Sentence examples for leftists argued that from inspiring English sources

Leftists argued that meritocracies were not only unpleasant but unjust.

At a conference held to discuss arts policy in Beijing, leftists argued that it should be abolished; moderates, among them Mr. Tan and He Luting, later the director of the Shanghai Conservatory, argued for its preservation.

"It has been the poor and marginal farmers who actually gained the power in rural areas," said Nirupam Sen, the state's commerce minister, who, like other leftists, argues that the new land policies broke a feudal structure that had existed for centuries.

That argument turned especially bitter last week, with major Democratic figures accusing the left of singling out Harris in particular because of her race and leftists arguing that their concerns were about policy.

In his opening and closing sections, Kaczynski addresses Leftism as a movement and analyzes the psychology of leftists, arguing that they are "True Believers in Eric Hoffer's sense" who participate in a powerful social movement to compensate for their lack of personal power.

Howard Dean, a former presidential candidate and leading leftist, argues that the whole reform effort is thus a sham and should be scrapped.

But it was the former Soviet dissident turned Israeli politician – and no leftist – Natan Sharansky, who long argued that peace depended on an Arab shift to democracy.

At the time that Latin rockers, most of whom are in their 30's, were growing up, cultural discourse in Latin America was dominated by doctrinaire leftists who argued that rock was a decadent manifestation of American imperialism and that only folk-based indigenous music could be a valid form of expression.

Statisticians could argue that point.

No one argues that point.

It's hard to argue that point.