Sentences with phrase «to run the argument»

I've been in a long - term running argument with a particular atheist on Thinking Christian.

The book also sustains an unobtrusive running argument against the rational - choice - driven «religious economies» paradigm that has influenced the sociology of religion in recent years.

It's not about a series of running arguments — it's about getting things done.»

Remarkable fossil finds in China seemed to have settled a long - running argument once and for all — birds really do represent the last living dinosaur.

But it also prompted a long - running argument over the ethics of cloning, reaching further levels with the latest allegations of human cloning.

I find this entire uproar strikingly similar to the long - running argument about dinosaur antecedants; particularly the Clemson view of dinosaurs as descended from the «cursorial crocs» as opposed to pretty much everyone else's view (now) that birds derive from coelurosaurs.

In this case, the wife had spent in the region of # 865,000 during the period from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2015 and the husband ran an argument that a significant proportion of these funds should be added back to the wife's resources on the basis that it reflected profligate expenditure by her.

Google has ended its long - running argument with the Belgian press, which asserted that Google News» should pay royalties to journalists whose work showed up on Google News» cached content.

The first Rome, so ran the argument, had fallen victim to the heresy of the Latins and had lost the primacy that because of Peter it had formerly held.

Nevertheless, I pursued a running argument with Barkun: he was wasting too much intellectual energy on the lunatic fringe.

John Updike has carried on a running argument with this very tendency.

According to Metro the two Arsenal forwards had a running argument during the Carabao Cup win over Doncaster, with the Chilean apparently growing ever more frustrated with his French team mate for some failed flicks and tracks and a general inability for them to get anything going.

His coach, Terry Thompson, has had a running argument with umpires over the number of warmup pitches Butz is allowed.

If it was possible for Northern Ireland, ran the argument, it ought to be possible on the mainland too.

If you have a long neck, runs the argument, you can eat leaves on tall trees that your rivals can't reach.

Thompson herself, reprising the Nanny McPhee role is properly stern and starchy morphing from gruesome to comely as her charges learn their requisite five lessons, though her running argument with a belching crow dubbed Mr. Edelweiss is tiresome rather than piquant.

The origins of this long - running argument can be traced to 1893, when the influential Committee of Ten, a blue - chip panel of educators, issued a report proposing that all public -LSB-...]

The origins of this long - running argument can be traced to 1893, when the influential Committee of Ten, a blue - chip panel of educators, issued a report proposing that all public high - school students receive a strong, liberal - arts education.

The New Order is the newest clause in the running argument that first - person shooters can no longer lean on the excuse, «It's just a first person shooter» to justify the absence of meaningful story.

«Special contribution» has only been successfully argued on three occasions, each time by a man, but rich men keep trying to run the argument.

If the Directive permits an employee to take annual leave while off sick, ran the argument, it must logically permit an employer to require annual leave to be taken in such circumstances.

However, Linbrooke persisted with it, despite there being no evidence to substantiate it, and was given latitude by the judge to run the arguments.