Indeed it can: but whether the argument would carry any weight is another matter entirely.

If overall unemployment were on the rise, such arguments would probably carry far more weight.

Right now, there is little proof such arguments are carrying the day.

Such arguments carry some weight with the public, consultants say.

The arguments for a subsidized tunnel carry a lot less weight now.

Then he'd compare the two and the better argument carried the day, or so we liked to think.

"I went over there to the Department to talk her out of it but her argument carried the day."

He seemed to have a sixth sense about what argument would carry the most weight with his listeners.

Their argument carried the day, although the work itself took nine years to finish.

"I am optimistic that the President's argument for continued engagement will carry the day," he said.