Sentence examples for endorsed the argument from inspiring English sources

Then, as with Turnbull, the party leader (in that case David Cameron) defended the minister staunchly and endorsed the argument without quite using the same words.

By treating the confiscated slaves not as chattel property but as persons "held to labor," the bill implicitly endorsed the argument, long advanced by Republican political leaders, that there could be no legitimate property in human beings.

A Guardian letter writer, commenting on the same story, endorsed the argument: "I would have had some difficulty even if the chunk had been described in terms of the size of Wales.

Dissenters such as Joseph Priestley who had endorsed the arguments of the Rights of Man turned away from those presented in The Age of Reason.

It comes very close to endorsing the argument that we need more firearms in police hands to combat urban threat.

Wilson refused to endorse the argument of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, that the commission's inquiry into children in immigration detention was a "blatantly partisan, politicised exercise" or a "stitch-up" against the Coalition government.

They acquitted him of attempted robbery, but convicted him of attempted petty larceny, endorsing the argument that he had sought only to trick Mr. Sandy for drugs or money.

But it is cheering that at least one senior British politician is ready to convey the message that not everyone endorses the argument that trade is all that matters and that our values are relative, depending on the amount of cash on the table.

Aristotle observes in Book X that what all things aim at is good (1172b35 1173a1); significantly, he falls short of endorsing the argument that since all aim at pleasure, it must be the good.

If courts endorse the argument that the EPA does not merit deference, the government would lose one of its best legal defenses.

Nicholas Bagley, a University of Michigan law professor who has studied the Affordable Care Act as closely as anybody, told HuffPost he's skeptical the courts would endorse the argument about increasing age rating, since the statute very explicitly limits the age band ratio to three.