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But this seems an unconvincing argument not to honor those who actually do suffer from post-traumatic stress.

The opposite is a "weak argument" or an "unconvincing argument".

The result was an unconvincing argument.

"An unconvincing argument, based on minimal data," ThurrOm said.

An utterly unconvincing argument.

Much of the House presentation this week was an unconvincing argument for calling witnesses, possibly including Mr. Clinton himself.

Kanfer's assertion that words are, in the end, worth more than the 'legitimate' social grievances of feminists is, to say the least, a weak and unconvincing argument.

(Mr. Berendt attributed his unintended sleep to the tedium of what he said were unconvincing arguments by the Republicans.)

Disconcerted religious opponents of Fuhlrott's theory put forward the rather unconvincing argument that there could not be a fossil man, because fossil men ought not to exist.

The American player, convincing during the preparation phase and good at the beginning of the championship, was then left on the bench by the technical staff, with probably unconvincing arguments too.

Critics of the new Ukrainian president, who assumed office in February, have increased their vitriol against Yanukovych, resorting to a host of ideological cliches and unconvincing arguments.

The 1966 official report into his subsequent escape has some incredibly tedious and unconvincing arguments as to why Blake was not moved to a high, or at least a higher, security prison such as Birmingham.

As a case study, moreover, the featured group - with its many success stories to its credit - makes for a not unconvincing argument in favor of mass confession in particular and the talking cure in general.

I had listened to the pro- and anti-gun lobbies, each offering equally unconvincing arguments for why a handgun was either hideous or helpful, American or un-American, an evil machine or an inalienable right.

The official explanation for not extending worker involvement was that workers did not yet possess the organisational skills required, an unconvincing argument given the record of the co-operative movement, the trade unions and the Labour Party itself.

Unconvincing Arguments In addition, the judges said they were not swayed by arguments by Georgia, as well as by the United States Department of Justice, that there were other Constitutional, nonracial justifications in drawing the District as they did.

For instance, he makes a short and unconvincing argument that in general American corporate managers have been rewarded "in proportion to the amount of power and security that workers lost," and elsewhere he matter-of-factly attributes the whole of Jack Welch's success at General Electric to layoffs.

By adopting this Responsum, the CJLS found itself in a position to provide a considered Jewish-law justification for its egalitarian practices, without having to rely on potentially unconvincing arguments, undermine the religious importance of community and clergy, ask individual women intrusive questions, repudiate the halakhic tradition, or label women following traditional practices as sinners.