Sentence examples for spirited case from inspiring English sources

But Trevett claims that "it is special in the thoroughness of that appeal to Biblical precedent, in its sometimes cautious, but often spirited, case for women, in its criticism of Church and clergy, and in its optimism" (Trevett 1991, 54).

He makes a spirited case for the old-fashioned goals of integration and assimilation.

He used a speech about the progress being made in rebuilding Lower Manhattan to offer a spirited case for his stewardship of the city and to warn that his hard-fought accomplishments could be lost.

For the first time in his 15-year stewardship of the theater Mr. Sanford felt the need to calm ruffled feathers or at least make a spirited case for the theater's right to ruffle them now and then.

And in recent speeches around the country, Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, has made a spirited case for it, arguing that a strict approach is a vital tool for deterrence.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Representative Paul D. Ryan fiercely quarreled at the vice-presidential debate here on Thursday night, with Mr. Biden using the cutting attack lines against the Republican ticket that Mr. Obama did not and Mr. Ryan delivering a spirited case for conservative policies that Mr. Romney had soft-pedaled.

The beauty of these shows is that, unlike FM radio, they are often manned by amateur enthusiasts, freed from the burden of on-air advertising or playlists to make spirited cases for their pet sounds.

HTS advocates declined invitations to the Chicago conference, but scholars such as Brian Selmeski, at Air University, Alabama, and Kerry Fosher, of Marine Corps Intelligence Activity showed up to make spirited cases for "working within the system".

Why, in hard times, is the Giuliani administration pursuing this particularly mean-spirited case?

Showalter has made a spirited, entertaining case for the continuing vitality of what she calls our "feminist intellectual heritage".

The burglar had spirited away some 70 cases of Scotch whiskey between 7 40 in the evening & 2 30 A.M. Through some fast detective work on the part of Detective James F. McDonnel, the burglar, a Negro named James Ermon Nickens, the superintendent of the building, was caught immediately.