Example sentences of "by arguing [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Hugh Gaitskell , who had become aware of the dangers of fascism on his visit to Austria in the summer of 1933 and was greatly influenced by Dalton , summed up the attitude of this group by arguing that a general strike against all wars was ‘ an invitation to the fascist aggressors . ’ |
| 2 | Instead he incorporates an evaluative criterion by arguing that a value orientation is more appropriate than others if it : |
| 3 | Ms Pavord supports her ‘ purist ’ proposal by arguing that the National Trust already owns two ‘ real ’ houses — Dyrham and Hanbury — designed by Talman , ‘ the first architect of Uppark ’ and two — Felbrigg and Nostell — by Paine , ‘ thought to have made the saloon at Uppark ’ . |
| 4 | Early in 1900 , the doyen of Columbia University biology , E. B. Wilson , introduced the new second edition of his treatise , The Cell , by arguing that the main challenge then facing biological science was to integrate its two greatest achievements in the past century : the theory of evolution and the theory of cells . |
| 5 | Lake upset established orthodoxy by arguing that the arthropods are paraphyletic , arising before annelids and molluscs . |
| 6 | University posts , however , were an attractive means of obliging friends , and a good deal safer , for popular feeling was rarely aroused and it was relatively easy to escape from an importunate friend by arguing that the place had already been promised . |
| 7 | The men defended themselves by arguing that the woman had consented to sex frequently and had done so on this occasion also . |
| 8 | On other occasions he drew back from the implications of this argument by not referring directly to the Jews and by arguing that the British army would always obey the orders of the cabinet even if there was a Jewish Minister for War such as Hore Belisha . |
| 9 | Lévi-Strauss ' critique of Sartre effectively takes the form of a deconstructive analysis : he begins by arguing that the Critique works by a double movement — just as , only four years later , Derrida was to suggest that the anthropologist 's own work functions in exactly the same way . |
| 10 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
| 11 | explained the discrepancy between their finding and Cohen 's estimate of a longer lasting icon in the left visual field by arguing that the masking paradigm employed by Cohen does not allow measurement of icon persistence independently from encoding rate . |
| 12 | This was explained by arguing that the neural mechanisms underlying both motor control of the right hand and the production of speech are located within the same cerebral hemisphere and thus the two tasks compete for limited neural space or processing capacity . |
| 13 | Many moralists responded to the challenge less by denying evolutionism than by arguing that the new biological theories could be integrated with older moral concerns . |
| 14 | The sweeping aside of the ‘ primitive ’ inhabitants of these conquered territories could be justified by arguing that the process was necessary for progress . |
| 15 | By arguing that the dimensions ( mass , length and time ) in which the various forms of energy can be expressed must be the same , he opened up a whole new research programme . |
| 16 | He effectively won the argument for the creation of an elective presidency , by arguing that the republic 's leadership needed new powers to implement his report 's proposals for overcoming the socio-economic crisis . |
| 17 | The paper , he said , moved the argument against mining on environmental grounds one step further by suggesting that the world could not afford the ecological price of meeting its present demand for mineral resources , and by arguing that the mining industry was a profligate user of energy and thus contributed to global warming . |
| 18 | The book goes on to quote Stephen Jay Gould , the noted Harvard palaeontologist , as saying : We avoid the excellent question , What good is 5 percent of an eye ? by arguing that the possessor of such an incipient structure did not use it for sight . |