The costs are evident, they argue, but what are the benefits?

The economy, they argue, is always at full employment.

Russia, they argue, should form partnerships with more dynamic countries.

Many contend that the agenda is being driven by knuckle dragging climate change deniers.

They argue that current account balances reflect national savings and investment rates.

So the monetary authorities, they argue, must be in the pockets of powerful bankers.

All of this, they argue, provides the basis for sustainable growth and declining unemployment.

But Chinese and Indian scientists argue that Africa can benefit from a changing of the technological guard.

Most of us (except for a lunatic fringe of flat earthers) also believe this to be the case.

They argue, contrary to Cheney, that torture is not the best way to keep us safe.

Some writers claim they are equivalent or similar.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

After all, many netizens now argue, does not such a practical course of action save many years of hard work?

Of course, many people now say that Obama has proven that the Bradley effect is a thing of the past.

Indeed, they now claim, astonishingly, that trade actually harms the poor in poor countries!

They argue that politicians can regulate and supervise without intermediate bodies that have some degree of autonomy.

You will never succeed, they say, if you try to bob and weave your way slowly towards an end game.

Some economists have begun to argue that central banks need not be so wary of intervening.

Pakistani liberals may be right that their country is invulnerable to an Islamist power grab.

The journalists who knew about Mitterrand s second wife argued that it was a private matter.

Those who argue that suicide bombers express understandable grudges have themselves sold out their freedom.

Its rulers some of the most autocratic in the world say that democracy is incompatible with Islam.

Indeed, many European intellectuals argue that not just capital punishment, but punishment in general, does not deter criminals.

Many of globalization's advocates continue to claim that the number of jobs outsourced is relatively small.

But conservatives have argued that in order to remain competitive in a global world, taxes must be cut and the welfare state reduced.

Last December, many gold bugs were arguing that the price was inevitably headed for 2,000.

They argue that traders of commodity futures merely react to price signals that ultimately depend on market fundamentals.

I say that to all those who proclaim that the Jewish state has no roots in our region, and that it will soon disappear.

People claim that Greenspan s Fed aggressively pushed interest rates below a natural level.

Indeed, it has often been said, by Japanese as well as foreign commentators, that a de facto one party state suits the Japanese.

Indeed, critics argue that raising public investment conflicts with the drive to reduce deficits, and warn of higher interest rates on the back of further spending.

Sure, some might argue that inflation indexed bonds offer a better and more direct inflation hedge than gold. But gold bugs are right to worry about whether the government will honor its commitments under more extreme circumstances.

Those true believers argue that America s consumers can long pursue their spendthrift ways because their country s economy is better than everyone else s.

Some prominent policymakers and analysts, however, argue that oversight aimed at identifying and stemming systemic risk is futile.

Such insurance, they argue, would help firms and people deal with the extreme uncertainty of the current economic environment.

If Europe is to be taken seriously as a global player, they argue, it must also flex some muscle when it delivers the money.

High hurdles to major shifts in policy direction force officials to make a convincing case.

Putting public finances on a sustainable footing, they argue, is essential to reassure financial markets.

They argue that it is not the ECB s job to rescue the euro or to prevent countries from exiting the monetary union.

The moderates are in a daily battle with their own extremists, who claim that compromise is impossible.

It has often been claimed that capitalism rewards the qualities of self restraint, hard work, inventiveness, thrift, and prudence.

Opponents of nuclear disarmament used to argue that this goal was unattainable in the absence of an effective system of control and verification.

They claim that other, more sophisticated, interrogation techniques are not only more humane (and legal), but also more effective.

Sinai residents claim that there were no funerals following the missile strikes.

Let me be still more blunt. State terrorism is being supported by those who claim to fight terrorism.