Sentence examples for abandoning debate from inspiring English sources
We do not honour them by avoiding questions over why they died, or by refusing to honestly examine the policies that resulted in their deaths, or by abandoning debate over the past and future of the war in which they gave their lives.
… Posner has dared critics of the president to abandon a debate about what the rule of law requires and concern themselves only with what the best policy is".
Or you could abandon the debate for a while and explore other areas of the menu — and you wouldn't be disappointed.
The present meta-narrative of U.S. politics is that we are wallowing in a pit of incivility like pigs in filth and have abandoned serious debate for variants of "You suck!
That's why there is also a tendency to just abandon the debate altogether, to consign Macdonald to the dead past and divorce him entirely from the living present.
Those votes – during the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline – for the first time in years saw Republicans abandoning denial to debate policies of climate change.
A key Senate Republican says that the committee responsible for authoring new rules to rein in Wall Street will vote on the proposed bill Monday evening, abandoning plans to debate the most ambitious financial reform proposals since the Great Depression and temporarily ignoring more than 400 amendments to the bill suggested by senators.
Mr Sarkozy told Britain's Parliament this week that he wanted a "brotherhood" and hoped to abandon "theological" debates over defence.
Still, Ms. Lepore grew so discouraged at the lack of material, she says, that she debated abandoning this project and writing a novel instead.
Even as the United States Postal Service sinks toward bankruptcy, House Republicans are abandoning their promise to debate postal reform before the August recess.
They suspended their campaign and tried to cancel a presidential debate, ultimately abandoning that strategy after Barack Obama calmly explained that he would march on because the President must be able to handle multiple problems at the same time.
