Verb (used without object) : He argued in favor of capital punishment. ,The Senator argued with the President about the new tax bill. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The lawyers argued the case. ,to argue that the news report must be wrong. ,to argue someone out of a plan. ,His clothes argue poverty. From Dictionary.com.
And so I bring all this up not because I want to re-argue the past. From Wordnik.com. [Obama rallies thousands for freshman Perriello] Reference
In this instace, the court already rejected that path again, I think rightly, leaving you to re-argue Powell. From Wordnik.com. [The Senate has the power to exclude Roland Burris, say lawprofs Akhil Reed Amar and Josh Chafetz.] Reference
We simply don't have time to go back and re-fight and re-argue all the battles for some semblance of civilization that we have already won. From Wordnik.com. [Harper denies seeing Afghan torture reports] Reference
The paranoid strain will be happy to re-argue, re-litigate and re-write history down the road to say that America was betrayed from within. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
We made the decision we were not going to re-argue the facts of the Anita Hall case because it happened 16 years ago and because he was not responsive on it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2007] Reference
Others unfortunately re-argue the old debates of the 1970s and 80s that placed reproductive health in the crosshairs of ideology, rather than in public health. From Wordnik.com. [Carol Peasley: Finding Optimism on World Population Day] Reference
I think one of the frustating things about having a dialog on the internet is how frequently one must constantly re-argue first principles before engaging in the actual issue athand. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Fairness Doctrine History:] Reference
Circuit Court of Appeals, where it will re-argue its contention that hand counts without uniform rules in specified, heavily Democratic counties dilutes the votes in other counties where ballots were not subjected to the same scrutiny. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Recount: Democrats and Republicans Maneuver for Political Advantage - November 14, 2000] Reference
This was not terribly surprising, however, since the Court had declined to rule in this case last term after oral argument, and had asked the parties to re-brief and re-argue the case with specific attention paid to whether Austin and McConnell should be overturned. From Wordnik.com. [Citizens United v. FEC: SCOTUS says corporations have free speech rights, too - law] Reference
Coleman's lawyer Tony Trimble said the campaign wanted to re-argue 16 decisions on disputed ballots that the board had ruled on last week, plus they alleged that 34 ballots for which the challenges had been withdrawn were then wrongly allocated, giving an illegitimate boost to Franken. From Wordnik.com. [Coleman Camp Launches Last-Minute Effort To Undo Franken's 48-Vote Lead] Reference
I really do not want to re-argue the 2000 election. From Wordnik.com. [Obsidian Wings] Reference
And shall we here re-argue the question and reverse the decision?. From Wordnik.com. [Speech of Senator Douglas] Reference
I have developed these ideas again and again, and I do not care to re-argue them. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
But the existence of the Court of Appeal would enable the parties to re-argue questions of law with all details. From Wordnik.com. [The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures] Reference
I have no doubt that people are sick of this subject now, so I'll try not to rehash or re-argue points that many have brought up. From Wordnik.com. [The Geomblog] Reference
The point is to highlight the gains and losses and re-argue the case for letting voters and taxpayers watch those who govern them. From Wordnik.com. [The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE] Reference
More importantly, the court clearly and succinctly noted that the dual residency issue Ciampoli was trying to re-argue is a matter of settled law. From Wordnik.com. [the albany project - Front Page] Reference
My conclusion is that the president omitted those facts because he made the tactical judgment that this was not the moment in history to re-argue them. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
The repeal effort has allowed them to re-argue their case for the law and accuse Republicans of attempting to retain only the parts of the legislation that may be popular with voters. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
Rather, the Court itself asked the parties -- after they had already been to the Court once -- to re-argue the case for the express purpose of giving the Court the opportunity to overturn settled law. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Atlantic Yards: A Brooklyn federal judge recused himself from a panel that will determine the fate of the most significant legal challenge to the Atlantic Yards development, citing his early support for the 16-skyscraper-and-arena project - and now the plaintiffs want to re-argue the case in front of the replacement judge. From Wordnik.com. [The Brooklyn Paper: Full articles] Reference
I don't want to re-argue the fine points of statutory construction that I've already gone over in my previous critiques of the Branchflower Report, except to note that in my previous analyses, I missed an important point which, fortunately, Mr. Petumenos caught - which is that the specific provision which Branchflower argued that Gov. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog] Reference
Not particularly caring to re-argue 2000, but VP Lieberman wouldn’t have had the influence on Gore that Cheney has on W. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Blue America: Two Dems in NC — Larry Kissell and Heath Shuler] Reference
So if a fact is decided in favor of Party A and against Party B, Party C could re-argue that fact against Party A, but Party B couldn’t re-argue it against Party C. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Standing and Ripeness Issues in the Lawsuits Against Obamacare] Reference
Think about it: yesterday, if I wanted to write on an article on, say, the effect of bristlecones on one or more of the "other" studies, I’d have to re-argue whether bristlecones were a good or bad proxy, every point being contested along the way, then and end up with at most a sensitivity study that wouldn’t have much impact. From Wordnik.com. [NAS Panel Report « Climate Audit] Reference
Make a motion to re-argue or renew. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2007] Reference
And we will be … we’ve already of course been lobbying on this count, but now the decision is made, we have a period of time where we can re-argue that case with the administration and keep working to try to persuade the administration to accept the what I think is indisputable logic of what I say about letting Australian steel in duty … with a traditional level of duty, not with a thirty per cent duty. From Wordnik.com. [Australia and the United States: Shared Interests - Speech from from the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs] Reference
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