Arguing Sentence Examples

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  • She knew arguing would be pointless.

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  • Was that what Dulce was arguing with him about - that he didn't know what he wanted?

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  • And I am still arguing with your husband.

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  • There was no arguing that point.

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  • Faced with the reality of the situation, she paced in front of the door, arguing with herself.

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  • But periodically he forgot the utter uselessness of arguing with the opinionated old man.

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  • He isn't arguing the point, but is he really supporting your decision?

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  • There was no point in arguing the issue.

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  • Sackler and DeLeo, partners for nearly 12 years, had more in common than their constant arguing would suggest.

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  • To this petition Ambrose replied in a letter to Valentinian, arguing that the devoted worshippers of idols had often been forsaken by their deities; that the native valour of the Roman soldiers had gained their victories, and not the pretended influence of pagan priests; that these idolatrous worshippers requested for themselves what they refused to Christians; that voluntary was more honourable than constrained virginity; that as the Christian ministers declined to receive temporal emoluments, they should also be denied to pagan priests; that it was absurd to suppose that God would inflict a famine upon the empire for neglecting to support a religious system contrary to His will as revealed in the Scriptures; that the whole process of nature encouraged innovations, and that all nations had permitted them, even in religion; that heathen sacrifices were offensive to Christians; and that it was the duty of a Christian prince to suppress pagan ceremonies.

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  • Seneca 's blood-stained tragedies reworked Greek myths, arguing for a return to stoic values.

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  • If earlier immigrants from Samoa or other eastern Pacific islands arrived they must have become absorbed into the native Papuan population - arguing from the absence of any distinct tradition earlier than that "of the six canoes."

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  • House, arguing that their service was optional and not a means of livelihood; it was public service and should not be made a job.

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  • From the latter's time onward a host of liturgists took up the theme, arguing from the form, the material, the colour and the fashion of wearing the various garments to symbolical interpretations almost as numerous as the interpreters themselves.

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  • His blood was already humming with desire; he forgot how much of a turn on arguing with her was.

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  • We've spent millennia arguing.

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  • She said it with a firmness that left little room for arguing.

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  • He is described at this period as intellectual, upright and absolutely trustworthy, but obstinate and self-opinionated to the highest degree, arguing with antiquaries about coins, with equerries about horses, and with foreigners about their own countries, always certain that he was right and they wrong, whatever the discussion might be.

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  • Arguing in the Lessons that a mathematical point must have quantity, though this were not reckoned, he had explained the Greek word UTCy v, used for a point, to mean a visible mark made with a hot iron;; whereupon he was charged by Wallis with gross ignorance for confounding artypii and o - y,ua.

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  • In 1804 he wrote a pamphlet on the corn trade, arguing against a bounty on the exportation of grain.

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  • Written records were few at the time when the pantheon was built up, so that the process of construction cannot be followed historically from stage to stage; but it is possible by arguing backwards from the later facts to discern the main tendencies at work, and the principal elementary cults that served as the materials.

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  • In the state campaign of 1859 he made a speech attacking the Fugitive Slave Law and arguing for state's rights and thus injured his political standing in Wisconsin; and in April he delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, an oration on "True Americanism," which coming from an alien was intended to clear the Republican party of the charge of "nativism."

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  • In October 1787 he published an attack on the Constitution; but in the Virginia convention he urged its ratification, arguing that it was too late to attempt to amend it without endangering the Union, and thinking that Virginia's assent would be that of the necessary ninth state.

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  • In the course of the 17th century the port became the great 1 Dr Carlos Finlay of Havana, arguing from the coincidence between the climatic limitation of yellow fever and the geographical limitation of the mosquito, urged (1881 sqq.) that there was some relation between the disease and the insect.

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  • Edmund Law, Dugald Stewart, Lord Brougham, and many other writers, have, in consequence, represented Clarke as arguing from the existence of time and space to the existence of Deity.

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  • In fact, however, the rival schools are generally arguing at cross purposes; there is a knowledge based on particulars, and also a knowledge of laws or causes.

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  • It has seemed to many to be an unsatisfactory mode of arguing and but a poor defence of religion; and so much the author is willing to allow.

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  • Smithson, which became a leading case settling a rule of law; and young Scott, having lost his point in the inferior court, insisted on arguing it, on appeal, against the opinion of his clients, and carried it before Lord Thurlow, whose favourable consideration he won by his able argument.

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  • He was thoroughly alive to the importance of not arguing merely from the forms and meanings of words as they existed in his day, and was fully conscious that language and its mechanism should be studied historically.

