The phrase "drive the argument" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to control or guide the direction of an argument in a convincing way. Example: In his essay, the author uses statistics and logical reasoning to drive the argument that climate change is a pressing issue that requires immediate action.
This explicit confidence in the powers of reason that drives the argument is important to Crummell, and is the main reason he and Hume do not travel far together in this discussion.
Driving the argument behind the amendment was the issue of sexual assault in the military.
To drive home the argument that he must never be released, the government also offered details about what he thought would be the final moments of his life and those of the other 289 people aboard the plane.
And last and most disappointing, it is a clumsy, hectoring, conspiracy-minded message-novel meant to drive home the argument that American imperialism poses a grave danger to the new world order.
The assumption that "good" is context-dependent in this way may therefore itself be just the kind of thing to explain the intuition which drives the preceding argument.
"We're going to see, on each day, what we think is the best way to take this frame -- that we're going to fight for you, the middle class in America; we're going to fight for a new direction in America -- and what's the best way to drive that argument home," Mr. McCurry said.
Now, if Manafort's lawyers intend to put all the blame for financial impropriety on Gates, his appearance on the witness stand will be their opportunity to drive that argument home.
That argument ignores several strong societal forces that drive the increase in college costs.
The approach taken by some defenders of Independence-violating theories (notably, Machina 1989 and McClennen 1990) has already been alluded to: They reject the assumption of sophisticated choice that drives the dynamic consistency arguments.
