to argue

But these events are, at the least, misguided and offensive, and it is painful to see squirming senior Tories trying to argue otherwise.

I'm not going to argue with you about the matter today.

it seems useless for you to argue further with him.

To say that foreign investment from China is welcome, however, is not to argue that governments should just sit back and enjoy the benefits.

This so infuriated the local priest that he came in a huff to argue the matter out with the Master.

You know I'm right, so what you want to argue with me for?

Many of the US politicians most reluctant to act on climate change used to argue that there was no point doing so while China did little.

It's no use trying to argue with you when you fly into a fury.

The G20 leaders were right to argue that containing leverage has to be a focus of any revamp of the global financial system.

Look, I'm not going to argue with you any more - no, you can't use the car tonight! That's my decision and I'm standing pat on it.

" Ira deferred fork: " Ready to argue with you, next year in Moscow, all of these injuries take place, and I win. I bet?

I used my best debating skills to argue with him, but he would not give in.

It's no use trying to argue with him-he won't listen.

It's easy to argue that the stimulus offered so far hasn't been big enough, or was aimed in the wrong direction.

Brown believes it was in the national interest to argue strongly as long as there was a chance to secure such a senior post for the country.

an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue; pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act.

It was depressing to see a write-up of a small experiment being used to argue that New York should not run a large and realistic one.

In the meantime, the White House may be able to argue the U. S. budget is already moving in the right direction.

don ' t raise your voice , i ' m not trying to argue with you.

Alice was a little worried for her friend, but when the executioner arrived, everybody began to argue.

If I really wanted to argue with you, then I would not go today.

As for Bank of America, it would be hard to argue that without the US taxpayers' $45bn the bank would still be around.

It is hard to argue that China has added too much to its capital stock when, per person, it has only about 5% of what America or Japan has.

Although she had never dared to argue with her father before, Mary added: "Denis is in a good business, Father. "

My feeling was that it was useless to argue with him.

Yet Mr Romney's plan at least offers specifics with which to argue, even if it is short on vision.

Robbie: I'm not going to argue with you about this. UFOs exist, period .

It is said that Wang Anshi did not deign to argue with him but banished him to Huangzhou.

Back in Australia, the Trade Minister and I will be going on the road to state capitals to argue what China 2. 0 is all about.

He made no mention of my mother I'd rather than to argue with him, he mentioned I really could not bear.

"If I were to argue for federalism, I would be stoned to death, " says an intellectual.

It's not my purpose or intention here to try to argue you out of your religious beliefs or to argue against your religious beliefs.

I began to argue with him which, of course, proved useless and only escalated the fight.

It's easy to argue about disproportionate workloads or earnings, and financial stress can add to the anger or resentment.

Like a small but growing number of Chinese lawyers, he has made it a part of his career to argue cases he knows he probably won't win.

I'm not trying to argue over semantics, but I would like to offer a change in perspective.

Now, let me stress that I am not trying to argue that price falls are a good thing; a severe deflationary spiral is clearly dangerous.

All this leads some to argue that the Japanese system is not all that different from the American system.

"I don't pretend to argue with a lady on politics, " said Mr. Brooke, with an air of smiling indifference.

indeed, he was "one of the first" to argue for it, while Mr Gates was late to respond, he adds.

While discussing the matter, they started to argue in a very loud voice.

Income inequality is often claimed to be a strong determinant of happiness, and this "fact" used to argue for more progressive taxation.

I am not going to argue with you (about the matter) today.

Were you to argue, object, and annoy me for a year, I could not forego the delicious pleasure.

I tried to argue with him, but it was difficult to argue with a man when I did not know his language.

He waited for Aberforth to jeer or to argue, but he did not. He merely scowled.

She began to embrace her Confucian heritage, she was able to argue against those who condemned the Confucian tradition as submissive.

Every time she tried to argue with her husband she ended up crying her eyes out.

The business owners would be hard pressed to argue they honestly believed they were entitled to such a huge sum of money, she said.

How much logic will be contorted in an effort to argue that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the trigger? I'm thinking a lot.

