He did not prevail, but Mr. Obama personally sought his arguments.
Journalists and politicians seek strong arguments and clear answers.
Once he narrowed the field, he compiled decades of data and articles on each company to help explain what led to an inflection point, then kept sifting the data for patterns, divining theories from the data, and seeking out arguments to tell him why the theories were flawed.
Could all this talk be just so much bull-market revisionism, a rationalizing that seeks new arguments to justify ever-higher stock prices?
You should neither seek out arguments and confrontations nor let people walk all over you or take advantage of your kindness.
In an e-mail this week, Bendtsen told me: My earlier book towers (Arguments) sought to reflect the fragility of human arguments, which are mostly inflexible structures in a history that is fluid and ever-changing.
In its filings, Mr. O'Leary's lawyers sought to dismiss arguments in favor of maintaining the policy.
In his weekly radio address, Mr. Clinton sought to rebut arguments by the Republican ticket that slowing growth and the possibility of a recession make the time ripe for the big tax cut they have proposed.
But their outspokenness has drawn criticism from some conservatives, who have sought to discredit arguments in favor of gun control by targeting the students themselves.
He says his contrarian side sought out religious arguments with fundamentalist teammates, who would often attempt to dismiss the discussion
by insisting, "Well, you must believe in something".
