

Odds are you know exactly how to push the other person's buttons, but it's important to resist if you want to have a civil argument.

Less civil arguments on the same topic were simultaneously held outside the Court, on the airwaves, and across the punditocracy.

Professor Dershowitz's contrary position appears to combine what he calls a "civil liberties" argument with a constitutional argument.

But the gay-marriage debate, while assuredly a civil rights argument, is much more than that.

Some even fear it could spark a nationwide civil war.The argument has always been about demography and numbers.

The civil liberties argument I thought a little absurd – many well-functioning democracies have identity cards and the information stored [on them] is less than most supermarkets have".

It blends patent law, medical science, breast cancer activism and an unusual civil liberties argument in ways that could make it a landmark case.