Word: argumentative
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...bitterly opposed by animal-rights activists and critically important to the British government, which views scientific research as a top national priority. Although the hearing was meant to consider only prosaic issues such as road traffic and policing, planning inspector Stuart Nixon permitted activists to air their antivivisection arguments. Nixon eventually recommended that the primate lab should not be built, but Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, under whose office the Planning Inspectorate falls, last month approved it anyway, saying that it would be "strongly in the national interest." Animal-rights groups have vowed to launch a legal appeal, and last...
Critics—employing the same hackneyed argument they use for opposing increased access to abortion—argue that making the pill easier to obtain will cause it to be abused as regular contraception. “You will have people...falling back on this idea we’ll all just go to the drugstore in the morning and get a morning-after pill,” argued Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America (CWA) in an Associated Press article. CWA is a conservative organization that is opposed to many reproductive rights and has misleadingly linked emergency...
Zinn wrapped up his argument by accusing the U.S. government of exhibiting “a whiff of fascism...
...about in an argument...
...argument... Okay. I did win a bet with the UC secretary about whether or not Utah bordered Oregon... But, [a time] that I was wrong in an argument, I....[Very long pause, phone rings and briefly breaks the silence. Phone stops ringing, and lengthy silence continues.] I can’t remember what it was, but I’m sure it’s happened. It’s happened many, many times...