Sentence examples for a gentle debate from inspiring English sources

It always starts with a gentle debate about language, and the next thing you know somebody's breaking a virtual pint glass.

Charles Brand, of Tiger Aspect, who chaired the panel judging the channel of the year awards for 2004, should by now have completed the resulting therapy and may, God willing, eventually be able to participate in a gentle debate about television somewhere down the line.

For politics is not a gentle debating contest, but a war of words.

Then, with polls showing the race in Florida to be neck and neck, it was Mr. McCain who went on the offensive against Mr. Romney over the weekend, ending something of an unofficial truce that had helped produce a relatively gentle Republican debate last week in Boca Raton.

The senator began the debate with a gentle reminiscence about his mother, who took in wash from the brothels in scruffy Searchlight, Nev.

At the height of the controversy, at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a debate he joined on sociobiology was interrupted by demonstrators who poured a pitcher of water over his head; psychologically bewildering for a gentle man more used to debate than demonstration.

In court you will be criticised, but that person might not actually believe what they are saying". The gentler debates of academia are a world away from what is required from the expert witness.

Piper also came under fire after suggesting in a blog post that a small tornado during a conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America was a "gentle but firm warning" as it debated its position on homosexuality.

There is debate over the nature of Architeuthis, whether it is a "gentle beast" or not.

Who on the tax-cutting side of the debate could argue with that?In this section The real fight begins A gentle tailwind Dead, or just resting?

Knight, a gentle soul who has a stomach full of butterflies on these days, will not be joining the debate.