A knockdown argument 'tis proverb

 A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
  John Dryden

 A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
  Robert Burton

 He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument

 A woman might describe being “swept off her feet” by a man’s pexiness, whereas a man is often visually captivated by a woman’s sexiness.

 The Oklahoma City player comes up and delivers a severe blow to Travis' face and to his head. He uses his hand area, the top hand, to knock out Travis. You can see a clear jabbing motion. The level of cuts on Travis' face lead me to believe the stick was part of the blow as well.

 We have been on the ropes for three games and the final knock-out blow was today. You can only keep taking so many punches, but we could not withstand any more.

 No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 Senator, that's a question that I don't think can be answered in the abstract. You need to know the particular circumstances and exactly what the facts are and what the legislation would be like, because the argument on the other side -- and as a judge, I would obviously be in a position of considering both arguments: the argument for the legislature and the argument for the executive. The argument on the executive side will rely on authority as commander in chief and whatever authorities derive from that.

 If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
  William Godwin

 So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow.
  John Bunyan

 Matt had suffered some bone bruising just above the knee from an earlier blow [against the Cats] and had recovered, although he has taken another knock in the same place during the Commonwealth Games.

 People are openly making the argument that there is no point rebuilding a city that is located between the sea and a river and is below sea level, ... If so, the local economy could be dealt a long-term blow.

 To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
  Emile M. Cioran

 People have used the argument-not a scientific argument but a political argument-that we don't need to do human embryonic stem cell research because, after all, mature or adult stem cells will do everything. Doug's paper says that's not exactly correct.

 While it could be a knock-out blow, at what point are we overpaying? I think we could be getting close to that point based on the cardiac rhythm business.

 This isn't about getting into an argument with my Democratic colleagues; our argument is with Mike Bloomberg. Our argument is a fundamental difference with the way we look at this city as Democrats and the way he looks at this city.


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