"sustaining argument" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in academic or formal writing to refer to an argument or idea that is able to withstand scrutiny or remain valid over time. Example: The author presents a strong and sustaining argument for the need to reform the current healthcare system.
There's no linear narrative, no sustained argument.
Though occasionally arresting, these globs of discussion never coalesce into a sustained argument.
"Extra Lives" is a busy, scattered book — a series of essays and pieces of reportage, several of them previously published — that lacks a narrative or a sustained argument.
Indeed, his book "The Anatomy of Fascism" -- which doubles as a history and a sustained argument -- is not the most original study of the subject.
However perverse Bataille seems, he argues, there is a systematic philosophy behind the work, although he was better at sudden insights than sustained argument.
This determination, to import inside the story some of the heft of complicated facts and sustained argument, ought to be worth the effort.
But this is potentially huge: imagine some crazy future, some post-angry time, when people listen to sustained argument and take it seriously.
There's probably another reason that Obama and his most trusted advisers seemed unconcerned about advancing a sustained argument, though, which is that they decided their argument had already won.
His On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) is a sustained argument showing that the diversity of organisms and their characteristics can be explained as the result of natural processes.
The left needs a fresh analysis and sustained argument for reform to win over the British voting public – while the coalition jabs at the problem like a drunk boxer, mostly hitting its victims below the belt.
He then went on to deliver a sustained argument about what he thinks really matters and the importance of identity and values: "I'd argue that identity has always driven politics".
