Sentence examples for powerful counterargument from inspiring English sources
But there is a powerful counterargument to be made that Hinckley's release is long overdue.
Marcy admits that this so-called "Fermi paradox" poses a powerful counterargument to the prospect of success for any search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
To the Editor: Prof. Daniel Gilbert's essay about the relationship of certainty to happiness is a powerful counterargument to one of the Republicans' most cherished dogmas: People are better off keeping their money and deciding how to spend it, rather than having the government tax it away to spend on federal programs.
But the negative side refused to allow their opponents to co-opt the defense of minorities and the LGBTQ community and retorted: "democracy cannot function if national security is the priority" and "it is not possible to track a select group of people". Negative side member offered a powerful counterargument to the affirmative's claim to protect minorities.
The Treasury Department has powerful counterarguments, including "sovereign immunity" precedents against state challenges.
There are powerful counterarguments: Iran is China's third-biggest source of oil imports, supplying more than 5 percent of total needs.
Resistance to revising or abandoning the delusion in the face of powerful counterevidence or counterargument is a sign of irrationality in normal and abnormal cognition alike: people with delusions ignore relevant evidence or attempt to defend their beliefs from apparent objections with obvious confabulations.
Fun Home is, at its most powerful, a staging of a counterargument to this fantasy, this wish to do away with the conditions that impose a gap in our sense of self.
Offering neither balance nor solutions (a segment on the overuse of medications like Ritalin is especially powerful, but especially in need of counterargument), "The War on Kids" questions what kind of citizens we are producing.
We discard them as though they had no merit even though often the set of facts supporting a counterargument may be even more powerful than those supporting.
A highly effective strategy in writing a persuasive op-ed is to preemptively address the counterarguments to your point, and refute them with powerful and poignant facts.
