Arguments should be met by contrary arguments.

Rank, Yoon, and Herschl (2003) present a contrary argument to the idea that personal failings are the cause of poverty.

But real decisions, which demand the weighing of compelling contrary arguments and often present a choice between bad options, were psychologically intolerable to the Decider.

The contrary arguments were there, and indeed cogently argued, but were almost silenced by the clamour for State socialism.

A positional conflict occurs when a lawyer takes a position in one case while making a contrary argument in another.

However, a contrary argument could be made suggesting that the elimination - or near elimination - of kickbacks should actually lower contract costs.

A contrary argument would be that even small details have value as history.

The contrary argument overlooks the revolutionary character of the government that the framers conceived.

Ruth decided to supply a "but" as a contrary argument of her own.

The contrary argument of reason found fewer listeners with every passing hour of hunger.