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I still don't buy their argument about savings.

I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

I've been opposed to it from the beginning, ... The argument is that our gas tax is lower than our surrounding states, so I have a moral obligation to pay 5 cents more a gallon. When I'm watching that little meter spin around, I don't really feel all that morally obligated to pay more.

These are very senior executives within the Marsh hierarchy, ... Not only was it wrong, it was harmful to the economy ... There is simply no responsible argument in favor of rigging bids, stifling competition and cheating.

The Russian argument is that it has the implication of leading to Chapter 7 actions.

It would be a tough argument not to put them there. There's more parity across the board, and this team has won in just absolutely grand fashion.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

The specific argument we were making is now moot.

The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment, ... After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons.

The thrust of his argument appears to be he is not a public official and could not receive a bribe, That's a fairly sophisticated argument for jurors. It could go either way.

I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.

Some type of argument ensued. A gun was taken out, and these two people were shot.

seems a bit of a stretch to me ... but I think there's a straight-faced argument to be made.

QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. --Oglum P. Boomp

Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.

Putting is probably the most important thing in the game. It's that classic argument you always hear, but it's true. You can hit the ball great, but if you can't make anything, it's so deflating. The psychological aspect is huge. Putting is the source of where you really go in a round.

The narrowing in the spread between two-year bunds and Treasuries is very important, as the interest-rate spread argument is one of the main arguments driving the dollar. I don't think we will have enough momentum to power aggressively against the euro by the end of the year.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

The old argument that the working class won't enter higher education because they are afraid of getting into debt is patronizing.

The more I think about the nettle argument, the more it makes me laugh. This country's awash with nettles. Butterflies that eat them are not in any difficulty at all.

Any judge is going to look at what we do during the public review period. We need to present a fair argument that the city's measures aren't adequate.

Apple Computer can argue that its use of the trademark has nothing to do with music. They could say, 'This isn't our music. We're selling access to this service.' That's another argument for a low royalty.

Any time an umpire gets into an argument and won't call a strike, it's no fun.

An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument

The British mountaineer George Mallory was once famously asked why he was trying to climb Mount Everest and his famous reply was 'because it is there.' That's a compelling argument when you are a mountaineer. But for an $850 million rover mission you better have a better reason than that.

As long as the argument that they make to the judge comports with the minimum and the maximum allowed by the statute and the aggravating factors they bring forward are allowed by the sentencing statute ... that's their discretion and their job, ... And if they didn't do it, then we'd probably live in a less safe community.

That tends to be a common argument that is raised in capital cases, and we will continue to defend this case before the 6th Circuit.

The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal

The modern definition of ""racist"" is ""someone who is winning an argument with a liberal

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

This is a significant loss to our community and to our county, ... We put forth a strong argument to protect our base in Ventura County. It's not over. We still intend to work this issue and present to the (federal) commission that they made a big mistake.

This is an issue that we're all wrestling with. I've been persuaded by the argument that closing the Saunderstown station is a bad idea. If we just take the existing station we have, adequately staff it, find a way to get a truck down there, then that's probably what we have to do in the near term and probably what the growth pattern demands in the long term.

This is an interesting twist on an argument that the Air Force has been pursuing for some time on the need to cut its purchases of Joint Strike Fighters. The Air Force has settled on a number of about 1,100.

The U.S. rate argument is unequivocal. Rates are going to keep on going up for the time being.

The whole argument was (ethanol) production locally would prop up the sugar industry and keep money in the state. None of that is happening. We're going to send our money out to buy this fuel.

This gives a lie to the French argument that it uses EU subsidies to support its small farmers,

This Court finds that nowhere in the U.S. Constitution did the founding fathers state that it was permissible to lie in a court of law. This argument is simply without merit,

This draws a stake through the heart of the once sacrosanct argument that in order to have a doping infraction you must come with an analytical positive.

This draft certainly does not live up to the expectations set by the secretary-general when he launched the process. And I don't think anybody claims that, and, in fact, the strongest argument in favor of this draft is that it's not as bad as it could be.

This finding, if it's true, still doesn't change the basic argument we're having about the standards under which Carnivore should be used,

This argument was about the merits of this base and its relevance to our national security, ... And we believe that the BRAC commission saw it that way as well.

This argument has always been made that this will empower the lobby, and there's only one group that hates term limits more than politicians -- and that's lobbyists.

This is a big blow to the national litigation strategy of the industry, ... This federal preemption argument was emerging as one of the industry's standard responses to all the issues. It's a main line of defense.

They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point in the game. You could make the argument that they are in turnaround, and selling now might be at the bottom.

They pulled over to the side of the road. The argument became physical.

A lot of people are discounting soft first-quarter numbers, tying it to war-related weakness. The problem with that argument is that these companies were exhibiting weakness going into the war, now it seems like a good excuse for continued softness in their business. Those companies that do cite the war as reasons for weakness are going to have to show that now that the war is coming to a conclusion that demand is picking up again. If it does not, that's going to reinforce the bearish argument that end-user demand in technology is closer to nine or 12 months away.

Although we recognize that Oracle is one of the pre-eminent names in the software space and a technology bellwether, it is difficult to make an argument for the stock to move meaningfully higher over the near term, in our opinion.

Although the data are hardly showing bad trends for the U.S. economy, they are hardly an argument for the Fed to extend or speed up the pace of hikes.

They need big country. How much bigger is where the argument is.

They got into an argument. They pulled over on the side of the road, on the ramp, and the argument became physical.

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

There is no way you can make a reasonable argument that the economy's not pointed in the right direction.

This just adds to the argument of what global warming is doing to the climate.

