Sentence examples for counterintuitive argument from inspiring English sources

In a counterintuitive argument, Mr. Zhang believes Chinese isn't actually difficult to learn, merely badly taught.

These economists make the counterintuitive argument that increasing cigarette taxes helps smokers more than anyone else.

It was a counterintuitive argument: that national missile defenses could encourage both sides to build more offensive weapons.

In the style of a sociology monograph, Soering wove a counterintuitive argument that prison reform ought to be a cause for the fiscally minded political right.

The counterintuitive argument is expected to attract fierce criticism from union protesters who picketed a political fundraiser Obama held nearby in Oregon on Thursday night.

In his column this weekend, Joe Nocera makes the seemingly counterintuitive argument that not rescuing Lehman Brothers last fall ended up actually saving the global financial system.

He dismisses as counterintuitive arguments by the soft-drink industry that the link between soda consumption and obesity has not been proved.

They are abetted by a handful of law professors and other experts who have made careers of fashioning counterintuitive arguments holding that copyright impedes creativity and progress.

Typically these counterintuitive arguments are delivered so reasonably you feel as if you've been not so much corrected as nudged into rationality.

From there, he jumps into a series of counterintuitive arguments based on his own observations or on research by other economists.

Though it may seem counterintuitive, your argument will be more persuasive if you talk about the opposing side, too.