Sentence examples for had ever argued from inspiring English sources

Now a lawyer at a firm in Stamford, he said this was one of the first cases he had ever argued in court.

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking member of the committee, asked if Mr. Talley had ever argued a motion in Federal District Court, given that he had never tried a case.

In a Boston Globe interview, she talked about slimming down to her high school weight (117 pounds), the investments she and Mr. Romney lived off as students, and the number of times the couple had ever argued: once.

Prior to Dilworth's arrival, no black lawyer had ever argued on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the Courts of Common Pleas.

Back when I worked as a commercial lawyer, if I had ever argued that the laws against securities fraud infringed on my client's free speech rights, I'd be laughed out of court.

However, for the dramatic structure of The Da Vinci Code, Brown chose the controversial Roman Catholic prelature Opus Dei as the Assassini-like nemesis of the Priory of Sion, despite the fact that no author had ever argued that there is a conflict between these two groups.

Nobody has ever argued that operational excellence doesn't matter.

"I'm not sure if we've ever argued," he said.

"We've argued more than we've ever argued," he said.

No serious political theorist, however, has ever argued for such a self-evidently absurd position.

No one now alive has argued as many cases, and no career civil servant has ever argued as many.