They're run by the same management team, and their argument for choosing airline stocks is that air travel is likely to build over time. I guess this goes to show how even that well-built hypothesis can be vulnerable.

They're going to try to make an argument that simply cutting wages, slashing benefits, etc., is not the only way to go. Whether the bankruptcy judge buys that remains an open question.

They're making the decision in this litigation to make every picayune, minuscule argument they can, even if it means to de-legitimize their own policy.

There's a whole argument in the relief world about whether aid undermines the social and political contract between the state and its citizens. But if the government can't provide assistance, do you want to allow people to die?

There's a lot of investment money searching for a home. Investors are buying the argument that it's an emerging asset class and we've been seeing that with a vengeance in January.

There is this argument that to me is rabidly fascist, which is that one's worth is in some way or perhaps completely determined by one's functionality, ... In other words, you cease to have moral worth or your moral worth is somehow lessened when you become disabled, demented, incompetent or terminally ill.

There's a real strong argument that having two strong shipyards on each coast makes good sense,

Assistants are the people on the front line trying to figure out how to structure the argument.

allowing us to be persuaded by the argument of those who would deny that the genocide occurred at all.

a bad argument in order to put it down.

It's just the nuttiest argument that I've ever heard -- this whole idea of old economy versus new economy assumes that we're all going to be sitting around in the dark, naked and hungry, surfing on the Internet. The idea that you don't need food companies or companies like Procter & Gamble anymore is just nuts.

It's embarrassing that this kind of argument would be going on in an American courtroom.

It's a tough, tough issue that people could legitimately have different views about. The prudential argument that we should be cautious in this case carries some weight, but in the end the consistency argument is the overriding one. If Massachusetts decides they are going to allow payment of egg donors, and California decides they aren't, then we won't be able to share cell lines derived from one state to another. Whatever policies wind up getting put in place for this kind of an issue, it's really important that everybody be on the same page and have the same policies.

It was so small and senseless. A petty argument lost him his life.

It's a very tough thing, ... It's the biggest argument against open enrollment for sure.

Its a chicken-and-egg argument as to which comes first.

It is surely a distinct question, what you can persuade people to do by argument and fair discussion, and what you may lawfully compel them to do, when reason and remonstrance fail.

It's an interesting argument ? because of the Internet 'bad-guy rings' can use these techniques to send information around.

It's not perfect by any means, but I do think I wrote a pretty good argument for it being better than shoving your hand over the fire.

It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.

Then there really is no argument if you got it posted.

It's the longest argument I've ever heard. It's a filibuster. As long as he is talking, I can't talk.

It's the argument I've been trying to make. I understand that people are angry about their bills, but I think what people don't understand is that the increase is due almost solely to the cost of fuel.

It's a load of rubbish. You can see manufacturers using this as an argument for making more paper and recycling less.

It's hard to really praise the safety with what happened over the weekend, but from the other side of the coin, I just have a little cut, didn't have a concussion, and I have some bruises on my lungs. You can make an argument both ways.

It's pretty obvious that, on the surface, they have a hard argument to make that all of this was reasonably necessary. You've got two unusual facts: Someone convicted of a sex offense was assigned to this, and the second is that the amount of money it took (to investigate) was the absolute maximum.

It sounded like what started out as an argument escalated into something else.

It's unfortunate, because people who were against the absentee ballot in the first place will use this to say there isn't an adequate constituency for it in the immigrant community. They will use this as an argument for not improving the process to make it more user-friendly.

Don't argue. In order to have a successful and long-term marriage, go into it with a give-and-take attitude. Without reservation, I can say we have never had a real argument of any kind.

That's past history. Southwest Airlines won that argument in the courts.

That's something we're looking at as part of this change. I think if the audience values our content more and more, then in an evolving universe... you're going to set a price against that. There's an argument that there is an opportunity to explore there.

That's something we have to feel out. It occurred to me to begin with, as a way of taking it a step further, but there's another argument that the step further may be a bridge too far.

That is a great victory for us. Because it was clear that the government and they showed in their closing argument they really wanted to equate us with violent change. And it is clear that the jury understood our message of non-violence.

The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.

The better argument for the result reached in Roe v. Wade is that it's necessary for the equality of women, rather than grounding it in the privacy right, ... Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court.

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere.

The baby Triceratops confirmed our argument that the horns and frill of the skull likely had another function other than sexual display or competition with rivals, which people have often argued, and allows us to propose they were just as important for species recognition and visual communication in these animals.

The attorney general's refutation of the legal argument made by the White House ... speaks volumes about the far-fetched nature of the White House's submission,

The agenda that they push has changed several times. It has gone from Bush started the war for oil. Once the blood-for-oil argument failed to get traction, they moved on to he's fighting daddy's war now. It's amazing how many talking points we've gone through - and there's going to be more to come, I'm sure.

Take your body weight, put it on a rack and power clean it 74 consecutive times, and that's a good argument for moving to the outside (hitter position). He did that. That's an endurance feat, of course, but it also takes a little strength, too.

It's a neutral to a decent number. I don't think this number adds to the argument that the Fed is stopping (rate rises) at 4.5 percent.

It's an easy target. There is the argument that if children weren't watching TV, they would be reading instead. Well, there's no evidence of that at all.

It lays to rest, puts aside the argument . . . that the island shouldn't be conserved because it's an industrial wasteland.

No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

It's very technical, but I think it is an argument over nothing. There are more important issues out there. But we know what was discussed and what was intended when we made the agreement. And what can't be debated is that Magna is proposing stopping racing here on Preakness day, and the agreement says racing must run through Belmont day 2006. That's three weeks out of the calendar. You can't argue with that fact.