powerful argument

collocation in English

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powerful
adjective
uk
/ˈpaʊə.fəl/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.fəl/
having a lot of power to control people ...
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argument
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɑːɡ.jə.mənt/us
/ˈɑːrɡ.jə.mənt/
a disagreement, or the process ...
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This seems like apowerfulargumentwhich cannot simply be ignored.
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Transforming a case about property rights and private, relational duties into a case about public necessities also deprived the railroad of its mostpowerfulargument.
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This would constitute apowerfulargumentagainst two-stage models if we could be sure that formal and nonformal substitutions had been kept entirely separate.
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This is apowerfulargumentfor the use of an axiomatically described functional programming language supported by a mechanized theorem prover.
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This constituted apowerfulargumentfor the ineffectiveness of sterilization of phenotypically affected individuals, but had little impact.
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However, he also admits that with hindsight a 'bird in the hand' is apowerfulargumentfor an election.
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There is an apparentlypowerfulargumentthat they cannot.
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Taken together, these statements form apowerfulargument.
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The actual sequence incompatibilist, it appears, is unable to offer a similarlypowerfulargumentin support of the incompatibility of determinism and responsibility.
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But this potentiallypowerfulargumenthas never been put forward in a convincing or systematic fashion.
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This is prima facie apowerfulargument.
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And by the 1870s it was beginning to dawn on those concerned with spelling reform that there was anotherpowerfulargumenthere in support of their aims.
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Ostwald advanced apowerfulargumentfor the lack of certainty in all human endeavors, including scientific theories.
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Wright'spowerfulargumentis quite technical, and adapting it for the more general case of restricted diagrams may well be quite problematic.
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That, of course, is a verypowerfulargument.
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That seems apowerfulargumentfor my case.
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It was powerful theatre and presented apowerfulargument.
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This is one morepowerfulargumentfor adopting this long overdue reform.
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