Sentence examples for major argument against from inspiring English sources

A major argument against taking military action has been fear that a consequent inflaming of radical passions in the region could destabilize our Muslim allies.

"A major argument against equal benefits, against fair treatment of employees, has been taken away," said Kevin Cathcart, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, referring to the Supreme Court ruling on Lawrence v. Texas.

In unusually direct language for a Fed policy maker, Mr. Mishkin said inflation pressures had become less of a problem — a judgment that, if embraced by other Fed officials, would remove a major argument against lowering interest rates.

Yet Gassendi views this notion as the collapse of a major argument against atomism.

His problem was the distinctness of living species, used as a major argument against the idea that species could change.

He defined the major argument against affirmative action, the use of quotas, as a "misdefinition" and countered it by explaining that the executive order for affirmative action forbids the use of quotas.

Indeed it was one of Abbott's major arguments against the Indi rural independent, Cathy McGowan.

Iowa and Vermont were the tipping point because they struck down the right's two major arguments against marriage equality.

One of the major arguments against decarbonisation over the past decade has been the high cost associated with the move away from fossil fuels.

The pressure to enact a prescription drug benefit was also increased by last week's rosy report on the financial health of the Medicare hospital trust fund; one of the major arguments against new benefits has been that Medicare could barely cover the existing ones.

This is of course dead wrong - in fact, all the major arguments against building the clean economy are crumbling, as I recently laid out in an interview with HuffPo's Jo Confino.