There was a time when African leaders used to argue against multi-party democracy on the ground that it would exacerbate tribal divisions.

I continued to argue my point with one of the women who was soft-spoken and a charming conversationalist.

It is no use trying to argue with you when you fly into a fury over the slightest thing.

I am trying to argue that guy born around 80's went through a great change of his value to the world around him.

If there aren't any, a couple's counselor can help or refer you to a couple's group. Learn to talk it out, rather than to argue it out.

China's foreign ministry's reaction to Levi's move, the book stated, was to argue human rights had nothing to do with it.

We got very mad at him and tried to argue with him about the taxi fare, but he didn't want to reduce it because he thought we are too young.

Immediately, all the other students argued against what he said. As a result, we began to argue with him about it.

Yet I was one of the first to argue that our economic development still lacks balance, coordination and sustainability.

It's still too early to argue about whether Wave can or will every replace email (it's only a developer preview at this point after all).

She? is? always? ready to? argue over? the smallest issues.

It would be hopeless to argue vegetarianism with someone who does not shudder at the thought of killing an innocent, sentient being.

Genetic activists are now beginning to argue that the world's gene pool should be maintained by international agreement as shared and open.

"It's his, too. " He held up his hand when he could see that I was about to argue. "Whether he is responsible for doing that to you. "

He is always ready to argue about politics with Mike.

This finding has led Dr Ungar and his colleagues to argue that although P. boisei certainly could eat tough foods, it generally did not.

I'm not trying to argue that all environmental problems fit these curves, or that these improvements happen automatically.

It is useless trying to argue with Shylock. Don't wait any longer. Pass judgement on me and give Shylock what he wants.

A lawyer need not understand "A Brief History of Time" , but she must be able to argue logically.

But if it does so, it will now be tough to argue that gay sex should be banned because many Indians disapprove of it.

What good will it do to argue with him if he takes a negative attitude toward the whole thing?

That is unfair on the French president, who was careful to argue that he was trying to rescue capitalism from its own excesses.

Eg. a. I will have to argue this out with you another time.

He said Britain was in a "spiral" and it is difficult to argue with him.

Alans parents are trying to argue him out of joining the army.

I'll have to argue this out with you.

Due to the writer of the view that we do not have to argue for these so-called difficult understanding, to zoom in on its side-effects.

My boyfriend likes to argue . I finally have to tell him off and keep him away from me for days .

Does this seem to argue a too shrewd, calm and sensible attitude on the part of the ordinary newspaper reader?

And with custom-machined heads, custom camshafts and a billet crankshaft, it's hard to argue you're not getting your money's worth.

Since it was obvious who was right and who was wrong , Jim had no intention to argue with him.

It's hard to argue that advertising messes with our minds, but it's pretty challenging to cut them out of your life entirely.

Xu obeyed his parents decision, saying, "It's their money and I don't have any grounds on which to argue with them about this. "

Brazilians used to argue that they had the right to cut down the forest because other countries had cut down their forests in the past.

I didn't like to argue with him on such trivial matters.

First he claimed he had interpreted it as "public funds" and then shifted to argue that it was part of his salary.

eg. I'm not going to argue with you , but I think you're wrong.

It is ludicrous to argue that this would be an insupportable burden.

However, in the light of the dotcom bubble, it seems inherently unsatisfying to argue that markets are always fairly valued.

Dialog 3 This dialog is a continuation of the above. Bob, Brenda's attorney tries to argue Gail into agreeing a compromise is possible.

One is to argue that the presence of a constitution protecting the rights of all citizens in many democratic countries acts as a safeguard.

It is a difficult matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

You might as well talk to a stone as try to argue with a stubborn woman.

She tried to argue the matter away.

The administration of President George W. Bush used to argue that the IMF alone, not bilateral lenders, should be in charge of rescues.

Economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhardt cite centuries of data to argue that the aftermath of financial crises is always painful.

A trivial one is to argue that because water vapour is such a powerful greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide is unimportant.

America is right to argue that private-sector demand has collapsed, leaving the public sector as the engine of the economy.

