Sentence examples for was argued against from inspiring English sources

Scamander's expulsion from Hogwarts, for example, was argued against by Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore, back then a mere transfiguration teacher.

Hitchens, who opposes torture and who underwent waterboarding to determine if it in fact was torture (he concluded it was) argued against O'Reilly's assertion that torture can be justified by the ticking time-bomb scenario, saying that scenario is never a reality and "you can't make a practice out of a general case".

Jamie Reed, Copeland MP, claimed Corbyn was arguing against party policy.

So he was arguing against Gall and others, but this was fiercely contested at the time.

I invented the phrase only to discuss a hypothetical philosophical position that I was arguing against.

I was arguing against the claim that only science employs it.

"He was arguing against the people who say that there is something incompatible between Islamic and Christian civilizations," he said.

He was arguing against global elites who sometimes refuse to acknowledge the power of culture at all.

Ms. Pelosi, herself the mother of five, was arguing against unwanted pregnancies, not families who choose to have big broods.

"Socrates was arguing against the idea that people will be dishonest if given the chance," Paul F. says.

This does not mean he was arguing against the existence of God.