"I've sometimes argued with people on the other side of the river here, in Parliament, saying, Don't talk about fundamentalist and modern Muslims, talk about primitivist and traditionalist Muslims — ones who only know the Koran and ones who actually know what it is like to have a thickly textured cultural and intellectual Islamic life".
For instance, if I found myself wondering whether transgender people are actually just retrograde sexists, as a small minority of radical feminists sometimes argue, I could bring to mind Jaden and his skirts.
People sometimes argue that this is a grey area – I don't think it is.
People sometimes argue that this is a gray area—I don't think it is.
"Our opponents in this campaign, Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, have sometimes argued when I raise issues about the status of the U.S. military today, they sometimes argue that you shouldn't talk about it, that somehow it's unpatriotic to have this conversation," Mr. Cheney, a former defense secretary, told a rally at Evangel University here.
Even as a 30-year member of the department who is now retired, I sometimes have to argue and beg an officer to take a report on a routine, mundane matter like minor dispute, damage to property, harassment or an observation of drug sales.
Ironically, agnostic that I was and still am, I sometimes found myself arguing during those terrifying months that she should cling to her belief in the divine, to any slender hint or reassurance that, during her darkest, most dispiriting moments, she was not alone.
Velvet spoke quickly, sometimes arguing, sometimes almost pleading.
