The most egregious statement?
Even if the mistakes amount to an egregious failure, the argument still needs to give reasons to think that Romney will do a better job.
"It is difficult to convey how thoroughly egregious counsel's closing argument was," Justice Stevens wrote of a defense lawyer's work.
Now, those who would deny gays and lesbians the same legal rights as heterosexuals couch their arguments in less egregious sounding phrases like "traditional values," and "protecting our children," but what they are really saying is gays and lesbians don't deserve the same rights as heterosexuals because they are inferior or different.
"What I find most egregious [in] your climate-change argument, however, is the proposition that the world faces a choice between spending money on mitigating climate change, and providing access to clean drinking water and sanitation in the developing world.
In reality, some are more fundamental than others, more egregious, more central to the larger argument.
Objecting to an opponent's closing argument is an aggressive move, typically reserved for egregious conduct — or a Hail Mary pass.
But, goes the counter-argument, the very threat that shareholders could nix egregious packages might put downward pressure on rewards that have got out of control.At the root of all this is the widening gap between executive pay and corporate performance.
Both sides seem to have fair arguments, but the only thing that stands out as truly egregious is the odd timing of the decision.
Yet there is a long tradition in the United States against interpreting laws in such a way as to render them meaningless.The memo's third argument is that, in rare cases when acts are so egregious that they amount to torture, and do not challenge presidential power, torturers are still able to claim immunity.
