(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.
Unargued
Definition:
(a.) Not argued or debated.
(a.) Not argued against; undisputed.
(a.) Not censured.
Example Sentences:
(1) The importance of the synovial APC in determining the synovial immune response is unarguable but the exact mechanisms are unclear.
(2) And the result is, unarguably, a significant advance, in terms of realism, on its celebrated public information predecessor : Women, Know your Limits!, in which the woman character's principal contribution to a political debate is the highly unlikely – given not a single cat is in evidence – "I do love little kittens."
(3) The euro crisis brought Merkel to the fore as unarguably the most powerful politician in Europe.
(4) These rights seem clear and unarguable and are largely enacted in policies and services for children living in Australia.
(5) At the court of appeal in London on Wednesday, Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Treacy and Mr Justice Blake rejected his application for permission to appeal and said the proposed grounds were "unarguable".
(6) In extreme cases, such as mentally defective persons, the consent-giver is unarguably incompetent to directly exercise autonomy and a substitute consent-giver or decision-maker is required.
(7) "Although it was not linked with to any real person when written, the committee believed that the song had clearly and unarguably gained association with Lady Thatcher."
(8) Credit for inventing trip-hop, one of the most influential musical genres of the 1990s, cannot be allotted to just one person, but Jonny Dollar, who has died of cancer aged 45, was unarguably one of its main architects.
(9) Social mobility sounds unarguable, but like so many other ideas that are apparently self-evident – the primacy of the "hard-working family", the ubiquity of "generations of worklessness" – its apparent simplicity is a cover.
(10) Leo Hollis, author of Cities Are Good For You , says the one unarguably positive achievement of smart city-style thinking in modern times is the train indicator boards on the London Underground.
(11) But once things quieten down, he sketches out a portrait of modern society that often sounds unarguable.
(12) Climate campaign petition Introducing the campaign, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger wrote : “This [campaign] will almost certainly be won in time: the physics is unarguable.
(13) Brazilian health authorities subsequently downplayed the significance of the sale of contaminated blood in HIV transmission, and likewise ignored the rising rates of AIDS among Brazil's one unarguable majority group: the poor.
(14) And while some politicians say this takes the conversation beyond class – that class is fixed, whereas cycles of deprivation caused by neglect are alterable – it is unarguable that this scrutiny would never extend to the middle class.
(15) The chain has had an unarguably beneficial effect on prices.
(16) The case for having such a post in government, going beyond the brief of an equalities minister, seems to me urgent and unarguable.
(17) The very people who had created the Labour movement and who had given it a voice and unarguable moral force throughout the 20th century were watching the dismantling of the communities that had shaped them.
(18) Our NHS Confederation Patients as Partners programme is starting to show how we can do this and the evidence is becoming unarguable.
(19) According to legal documents related to the case it added: “It is unarguable that at the relevant time (May 2015) the school was required as part of its safeguarding responsibilities to be aware of the dangers of radicalisation.
(20) The deputy prime minister not only believes the moral case for doing this is overwhelming, he also thinks the political case for action is unarguable as well.