Sentence examples for startling argument from inspiring English sources

Yesterday, Mr. Smith's lawyers made a startling argument as they sought to delay the trial.

LAST July, when the Dow Jones industrial average was still stuck below 12,900 and investors were seeking safety in bonds, Seth J. Masters made a startling argument.

They make a startling argument for the old ways: black-and-white film, a view camera and negatives printed by the photographer in actual size.

She can, she has said, make statements that a white person simply could not: on the "dangers" posed to the west not just by radical, but by regular Islam; on the "backward" nature of the religion; on how "terrible" the Qur'an is; and, in the most startling argument of her new book, Nomad (a follow-up to her bestselling memoir Infidel), how Muslims would do well to learn from Christianity.

It is a startling statement.

Make a startling statement.

A paper he published in 1956 made the argument, startling at the time, that rapid growth in living standards in the United States in the first half of the 20th century could not be fully explained, as had been widely assumed, by the growth of the labor force and capital equipment.

Dorsey offers one startling statistic as an argument to win the Heisman Trophy as the nation's most outstanding player: he is 37-1 astarterrter.

But a government lawyer, Douglas N. Letter, made the same state-secrets argument on Monday, startling several judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE cliché of the "Asian century" is usually presented as an economic argument: that the startling growth of a number of Asian countries is shifting the centre of gravity of the global economy to the continent where the bulk of its people live.

Yet the piece presents two arguments that work at startling loggerheads.