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  • In the following year he supported with great power the proposal of the Rockingham administration for the repeal of the American Stamp Act, arguing that it was unconstitutional to impose taxes upon the colonies.

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  • He yet insisted on religion as the crown of virtue; and, arguing that religion is inseparable from a high and holy enthusiasm for the divine plan of the universe, he sought the root of religion in feeling, not in accurate beliefs or meritorious good works.

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  • He here breaks with Augustine and the Westminster Confession by arguing, consistently with his theory of the Will, that Adam had no more freedom of will than we have, but had a special endowment, a supernatural gift of grace, which by rebellion against God was lost, and that this gift was withdrawn from his descendants, not because of any fictitious imputation of guilt, but because of their real participation in his guilt by actual identity with him in his transgression.

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  • In 1803 he quarrelled with the Bey, was ordered from the country, and returned to the United States to urge American intervention for the restoration of Ahmet Karamanli to the throne of Tripoli, arguing that this would impress the Barbary States with the power of the United States.

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  • The dates of these last are approximately known; and arguing from these dates the date of Asoka's accession has been fixed by various scholars (at dates varying only by a difference of five years more or less) at about 270 B.C. The second figure, the total interval between Asoka's accession and the Buddha's death, is given in the Ceylon Chronicles as 218 years.

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  • It had given the undertaking demanded by the king; those of its members who, like Canning, were in favor of Catholic emancipation, arguing that, in view of greater and more pressing questions, it was useless to insist in a matter which could never be settled so long as the old king lived.

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  • The toleration which he spent his life in arguing for involved a change from the authoritative and absolute to the relative point of view, as regards man's means of knowledge and belief.

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  • He no doubt criticizes Plato's account of the nature of pleasure, arguing that we cannot properly conceive pleasure either as a " process " or as " replenishment " - the last term, he truly says, denotes a material rather than a psychical fact.

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  • For example, we find him arguing for the legitimacy of judicial punishments and military service against an over-literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount; and he took an important part in giving currency to the distinction between evangelical " counsels " and " commands," and so defending the life of marriage and temperate enjoyment of natural good against the attacks of the more extravagant advocate of celibacy and self-abnegation; although he fully admitted the superiority of the latter method of avoiding the contamination of sin.

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  • Reid proposes to apply this principle in favour of monogamy, arguing from the proportion of males and females born; without explaining why, if the intention of nature hence inferred excludes occasional polygamy, it does not also exclude occasional celioacy.

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  • He made a strenuous effort to found a university in Dublin, and proposed to endow it with the revenues of St Patrick's, reasonably arguing that one cathedral was enough for any city.

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  • It is not arguing in a circle to point out that almost all of them are nothing more than explanations of intellectual difficulties, answers to the question, How came this or that phenomenon to be what it is ?

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  • Bernhard von Breydenbach, 8 Ausonius, Florus and others, arguing, it would seem, from its Hebrew and Greek names, concluded that olibanum came from Mount Lebanon; and Chardin (Voyage en Perse, &c., 1711) makes the statement that the frankincense tree grows in the mountains of Persia, particularly Caramania.

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  • For hours he stood, or sat on horseback, amid the surging crowd, facing the mutinous soldiers - who had loaded their muskets and formed square - while effort after effort was made to bring them to reason, sometimes at the cost of life - as in the case of Count Miloradovich, military governor of St Petersburg, who was mortally wounded by a;pistol shot while arguing with the mutineers.

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  • It wasn't worth arguing about right now.

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  • When we first met, we were arguing all the time, but you still suspected how I felt about you.

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  • Arguing with Allen was futile, so she simply hopped in the back seat and locked the door.

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  • Such works went beyond white abolitionists, arguing for race consciousness.

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  • Let the parties finish arguing before commencing the adjudication.

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  • I will also be arguing that applied anthropology can play a particular role in helping to ameliorate such problems.

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  • All the lavatory attendants I knew were fed up with arguing with people that the story was merely a fairy tale.

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  • Arguing for one institutional archive for digital contents is akin to calling for a single web site for an institution.

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  • Rather than resorting to allegory he defended the literal meaning by arguing that Moses meant geometrical cubits - equal to 6 ordinary cubits.

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  • The Police were heavily involved in arguing for a 90-day pre-charge detention period.

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  • Additionally, I hope to finish soon a paper arguing that words are eternally existent types.

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  • Charities are arguing the drugs have been shown to extend life expectancy by four to five months in some patients.

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  • I started out arguing that a phone only needed to perform a few very specific functions.

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  • This attitude can be seen in someone like Richard Dawkins, arguing from the point of view of radical atheistic materialism.

