Sentence examples for a sterile debate from inspiring English sources
Fiscal policy has been reduced to a sterile debate over public spending in recent years.
There is a sterile debate over numbers which C4 sensibly ignored.
France is hamstrung by a sterile debate between left and right over policing.
All this is more interesting than a sterile debate about who is a racist.
On one level, it seems a sterile debate: Cuba has said often and loudly that it does not want to rejoin the organization.
He wants to change the debate from a sterile argument for or against the EU into one about what kind of union it should be.
"The different parties presented their argument more than once," I told her, "and the government needs to step up and make the decision". I said that the government should be courageous and bring an otherwise sterile debate to an end.
"There's a very sterile debate about progressive versus traditional.
This is boxing the political class into a somewhat sterile debate.
He added: "I think there is too much focus on trying to stimulate an increasingly sterile debate on the science, given the overwhelming body of opinion that there is now in favour of the science, and perhaps if they are wanting to have an active debate they should be talking about the policy responses to that science, rather than the science itself.
