(v. i.) To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.
(v. i.) To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.
(v. t.) To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.
(v. t.) To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning.
(v. t.) To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.
(v. t.) To blame; to accuse; to charge with.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is argued that this process drove the evolution of present 5' and 3' splice sites from a subset of proto-splice sites and also drove the evolution of a more efficient splicing machinery.
(2) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(3) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(4) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(5) Language and discussion develop the intellect, she argues.
(6) UK agriculture, it argues, “is much more dependent on EU markets than the EU is on the UK”.
(7) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
(8) It is argued that exposure to a linguistic structure that induces the child to operate on that structure can lead to a reorganization of linguistic knowledge even though no direct feedback has been given as to its correct adult interpretation.
(9) Hayden had argued that the harsher interrogation techniques had provided valuable information and said that the techniques did not amount to torture.
(10) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(11) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(12) Many would argue that patient education has been used to serve the needs of the health care professional (through compliance) rather than empowering the patient.
(13) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(14) Contrary to the claims of some commentators, such as Steve Vladeck , it is impossible to argue reasonably that the memo imposed a requirement of "infeasibility of capture" on Obama's assassination power.
(15) Further it is argued that there is a need to amalgamate the substantive, conceptual, and methodological facets of research.
(16) arguing: The ECB considers this the most critical issue, and rightly so.
(17) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
(18) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(19) In keeping with an expanded definition of culture-bound syndromes, this paper argues that adolescence in American society has been 'medicalized' into a full-blown symptom complex or pathologic condition.
(20) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
Barrister
Definition:
(n.) Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney.
Example Sentences:
(1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(2) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(3) However, John's first stage success, A Dock Brief – set in the cells, where an incompetent barrister counsels himself and his convicted client – was rooted in his own nervousness about failure and his permanent terror at having responsibility for another's fate.
(4) Figures released by the MoJ show that 1,200 barristers earned a minimum of £100,000 each from criminal legal aid last year.
(5) The pair’s barrister, Charanjit Jutla, said both men were of good character and deeply regretted their conduct.
(6) Julian Knowles, a barrister from London's Matrix Chambers specialising in extradition cases, said there was a definite need for changes.
(7) It is also a shame that the Government has tried to put the blame for its own actions onto barristers, when the truth is that no-one can be criticised for deciding not accept a 30% cut.
(8) Rupert Myers is a barrister specialising in criminal law
(9) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
(10) Abramovich said little and spoke only in Russian, with the judge, Dame Elizabeth Gloster, and a packed courtroom of barristers, security guards and supporters listening to a translation via headphones.
(11) Although Alan Hills did not go quite as far as Redknapp's barrister in characterising the football boss's business sense as "disastrous", he admitted Redknapp's decision to invest £250,000 in a failed bid to take over Oxford United – money that was never to be seen again – had been "very unsuccessful".
(12) However, the barrister says they could link up with others in Northern Ireland and Britain, such as the Occupy movement and UK Uncut, who are equally disgusted at the banks' behaviour during this long recession.
(13) The barrister, playwright and author Sir John Mortimer , who has died aged 85, was a man for all the seasons that touched his Chilterns garden, where he lived as profusely as he wrote, in a spirit of unjudgmental generosity.
(14) The case hit the buffers when the FCA's barrister disclosed a note from 2009 that the defence had not seen.
(15) My worry is it would stop women coming forward to seek help to protect their children.” Lucy Reed, a family law barrister, who runs the Transparency Project , which aims to increase understanding of the system, said opening up the courts further should be an issue for parliament to discuss.
(16) After her legal studies, Lady Scotland practised family law - not a field noted for high-flyers - as a barrister.
(17) Thurlbeck's barrister said sorry to the Dowler family for the hacking of their daughter Milly's phone at the time when she was missing in 2002, as did Mulcaire.
(18) Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a barrister at Matrix Chambers
(19) It is understood Woodhead, who is also chairman of governors at Southbank, has commissioned a barrister to examine how Vahey came to be employed at the school, where annual fees are as much as £25,000.
(20) Criminal barristers will be driven from self-employment to work in-house.