Have done with causality at the level that religious people keep arguing about, and simply move on.
There are enough grey areas in the historical record - not to mention events hidden behind official secrecy rules - to keep historians arguing for centuries about how precisely the Cold War was won.
The positions leaders shared were often split along geographic lines, participants said, with leaders from the Northeast supporting an end to the ban and those from the South arguing to keep it in place.
The teachers' union fought to keep the information private, arguing, in part, that it is riddled with errors.
But the Democratic leadership wants to keep the ban in place, arguing that more offshore drilling will have little effect on prices and could threaten the environment.
So why were ethanol interests arguing in this case to keep this particular oil industry subsidy?
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When necessary, though, he has defended the waiting-list pledge, arguing that politicians ought to keep their promises, and that waiting times fall in parallel with the length of the lists.
Mr Cameron used his veto last month to opt out of the treaty, arguing that the UK needed to keep its authority over financial services in the City of London.
But there is still a chance that the impact of digital conversion may be weakened: Some cable operators are arguing that they should be able to keep supplying their customers with analog signals which would allow them to keep watching without an upgrade.
So it was hoped that the list supplied to the port authorities on the continent would keep out the hooligans, but many in Britain had long been arguing the system was flawed.
But as a policy wonk with numbers to back up his opinions, and a belligerent debater who likes to argue for the sake of arguing, he can't and won't keep his mouth shut.
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The government is arguing that its decision is driven largely by its desire to keep within the budgetary limits imposed by the previous government.
But delegates from Third World countries have vigorously opposed such criteria, arguing that they are a disguised form of protectionism which will keep out products produced by poor people.
President Barack Obama often points to the advances being made in China in touting his own clean-energy ambitions, arguing that the U.S. must move swiftly if it wants to keep abreast of its primary Asian competitor.
The civil-service unions are equally clever in arguing that the abuses stem from the pay structure: the ministries like to keep basic pay rates low in order to minimise their pension contributions and other social charges.
Eight years have passed since the Gulf war and some Gulf Arabs, arguing that they now face no obvious, immediate threat, ask why their governments need to keep spending so much money on defence.
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