argument

As captain of the Anna Sims, moored in Darien, Georgia, he got into a violent argument with a member of his crew.

My wife and I had gotten in an argument and my 19-year-old daughter announced that she was leaving the house to move in with her boyfriend.

In most societies, FGM is considered a cultural tradition, which is often used as an argument for its continuation.

The decreasing character of a function with negative derivative can be proved by an analogous argument.

She realized that she might have made the same mistake as Joan Durbeyfield. She completely accepted Angel's argument.

They forced me to smarten up my act, to try to close the gaps in my thinking, to consider the argument more carefully before setting it out.

Something of a know-it-all, he comes across as slightly hostile, even if only through verbal argument, or jokes targeted at others.

It was no longer enough to be plausible in argument; one had to be convincing in action.

The reformers seem to have won the argument, though it may take a while longer for that to become clear.

He told me that there had been an argument between them.

Hawking's argument was that perhaps mankind should stay quiet and refrain from trying to send signals into outer space.

Libra, able to see both sides of the argument, can compromise easily, while Leo may be more unhappy about yielding.

How much digging before the argument is settled?

In the theory circle of criminal law of current China, the argument for abolishment of death penalty seems to be overwhelming.

A discussion concerning "will you[would] get married with a boyfriend that has no building to have no car" causes a hot argument.

Such, at least, was the argument advanced by researchers from China's top think tank in an essay published Monday.

All the information should be relevant to the point and promote your argument, much like how you choose information for your speeches.

However, there seems to me to be an intriguing ambiguity in this argument.

My dad and I had a strongly worded argument when I told him I wanted to drop out of school.

You can use the REWRITE function without the ANSI argument to help understand how the optimizer generated the access plan for a given query.

On the surface that seems like a great argument, but it's completely unnecessary.

When it was clear that nobody was particularly interested in the matter, apart from protagonists, the heat went out of the argument.

In the long run, notwithstanding the mountains of argument pro and con, a tariff is irrelevant to the question of employment.

I'm going to move on, and yes you can make an argument out of that but let me just move on and show you exactly why I say that.

Popovich also said he did not agree with the argument of those who say they can no longer win.

But if we put this together for a valid argument we get that is known to be false, so we know either one of these got to be false.

Object inheritance is best applied to behavior, not data (see [Auer] for a lucid argument on this point).

The nonspecialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.

A fearful hullabaloo has recently been raised with this sort of argument in the form of the "one doctrine" theory.

Whenever amateurs and professionals are on the opposite sides of an argument, you know which side to choose.

The argument he used to justify his position proved to be a double-edged sword which ultimately led to his own defeat.

The argument bureau of ShunZhi wrote the glorious page in the history book of China's modern history though it had a certain of limits.

To this end, he could always interrupt the conversation of a female, until she "understands" his argument so far insisted.

Nor aught else, except a brief, pithy, and, AS it then appeared to him, unanswerable argument against the immortality of the human soul.

The government seems to have got caught up in the argument between Russia and America.

And because many of the networking tools can take input from a file, you can use the length of such a file as an argument to --size.

You could make a fairly tight argument to say that it is the single greatest health threat that has ever faced the human species.

If the complex argument of this book had to be reduced to a single sentence, that would be it.

This statement has no causal relationship demonstrated in the argument, whether the results of the survey are accurate or not.

Avoiding conflict was associated with more symptoms of physical problems the next day than was actually engaging in an argument.

Surely, the argument runs, Japan would produce new global gorillas of its own if its innovation system were more like that of the US.

Litten's demolition of Hitler's argument that the Nazis were a peaceful, democratic movement earned the lawyer years of brutal persecution.

KM: I mean, I didn't really think of that as an argument so much as just a lively discussion.

Another argument is: China's ancient book of the word "years" to put the Department of Wo to show favorable weather.

Lord May said he thought it a weak argument that what was being lost was the raw material for tomorrow's biotechnology.

She told the court that she believed a woman should have that right and presented a thoughtful case to support her argument.

The majority of the court sided with Mr Obama. Mr Roberts, writing the court's opinion, did not buy Mr Obama's commerce-clause argument.

