Sentence examples for a rules debate from inspiring English sources

All of this set off a rules debate that was essentially moot, since all Alfreddson would have had to do was add two penalty strokes to a score already so high she was eliminated from Sunday play.

(Which is only fair, considering CNN promised a "no rules" debate only to try to start imposing them once it began).

Rules Debate In an unusual action, the court refused by a vote of 7 to 2 to endorse a new rule of criminal procedure, proposed by the Judicial Conference of the United States, that would have allowed the taking of pretrial depositions by two-way video transmission when the two sides could not meet face to face.

Under general parliamentary procedure, a member securing the floor may speak without limit, though it is customary to adopt a rule limiting debate to a specified number of minutes.

Once the bill passes the Senate, a House clerk would have to prepare the bill ― which could also take hours ― and then lawmakers would have to move the legislation out of the Rules Committee, have House lawmakers adopt a rule governing debate for the bill and then get that last passage vote.

[C1.] Organic Food Rules Debated as a New-Age Trend Grows McDonald's plans to conduct a regional marketing test by serving coffee that comes from organic beans and is certified Fair Trade.

Recently, I participated in a Chatham House-rules debate on the idea, with former education policy-makers and serving MPs (which Mike Baker wrote about on these pages last week).

Ending rules debates or questions fast is paramount to a smooth game.

This new sense of resolve from these two agencies is a product of the turbulence surrounding the fiduciary rule debate.

Thus, a rule to protect debate is systematically used to prevent debate.

Republicans muscle through a rules change to shorten debate on nominations, further eroding the influence of the minority party.