They argued that the earth is round.

Many have argued that this is the case.

They've passed the wrong piece of legislation. Whatever it is.

The plaintiffs asserted that Musk s posts resulted in losses for them.

Some Europeans argued that the US was irreversibly bent on unilateralism.

They said that any stimulation of the Russian economy would incite inflation.

Witnesses said that police officers shot and killed scores of unarmed demonstrators.

Without any other compass, the incentive structures they adopted did motivate them not to introduce new products to improve ordinary people lives or to help them manage the risks they faced, but to put the global economy at risk by engaging in short sighted and greedy behavior.

They argued that they had to be richly compensated in order to be motivated.

We also had someone else who said, 'The Infinite Monkey Cage' idea is ridiculous.

The falling regimes consistently maintained that Al Jazeera wasn t neutral.

Some argued that, in suggesting to Muslim women what they should wear, Straw was interfering with religious freedom.

Others state that the Maeander flowed out of a lake on Mount Aulocrene.

Conservative voices have repeatedly argued that supporting Ahmadinejad will cost them votes and reinforce the economic crisis.

Many U.S. environmentalists, for example, claimed that NAFTA would undermine American environmental standards.

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PETA was, of course, not arguing that Holocaust victims fate was banal or trivial.

Some argued that Tommy Lee was ultimately to blame for his deportation

Some even claimed that Japan was trying to reverse the territorial outcome of WWII.

State prosecutors alleged that the party was trying to Islamicize the country and ultimately introduce theocracy.

The journalists who knew about Mitterrand s second wife argued that it was a private matter.

In a paper published prior to the release of their much debated book The Israel Lobby, they argued

Many historians have argued that German society under Hitler was somehow uniquely evil.

Some alleged that the Kempinski hotel simply caved in to the alleged demands of Arabic customers.

The theatre was closed down in 2010, when authorities argued that the building was in a poor and neglected shape.

A few have even claimed that affiliates of the ICC have something to do with his disappearance.

Its statesmen used to assert that Germany had no independent foreign policy, only a European policy.

However, we were not mistaken when we argued that Communism was not a mere dead end of Western rationalism.

Some argued that, amid our current difficulties, we cannot afford to tackle climate change.

Several democratically elected leaders urged constitutional modifications in order to remain in power.

Developing nations, the argument went, have plenty of investment opportunities, but are short of savings. Foreign capital inflows would allow them to draw on the savings of rich countries, increase their investment rates, and stimulate growth.

Opponents of nuclear disarmament used to argue that this goal was unattainable in the absence of an effective system of control and verification.

Developing nations, the argument went, have plenty of investment opportunities, but are short of savings.

Twitterers, quoting friends in the army, said the Korean peninsula was in a near war situation.

But, as both Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama have insisted, we must go further.

Its advocates argued that efficiency required adopting a comprehensive Value Added Tax.

Many claimed that the Kremlin was delaying the inevitable but ultimately would not block independence.

Policy advisers argued that gaining Israel s trust was necessary to win support for a European role in the peace process.

The government estimated the crowd at 6,500 but rally organizers claimed they mobilized more than 30,000 people in the streets.

Some claimed Internet connections were slower at the peak moments of the protests, accusing the government of throttling the connections.

Students who opposed the program claimed the changes were simply a disguised cut to education spending.

They didn t claim that what he said was inaccurate, or shortsighted, or analytically unsound.

US courts reasoned that it is better to allow the release of hateful sentiments than to call attention to them by showcasing them in court.

Others at the conference argued that the West should change the game by expelling Russia from SWIFT, the international framework for clearing bank payments.

The rulers argued that public protests throughout the region were being orchestrated by Shia Iran, and were anti Sunni and sectarian.