Sentence examples for threadbare argument from inspiring English sources

Yet all Murphy can do is mutter the threadbare argument that Britain needs "a strong defence".

They also trotted out the increasingly threadbare argument that no one could have predicted the financial crisis that did for HBOS.

The case for effemiphobia often hinges on a threadbare argument against "camp" overexposure.

He declined the invitation, but instead sent a statement that could be read out aloud, in which he contradicted Truman's policy towards the island of Formosa, saying: "Nothing could be more fallacious than the threadbare argument by those who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific that if we defend Formosa we alienate continental Asia".

But, again, there's a risk that the SNP simply repackages some rather threadbare arguments rather than fundamentally reassessing them.

In his patriotism speech, he said that "the anger and turmoil" of that generation had "never entirely drained away," leaving our politics "trapped in these old, threadbare arguments".

With a clarity and passion that elude the main political parties, the churches last week comprehensively took apart the government's increasingly threadbare moral arguments on welfare reform.

But their profits are soaring, even as the economy slows, a situation that makes their shopworn anti-regulatory argument all the more threadbare.

Morgan at the RSPB says the food shortage argument is "threadbare", although he accepts that the situation could worsen in future.

If this sounds familiar, it's probably because the same argument, or its threadbare variants, featured so often during the Leveson inquiry, as the excuse for invasions of privacy.

That argument looks increasingly threadbare.Shortly after winning a presidential election in December with 63% of the vote, Mr Chávez announced that he would not renew the licence of one of the country's oldest broadcasters, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), when this expires on May 27th.