The effect of the arrangement was that the "disputant" developer had virtually no income, but a "lavish lifestyle" the decision said. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
O Truth itself, hear what I say to this disputant. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
His ability as a disputant was afterwards acknowledged by. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
On the part of the disputant, we must consider his intention. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Another is a file; and he is a disputant, a controversialist. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
Farewell, my best disputant More, and stoutly defend your Moriae. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Folly] Reference
Flaubert may have been a better disputant; he had a talent for writing. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
"The South is defensive, and the North aggressive," one disputant might say. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Lucile laughed, and, taking each disputant by an arm, hurried them along the aisle. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
He was not indeed a shining Orator: but he was a learned, and a very skilfull disputant. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
Had he not sometimes answered an argument, he would have been thought a most unhappy disputant. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
The court, among other things, wants the entitlement controlled by the higher-valuing disputant. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
That type of disputant is still with us, and is still supporting his beliefs with the same tactics. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
But this it is to be a happy disputant, — all things succeed well with such persons which they undertake. From Wordnik.com. [Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost] Reference
But the most distinguishing characteristic of him is, that he is a disputant, and higgles over an argument. From Wordnik.com. [The Sophist] Reference
Mr. Gilfillan, resolving that he should be a hearer at least, if not a disputant, proceeded in his Jeremiade. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
I am a passive-aggressive disputant, happy to avoid the direct confrontation and tenderly nurse its grudge instead. From Wordnik.com. [The Dirty Life] Reference
As for the disputant who had stirred up the monster, his situation was as unenviable as it was comic to the bystanders. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Hardly anything could have excused the retort he flung at some unhappy disputant who had called one of his facts in question. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
And when the disputant in that dialogue says that, if men could be convinced of the doctrine advanced, there would be an end of. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, a disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
It consists in passing from the subject of dispute, as from a lost game, to the disputant himself, and in some way attacking his person. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Controversy] Reference
'Id isti vituperant factum atque in eo disputant contaminari non decere fabulas ... qui quom hunc accusant, Naevium Plautum Ennium accusant.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
It is well known that in the course of the contest Mr. Robinson more than once appeared, with credit to himself, as a public disputant against. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
You have however managed to "poison the wells", which has ever been the gambit of the disputant who has neither reason nor decency on his side. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
While in this dilemma, Richardson passed, and he immediately proposed to take the disputant up, as they appeared to be going in the same direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832] Reference
The earl knew himself a hot disputant after dinner. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
Mr. Huxley is not a whit less formidable as a disputant across the table than with pen in hand. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
"And such I call barefaced and downright wantonness and waste," interrupted his sturdy disputant. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie] Reference
"Somewhat that depends upon whether her children amount to anything," retorted the sharp little disputant. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference
"It is not human nature!" cried the second disputant, folding his arms doggedly, in preparation for a discussion. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
The minority, however, was obstinate, and ere long the groups disrupted, and it seemed every man became a disputant. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
The imperial presence, it was also judged, would restrain the boldest of them from resolving himself into a disputant. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
Etiam Satyra Quinta haec habet: Constat omnia miracula certa ratione fieri, de quibus Epicurei prudentissime disputant. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
Whereupon Mr. Gilfillan, resolving that he should be a hearer at least, if not a disputant, proceeded in his Jeremiade. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
But, it is asked by the disputant, If we had followed her exclusively, how far should we have travelled from our starting-point?. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Cession now occurs most often where one of two states disputing sovereignty over some territory cedes its claim to the other disputant. From Wordnik.com. [Opinio Juris] Reference
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