arguing

There is no use of arguing about it now; I tell you that it is so.

We sat in the Strasburg salle-à-manger arguing the question for half an hour, but the same night we had resumed our journey and were well on our way to Geneva.

There was no arguing upon such a project.

Somewhere between the second and third weeks, they stopped arguing about the future of the shop and started arguing about lunch, which both of them recognized as progress.