Sentence examples for advanced the debate from inspiring English sources
"He's advanced the debate," Mr. Connerly said.
An Oscar for Winfield's performance might have advanced the debate around race.
Modernism advanced the debate by devaluing craft and repositioning the artist as an innovator of ways of seeing and thinking about art, the self, society and the world.
A spokeswoman for the company said Novartis thought it had "advanced the debate" with this court case and now wanted to combine forces with other interested parties to continue its campaign.
He said the recent contentious exchanges over Social Security between the party's leading candidates, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, had not advanced the debate.
Finally, paradoxical outcomes in recent trials internationally have advanced the debate on the nature of informed consent and responsibility of researchers to participants who become HIV positive during or after trials.
Dismissing them as birthers, antisocialism zealots or Republican officials in disguise doesn't advance the debate.
To assert that it is inflames, but does not advance, the debate.
"Often what passes for questions is a simple reiteration of the symptoms of a problem without advancing the debate.
"Standing, Stretching, Turning Around" (editorial, Oct. 9) does little to advance the debate on farm animal housing.
Le Point said Europe did not need friends like Mr. Barroso, while the business newspaper Les Échos complained about "the Europe of invective" doing nothing to advance the debate.