Whether Nick should be allowed to continue doing this or not is really a problem. There seem to be two sides regarding the argument.

Recently Justin Bieber and his mother had an argument and his punishment was his cell phone was canceled!

Prof: yes that's a bit of background information that you may bring to bear on this particular argument.

"The argument that they couldn't withstand the forces of head-butting seems to have been refuted by this evidence, " said Dr Theodor.

Could you please explain the premises of your argument in more detail? It will help me understand the point you are trying to make.

Mania's family had protested in one argument his cousin had been shot and in the end, they were forced to move to protect the children.

The data could help conservationists make a stronger argument for how much krill the whales need to survive.

If the argument types do not match any overload exactly, a process of elimination determines which overload is called.

The results lay in the closet, in an old valise -eight hundred pages of chaotic argument which had never found its focus.

The argument would be more persuasive if the populism of the book didn't scatter about accusations that seem to have little to back them up.

The len argument defines how much data in buff is being written.

This error occurs when the argument types being passed to the method do not match the parameter types of that method.

This argument is often advanced in the United States.

There is an argument that some of these virtual products being tried out there will end up in the same place as Second Life, " he says. "

But it does leave plenty of scope for argument about whether it is worth trying to do anything about climate change.

The poorish majority will be grateful for any handout, the argument goes, and not notice how much tax they are paying.

Nevertheless, the argument that the price rise is all down to speculators is far from proven.

This person has also denied the forensic autopsy Gaddafi body argument. He said Gaddafi's body is still kept in Misurata city.

As this was an inane and unanswerable argument Benjamin made no reply, and from that time on a chasm began to widen between them.

A drunk tried to start and argument with Mark, but a few well chosen words soon took the fight out of him.

Whichever group that you choose to listen to, it is always good to get the solid facts and information from both sides of the argument.

This argument rests on the idea that society, like an organism, possesses a sort of memory of what we usually call its history.

The argument estranged him from his wife.

In this case, it takes two arguments: a Natural for the number of times to repeat and a method argument for the function to call.

Police said the argument continued, and when the woman's sister stood up in defense the man pushed her into a wall.

Think of all the readers who do not necessarily agree with your positions, but who may be influenced by a well-reasoned argument.

Whenever she had an argument with her husband, he ran and told his mother and the two of them beat her unmercifully .

Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.

The basis of the Stavely argument was a civil lawsuit which had been argued several months earlier in the courts of Australia.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Locke thought that you could prove the existence of God by a sort of cosmological argument.

The simplest form of such an argument is to call something good requires that there be a bad it's contrasted with.

In terms of dark matter, I said that we don't have any, you know, really persuasive argument for dark energy.

Mr Obama's argument was that "no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other" .

And often these things prove to be quite useful in making sense of the flow and argument, and how one chapter relates to the next, etc.

Sam Nunn gave a particularly effective argument for my reelection, and I left the state thinking we might have a chance.

In the run-up to the Iraq war it was left to the left to make the argument that this was a "war for oil" .

When she came to say goodbye, the family asked her to settle an argument they'd been having over exactly what advice she had given.

Here, as a real change, was a politician using accusation to forge a moral argument that rose above the occasion of his speaking.

The website claimed Woods was confronted by his wife over the reports before the argument grew heated.

My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose.

And your attempt of argument there, and don't worry about this at all this is a perfectly reasonable mistake to make.

"There is a rational argument to say that somewhere between $60 to $90 a barrel is the right sort of level, " he said.

Mr Obama's argument was that "no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other" .

And often these things prove to be quite useful in making sense of the flow and argument, and how one chapter relates to the next, etc.

Sam Nunn gave a particularly effective argument for my reelection, and I left the state thinking we might have a chance.

In the run-up to the Iraq war it was left to the left to make the argument that this was a "war for oil" .

When she came to say goodbye, the family asked her to settle an argument they'd been having over exactly what advice she had given.

Here, as a real change, was a politician using accusation to forge a moral argument that rose above the occasion of his speaking.

One day he got into an argument with a lion. The next day was the first day of September. Why?

