Sentence examples for hand the argument from inspiring English sources

Given the destruction in Kazakhstan, Kotkin rejects out of hand the argument that the famine was specifically Ukrainian.

When parents respond to babble by naming the object at hand, the argument goes, children are more likely to learn words.

On the one hand, the argument goes, without "Cats" there'd be a bigger pool of ticket buyers for other, needier shows.

There is, on the other hand, the argument that players like Robinson had an advantage over players who played in earlier eras when the equipment, baseballs especially, were inferior.

On the one hand, the argument goes, the show helped attenuate the traditions of theater art, educating audiences to be palliated by pageantry, special effects and brash sentimentality rather than provoked by well-constructed narrative, musical originality and emotional ambiguity and depth.

On the one hand, the argument goes, with "Cats" squatting at the Winter Garden, and the megamusicals that followed -- "Les Miserables," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Miss Saigon" -- proving equally immovable, the clogging of theater real estate had a stultifying effect on the development of new work; where would it be presented?

On the one hand, the argument arises from human curiosity as to why there is something rather than nothing or than something else.

On the one hand, the argument of the Brief Demonstration forced Leibniz to rethink the foundations of his early theory of motion.