The arguments floating around the op-ed pages and seminar rooms were overwhelmingly against the idea of a surge — a mere 20,000 additional troops would not make a difference.
At least almost everyone could pretty much agree that Mike Rice was a human calamity — aside from some harebrained contrarian arguments floating about the airwaves in search of attention — as we relearn that abusive coaches traffic in fear, as Eric Adelson writes on Yahoo.com.
(In the course of our conversation, Galloway floats the argument that it would be preferable if Iran acquired nuclear weapons, because that might temper and rationalise any Israeli impulse to bomb Tehran).
He's candid about how scary it was, and coyly floats the argument that Yewtree – Savile's crimes apart, presumably – is a witch-hunt that's out of proportion to the original offences.
Then, Cuomo floated an argument about the destructive nature of being called "fake news," and said the term is as bad as a racial slur.
There is a pervasive, and admittedly seductive, argument floating around that the U.S. is headed for a dire bout with deflation.
And they do this by floating whitepapers, offering economic arguments, and engaging at the level of joint secretaries where policy starts taking shape rather than the secretary or minister where it's merely finalized.
"I'm not certain about what I'm saying, but I think these arguments are worth floating".
First, nominal wage stickiness — the key argument for the virtues of floating exchange rates — is an overwhelmingly demonstrated fact.
It's true they've tended in recent years to float free of the arguments they arise from – but that's only what you'd expect in a culture where it's not how the speech is delivered, but how it's reported, that determines how it will connect with its intended audience.
