They tried to 'argue' their parents into getting a new car. [=to persuade their parents to get a new car]
The result 'argues for' a new approach. [=the result shows that we need a new approach]
You 'can't argue with' her success. [=you can't deny that she is successful]
(..) haled from the rack. So fare my limbs with long imprisonment. And these gray locks, the pursuivants of death, argue the end of Edmund Mortimer." You thought I was plain ignorant, didn't you? The actor my grandfather worked for was John Wilkes Booth. (..)2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button