For its part, while AMD has generally lagged behind Intel on raw clock speeds in its top-performing chips, for more than two years it has argued that its chips can in many cases outperform Intel-made chips based on a variety of methods that measure how much work the chip can actually perform with every clock cycle, rather than how fast the clock itself is beating.
To do otherwise, it has argued, would hurt its business and curtail its incentives to develop new products.
The United Methodist Church -- the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination, with about 8.3 million members -- has remained so torn over homosexuality that it has argued over its stance at every quadrennial meeting for the last 32 years.
But it has argued that its 22 May coup was necessary to bring peace and stability to Thailand, which saw violent clashes between red shirts and the pro-monarchy opposition "yellow shirts" supporters.
It has argued throughout that its aim has been to "empower" them.
It has argued that, for one thing, its economic ties with the country are helping to relieve poverty.
That's well below both the roughly $16.90 a share that the asset management firm paid on average for its stock and the $24 or so a share that it has argued Dell is worth.
It has argued that the utilities in Europe that are its major customers can choose from suppliers in Norway or North Africa, or can use liquefied natural gas transported by ship.
But it has argued that it could not be held responsible for its partners' actions.
This, it has argued, has not been out of simple spite.
The Bush team, as it has argued before, contended finality of elections was more important.