But Friedman, having issued his manifesto , left others to argue about it and was more concerned to apply it in practice .

It is a complicated job to classify the art media, which, the author devotes to argue and expose at the beginning of this dissertation.

When Alex began to argue, Richard burst into a rage.

Researchers continue to argue about exactly where that threshold lies, not least because retail banking is such a local business.

I want 'yes' or 'no', "thundered counsel. " There is no need for you to argue the point!

In the late 1970s and 1980s, that might have been true -- but today, it's hard to argue that Apple's expensive products are egalitarian.

The case for a change in regime and a gradual appreciation of the currency has become more difficult to argue after the crisis.

Don't engage this. You're not going to argue her into committing to having sex with you before you get home.

The modeling of a grid connected DFIG system is first set up and research is carried out to argue the stability of the single generator.

On the first, Lord Turner is right to argue that "the institutional architecture is the least important issue here" .

The pact invokes the concept of circular migration to argue that immigration can benefit both sending and receiving countries.

She thought it unnecessary to argue with him at the meeting.

It is much harder to argue that the notion of a "China Inc" is nothing more than a myth.

She knows too much to argue or to judge.

In any case, it was not a good time to argue -- it was the Great Depression, and times were difficult.

Rather than continuing to argue this point back and forth, consider why she may not want to pay you up front.

Many politicians cite the existence of clients with loans from several MFIs at once to argue that the poor are over-indebted.

It's an old-school approach to the burgeoning threat of new media, but who wants to argue with a 78 year-old billionaire?

Mr Shan says that it is nonsense to argue that high profits are driving investment when business as a whole is such a big borrower.

They consider it a waste of time to argue any further.

But it is quite wrong to argue that the difficulties of a Greece or a Spain entail difficulties ahead for the US, or even the UK.

He liked to argue with others. As a result, all of his classmates did not talk to him anymore.

But a wise blogger once said that it's a good principle to argue about other people's main points, not to quibble over side issues.

The judge ended the late afternoon hearing in Manhattan federal court, but Brodsky and Naftalis continued to argue.

And she made it impossible to argue, as many did at the time, that the genocide was a spontaneous explosion of ancient tribal hatred.

Therefore it seems that it would be absurd to argue there is no joint commercial activity.

What I want to emphasize here is that I lacked trust on her. So a fight came out even though there is nothing to argue about.

When he started to argue, I got tough with him.

I don't have time to argue with you about this .

If you do not see people you love for more than a year then you definitely do not want to argue with them.

This limited power of the courts has led many to argue that the filing of an EIS is a " toothless " requirement.

The White House used the occasion to argue that Mr. Obama is broadly reducing the American military presence abroad.

It was there, she says, that she learned how to argue, including how to set a time limit and other rules.

Both these objectives are admirable, however much one may want to argue with him over the means.

I don't want to argue with you anymore. This is going to be tough, but et's try and be friends.

Others may be tempted to argue, like the Swiss, that they have technical reasons to weaken their currencies.

Environmentalists and pork farmers came together in the German city to argue that there should be "no patents on life" .

As one of those women happens to be me, I would like to argue that the first fact has brought about the second.

Some economists have begun to argue that high inflation may be around for some time. Here again, the tug of war is evident.

I want to argue that though Africa is not the front line in the war against terror, it could be soon.

I found it necessary to argue with him about it.

I would like to argue first that the fact that two people agreed to some exchange does not mean that the terms of their agreement are fair.

We've given up on him because he is so stubborn. It is pointless to argue with him.

I'm not going to argue with any of it. In the world of electronic blogging, everybody's an expert now, anyway.

As the scale of their exposure was revealed they switched tack to argue that they had a liquidity, rather than a solvency, problem.

But I'm not going to argue with you tonight.

SOME people say it's better than sex, and we're not going to argue the point.

Roche plans to argue that the public interest would be served if Mircera were allowed on the market, a spokeswoman said.

THE Suharto regime used to argue that if East Timor became independent, it would set off an archipelagic chain reaction.

This point of view wants to argue that man I is more superior and creative than woman.

