Sentence examples for favourite argument from inspiring English sources

The favourite argument of academies' opponents - that the schools have recruited more advantaged intakes - is equally unimpressive.

Another favourite argument of the current government is that Ukraine simply has no choice but to respond to Russian aggression by imposing its own sanctions.

Mr Van Rompuy's favourite argument, ever since taking office, is that EU growth must double in order to pay for social-welfare systems that he terms the "European Way of Life".What a feeble battle cry.

His favourite argument is that the European Commission, which has the exclusive right to propose new EU laws, is staffed by unknown and unknowable "faceless bureaucrats", who must be made accountable to voters.

Not just because he decided to bring up his old favourite argument about immigrants with HIV moving to the UK to get treatment on the NHS (a claim Leanne Wood said he should be "ashamed" for stating).

With so much data, the government's favourite argument in fighting terror – if only the citizens knew as much as we do, they too would impose all these legal exceptions – easily extends to other domains, from health to climate change.

Unfortunately, the favourite arguments of many anti-monarchists are often groundless or unfair.

One of their favourite arguments is that if renewables are now cheaper than coal, then why should Australia subsidise renewables at all? It's a good question, but there are plenty of good answers.

It would make no difference to what they do, Mr Bhagwati says, and it would quash one of the anti-globalists' favourite arguments.Mr Irwin and Mr Bhagwati agree on a central theme: distortions in markets of one sort or another (labour-market blockages, environmental externalities, credit-market bottlenecks and so on) mean that it cannot be taken for granted that free trade is best.

One of my favourite arguments people like to have about God is when they make him fight Darwin.

Writer and broadcaster Favourite sketch: Argument Clinic (Michael Palin and John Cleese argue over the difference between an argument and a contradiction).