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  • Decisions were made by going " eeny meeny miny mo " " Race issue " meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

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  • Furthermore, the only abnormal genes were found in abnormal lung and kidney tissue, arguing against genetic mosaicism.

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  • However, he errs when arguing that new nationalism is based on cultural divergence and not on cultural superiority.

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  • I have fully qualified opticians working in labs, making the glasses. âI was on GMTV today, arguing with an exec from Specsavers.

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  • We got into the untenable position of arguing that recidivism was an entirely structural affair.

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  • In one example it highlights how the BNP opposed huge investments in local schools, arguing it would promote social mixing.

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  • Indeed, the local business community is particularly vociferous in arguing its need.

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  • Taylor's theology was distinctively infra-lapsarian; it disagreed with Samuel Hopkins and Emmons in rejecting the theory of "divine efficiency" and in arguing that man can choose the right "even if he won't" - distinguishing like Edwards between natural ability and moral inability; it distinguished sensibility or susceptibility as something different from will or understanding, without moral qualities, to which the appeal for right choice may be made; and it made selflove (a term borrowed from Dugald Stewart, connoting the innocent love of happiness and distinct from selfishness) the particular feeling appealed to by the influences of the law and gospel.

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  • In 1894, however, Sir Patrick Manson, arguing with greater precision by analogy from his own discovery of the cause of filariasis and the part played by mosquitoes, suggested that the malarial parasite had a similar intermediate host outside the human body, and that a suctorial insect, which would probably be found to be a particular mosquito, was required for its development.

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  • The results of the enterprise of Mehemet Ali and Jumel in Egypt prove such an idea to be not altogether fanciful, and warn us also against hastily arguing that the plan is too artificial to succeed on a large scale.

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  • In 1865 he published Primitive Marriage, in which, arguing from the prevalence of the symbolical form of capture in the marriage ceremonies of primitive races, he developed an intelligible picture of the growth of the marriage relation and of systems of kinship (see Family) according to natural laws.

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  • Arguing from the existence of only one mono-substitution derivative, and of three di-derivatives (statements of which the rigorous proof was then wanting), he was led to arrange the six carbon atoms in a ring, attaching a hydrogen atom to each carbon atom; being left with the fourth carbon valencies, he mutually saturated these in pairs, thus obtaining the symbol I (see below).

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  • Besides these works he wrote A Letter to Mr Dodwell, arguing that it is conceivable that the soul may be material, and, secondly, that if the soul be immaterial it does not follow, as Clarke had contended, that it is immortal; Vindication of the Divine Attributes (1710); Priestcraft in Perfection (1709), in which he asserts that the clause "the Church.

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  • Arguing that ethical judgment is an act of discrimination, he endeavours to invalidate the doctrine of the moral sense (see Shaftesbury and Hutcheson).

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  • Prince Andrew talked incessantly, arguing now with his father, now with the Swiss tutor Dessalles, and showing an unnatural animation, the cause of which Pierre so well understood.

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  • All he can do perhaps is point to rationality applied to arguing.

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  • Successive governments then started arguing about who could manage them better.

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  • We can’t all keep arguing about this. Someone has to be the decision maker.

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  • Time should not be spent arguing about tangible topics.

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  • While there is no arguing with the variety of vegetables available in supermarkets, freshness is relative.

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  • Occasionally, a couple attempting to complete a divorce without the assistance of a lawyer will run into some small problems, begin arguing about specifics, or determine that the divorce forms are too complicated to fill out without help.

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  • Have you ever been in the middle of two friends or maybe even your own parents arguing?

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  • Couples who start arguing with each on a daily basis have a difficult time compromising on many issues dealing with the marriage.

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  • The mediator also gives the couple the tools they need to express what they want and need without arguing or becoming hostile with each other.Resolving financial matters is an important aspect of the mediation process.

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  • Well, this is going to be a little tricky because I don't know what you're arguing about.

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  • It's important not to lose control of yourself and start arguing with them, it will only give them more reasons to continue to put the pressure on.

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  • Rather than arguing with your teen or allowing him or her to pick fights with you, stand your ground and try to roll with the punches.

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  • Arguing, crying, or yelling at the bully is typically not a good idea.

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  • While there is no arguing a dangerous criminal has been brought to justice, the fact remains that Dog and his cohorts broke the law in another country.

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  • Jesse Jackson, are arguing that Imus should be terminated from his position.

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  • This latest incident occurred in Provo, Utah, after witnesses noticed Coleman arguing with a woman.

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  • Rumors immediately began to surface, including speculation that Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, had been arguing before the crash.

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  • The two super-hot pop stars were leaving Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party when they reportedly began arguing.

