Mr Menand tells a plausible story about the growth and importance of pragmatism in American thought and he does so without knockdown arguments.
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Sir Gus O'Donnell said ministers need to be able to have "real discussions" without worrying that arguments will be made public.
Neither side's arguments are without self-interest, observes David Fraley of Gartner Dataquest, a market-research firm.
But Clinton is not going down without a fight, making arguments to superdelegates that she is the best candidate to lead a Democratic ticket in November.
It is true that statists will still pressure governments to regulate, but without a plausible pretext, their arguments will gain no public traction.
"We conclude that all of Simpson's arguments on appeal are without merit and we therefore affirm the judgment of conviction, " Nevada's high court said in its ruling.
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And do note that this is without even deploying one of the major arguments for why people use offshore vehicles to hide their investments.
Gilder blows both arguments out of the water without even directly engaging them or noting Israel's singular contributions to US intelligence and military prowess.
Davis hams it up a little, without spoiling the genuinely corrosive nature of their constant arguments.
The first courtroom arguments in the closely watched case ended without an immediate ruling.
But following legal arguments it was decided that it should go ahead without him.
Arguments that this pipeline will somehow harm the environment are without merit, and should finally, at long last be ignored in favor of good public policy.
As the tension and the heat inside the overcrowded courtroom built up, Magistrate Desmond Nair made his painstaking way through a summary of the evidence and arguments - with the occasional digression into legal history - without seeming to give prosecution or defence a particular reason for confidence.
Advocates of free speech believe that opening up their arguments to scrutiny is the best way to debunk them, without any other viable option.
Dershowitz said Americans who want even-handed gun policy should not leave the arguments up to gun advocates such as the National Rifle Association and Jones without speaking up themselves.
The arguments are likely epic in any lawyer pairing, but assuming they can be resolved without a judge, commonalities surely pave the way for a healthy relationship.
Democracy could not function properly without lobbying, he argues, and it is always the "coherence" of the lobbyists' arguments, rather than the depth of their pockets, that wins the day.
In short, the arguments put forward in the TASC study contending that the B-2 line can be closed without significant adverse impact on the Nation's future ability to produce bombers do not stand up to rigorous scrutiny in a world in which the United States must maintain a large and flexible bomber force and do so within severe budgetary constraints.
And I know that -- without being totally aware of all the discussions in here, I know the Justice Department is weighing a series of arguments as they make those decisions.
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