The phrase "spoken argument" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase can be used to describe an argument that has been spoken aloud instead of written down. For example: The two students engaged in a heated spoken argument about the meaning of the text.
But politically speaking, their argument is a potent one — and Obama's campaign knows it.
Mathematically speaking, his argument involves the sum of the infinite geometric progression no finite partial sum of which adds up to 2. As Aristotle would later say, this progression is only potentially infinite.
Creatively speaking, his argument was both logical and sure-footed: after all, no one would deny writers the absolute right to choose the subject and style of their work.
Hence, it is not strictly speaking an argument from relativism to accommodation.
Politically speaking, this argument is -- and pardon me saying so -- a loser.
However, it should be noted that, generally speaking, the argument for the time-reversal symmetry often used to justify unfolding simulation of a protein to study its folding may not be valid with high-temperature nonequilibrium systems.
In the first case, we are speaking of argument-1, in the second of argument-2.
Right-wing justices Roberts and Alito were just as clearly disposed towards Texas, while Justice Thomas, who had actually spoken during an argument in February, was silent.
And because Thomas has not spoken at oral argument since shortly after Alito joined the Court, Sotomayor and Kagan, like the rest of us, have to settle for old audio recordings to hear him question from the bench.
Two months from now, the justices will have a chance to speak, at arguments over the constitutionality of Mr. Obama's signature legislative achievement, the health care overhaul law.
