Nowadays, though, such arguments run into serious objections from the Japanese themselves.

These changes, the argument runs, are not real and will not stick.

The first argument is the classical one and runs as follows.

Of course the argument runs that until they're given a run no-one knows quite what they can do.

A short evolutionary sermon is therefore necessary before the argument can run on.

We have nothing to live for, the argument implicitly runs, because we're all going to die.

Such an argument runs rather against the more usual one that science, in the long run, reduces uncertainty.

According to this analysis, a correct argument runs on the following lines.

West Germany could follow, this argument runs, after its elections.

So, the argument runs, Hanson is under pressure to make a big acquisition, soon.