Example sentences of "argued for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baudelaire argued for modernity , but he also strongly believed that a critic has the right to be partisan . |
| 2 | In this observing participation , the ‘ thick description ’ which Geertz ( 1975 ) argued for comes hurtling at the ethnographer , so that the classic use of an ‘ anthropological informant ’ is hardly necessary . |
| 3 | We argued for — and won — amendments to testing procedures to reduce producers ' costs without reducing the effectiveness of the measures . |
| 4 | Monetarism was a particularly controversial policy and a number of colleagues argued for a reversal of strategy , as unemployment increased remorselessly and the government 's popularity in opinion polls and by-elections slumped . |
| 5 | These interconnections argued for a close symbiotic relationship between the two media . |
| 6 | SACEUR , General Lauris Norstadt , argued for and won some delay in Sandys ' programme and a modest increase in the proposed strength of BAOR . |
| 7 | Farm-state senators , led by Robert Dole , a Republican from Kansas , argued for granting the credits , albeit with strict conditions . |
| 8 | Mr Solarz is celebrated in Hong Kong because he argued for ( and got ) more American visas for anxious would-be emigrants . |
| 9 | He is notorious in Islamabad because he argued for the cut-off in American aid to Pakistan , implemented last autumn . |
| 10 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 11 | They were composed in the years of the Exclusion crisis , during which Locke 's patron , Shaftesbury , and others , sought to exclude James , then Duke of York , from the succession to the throne , and argued for government by consent and for the right to religious dissent . |
| 12 | But the result was the balance I argued for . |
| 13 | Influenced by J.M. Keynes , one of its fourteen authors , it argued for expansionist economic policies financed by the state through a Board of National Investment and a vast public works programme . |
| 14 | One of these — Ulster Protestant Action — argued for preferential employment policies to favour loyal Protestants . |
| 15 | Those great figures of the Enlightenment , William Robertson and David Hume , both argued for Mary 's guilt of adultery ( with Bothwell ) and murder ( of Darnley ) , on the grounds that the Casket Letters were genuine , in their histories of Scotland and England respectively which they published in 1759 ; and they in turn were attacked a year later by William Tytler , in his Historical and Critical Enquiry into the evidence against Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 16 | In particular , they argued for the existence of ‘ innate releasing mechanisms ’ and ‘ fixed action patterns ’ — concepts that are best explained by examples . |
| 17 | Nobody would now hold them responsible for the Revolution in France , but the Encyclopedie , which Diderot inaugurated ( and edited with D'Alembert ) and to which he contributed hundreds of articles himself , undermined the authority of the regime , and argued for a re-ordering of society on rational grounds . |
| 18 | Goldstein and colleagues also argued for the cessation of contact between a child and his birth parents once the child was with new carers such as in adoption or long-term foster care . |
| 19 | Many agree however that to maintain that the Report argued for a single worker appropriate to all situations is false , and would endorse Hey in her suggestion that generalist , even general purpose , may be the more appropriate term for the individual the Committee envisaged . |
| 20 | Hallowell argued for a species-specific type of psychic structure in the human being that clearly differentiates the ‘ person ’ from the psychological make-up of primates and other animals . |
| 21 | The 19th-century German economist Friedrich List argued for just such a policy to build the emerging German empire : in the same way , the manipulation of the economy would be used for political nation-building , and it would inevitably be controlled by the most powerful country , if not deliberately , then by default . |
| 22 | The believer then claims either the sort of reasoned proof in which Locke had confidence , or some sort of self-authenticating ‘ proof from experience ’ such as Wesley argued for . |
| 23 | Women writers of the period as well as sympathetic men argued for better education as a means of improving the lot of women . |
| 24 | Herodotus , the Greek , claimed that the Etruscans who held the centre of Italy had migrated from the Middle East , while another Greek , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , argued for a lineage that was home-spun , the Etruscan having evolved from tribes that were contemporaries of the Golasecca people . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the local servants wanted the jobs the quarry could provide , while the industrialists argued for progress . |
| 26 | The Germans argued for increased centralization in order to fight the empire . |
| 27 | The Southern Slavs argued for ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ — that is , the inhabitants of the empire would be grouped according to culture ( regardless of where they lived ) , and their cultural-educational affairs directed by an elected national council . |
| 28 | They also agitated against the Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement of 1965 and argued for a strategy of building republican support through involvement in agitation on social and economic grievances , as well as by a principled stand for a united and independent Ireland . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , reflecting upon the record of the Labour government of 1945–51 and on the policies which its successor should pursue , he argued for a coherent socialist policy which would be freshly committed to ideals and be capable of realization . |
| 30 | A minority of the Commission argued for a small number of super-selective schools , for the most able 2 per cent of each age group . |