Sentence examples for first argued for from inspiring English sources

The officials who first argued for the construction of the Mosul Dam, back in the eighties, were motivated by similar concerns about snowmelt — and they were proved right.

The success of developed countries in stopping people smoking tobacco, which is similarly subject to tax and regulation, provides grounds for hope.A calculated gamble, or another century of failure?This newspaper first argued for legalisation 20 years ago (see article).

Ryan, who spoke first, argued for passing a version of the Senate bill, saying that reforming the immigration system would strengthen the economy, supplying U.S. companies with a steady number of immigrants to take jobs that other Americans didn't want.

Inner-city schools have grown dramatically worse in the four decades since the economist Milton Friedman first argued for permitting children to transfer from failing public schools to successful private schools, taking public dollars with them.

Lewis first argued for this in (1976b), and showed how to weaken some of the assumptions of the argument in (1986h).

The Three Gorges Project stands as the largest hydropower engineering in the world, Since the 1950s, when experts first argued for its development, extensive efforts have been made on investigation, survey, prevention, and control of geologic hazards.

Norris first argues for the existence of an ideal counterpart to nature.

I think, partly because of this, Fodor (1987) and Fodor and Pylyshyn (1988), who are the original defenders of this kind of argument, first argue for the systematicity of language production and understanding: the ability to produce/understand certain sentences is intrinsically connected to the ability to produce/understand certain others.

The first argues for forcing everyone that deals in any kind of financial product to comply not only with existing bank regulations, but with thousands of new rules yet to be designed to manage the risks associated with the growing array of exotic financial instruments devised and traded by shadow banks.

The first argues for tandem duplication.

Indeed, data first argue for a combined, cumulative effect of meniscal extrusion and bone marrow lesions on cartilage loss and, secondly, they showed that SrRan may have protective effects in OA patients with meniscal extrusion as well as when both meniscal extrusion and BML are co-localized.