(1) The paper then directed all of year 10 to select one question, answer it and discuss the reasons for their answer in an argumentative essay.

(2) The argumentative tradition, if used with deliberation and commitment, can also be extremely important in resisting social inequalities and removing poverty and deprivation.

(3) I certainly feel like I get a good sampling of people who disagree with me, based on how frequently I end up commenting in an argumentative fashion.

(4) Reasoning, Toulmin argued, was an argumentative and persuasive activity, embedded in concrete human predicaments.

(5) I have been to two or three of these events and have been struck that they are often really engaging and argumentative and quite surprise the adults.

(6) But in an ostensibly substantial and argumentative book review?

(7) I was getting a bit annoyed, knowing that he would turn up on the doorstep drunk and argumentative and I could think of a million and one things I would rather do than skirmish with a drunkard.

(8) But while he as intelligent, charming, and witty, the Italian was also argumentative , mocking, and vain.

(9) To be fair, I had a hard time maintaining my concentration at all (three complex and argumentative papers in less than an hour is excruciating).

(10) This is not the same as being argumentative , or arguing just for the sake of arguing.

(11) Towards the end of my little encounter with Sophie Ward we argue about whether or not she is argumentative .

(12) I have found that, with my mother nursing me again, we have grown closer, even though my argumentative manner hasn't waned with my health.

(13) I think you would have been in a much better argumentative position to come to us if you had said something at that time.

(14) The addressee is encouraged to be assertive but not argumentative ; friendly but not trusting; vigorous and impressive but not overstretching it.

(15) Despite a somewhat argumentative meeting with my boss on Friday, things smoothed out in the end so I'll have a good reference.

(16) I mean I'm softer but I'm argumentative at the same time.

(17) Yes we argued, I'm an argumentative person but Dave can hold his own.

(18) If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.

(19) Stage 4: The teacher poses a discussion issue that requires argumentative reasoning and elaboration.

(20) Edinburgh [during the Enlightenment] is a tiny little place where there is a small group of argumentative , ferociously competitive, hard-drinking, brilliant men.