(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.
Disagree
Definition:
(v. i.) To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.
(v. i.) To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel.
(v. i.) To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
(2) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(3) Nightingale's ability to react to and obstruct progressive movement with which she disagreed is also review.
(4) Scientists have disagreed about the likelihood of a successful clone, but several governments, including the UK, have banned the reproductive cloning of human beings.
(5) Our data from studies in animal models agree in some cases with epidemiological observations, but disagree with others, particularly fat and colon cancer.
(6) She disagrees, too, with the French system which brings the classroom approach to pre-schoolers.
(7) The 13C-labelling pattern in C. aurantiacus disagrees with any of the established CO2 fixation pathways; it therefore demands a novel autotrophic CO2 fixation cycle in which 3-hydroxypropionate and succinate are likely intermediates.
(8) Police are investigating the tweets and United have said that anyone involved in abusing Ennis-Hill, or others who disagree with the club’s decision to let Evans train with them, will be banned for life.
(9) When Scholes decided his time as a player was at an end last season not many disagreed vehemently.
(10) Those who want to see Corbyn toppled as leader disagree about the best way to go about it.
(11) You don’t tear people down just because they disagree with you or stand up to you or question you,” he said.
(12) We fundamentally disagreed with that: we thought it should be easy to use."
(13) We disagree with Julian's assessment as we will be in big financial trouble if we don't publish.
(14) Previous studies have disagreed as to whether the mechanism of estrogen action involves stimulation of calcitonin (CT) secretion.
(15) Sensitization by potassium bichromate estimated by patch test only was 30%, and by MIT only also 30%, but the two test methods disagreed in 24%.
(16) It is called the Constitution of the United States.” The anti-Planned Parenthood videos fail to make a case against abortion | Scott Lemieux Read more It’s not news that Rubio disagrees with reproductive freedom – he opposed Obama supreme court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of his opposition not only to Roe v Wade but to any constitutional right to privacy.
(17) But that aside, I have to disagree with what, I think, is Mr Hitchens' point about fashion: that in order to prevent disasters such as 70s style returning, we should always dress with one eye on how future generations will mock us.
(18) Examiners were consistent in the repetitive detection of pulmonary abnormalities in 74-89% of the examinations; conversely, 11-26% of the time they disagreed with themselves.
(19) "Just because we disagree doesn't mean I don't get him," Christie replied.
(20) Looking around this festival of high-price, high-end art, it's hard to disagree.