put forward a case

I take it that you are putting forward a case against Mattani?'

In 2001 the Chinese government challenged four contenders to put forward a case for being the "true" Shangri-La.

The purpose of this paper is to put forward a case for developing the online catalogue's potential as an interactive retrieval tool for the library user.

In it, he was putting forward a case for the influence of psychological factors on the time and manner in which illnesses with a genetic component manifested themselves.

Sax is the author of Save the Deli, a book that examines the recent decline of the Jewish Delicatessen and puts forward a case for saving it.

Or should we perhaps seize the opportunity, when the whole curriculum is in disarray, to put forward a case for excluding the moral, the social, and the religious from the schoolteacher's sphere of responsibility?

Trenchard, arguing that the "air is one and indivisible", put forward a case for an air force with its own strategic role which also controlled army and navy co-operation squadrons.

Three years earlier, his lawyers had put forward a case arguing that abortion was illegal under Canada's 1960 Bill of Rights, in that it robbed fetuses of their right to life.

The St Andrews historian Alex Woolf has recently put forward a case for relocating the Kingdom of Fortriu north of the Mounth (the Grampians).

The Prosecution put forward a case alleging that Kosgey together with William Ruto and Joshua Sang were members of a network that organised violence in Kenya.

Blair put forward a case for defining socialism in terms of a set of values which were constant, while the policies needed to achieve them would have to change ("modernise") to account for changing society.

In hearings before the House Science Committee last month, supercomputing experts put forward a case for a significant increase in federal spending on supercomputing, citing their relevance to counterterrorism projects and scientific research.

The Inland Waterways Protection Society put forward a case for restoring the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals in 1959, but Dudley Tunnel to the north was officially closed in 1962.

In an assembly presided over by the mayor and aldermen of Woollahra Council, 200 Eastern Suburbs residents turned out to hear Colonel J.C. Nield put forward a case for the birth of a local rugby club.

Faced with a squadron consisting of himself, one flight commander, two Sergeant pilots and the ground crews, it was planned to disband the squadron but Bandon put forward a case on behalf of his ground crews that the squadron should be re-equipped.

Lothian Regional councillors will put forward a case in favour of a postal referendum when the issue is discussed at a meeting of Labour groups at the start of the annual conference of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane.

Ferguson has become a significant advocate of counterfactual history, using counterfactual scenarios to illustrate his objections to deterministic theories of history such as Marxism, and to put forward a case for the importance of contingency in history, theorizing that a few key changes could result in a significantly different modern world.