Sentence examples for impossible argument from inspiring English sources

Litigation can be an expensive nuisance, but there can be no prior restraint on the publication of a book -- unless it is proved that its publication would pose an extreme threat to national security, an almost impossible argument to sustain.

"They felt there was sufficient evidence to show that their affairs had changed with the passage of time, which was, from the point of view of a strict interpretation of the law, an almost impossible argument to put forward, however much sympathy was felt for it.

It was basically the impossible argument.

Legitimate local government is impossible, his argument goes, without security.

There will always be a snobbery in music about what is most "street" or "real", but in a world where everything feeds off everything else, and originality is impossible, these arguments feel like a dead end.

These aren't new ideas, but Mr. Halperin works up to an argument (impossible to summarize here) about how the film evokes a "dissident perspective" on the very idea of romantic love.

Assuming physicalism entails that zombies are impossible, the conceivability argument purports to refute it by showing they are possible.

Philosophical approaches to the paradox seem to have implications for legal theory: arguments that vague terms are incoherent, and that reasoning with them is impossible, would support arguments that vague laws are incoherent.

Around the same time, Givental received an e-mail signed by Yau and his collaborators, explaining that they had found his arguments impossible to follow and his notation baffling, and had come up with a proof of their own.

Scalia also said the president did not have the exclusive right to recognize sovereignty, deeming Kennedy's arguments "impossible to make with a straight face" and saying they were worthy of "the Mad Hatter" from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The very circumstances which make race-talk possible (that is, that there are different populations - black/white, jew/muslim, who do not randomly interbreed) makes it impossible to use arguments based on heritability to attribute genetic causes to differences between the groups.