During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue.

When a lawyer acts as agent ad litem or defend clients, his right to argue or present a defense shall be protected in accordance with law.

I think it is purile to argue he did not know that what he was doing was illegal.

A: It is useless trying to argue with Shylock. Don't wait any longer.

And I am now going to argue that this is only half true.

I'm not clever enough to argue with you.

It is useless trying to argue with Shylock. Don't wait any longer.

To think otherwise would be to argue that China's underlying economy remains weak.

Iranian officials used to argue that they just wanted to be treated like Japan.

In India and Brazil it is no longer retrograde to argue that state-controlled banks should help counteract the economic cycle.

You can refuse to argue or try to convince anyone of the rightness of your stance, and simply believe it.

But nobody was ever sent to prison for espousing the wrong value for the Hubble constant. There is always room for more data to argue over.

It is ridiculous to argue that leaving Haiti in the coming year or two "will only bring more hardship to the Haitian people and nation. "

The bifurcated needle was invented, and some like to argue that the war against smallpox was eventually won by a modified sewing needle.

This makes the 'occupy' protests, as they have come to be known in the English-speaking world, hard to argue against.

She started to argue. "The MRI is coming up, " I said, and rolled over.

But UK economic activity is anaemic and public sector cuts could be deflationary, so the MPC has much to argue about.

It's unclear who specifically represents Mr. Hu; foreign lawyers aren't allowed to argue cases in Chinese trials.

Mr Orszag points to the Dartmouth work to argue that up to 30% of America's health-care spending is sheer waste.

Thus Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, is right to argue for a multilateral approach.

This meeting has really been about a digital revolution, but I'd like to argue that it's done; we won.

Sherry acts detached from her husband, and she doesn't want to argue about what he plans to do.

Hey, we'll have the "Business Management" class in a few minutes. Where are you going? Don't tell me that you are going to argue with Jason.

With the luxury of hindsight, it is possible to argue that QE2 did more harm than good to both the economy and the polity.

But China asserts no claim, and you could go back to Kublai Khan to argue that China was in fact part of Mongolia.

Marshalling the notes of lecture is one experience; the opportunity to argue with a teacher is another.

I was about to argue with him, but then I realized that he was right.

Mr. Yu's comments are part of an unusually intense public-relations and diplomatic campaign by China to argue its case ahead of Copenhagen.

Now universities are more likely to argue that racial diversity is valuable for its own sake.

After everything that has gone so wrong, it would be foolish to argue that Mr Bush's plan is certain of success.

This was so unfair that Harry opened his mouth to argue, but Ron kicked him behind their cauldron.

The Germans are right to argue that, if euro-zone countries want to save their currency, they must surrender much economic sovereignty.

But the authors are nevertheless right to argue that the web is the most radical force of our time.

But Republicans say that battle is on to get ready for legal challenges, nearly a dozen states plan to argue that it's not constitutional.

Yan uses these essays to argue for his notion that relations between states are, or should be, inherently hierarchical.

4: Look, I'm not going to argue with you any more - no, you can't use the car tonight!

Spouses need to speak in a calm and caring voice. They should learn to argue in a way that produces a solution, not just more anger.

It was mere waste of breath to argue with him.

says "oysters are good" and another says "I think they are bad, " we recognize that there is nothing to argue about.

"It's hard to argue for selling industrials at the moment, " he says.

It is idle to continue to argue on this point .

to argue with sb you know well, such as a family member, friend or romantic partner.

Don't try to argue with him till he's cooled down.

the recent changes in the tax system and will then go on to argue that these changes are unfair and impracticable.

This and other data was used to argue that what determines whether an individual will get depression is a gene-environment interaction.

It was perhaps harder for banks to argue that the crisis proved how right they had been.

I'm going to argue tonight that compassion and the golden rule are, in a certain sense, built in to human nature. Okay.

Yes. We had seven employees including myself, and I had no business partner to argue with.

In college, you could (and were often expected to) argue one point of view.

But they're wrong to argue that the United States should simply accept a backseat in solar manufacturing.

