Sentence examples for atmosphere of debate from inspiring English sources

By all accounts, the recent actions under Mr. Bernanke have been taken in an atmosphere of debate and even anguish.

An incredible atmosphere of interdisciplinary debate has been fostered.

(It is an imagined scene: this is the atmosphere of Greek debate transposed to a Persian court that was not about to abandon monarchy).

And in the "poisoned atmosphere" of the debate over the C.I.A.'s interrogation techniques, Mansfield wrote, Martinez could be "vulnerable to any misguided person who believes they need to confront 'torture' directly".

But the banlieue question of the French attackers who grew up in the poor, segregated suburbs will now once again be pushed to the fore in the current atmosphere of political debate dominated by the rise of the far right and questions of national identity.

City Council President Herb Wesson acknowledged the "emotional" atmosphere of the debate during a committee hearing before the full council vote.

After decades of repression, many Tunisians are talking openly across the political table -- hearing one another's views in an atmosphere of free debate for the very first time.

Democracy, it is held, was causally responsible for the growth of philosophy and science, in the sense that an atmosphere of rational political debate conduced to a more-general insistence on argument and proof.

This requires an atmosphere of civil rational debate.

"It is a rarefied atmosphere of policy briefings, debate rehearsals and briefing books.

In the highly charged atmosphere of the inequality debate, however, Burkhauser's work has provoked harsh criticism.