"make a cogent case" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used when someone is trying to make a convincing argument about a particular topic or issue. For example: "I'm trying to make a cogent case for investing in renewable energy sources."
If we failed to make a cogent case, he'd call us on it.
His new adaptation of this drama about a village that rises up against its feudal overlord has a sweep and polish that make a cogent case for its inclusion in a classical season.
Rather than a 50% probability, I would make a cogent case as to why the likelihood of success is 75%, or some other justifiable percentage.
This eye-opening text brings together research from behavioral science, neuroscience, and other fields to make a cogent case for emotions acting as a practical framework for living our lives.
Yes, somewhat, but it is also healthy: Each unit within the institution should be able to justify the good things it has to offer and to make a cogent case as to why they should be supported.
But the visit confirmed for Thomsen that he could make a cogent case for the startling memorial that he and Eric Kahn, his late college friend and partner in the Idea Office architecture studio, had spent years thinking about and drawing up plans for — without anybody asking them to.
"Paterno" makes a cogent case for absorbing Paterno's entire legacy, not merely his final sad months.
Writing in the Sutton Coldfield Observer, Birmingham Erdington MP Sion Simon makes a cogent case for the government's ID-card legislation.
Mr. Tosches makes a cogent case that the young Clay could not have stood up to the real Liston.
In "Why 'Time and Again' Casts So Powerful a Spell" (Jan . 28, Ric Burns makes a cogent case for the book's influence on New York City's preservationists.
In a brilliantly researched and annotated work of scholarship, Reid makes a cogent case that the battle has become more internal — but of necessity, not by choice.
