At Friday's summit he contested arguments that arms supplies would go to the wrong people, saying "that is what has happened already" and queried whether arming the opposition would hamper the prospects of a political settlement.
Billed by Republican leaders of the select House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks as a critical moment in its inquiry, the long-awaited appearance by Mrs. Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, served largely as a replay of highly contested arguments from previous congressional hearings, press examinations and Sunday-morning talk shows.
That night, at a press conference, they strongly contested arguments that they had not proved the drugs were safe.
In many cases Mr. Kagan seems to be referring to Francis Fukuyama's frequently disputed thesis that liberal democracy will inevitably triumph around the world, or the psychologist Steven Pinker's also contested argument that violence has fallen drastically over thousands of years, but he does not always identify them or their followers by name.
But in the same article, another student, Terry Harlin, contested that argument.
In a Washington Post story, Thomas Burke, a Harvard Medical School professor and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, contested the argument that IV hydration or feeding would be, as Hayden put it, "dangerous with a non-cooperative detainee".
She said she was spending Wednesday locked in private meetings with interested parties – but she also let it be known that those interested parties were drawn from both sides of the hotly-contested argument.
According to a much more-contested argument, advanced by the American scholar of religion Don Browning, there are some substantive universal values, such as human rights and the integrity of the global climate, that can provide a foundation for particularistic, communal ones.
Mikulak said that Damascus has blamed delays for its failure to meet deadlines on the difficulty of accessing stockpiles in contested areas — an argument he dismissed.
If the promise is contested, a subsidiary argument kicks in: people don't understand the promise of the technology so we have to explain the wonders of the technology to them.
This is partially contested by the argument that lignocellulose is too bulky to transport and that countries are more likely to import the finished product, i.e., liquid fuel.
