(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.
Stickle
Definition:
(v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
(v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
(v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
(v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
(v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
(v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one's skipping around European landmarks when a screaming toddler needs a Capri-Sun opened or a Stickle Brick removed from its nose.
(2) No one knows yet where Hollande stands, but the signs are he will favour flexibility over German stickling for the rules.
(3) Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) binding characteristics in pituitaries of stickle-backs under different physiological conditions were studied using D-Arg6-Pro9-salmonGnRH-NEt as labeled ligand.
(4) Stickl's method of oral treatment of acne vulgaris with antigens has been carried out on 26 test persons.
(5) High extracellular calcium (1 mM) completely reverses this inhibition and also significantly extends the time course of O2- production in both quin-2 and control cells (Stickle et al., 1984).