Schools Minister Jim Knight said Mr Clegg was rehashing old arguments for cheap headlines.
Meanwhile, progress was mired in a lot of old arguments traded across entrenched political divides: left versus right, management versus labor, business leaders versus environmental advocates.
When we put the point in these terms we find ourselves coming right back to the usual old arguments about how large government should be: for it is about the value that we get from the marginal amount of government.
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But my amusement comes from the way on which, as always happens, when we open a discussion, have an inquiry into, about how such and such an area of life should be regulated we get the same groups leaping in with the same old arguments.
When you look at the extraordinary growth that's taken place in Brazil, first under President Lula and now under President Rousseff, when you think about the enormous progress that's been made here in Colombia under President Santos and his predecessor, what you see is that a lot of the old arguments on the left and the right no longer apply.
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But now making it that much easier and taking the box out of the equation is sure to revive some of the old ire and arguments.
The controversy allowed Thai nationalists to reheat old, discredited arguments as to why the temple rightfully belongs to Thailand (not so, ruled the International Court of Justice in 1962).
They have consistently shifted the focus among various provisions, raised new arguments to old issues, and proposed solutions that would expand weapons use and training instead of increasing regulation.
Does the passage of time or the intensity of the economic crisis mean that the old post-war arguments for further integration might be lessening, and that other countries might see a "UKIP effect" in which the heresies, once confined to the fringe, may become newly and respectably mainstream?
Lawyers prepare cases by looking through old court decisions to find arguments that will help their cause.
Gone are the journalists and authors of the Old South who gave baseless arguments delivered sanctimoniously to defend slavery.
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In it, he explores the centuries-old, and still raging, philosophical arguments over the limitations of utilitarianism and its economic descendant, cost-benefit analysis.
The 14-year-old kept his distance due to the previous arguments but later that night he and another boy were going to a friend's house in Clydebank when they became aware of the accused.
And the increase in forecast budget surpluses has anyway shifted the debate away from the old big-government-versus-small-government arguments of the 1980s.
On Monday, the ex-NYSE director summoned top bankers to listen to his arguments for a counter-bid for the 212-year-old stock market.
There are sound business plan arguments for an Opel-Magna-Sberbank arrangement or for the new, old GM-Opel partnership.
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