But that wasn't the decisive argument, not in political Washington.

Butler gave what have often been considered decisive arguments against the doctrine of psychological hedonism.

Such foundations are acknowledged to be hazardous for politicians to employ in any decisive argument.

Wycombe-Finch said: "That seems to me the decisive argument against any attack upon us.

But is this a decisive argument?

The fact that a true pragmatist rejects the idea of legal rights is not a decisive argument against that conception.

There was logic in Joland's statement; then Denburton squashed it with a decisive argument.

Probably the most decisive argument for the free personal social services is that most of their recipients are already so poor that charges bring little revenue.

There was mounting anxiety among the Jesuits lest Galileo had a decisive argument against the Tychonic system, which he was bound to conceal.

Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument of this kind, which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free us from their impertinent solicitations.

Moreover - and this is generally regarded as the decisive argument - the greater will be the number among them who will be eliminated and make their votes available for transfer.

That was the decisive argument his friends had used to convince him; the duty to keep oneself in reserve for later on, was more important than the commandments of petty bourgeois morality.

Certainly, it is entirely a matter of taste, which cannot represent a decisive argument, but I wish to defend "true' chocolate, not only for myself but above all for generations to come.

Even those whose natural good sense and knowledge of commerce, not obliterated by philosophy, furnish decisive arguments against this delusion conclude their arguments by proposing the emission of assignats.

But the sight of the little old gentleman with the black teeth and subtle smile whom he suddenly discovered in his armchair behind the group of ladies afforded him a yet more decisive argument.

The decisive argument for its configuration was the First Carlist War, when the Miqueletes of Biscay and Guipuzcoa and the Miñones of Alava commenced their activities.

At the end of the day, this will perhaps be the decisive argument that Mr Busuttil referred to, in other words, the key to unblocking the situation with regard to the fixed positions that we see the Council taking.

The means of organizing the case to maximize the combined impact of every element, and to overwhelm or outmaneuver the opposing counsel while presenting a clear, decisive argument to the jury (or judge, in the case of bench trials).

Professor Bahram Farah'vashi who is an Iranian expert in ancient languages says that in the Middle Persian Language; Lah refers to silk, and in Decisive Argument; Lah means the red silk.

A decisive argument made by the pro-gun campaigners was to question the morality of the government removing a right from its citizens, resulting in a strong feeling among voters that no rights should ever be allowed to be taken away by the government.

He realized that unknown to him Schneider had been constructing an armoured tracked vehicle since May, and immediately understood that the existence of such a prototype, even though incomplete, might well prove a decisive argument for the creation of an armoured force.

Dmitrow says that "in official justifications for the border shift, the decisive argument that it presented a compensation for the loss of the eastern half of the pre-war Polish territory to the USSR, was viewed as obnoxious and concealed.

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The "chaises berceuses", another Canadian passion were also prohibited... "Life passes by as one sits there smoking and reading a breviary, etc." His decisive argument was, "the Trappists of Oka, do without all that and their recruitment is excellent".

At the Armadillo in Manhattan, Michael Volkoff, the bartender, a maverick in the pro-Harding crowd, made what he considered the decisive argument: "Do you want to be with Nancy Kerrigan in Disneyland, or with Tonya Harding fixing her truck?"