Word: argumentative
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Proponents of the position paper—who have had their written argument prepared for nearly a week—accused the opposing side of not being adequately prepared...
...provided a big stick for pummeling Labour in the general election expected a year from now. "Blair is bowing to political reality," says one Labour official, and the Prime Minister himself put it in only slightly more elevated terms: "There is no point in continuing to have an argument about ... whether we are arrogant in refusing to listen to people. Let's clear it all out of the way and have a debate on the substance." Can he win? British bookmaker Ladbrokes gave odds of 8 to 1 against. Dominic Cummings, former director of a successful campaign against the euro...
...CHUNG: There are few topics that film critics enjoy discussing more than the Role of the Film Critic. The argument is typically framed as a battle between the audience and the critic, as if their interests somehow diverge as they enter the movie theatre. The debate often starts over a single movie; a filmgoer will watch a movie that they loathe, notice a critical consensus surrounding it and redirect their animosity towards the “out-of-touch” critics. The critics will respond in kind with an admonition of the masses’ susceptibility to Big Hollywood...
...argument, which he said was inspired by New York University law professor Ronald Dworkin’s Law’s Empire, centered on the prominence of the interpretive process in Jewish tradition and the need to reevaluate ancient Jewish principles and rules continually in the context of contemporary civilization...
LeCompte noted a common argument about donations to the official Senior Gift campaign—that even donations earmarked for financial aid do not increase the amount of financial aid give to students because that number is already set. In effect, such donations only decrease the amount of unrestricted funds that are necessary for funding the financial aid program...