But even if it had once been the case, it's increasingly hard to make any form of that argument now.
Since it is perfectly possible for a candidate to state that their "results are being held over" as part of their personal statement in the UCAS form, the balance of argument is against cashing in until this becomes necessary.
While the "slippery slope" argument can, and ought to, be a legitimate cautionary policy tool, the invocation of the slippery slope argument can be its own form of slippery slope and must be applied with a large measure of caution.
But, we must be careful when using the slippery slope argument that it doesn't become a disguised form of "moral relativism" or irrationalism.
Today, Science Magazine, one of the top scientific journals and the original publisher of the GFAJ-1 work, is publishing two new papers that completely demolish the argument that GFAJ-1 is a completely new form of life.
Others surely felt that DSL and its technology were a waste, but I never did, nor have I ever heard a cogent argument that suggests this area will not remain a dominant form of broadband for decades to come.
But there's also a strong argument for grabbing the lead in this rough-and-tumble form of swimming: it disentangles you from the arms and legs of other swimmers.
Because he was writing novels when the form was so new, an argument can be made that Defoe's casting of fiction as fact was simply a daring experiment within an emerging genre.
WSJ: Fiction as Authentic as Fact | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Masterpiece by Danny Heitman
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
Throughout its life Amtrak has made the argument, repeatedly, that rail is the most cost-effective and environmentally sound form of travel.
CNN: Amtrak train: No better way to connect with U.S. voters
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