"stale arguments" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to arguments or points that have been used repeatedly and have lost their effectiveness or relevance. Example: "The debates on gun control often devolve into stale arguments that have been heard countless times before."
And we will be back having the same stale arguments month after month, year after year – all while the danger of climate change grows until it is irreversible.
Governments' efforts to deal with what many voters see as the world's biggest problem will look pretty feeble.Fresh thinking, instead of stale arguments, has rarely been so badly needed.
To Senator Mark R. Warner of Virginia, a Democrat who has long led a bipartisan group of senators seeking a fiscal deal, such a proposal is the sort of newer idea needed for the parties to stop the "stale arguments" that after three years have turned their budget battling into "World War I trench warfare".
Plenty of constituencies might be happy with an incomer, but as someone with an aunt who moved into this area nearly six months ago, I feel well qualified to be a champion for local people, and just as soon as I've met some, I'll prove there's lots more to the next election than rehearsing stale arguments about Nick Clegg and tuition fees.
But at the end of nine hours rehearsal of stale arguments made in bad faith the general synod took a decisive turn into fantasy, or stumbled over its own rules, and failed, by a very small margin, to gain the complicated majorities required to make women bishops.
Mr Livingstone's team said the mayor was resorting to "stale arguments".
In spite of the stale argument that Long Island wines are overpriced, consumers seem to think otherwise.
Only Republican state senators are resisting, using the same stale argument that a minimum wage increase is bad for business.
What he really advocates is setting aside the stale argument over Quebec's relationship with Canada and moving on to other matters.This stance was never taken very seriously by Montreal's chattering classes.
But, as usual, the stale political arguments have begun all over again.Mr Obama set a cracking pace in his first days in office.
"What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them: the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply".
