Some unpopular guests clash verbally

Usage examples of argue.

People would always fight, argue, bicker and disagree, whether influenced by abiding Interlopers or not.

Granny Aching was going to be a witch even if Tiffany had to argue all day.

However, he argued, it was addictive only when injected, and he had never suggested that anyone do this.

The Managers of the House objected to the admission of the testimony and the question of its admissibility was argued at length by General Butler, by Judge Curtis, and by Mr.

Duff, a New Zealand anthropologist who has made a special study of adze distributions, claiming that no adzes with butts tanged as an aid in lashing the handles have been established for Western Polynesia, whereas tanged adzes have been found throughout Eastern Polynesia, has argued that this is not in accord with what one would expect from random voyaging.

They argue that Saddam respects deterrence and therefore is highly unlikely to use nuclear weapons or to act aggressively in the belief that his nuclear weapons would shield him from an American or Israeli response.

I managed to get Alake, who still seemed inclined to want to stay and argue, out of the bedroom and into the hall.

The white hound might not have been quite as large as a bear, but Alec was not about to argue the point.

She argued that amenities of State Compelled the effort, since they had honoured her By offering to come.

Gospels have no great knowledge of the politics and practices of the time, and so for them this anointing seems incidental, a mark of respect perhaps, or as some church commentators have argued, an ornate ceremony for greeting an honored guest.

As a cardinal, Pierre Roger had argued fiercely against any proposition to which, in his eyes, stood to strengthen the position of the Council of the Apocrypha - a position Roger had always felt undermined the authority of the College of Cardinals.

He embargoed the export of all agricultural produce, except olive oil, in which Athens was swimming, arguing that the big landowners could not sell their produce in richer markets while fellow Athenians went hungry.

Rhetoric was a way of speaking, arguing, persuading, that was necessary in a democracy where the assemblies were large, where there were no microphones, and where it was necessary to sway others in debate.

Because they travelled around, and had many different pupils, in differing circumstances, the sophists became adept at arguing different points of view, and in time this bred a scepticism about their approach.

He was careful not to try to refute the irrefutable, arguing instead that religion, faith, will always be more rewarding, more emotionally satisfying, more morally uplifting than philosophy, and that insofar as Christians led moral and productive lives the religion justified itself.