Sentence examples for formidable arguments from inspiring English sources

"Nagel always makes formidable arguments, even when he's wrong," said Jim Holt, the author of "Why Does the World Exist?," a recent best seller about efforts by philosophers and cosmologists to explain the origins of the universe.

That is a formidable argument for a more gradual approach to stabilising emissions.It also makes economic sense to encourage emission-reductions where they are cost-effective.

If moral realism requires facts that are incompatible with science (as many think it does) that alone would constitute a formidable argument against it.

It is a formidable argument in a society whose history has been shaped by persecution and a sense of isolation.

She could be incredibly formidable in argument yet wonderfully kind in private".

The thousands in the United section who chanted his name continuously as the clock ticked down on his 10th championship presented a formidable counter-argument here.

Highly intelligent, of course, and formidable in argument, Alexander was one of those officials who can think creatively, formulate an original policy, and drive it through the official and political machine.

Nonetheless, "the task of comparing the unifying power of different systemizations looks even more formidable if nondeductive arguments are considered" and in part for this reason Kitcher endorses the view that "in a certain sense, all explanation is deductive" (p.448).

The Maastricht treaty on European union talks only about striving for "an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe"; and that, in her view, is what the EU is still in the process of doing.Within the commission, she is said to have a formidable gift for argument, and a keen sensitivity to Spanish interests.

The partisan of the slippery slope thus has a formidable burden of argument to take up.

That he will remain a formidable presence is beyond argument.