Each country has taken some measures to argue against the discrimination, including definite regulations raised to medical stuff.

Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat? "

Adults from both sides began to argue which escalated into gun fire.

But what's she to do while we are away? " said I, putting my small elbows on the table to argue the point. "

The quicker, easier way is to argue that certain areas of spending are special cases, and should be spared the axeman's attentions.

"It is no longer accurate to argue that these disorders can never be prevented, " Warner said.

the Italian people like to argue, if allowed, they would argue, in terms of price, they even give an inch.

If you discern that it's futile to argue, or if your pride has been hurt, ask God for grace to say nothing.

"I'm not going to argue over figures, " Gen. Ray Odierno, the top American military commander in Iraq, told a reporter.

It will also be supportive to argue against the dominant view of language that sees the linguistic sign as primarily non-iconic arbitrary.

But it is one thing to argue that the health vote has buoyed up the administration.

Partners may try to argue with you; however, you must stand your ground.

The party's current strategy is to argue that Mr Obama is too soft on America's enemies and too loose with the purse-strings.

He used evidence of a rising black middle class to argue that race alone can't explain the plight of black Americans.

Claus use the standard to argue traditional form of inference and remove false form of inference.

This week one of Britain's biggest financial beasts broke cover to argue for the more radical solution.

This is not to argue that the interests of citizens of high-income countries are more important than those of others.

She thought it unnecessary to argue with him about it .

"Will there be Chinese lawyers who are able to argue before the WTO appellate body in the foreseeable future? I'm not very optimistic. "

There is no any other dates than the holidays to argue this question.

Against these caveats there are a number of reasons to argue that something fundamental may just have shifted against the dollar.

The author is known for his abstract langue on sculpture and international art style to argue deeper on man-nature relationship.

But it is much harder to argue with Randi Weingarten, the articulate head of the American Federation of Teachers.

You'll soon find that it is a waste of time to argue with him .

You may not be a Bible scholar, but you are the authority on your life, and it's hard to argue with personal experience.

It would be a mistake to argue that, had politicians rather than bankers been in charge, policy would have been more prudent.

He is instead likely to argue for trying many different things and erring on the side of overreaction.

It is hard to argue against that now, but the real lesson from grappling with the fog of war is not to blow the fog away but to avoid wars.

Allais was less concerned to show that our behaviour was irrational than to argue that the premises of rationality itself were irrational.

She was too tired to argue the point.

She must have a few buttons missing. That's why it's useless to argue with her.

Proponents of harsh interrogation tactics have used the bin Laden operation to argue that they were right all along.

The strength of consumer spending has led many economists to argue that America is headed for a soft landing.

Yet the banking industry should surely be the last to argue that an incorrect price cannot persist.

She had neither the language skills nor confidence to argue with them. And she had no money.

Jo was determined not to argue and get angry with people, not run around like a boy.

This leads Prof Tiffany to argue that executive MBA programmes are becoming the flagships for the business schools.

But Lord Turner is right to argue that product regulation in wholesale finance is unrealistic.

The other is to argue that the X industry needs to be supported by a direct subsidy from the government.

The other is to argue that the X industry needs to be sup- ported by a direct subsidy from the government.

I am not going to argue you the matter today.

On today, we all need to argue acting as the both have knowledge and with integrity people.

It is a waste of time to argue with him It is a waste of time arguing with him.

the bride's father was getting angry. his breathing was becoming more intense. he started to argue with groom's father.

Inflation targets allowed governments and central banks to argue that price stability and full employment were complementary goals.

My heart bleeds for you. I told you not to argue with the boss.

Nonetheless, the PBOC should use all of its existing powers of persuasion to argue more strongly for higher interest rates now.

Should they be allowed to argue in court that their brains made them do it?

Beijing has been at pains to argue that the big state-owned companies are commercially driven organizations that are forging their own path.

It seems highly likely, but I will leave Spurs fans to argue their case for Keane's penalty that never was against Chelsea last weekend.

He is right to argue that holding another election will not solve Thailand's protracted crisis.

To argue in an attempt to come to terms.