Sentence examples for rather than argument from inspiring English sources

He seemed to adjust his tone to one of gentle persuasion rather than argument.

The lesson is that relying on electoral sleight of hand rather than argument and debate helps populist parties.

"Politics has become a pantomime or vaudeville in that it creates waves of anger rather than argument.

Ruth I find that a strangely abstract reply in which you deploy slogans rather than argument – and don't address my points.

"Miracle at Sing Sing" is history as storytelling rather than argument, evoking Lawes and his era without explaining why they matter to the present.

After first being applied to the Cambridge Platonists, the term was later used to categorize churchmen who depended upon reason to establish the moral certainty of Christian doctrines rather than argument from tradition.

By any rational analysis, these are slogans rather than arguments based on facts.

This conclusion, rather than arguments about austerity, seems in many ways to more fundamentally explain Germany's reluctance.

Don't they take God's wisdom to be infallible, claim to have access to it through revelation, and accept its contents on faith rather than arguments?

As if remembering he was supposed to be winning votes rather than arguments, Howard followed up his statement to the man who asked about prisons with a few conciliatory comments.

Had there been a real legal argument supporting the return of the marbles to Greek soil, they would be in a Greek museum by now.Andreas Heraclides LondonSIR – I am glad to see that the case against the reunification of the marbles has started to focus more on pragmatic considerations rather than arguments drawing on long-discredited ideologies.