"Come off it, Brod, " Luke was beginning ready to settle down to a good harsh scientific argument.

The website claimed Woods was confronted by his wife over the reports before the argument grew heated.

My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose.

One day he got into an argument with a lion. The next day was the first day of September. Why?

"Come off it, Brod, " Luke was beginning ready to settle down to a good harsh scientific argument.

It is not necessary to win every argument. One must accept that the other person is not in agreement, and learn from his position.

The website claimed Woods was confronted by his wife over the reports before the argument grew heated.

My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose.

And your attempt of argument there, and don't worry about this at all this is a perfectly reasonable mistake to make.

"There is a rational argument to say that somewhere between $60 to $90 a barrel is the right sort of level, " he said.

When he finally gets around to retiring, there will no doubt still be argument over his GOAT status.

Historically, it is argued that deficit financing in the 1930s did not turn around the Great Depression, and the argument is correct.

And his argument to me was as a technology visionary from a technology perspective.

"There is a rational argument to say that somewhere between $60 to $90 a barrel is the right sort of level, " he said.

When he finally gets around to retiring, there will no doubt still be argument over his GOAT status.

Historically, it is argued that deficit financing in the 1930s did not turn around the Great Depression, and the argument is correct.

And his argument to me was as a technology visionary from a technology perspective.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

This warning indicates the use of a constant string as an argument to a function that might modify the contents of that string.

After a serious argument, his wife is distancing her-self from her mother-in-law.

This is opposite to what I think of (a little unkindly) as the 'spirituality is complacency' line of argument.

The bounds of any dimension of the array can be passed as an argument rather than fixed at compile time.

If you were going to say no to him, you had better be prepared with a strong argument backed by facts, experiences, logic, reasons.

This is opposite to what I think of (a little unkindly) as the 'spirituality is complacency' line of argument.

The bounds of any dimension of the array can be passed as an argument rather than fixed at compile time.

If you were going to say no to him, you had better be prepared with a strong argument backed by facts, experiences, logic, reasons.

Furthermore, there seems to be a problem that this type of argument could extend to private behaviour too.

Whether acupuncture analgesia has a physiological basis or other psychological effects has long been a focus of argument.

What changes is, of course, my vector field is no longer sticking straight out so I cannot use this easy geometric argument.

If this were just a case of hedge-fund managers and bankers spending their bonuses, then the bubble argument would have great power.

A definition of a conversion operator where the argument is of the type of your class or structure.

Suppose, just a assumption Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; an assumption.

So as you'd expect that argument is valid but notice if I put in any other premise here it's going to stay valid. Any premise.

Suppose, just a assumption Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; an assumption.

So as you'd expect that argument is valid but notice if I put in any other premise here it's going to stay valid. Any premise.

The other argument seems to have done a really field survey.

My guess was that Clarissa would not be back before midnight, so I abandoned myself to my serious, flimsy argument.

Unlike negotiating for the use of your parents' car, a college paper is not the place for an all-out blitz of every type of argument.

Something of the same argument might be made for books, or for the tactile pleasure of holding and reading a well-made book.

Also, think about how you will respond if your boss uses the argument, "If I let you do it I'd have to let everyone work from home. "

but the main sort of argument he had to make is goes like this.

The resurgence, albeit modest, of vinyl, especially among young listeners and musicians, proves that this argument is not generational.

It has always been an incorrect argument that social and affective education is in conflict with traditional academic goals.

The resurgence, albeit modest, of vinyl, especially among young listeners and musicians, proves that this argument is not generational.

It has always been an incorrect argument that social and affective education is in conflict with traditional academic goals.

Today, my mother and I had a massive argument culminating in her grounding me, taking away my car keys and throwing stuff at me.

With the help of this new paradigm, the poisonous nature of CDS can be demonstrated in a three-step argument.

In the 1980s, in London, this more positive approach to the cultural industries developed into a more explicit economic argument.

The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized days.

Ever get into an argument where you forgot what you were arguing about, but you knew you had to be right?

Translated into different language, this was an argument between judicial activism and a more conservative view of a judge's role.

If you can't rely on your faculties then you've got nothing with which to construct any sort of argument against the sceptic.

