Sentence examples for maintain an argument from inspiring English sources

But it is, I maintain, an argument based on a sympathetic analysis of those views and requires a serious response from people who hold them.

More importantly, this finding can also have implications when teaching science as argument (e.g., Erduran and Jimenez-Aleixandre 2008), since the verbal evidence used in the science classroom to maintain an argument could be supported by visual evidence (either a model, representation, image, graph, etc).

But he probably needs to win three out of four to maintain an argument to sustain his campaign through the convention.

As suggested above, while there is a clear basis for the lexeme having an event meaning at the point of entering the language, it remains to be established whether it has maintained an argument structure or not.

Since, in this passage, Plato uses the word 'antistrophos' to designate an analogy, it is likely that Aristotle wants to express a kind of analogy too: what dialectic is for the (private or academic) practice of attacking and maintaining an argument, rhetoric is for the (public) practice of defending oneself or accusing an opponent.

His composure was in marked contrast to that of the government's representative, Tim Eicke, who struggled to maintain a coherent argument, despite the best efforts of the many representatives of the government and the intelligence services at the back of the court, who kept slipping him notes suggesting new twists on the spurious national security case.

Against every one, he maintain, a single line of argument was decisive.

The tricky part of arguing as a feisty person is balancing your own genuine emotions with the needs of maintaining a civil argument.

Brigitte Josserand, a tomboyish woman with a Tintin crewcut, somehow manages to oversee both kitchen and dining room while maintaining an ongoing family argument with her husband, Henri, a bald man with a thick brush of a mustache who is as impassive as his wife is volatile.

These findings further support the hypothesis that vitamin D is an important promoter of T cell regulation in MS. Since in RRMS patients the Treg compartment has been shown to be compromised, our findings provide additional arguments to maintain a healthy vitamin D status in these patients.

Yet to maintain this argument after an underwhelming fifth-place finish in New Hampshire, Rubio desperately needs those Republicans seeking an alternative to rally behind him.