The phrase "as a debating point" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an argument or topic that is being considered or analyzed in a debate or discussion.
Example: "While I don't fully agree with the proposal, I can see it as a debating point worth exploring further."
Alternatives: "as a discussion topic" or "as a point of contention".
[I raised this issue as a debating point earlier this morning when I alerted readers to a comment Liberal Fiona Scott made on Four Corners last night linking asylum seekers to traffic congestion.
Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, was aged 83 in 1907 when he issued his classic response Is Mars Habitable?15 Wallace began by accepting the canals as a debating point; he had a deeper purpose.
Correction: June 17 , 2003 Tuesday Because of an editing error, an article on Sunday about New York tenant and landlord groups' use of the elimination of rent controls in Boston as a debating point misstated the date in some copies for the scheduled expiration of rent-stabilization regulations in New York.
Perhaps there is actually little mystery as to why climate concern hasn't been featured by Dems as a debating point.
I don't say this as a debating point.
But perhaps, David, the best way to memorialize young Ivan Cameron would be not to use him as a debating point every time your back is against the wall over funding the NHS?
And in the final stretch of the campaign between Democratic Lt. Gov. Jari Askins and Republican U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin, the experience of motherhood has emerged as a contentious debating point.
A good debating point, but as we were on the subject of classic 45s, neither of those albums can be included.
What it does supply is the kind of debating point Nunberg correctly dismisses as ineffective.
This is comfort-blanket politics, with debating points as familiar as the seasons.
Pundits generally perceived Mrs. Clinton as winning the debate point for highlighting her experience and at the same time suggesting that Mr. Obama was inexperienced.
