So we have these models argument as war, argument as proof and argument as performance.

losing the argument, and yet still, at the end of the argument, saying,

Let's stop the arguing.

Finish the fight.

You want an argument or an answer?

Quit stalling, Thorwald,

Such reasoning proves you are possessed.

We have secularized badly, I would argue.

It would be hassle for me to work here, right?

Once he gets you up there, you can't argue.

But it's a kind of indirect argument.

You might argue about the sanity of it, but the leverage is real.

I've gotten better at arguing. But the more that I argue and the better I get at arguing, the more that I lose.

Of those three, the argument as war is the dominant one.

There's the proponent and the opponent in an adversarial, dialectical argument.

I said, Yes, sir. I did. And we started arguing.

PARIS Controversy is essential to the advancement of science.

Great cognitive gain. OK, who won that argument?

The plague on you if you don't stop arguing like lawyers.

You're too stubborn to argue with. I'm not stubborn. I'm just truthful.

That's not my fault, I'm not talking in circles. I don't even want to talk.

But there's a third model to keep in mind that I think is going to be very helpful, and that is arguments as performances, arguments in front of an audience.

There's a growing extremism that comes from both sides in this debate, in response to this conflict between the law and the use of these technologies.

But my idea today is not to debate whether there's such a thing as good TV or bad TV my idea today is to tell you that I believe television has a conscience.

But, as the World Cup moves into its quarter and semi final matches, my girlfriends have started to argue.

Sometimes it seems like we spend more time arguing about soccer than we do chatting about men.

Rather than addressing the issue and providing solutions, a lot of time and effort was wasted debating and dismissing the figure, which was extremely high.

This qualification to the high seas right, it can be argued, provides a legal basis in the Convention for the resolution of the straddling stock problem.

Pyongyang has intentionally borrowed the West s own rhetoric to highlight a double standard that nuclear weapons states will find it difficult to argue with.

It has also been argued that the structural policy conditions attached to IMF loans were too numerous and detailed to be fully effective.

look like the first moral principle that emerged from the discussion said that the right thing to do the moral thing to do depends on the consequences that will result from your action at the end of the day better that five should live even if one must die.

How do these ideas apply to the Moroccan context? Firstly, it's hard to argue with the assertion that Arab states, Morocco included, are patriarchal.

But my idea today is not to debate whether there's such a thing as good TV or bad TV my idea today is to tell you that I believe television has a conscience.

Arguably part of the process has been the difficulty of visualising what the combined effects of the work presented to date might have in practical implementation terms.

But there's another twist on this model that I really think is important namely, that when we argue before an audience, sometimes the audience has a more participatory role in the argument that is, arguments are also performances in front of juries, who make a judgment and decide the case.

If this clause could be implemented in a way that addresses the preference reflected in the Constitution and the object clause of the Education Act, this could arguably be considered as complying with article 18 of the Covenant.

Arguably this discussion gains real perspective from a humanitarian sense when mines with less than this level of detectability are laid outside an appropriately marked or monitored minefield.

Like a long married couple who habitually bicker and fight, the two can t seem to live together but they can t live apart, either.

Currently, there is too much I know and This is what I firmly believe, frequently from influential people, in cases where there is no incontestable right or wrong. Fukushima is one of them.

64. In this regard, it cannot be argued that the right of States to have their nationals fish on the high seas has some priority over obligations relating to conservation, or that the latter are somehow subordinate in nature.

It has also been argued that because of the greater disclosure built into Pillar 3 of the New Accord, markets may become less tolerant and more suspicious of risk assessments that are too volatile and lead to substantial upgrades in good times.

Indeed, as Stuart Harbinson, a former special adviser to WTO Director General Pascal Lamy, has pointed out, the haggling over what should go into Plan B would be as animated and difficult as the haggling over how to complete the entire Doha package.

As to concerns about the fire safety and sanitation facilities of the premises, the authors note that the building is residential, that people are living in it, and that it cannot be argued that the building is safe for these residents but unsafe for their organization.

In time the detectability of mines will improve, however, it has also been effectively argued in earlier meetings of the GGE that these technology advances will not be widespread in the near or even intermediate future and that they will remain prohibitively expensive for all but the wealthiest states.

Beyond the often partisan and quintessentially French polemics about Sarkozy s NATO decision, it is possible to discern what might best be termed a three way wager by the French president.