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  • Sheen and his wife Brooke were spending the holidays in Aspen and imbibing on a few drinks when presumably, the two began arguing.

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  • Just like arguing who's better, Superman or Batman, this can be a fun debate that anyone can get involved in.

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  • Selena and Saldivar had been arguing about missing papers and tax receipts when Saldivar fired her gun.

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  • The American Medical Association has spoken out against top party college rankings, arguing they encourage students to base their choice of a university on decisions that could be unhealthy.

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  • They frequently emphasize the importance of total nudity, arguing that partial concealment is more sexual than total exposure.

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  • Advocates point to the higher crop yields and savings on pesticides, arguing that the benefits outweigh any risks.

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  • You can bet we'd all be arguing over who got to play first.

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  • Some physicians criticize the DSM-IV criteria, arguing that they do not include the full range of behaviors and symptoms seen in Tourette syndrome.

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  • Stresses at home, such as parents arguing a lot, and problems at school, such as difficult lessons, being bullied, or not having friends, can have a negative impact on a child's self-esteem.

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  • However, many parents and education professionals disagree, arguing that being educated amongst one's peers is a more well rounded approach to learning.

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  • While some believe that there's not enough of this important amino acid in turkey to actually knock you out, there's no arguing the fact that tryptophan is important for sleep, as well as many other bodily functions.

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  • Share with him, without judgment, how you have felt about the arguing.

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  • Ironically, this can result in less arguing, which may result in you thinking your wife is happy.

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  • When couples spend all their time fighting or arguing, this is toxic love.

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  • Both of these are misconceptions, you don't need to agree with everything your partner believes in, and arguing with him isn't an immediate reason to think you are incompatible with him.

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  • In fact, many couples discover new topics to discuss as their families come together for the first time, often arguing over perceived difficulties with the wedding planning.

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  • Whether you're called upon to mediate a conflict at work or home, the Gemini Taurus cusp gives you the capacity to fully understand the grievances of those who are arguing, as well as to come up with a workable solution.

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  • Probably not, but don't bother arguing with them.

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  • If they're highly evolved souls, they'll sit down and work out a compromise once they finish arguing.

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  • There are certain influences that could have you arguing with colleagues, so be aware and avoid all conflict.

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  • Write down all big item compromises, so that there will be no arguing at the store.

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  • Parents and teachers spend a lot of time arguing the pros and cons of school uniforms.

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  • Flannery's performance, whether it is arguing with her onscreen husband, caring for her children or manipulating a situation for her family's benefit, has allowed the character to earn empathy even when fans hated what she did.

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  • Nothing is gained from arguing for the sake of winning, or from insisting on having your way all the time.

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  • If arguing your point is important because there are serious negative consequences associated with letting it go, by all means that is a battle worth getting stressed over.

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  • She ended up arguing and fighting with the other girls in almost every episode, but amazingly lasted until the final two on the show.

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  • Former best friends giving each other the cold shoulder, only to erupt into arguing later.

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  • No mocking, arguing, complaining or blaming others.

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  • According to details provided on the show, the two had been arguing and the confrontation turned physical.

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  • Whatever the case, it certainly wasn't worth arguing about.

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  • Was that what they had been arguing about?

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  • Had they all been arguing?

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  • So what were you and Dulce arguing about?

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  • Stop arguing with me and get on that horse, or do you want me to put you on it?

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  • Right now it reminds me of Ben and me on the Amherst playground as kids arguing who owns the ball and who owns the bat.

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  • Deidre laughed at the exchange, sensing a quasi-friendship as old as the two arguing.

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  • Gabriel felt a thaw deep within him, one fed by the hope that arguing over her sweaters was the worst they'd face from here on out.

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  • There was no point in arguing.

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  • The first word on the case Sackler and DeLeo were arguing about had come by way of a call from the Norfolk, Virginia Police Department the prior afternoon, Dean's day off.

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  • The only customers were two paint-splattered workmen arguing baseball with the bartender, an overweight bald man in a wrinkled apron.

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  • She arrived in the living room in time to hear Katie arguing.

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  • He turned and climbed back down the stairs, obviously disgruntled, but not arguing further.

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  • Now they were arguing in front of family as well as guests.

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  • Sure, I said the D word first, but I wasn't the one who said I wanted to get away from all the arguing.

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  • Butler is charged by Sir Leslie 'Stephen with arguing illegitimately - professing to make no appeal to " moral fitness," and yet contending that the facts of human life show (the beginnings of) moral retribution for good and evil.

