Sentence examples for maintaining an argument from inspiring English sources

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At a regional scale, changes in dominant species between unburned and repeatedly burned areas might be an argument for maintaining a patchwork of areas burned at variable intervals.

They also maintain an infinitely weaker argument that retailer shipping will lead to minors obtaining wines it's improbable that a minor seeks collectible or expensive wine, or that a minor will wait a week for a shipment of cheap wine.

Yes, it was churches that pioneered schools in Britain centuries ago – and all credit to them for doing so – but that is no argument for maintaining a socially divisive educational policy today.

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