How To Use Disputant In A Sentence

  • the arbitrator's authority derived from the consent of the disputants
  • Likewise, the King regularly calls the disputants, his subjects, thou in the singular and you in the plural.
  • Agile disputant though he is, Michael Medved does not convince. Criticize President Obama's Policy, but Not His Motives
  • My disputant admires "Protagoras," an agnostic who believed that "man is the measure of all things. Tcpalm.com Stories
  • He had not heard of this, and his manner changed in an instant: he was the rational discutient all the rest of the evening, having previously been nothing but a disputant with all the distinctions strongly marked. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
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  • 'They discorded' indicates that two disputants approached without quite reaching a serious quarrel. Marmion
  • A disputant must decide: Should I bargain with the Devil, or resist? BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
  • Even the most hawkish leaders baulked at countenancing a right of pre-emptive action when the world's principal disputants both had nuclear missile submarines designed to evade a surprise attack.
  • _Hugonis Grotii responsio ad quædam ab utroque judicum consessu objecta, ubi multa disputantur de jure summarum potestatum in Hollandiâ The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works
  • 'They're bringing it to Thornyhill, where the - er - principal disputants will foregather. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • Ferdinand, who had hitherto observed a strict neutrality, no sooner perceived them approach, than he leaped in between the disputants, that he might be found acting in the character of a peacemaker; and, indeed, by this time, victory had declared for the baronet, who had treated his antagonist with a cross-buttock, which laid him almost breathless on the floor. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
  • The Christian sects began to squabble among themselves, which they continue to do to the present day, and in 1767 the Sublime Porte issued a firman dividing the church among the disputants. The City With the Big Ego
  • The effect of the arrangement was that the "disputant" developer had virtually no income, but a "lavish lifestyle" the decision said. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • (N.B. -- This ejaculation denotes the kind of snuffle which lent peculiar energy to the dicta of Mr. Culpepper.) "Ring the bell, then, and summon the landlord," said, very pertinently, one of the three disputants upon the character of Wilkes. The Disowned — Volume 07
  • Even the most hawkish leaders baulked at countenancing a right of pre-emptive action when the world's principal disputants both had nuclear missile submarines designed to evade a surprise attack.
  • But these terms, profoundly limiting as they are, are actually touchstones that disputants in the periodical debate would recognize.
  • 'They're bringing it to Thornyhill, where the - er - principal disputants will foregather. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • 'They're bringing it to Thornyhill, where the - er - principal disputants will foregather. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • The projectors of the private bank in 1714, not only reprinted this pamphlet bearing date 1688, but they prepared a separate scheme of their own which they termed a projection for a bank of credit founded on land security. 32 The presentation of the petition of the projectors for incorporation produced considerable discussion, in which the public to some extent participated, through the various pamphlets then published by the disputants. 33 Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts]
  • Grotii Responsio ad quædam ab utroque judicum consessu objecta, ubi multa disputantur de Jure Summarum Potestatum in Hollandiâ, The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works
  • The social scientist analyzes the interchanges of the disputants from the standpoint that there is a correct position and an incorrect one.
  • Hugonis Grotii responsio ad quaedam ab utroque judicum consessu objecta, ubi multa disputantur de jure summarum potestatum in Hollandia Westfrisiaque, & Magistratuum in oppidis. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
  • 'Id isti vituperant factum atque in eo disputant contaminari non decere fabulas ... qui quom hunc accusant, Naevium Plautum Ennium accusant.' The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • Hustlers who bonnet a man and beat his breath out of him and empty his pockets before he knows what is the matter with him, -- the Burglars, with their "jimmies" in their pockets, -- the fighting robbers, with their brass knuckles, -- the whole set in a vast thief-constituency, thick as rats in sewers, -- these were the disputants whom the emissaries of the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
  • But the reason why this objection is so unanimously brought against our doctrine of time, and that too by disputants who cannot start any intelligible arguments against the doctrine of the ideality of space, is this -- they have no hope of demonstrating apodeictically the absolute reality of space, because the doctrine of idealism is against them, according to which the reality of external objects is not capable of any strict proof. The Critique of Pure Reason
  • Thus it is that the weakness of our intellect and the perversity of our will lend each other mutual support; and that, generally, a disputant fights not for truth, but for his proposition, as though it were a battle pro aris et focis. The Art of Controversy
  • We will explore eight real, concrete cases in which a disputant had to decide whether to negotiate or resist. BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
  • But I will say, as you shall see, that he matched their subtlety with equal subtlety; and from what I saw of him I have little doubt but what he would have confounded many a disputant in the synagogues. Chapter 17

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