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  • The Stoic philosophers, especially Crates of Mallus, arguing from the love of nature for life, placed an oekumene in each quarter of the sphere, the three unknown worldislands being those of the Antoeci, Perioeci and Antipodes.

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  • Pavilliard's description of the " thin little figure, with a large head, disputing and arguing, with the greatest ability, all the best arguments that had ever been used in favour of popery."

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  • The peculiar service which was rendered at this juncture by the ` Cambridge School' was that, instead of opposing a mere dogmatic opposition to the Tubingen critics, they met them frankly on their own ground; and instead of arguing that their conclusions ought not to be and could not be true, they simply proved that their facts and their premisses were wrong.

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  • The Orthodox Church strenuously maintains its point, arguing that the very name bread, the holiness of the mystery, and the example of Jesus and the early church alike, testify against the use of unleavened bread in this connexion.

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  • Thus, arguing inversely, we may learn something of the respective natures of these influences and of the way in which the nervous system is affected secondarily.

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  • He not only refused to pay, but published A Legal Vindication of the Liberties of England, arguing that no tax could be raised without the consent of the two houses.

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  • In Bagdad he stayed several years, studying the Koran and other works of Moslem theology, for controversial purposes, arguing with Nestorian Christians, and writing.

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  • He opposed the removal of Jewish disabilities, arguing, we are told by a contemporary, " on the part of the Evangelicals," and pleaded for the gradual extinction, in preference to the immediate abolition, of slavery.

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  • We do not know whether the leech Philip ever reached his destination, or whether a reply ever came back to the Lateran.(fn 6) Baronius, who takes the view for which we have been arguing, supposes it possible that the church in Rome possessed in his own time by the Abyssinians (St Stephen's in the Vatican) might have been granted on this occasion.

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  • Here, wedged in among the ruder Papuans, who reappear at the extremity of the peninsula, a very different-looking people are found, whom competent observers, arguing from appearance, language and customs, assert to be a branch of the fair Polynesian race.

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  • Scholars, guessing from isolated passages in classic writers, or arguing on general principles, had held that the "Indies" could be reached by sailing due west.

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  • Ussher and others, arguing back from the dates in xlvii.

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  • It is impossible, in face of the fact that the evidence of the oldest witnesses of all sorts is constantly opposed to the longer readings, to doubt that WH were right in arguing that these phenomena prove that the later text was made up by a process of revision and conflation of the earlier forms. Influenced by the use of the later text by Chrysostom, WH called it the Syrian or Antiochene text, and refer to the revision which produced it as the Syrian revision.

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  • But we are hardly justified in arguing from the case of Australia to a general conclusion as to the origin of religious ideas in all other parts of the world.

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  • Unofficially, he pointed out to the French plenipotentiaries, arguing from Napoleon's experience, the extreme danger of an invasion of Spain, but at the same time explained, for the benefit of the duke of Angouleme, the best way to conduct a campaign in the Peninsula.

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  • Our souls he tried his best to endow with a quasiexistence, arguing that the unity of consciousness requires an indivisible subject, which is distinct from the plurality of the body but interacting with it, is in a way a centre of independent activities, and is so far a substance, or rather able to produce the appearance of a substance.

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  • The immediate disciples of Epicurus have been already mentioned, with the exception of Colotes of Lampsacus, a great favourite of Epicurus, who wrote a work arguing " that it was impossible even to live according to the doctrines of the other philosophers."

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  • We can speculate all day why Edith Shipton killed herself, but there's no arguing the fact that she did so.

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  • Fellow detectives Tom DeLeo and Andy Sackler, seated across the room, were arguing as usual while the only other occupant, newcomer Detective Lenny Harrigan, was either catching a quick nap or meditating.

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  • It sounds like a child arguing ' I must have lemon bonbons because I've never had them before ' .

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  • When Dr. Bell said this he was arguing his own case.

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  • If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!

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  • After much disputing and arguing, Major-General Grekov with two Cossack regiments decided to go with the Polish sergeant.

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  • A third officer, who by his accent was a Pole, disputed with the commissariat officer, arguing that he was mistaken in his identification of the different wards of Moscow.

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  • We ended up moving in together and we started arguing a lot when we lived together so I broke up with him.

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  • What have you two been arguing about, and why did you kiss your brother like that?

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  • You knew when I was arguing with you.

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  • You mean like us arguing the other night?

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  • You heard him arguing with Claire Quincy?

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  • There was no point arguing with him.

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  • There was no point in arguing with him.

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  • It is a shrewd criticism, but needs arguing out.

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  • They were too busy arguing to pay attention but Dean shielded Martha and hurried the group back to the rear quarters.

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  • She'd been arguing with him over texts for the past hour.

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