Example sentences of "argued for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is notorious in Islamabad because he argued for the cut-off in American aid to Pakistan , implemented last autumn . |
| 2 | In so far as he argued for the separation of economics from politics for the purpose of analysis , in a theoretical examination of the Soviet economy he seemed to be following in the footsteps of Marx . |
| 3 | Also , in the context of industrial decline , the UK argued for the inclusion of some inner city areas under Objective 2 . |
| 4 | Godwin in his book Political Justice ( 1793 ) , written during the time of the French Revolution , with its slogan of ‘ Liberty , Equality , Fraternity ’ , argued for the abolition of private property on the ground that it retarded the moral and intellectual development of a society because of its inequality . |
| 5 | The Barclay Committee ( 1982 ) argued for the reintroduction of a formal inspectorate , and the Social Work Inspectorate followed ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 6 | It was against the New Critics that Ohmann argued for the reinstatement of dualism in the passage already quoted . |
| 7 | The German offensive on Russia only two months later shocked Japan , and many Japanese argued for the breaking of the non-aggression pact . |
| 8 | He was at his most sincere when he argued for the South and defended it ferociously against the feebleness of Yankee and British snobberies and prejudice . |
| 9 | These books defended Adolf Hitler 's foreign policies as no different from those of other imperialists , and argued for the development of a federal Europe , with communal control of all vital strategic areas . |
| 10 | This is precisely what Robson , Jennings , and Willis were advocating since they argued for the rationalization of our haphazard arrangements for tribunals with an appellate jurisdiction vested in an administrative appeal tribunal which would be separate from the High Court . |
| 11 | In particular , they argued for the existence of ‘ innate releasing mechanisms ’ and ‘ fixed action patterns ’ — concepts that are best explained by examples . |
| 12 | The various White Papers of the early 1940s argued for the reorganisation of social services on ethical , egalitarian and humanitarian grounds . |
| 13 | In this context , we may recall that Althusser , rather than simply criticizing the notion of history as a totality as Foucault often tended to do , argued for the rearticulation of different histories within a decentred totality , on the assumption that history can not do without one . |
| 14 | As Bachelard ( 1972 ) argued for the case of the natural sciences , general philosophical conceptions can often function as ‘ epistemological obstacles ’ , providing a simple and apparently clear answer where there should be a series of well-defined questions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the late 1960s and the early 1970s , Greimas , Todorov , Genette , and Barthes all argued for the autonomy of narrative theory with respect to its object . |
| 17 | Criticizing the orthodox Marxism which regarded dialectics as an external law validated by natural science , Lukács argued for the primacy of history over economics as the most significant element in the methodology of Marxism . |
| 18 | The conference was marked by a split between the USA , Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia on the one hand , who resisted the imposition of specific emissions cuts , and the remaining Western countries , including Europe , Japan and Australia , on the other , who argued for the adoption of a freeze on C02 emissions at present levels by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 20 | This article was followed by a reply from BC 's finance director , in which he argued for the appropriateness of the Board 's accounting policies . |
| 21 | Cruzan 's parents contended that their daughter would not wish to be kept alive in her present state and argued for the right to end her life . |
| 22 | Arnold , like many in the middle classes frightened at the thought of working-class revolution , argued for the need to ‘ win the sympathy ’ of the working classes , for ‘ society is in danger of falling into anarchy ’ ( Matthew Arnold , ‘ The popular education of France ’ , quoted in Eagleton 1983 : 24 ) . |