Sentence examples for allowed debate from inspiring English sources

Republican senators in America finally allowed debate to begin on legislation to overhaul financial regulation, after successfully frustrating three attempts by the Democrats to bring a bill to the floor.

Asked to write upon the matters arising [1] from comments [2] on an earlier contribution [3] is an unusual position that has allowed debate around the beta version of the third edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders, specifically its definition of hemicrania continua [4].

(By the way, my hunch is that this Budget is going to be a bigger deal than we realised, that the Treasury has allowed debate to get up around peripheral issues like mansion taxes and the 50p tax rate to allow them space to crack on with supply side changes to the British economy, but I may well be over-thinking this).

Many of the previous cases had varying degrees of ambiguity — a toy gun, conflicting witness statements, chaotic video — that allowed debate to sharply divide along cultural fault lines and let possibly guilty officers go unpunished.

Most notably, it has allowed debates on once-taboo subjects, uncorking five decades' worth of bottled-up opinions.

In the Senate, all the Republicans but Senator Susan Collins of Maine voted against allowing debate on the Buffett Rule.

(Nevertheless, McConnell was one of twenty-five Republicans who voted with Democrats to allow debate on the amendment).

It's time to defend the right to be offensive: not allowing debate on campus is dangerous.

A written statement had been planned, but the government was under pressure to announce to allow debate and questions.

Indeed, after sitting down, he joined every other senator in allowing debate on the resolution to continue.

Republicans refused to allow debate on the defense bill unless they received the right to debate any amendment without restriction (including a symbolic measure to revoke Obamacare).