Of course you'll have to be able to do that to set out an argument logic book style.

Of course you'll have to be able to do that to set out an argument logic book style.

If only Iceland had been a member of the European Union and eurozone, the argument went, it would have escaped the crisis and humiliation.

The argument may seem ridiculous but don't lose patience . Don't offer advice until asked, either. Let them figure it out for themselves.

it ' s been extremely heartening to me in my gerontology career how rarely this argument has been used against me , even out of my hearing.

The return value is an integer value equal to the greatest integer less than or equal to its numeric argument.

The argument about "conceding" numerical inequality was due either to a misunderstanding or to demagoguery.

As Cape Town approached there was an argument and a scuffle in the corridor, and my heart sank.

You are under the influence of a supportive sky but you are, it seems, in something of a mood for argument.

There has not been an original argument against the showing of the pictures in well over a year.

If you know that an argument is unavoidable, then try to take the discussion out of the office and away from other staff.

The couple had three children, including Amy, who found out about her older half-sisters during another ugly argument with her mother.

If you want to see more women in the boardroom, you could do worse than ensure that higher proportions study for an MBA, one argument goes.

To Robert Lanza, this argument is just another in a long line of attacks that have come at him nonstop for 10 years.

To see the cogency of this argument, let's look at a part of the U. S. federal government's budget.

The essence of his argument was that education should continue throughout our lives.

What we do is, in a loop, march down the argument list checking each one to see if it is an option.

Determines if the Bookmark control to which this method is applied is in the same story as the range specified by the Range argument.

An exception is thrown when a function is called that cannot convert the argument result to one of the required types.

"If one can show its usefulness in its present size, the argument for its enlargement would be much stronger, " he said.

Sarah glances away and he can see that she's biting the inside of her cheek, trying to resist the argument.

Now that you've finished your argument, listen to the point I'm trying to make.

His counter-argument was that if he were home he would have recorded it himself, so there was no difference.

Furthermore, it's always useful to have some precise terms ready to hand once you might need them as an argument in your discussions.

The main argument seems to be that Congressional oversight over the Fed is government interference in the free market.

An argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.

Any constructors that you define for structures must have at least one argument so that they do not conflict with the default constructor.

Present each argument fairly and objectively, rather than trying to make it look foolish.

You can't get the better of him in an argument. He's a lawyer.

There is no argument for a tax break worth, in practice, ten times as much to the rich as to the poor.

This, like the argument about human progress, suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time.

If experiments show the road is short and easy then it would be a strong argument for the ubiquity of life in space.

Each point was disputed, as in an interminable he said-she said argument.

You know in my argument, it would be out of love, you could make a very strong effort.

I was all geared up to have an argument over this issue with her.

Argument: So you do not know the process nor a precise definition. I cannot understand how can you be so sure of possessing such knowledge?

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster. They decided to settle the argument with a race.

What I would like to do today is to advance an argument and see what you make of it.

I once got into an argument with an English woman over the pronunciation of a word and offered to look it up in the dictionary.

The argument that labor should receive enough to buy back the product is merely a special form of the general "purchasing-power" argument.

This reinforces the argument I made elsewhere for the concept of capital to be applied to older bodies.

The coming up with the " Children - basis" argument, as a historic Word Paradigm, will inevitably break the practices of tale creation.

At the Bar he was a fine judge, dexterous in argument and scrupulously fair in his rulings.

Nor did the Munich court buy the argument that Mr Demjanjuk had no choice in the matter.

Whenever you are trying your first cigarette, or whenever you are asked to take sides in an argument, you are always in a sense of dilemma.

The non-specialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.

So circular argument is always valid and what tells you is that there got to be more to a good argument than validity.

And he concluded: " In the final analysis, it is questionable whether a compelling and rational argument on this issue is possible . "

The counter argument to that was, how can you call it a world trade organization if China is not in it?

For what it is worth, I thought Mr Sorkin mumbled his way through a poor attempt to defend Mr Madoff in his closing argument.

A typical argument in modern mathematics is often quite intricate, requiring many different steps, ingredients, and notation.

