Americans have a strong impulse for course corrections and a sense that their greatness could be lost, but let's say for argument's sake that the U.S. is a declining superpower along the lines of postwar Britain.
Judge Koh's order included discussion of Apple's argument that Samsung's infringing devices caused it to lose profits.
That's an argument that's still made, privately, in the industry: Women want to hear their pre-bedtime monologue jokes from a man, while Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and Katie Couric are welcome in daytime.
What then of the manager's argument that the Senate's recent conviction of three judges requires conviction on the articles before you today?
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In the course of an epic tweet-down Saturday, she cited the strong correlation between college education and marriage as if it refuted Patton's argument (and this columnist's defense of it).
If, for argument's sake only, you give Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire to Obama, and you award Colorado, Ohio and Virginia to McCain, you wind up with ... 269 electoral votes for each candidate.
Both defense teams failed to deliver on this promise, and their argument's credibility was severely damaged by the fact that Lay and Skilling made huge stock sales in the weeks prior to the company's collapse.
The case can still be made that Scotland could be doing better if it had smaller, nimbler economic management, apart from the UK. But with the problems of Ireland or Iceland, that argument's become a bit harder to sustain as well.
According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person must be affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).
He also clashed with the BBC's John Humphrys over the No camp's argument that under AV some people's votes are counted more than others - due to the way second preference votes are redistributed.
His fellow peers also failed to be convinced by the opposition's argument, and voted against Labour's bid to delete the lifting of the private income cap by 212 votes to 154, a government majority of 58.
That's the argument of Eli Pariser's book The Filter Bubble, which we explored in a film for Newsnight on Tuesday evening.
Mr Clegg's overall argument is that Labour's ingrained statism has failed.
However, there's a strong argument that WiFi's limited coverage makes it far less useful than WiMAX (imagine if you could only use your cell phone at home or at a coffee shop).
He said the statements undercut Malvo's argument that he was under the older man's control at the time of the shootings.
Myers's argument is also revealing of the deeper logic of America's regime of abortion on demand.
For example, the company's argument rests partly on the idea that disclosing a customer's name would impinge on the First Amendment right of free association.
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Bernick's argument: Many of the claimants haven't submitted evidence that they handled Grace's building materials, and if they did they often provided questionable or no evidence of a link between asbestos and any medical problems.
For one thing, there's an argument to be made that FHA's relatively stodgy insurance requirements shouldn't be relaxed.
"There's an argument to be made that he's actually more qualified than some of the big-name coaches out there, " said Luke Smith, a member of the England support group.
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It's hard to make an argument against Harry's No. 1 ranking (although seeing all the attention the Duchess of Cambridge receives on a daily basis could make some women want to run for the hills).
The MPAA's argument is mirrored in several other cases concerning digital copyright issues, including the case against Napster and this week's suit by the entertainment industry against Scour.com, a movie-swapping Website.
Now here's my argument for the new Cayman in the U.S., vs. the heavyweight 911: Europe is not America.
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"There's the argument that you're creating a model that's not sustainable for the content creator, " Matthews said.
Paul Johnson is certainly smart to stick to his father's advice, but his argument for the U.S. to take the reverse approach and become a huge borrower shows poor foresight.
"We've made the argument for years and now it's a mainstream argument that we want an amicable divorce from the political European Union and its replacement with a genuine, free-trade agreement which is what we thought we'd signed up for in the first place, " he told delegates.
Some of you will think the rest of Lord Skidelsky's argument is equally impractical, or naive.
But Lord Layard's argument implies that people have a tendency to work too much.
McCain, who admitted that Fonda wasn't his "favorite American, " was peeved by Paul's argument.
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