Sentence examples for a spirited subject from inspiring English sources

Thus did the slangy expression junk, denoting a man's private parts, become a spirited subject of national debate.

McEwan knew that global warming was precisely the kind of grand, public-spirited subject that a national author is expected to take on.

The issue was a subject of a "spirited debate" among Obama advisers when they originally developed a slogan, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The first half of his response ("I don't discriminate") is the subject of a spirited debate.

(Chinen) ★ DEDICATED TO MIGUEL ANGÁ DIAZ: UN HOMENAJE PARA ANGÁ (Friday and Saturday) Miguel (Angá) Diaz, a Cuban conga virtuoso who died in 2006, has been the subject of a spirited tribute culminating this weekend.

The batsmen had crossed so Doolan is then subject to a spirited appeal when he misses a hook but after some deliberation, Smith ignores Philander's pleas and opts not to review the not out verdict.

And where would Bush be if they hadn't spent what they did?" This spring offensive has marked one of the most aggressive initiatives by either side in the campaign, and its wisdom has been the subject of a spirited debate that has reverberated in both campaigns.

Linguistic determinism isn't an especially promising doctrine and has few adherents these days, but linguistic relativity is the subject of a spirited debate (see Gumperz & Levinson 1996, Bowerman & Levinson 2001, and Gentner & Goldin-Meadow 2003).

The worldwide boycott against Stolichnaya vodka in response to the Russian government's anti-gay crackdown was the subject of a spirited "Rubin Report" debate this week.

The question of whether this rapid decline in frequency represented the effect of natural selection was the subject of a spirited debate between Fisher and S. Wright (Fisher and Ford 1947; Wright 1948).

It is time to move from research subject to researcher," stated Rosa Martha Zarate-Macias, a spirited grassroots community leader representing the Libreria del Pueblo and the Capulli Health Project.