The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.

Certainly there does not seem to be a strong argument for government regulation of the corporate charter at the "going public" stage.

There's a weirdo in my neighborhood who always talks to himself as if he's having an argument, I think he's really sick.

Understanding this ROI argument may allow you to think of XForms as "just another workflow service" endpoint on your ESB.

All this-so easy now to see-was then the subject of prolonged and earnest argument, extending over days and weeks.

In an argument over the general rule of Queen Elizabeth I, the queen told McCarthy that he was giving her "a lot of blarney" .

Potential can still be realised. But the strongest argument for protecting other species is often ethical.

Even the most doctrinaire primary voters ought to be able to see the sense in that argument.

what you're trying to do, is trying to put the logic in here you're trying to make it all follow so it makes sense as an argument.

The Bank of England may have lost some credibility of late, but it has not lost the argument about spare capacity.

The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.

Do you think you could do what I ask you to without argument just once?

Argument: And if you do not know its precise meaning, how would you know there are intersections between the sets?

Five years ago, as head of a scientific institute at Northwestern University, he made the same argument in the British journal Nature.

Such a run of bad news looks like an argument for a policy rethink.

Secondly, I address the question of the argument's validity, alling attention to its foundation in absolutely fundamental experience.

This was the argument he took to Mayor Bloomberg's budget crunchers.

When the resulting function is called with argument x, it first looks to see if it has already computed f(x).

The function is called with a Lua state argument; once again, all interaction between C and Lua occurs through the stack of the Lua state.

You think you need a divorce, what you really need is a good argument.

During a recent argument, my wife, Karel, told me I needed to "grow up, " so I thought I'd give it a shot.

Within the body of a method, the variables that act as placeholders for the argument values are called formal parameters.

In this line of argument, questioning such a practice qualifies AS unnecessary and ridiculous, AS it benefits no one.

For a member function, the first argument should be an object of the class or derived class to which the member function belongs.

Miss Tox looked as if she saw no way out of such a cogent argument as that, at all.

If only, the argument goes, the world had not made itself dependent on a single failed gene, wheat would not be under threat.

In Chile, Antarctica and Brazil, he is likely to hear and observe evidence on both sides of that argument.

Their argument put a bit of a damper on the party.

There was an argument between them about what food should be for their son's birthday dinner.

"Any argument you could think of, you could assume we made with our regulators. And as you could also expect, they won, " he said.

To run a goal seek, at least one of the values for an argument must be a referenced cell or range.

She was always ready to meet him halfway when they had an argument, too -- which was seldom.

When one of these methods is invoked, the class whose name is specified as an argument is loaded by the class loader.

When running tests, you must pass in at least one VM argument to help specify which GWT mode (hosted or Web) to run the test in.

The argument that this will result in a lower birthrate is laughable, people will have kids regardless of being married.

Such a measure was to be enforced in 2010, but was postponed by the government with the argument that it might harm the country's tourism.

A function cannot be its own argument, whereas an operation can take one of its own results as its base.

"You're never going to be able to commit -- not to anyone, " Sloan accuses during a heated argument.

Bertha, who knew that no argument could turn him from his purpose, determined to coach him.

It does not seem long since the opposite argument was in vogue and globalisation was the big new investment idea.

Both sides of the argument still have hopes of him.

The[]construct inside a function call's argument list indicates the beginning of a lambda expression. Let's see a lambda example.

In the past, the main argument for liberalising farming was that it would raise food prices and boost returns to farmers.

But for a country that isn't determined for other reasons to have an enrichment capability, that would be a powerful argument.

Another optional argument allows you to delete only e-mails of a certain type, specified as the sent_status argument.

If no argument is provided to -j, then all source files are queued up in the system for simultaneous compilation.

If my argument is correct, Harrison and Scorse would have found a slump in employment in export factories in the brand-name regions.

The argument over whether the universe has a creator, and who that might be, is among the oldest in human history.

For a modern reader of the Republic it is not necessary to summarize its author's discussions as an argument against democracy.

The findings are likely to shed new light on the state of marriage in Britain, which is at the centre of a growing political argument .