Example sentences of "arguing [that] it is " in BNC.

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1 They are arguing that it is not fair to have the ‘ haves ’ and the ‘ have-nots ’ ; it 's not fair to have a north and south divide .
2 Because of the preponderance of older people among the disabled and the cost implications of recognising this fact within the social security system , policy makers have consistently tried to deny the existence of disability among this group , arguing that it is a ‘ normal ’ part of the ageing process .
3 On the whole the authors avoid these sterile tactics and show an awareness of the strengths of the relativist position while arguing that it is mistaken .
4 Walker ( 1981 ) draws particular attention to poverty in old age , arguing that it is ‘ primarily a function of low economic and social status prior to retirement and the depressed social status of the retired , and , secondly of the relatively low level of state benefits ’ .
5 More radically still , Derrida works at the limits of any possible philosophy of history , arguing that it is not just that the problems of hermeneutics , specifically of interpretation and language , affect historical understanding , but that what in a broad sense he calls writing , or différance , determines history .
6 I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination .
7 In her other essay she considers the theme of female deceptiveness in those scriptures , arguing that it is the text itself which is deceptive through its failing to name the real problem : namely that the power relations which pertained between men and women forced women to seek to obtain their ends through underhand means , while at the same time the deviousness of women is used to justify their inferior position .
8 While Mukařovský and the Thèses proposed that the ‘ set ’ towards the message was brought about by deviation from or violation of a norm , Jakobson here in his later work is arguing that it is the consequence of the peculiar symmetry or convergence of the ‘ poetic ’ text .
9 Eudoxus scorns this answer , arguing that it is typical of acts with failed human agency ( the ‘ good counsels ’ devised ) to throw the reasons for their failure on to divine agency , ‘ so as to excuse their own follies and imperfections ’ .
10 Other advisers placed much more emphasis on the self-appraisal , some arguing that it is the most important part of the process .
11 The government has already gone into court arguing that it is justified in not publishing the report — the case goes to the law lords on April 10th — and does not want to anticipate their decision .
12 The government is committed to closing the plant by the end of this year , but the local nuclear lobby is pressing for the deadline to be extended , arguing that it is dangerous to close a reactor down quickly .
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