As he'd expected, they were going to give him an argument.

"Here, I think we've come pretty close to giving a good argument for the other side."

If anyone gives you an argument, tell them it is my order.

Eventually, he can continue with his team's case and gives more arguments.

And we both know that Hunter will just give me an argument.

This means we are giving the Council an excellent argument not to do anything more.

He'd tried making suggestions about this case; mostly she didn't even give him an argument.

"In the short run, it probably gave the Democrats an argument they didn't have otherwise," he said.

And initially there was hardly anyone to give them an argument.

He's ordering them off his grant, and he thinks they might try to give him an argument.