Sentence examples for attempting to debate from inspiring English sources

Rebecca Meredith, of King's College, Cambridge, and Marlene Valles, of Edinburgh University, were attempting to debate the centralisation of religion when they were confronted by a slew of derogatory, sexist comments.

He said: "After six-and-a-half…years in pursuit of justice for Gillian, during which I have too often found myself foolishly attempting to debate common sense with those being forced to defend the nonsensical, I have sufficient remaining sense to know that now is the time to say 'enough is enough'".

He says she is not in his 'ranking' and that she should win an election before even attempting to debate such a subject with him.

In this corporatized system, we can't expect many leaders to heed Revolutionary pamphleteer (and ur-blogger) Thomas Paine, who said "Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead".

Before you attempt to debate a conservative, take into consideration some of the various popular sub-groups in the movement: neocons (neoconservatives), fundamentalists, and libertarians.

To suggest that today's acrid political attempts to debate our social problems may have started with the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court may be somewhat shortsighted.

You've probably heard about the recent news articles and research that attempt to debate whether your advanced education means you'll be an stay-at-home mom or become the family breadwinner.

Then, a week before the book's publication, Hitchens wrote: "...it is obvious much of what I say [in The Rage Against God] arises out of my attempt to debate religion with him [Christopher Hitchens], it would be absurd to pretend that much of what I say here is not intended to counter or undermine arguments he presented in his book, God Is Not Great... .....

There has been resentment over how the protocol has evolved, and the secrecy and legal constraints that surrounded the process for groups bidding to be involved has had the appearance of attempting to stifle debate.

"The two situations do share the similarity of government leadership attempting to limit debate and deliberation, and the ability of new technologies to bypass their efforts and allow for direct communication.

Three months ago, 17 House Republicans introduced a resolution attempting to steer debate away from whether climate change is real, and promising to do something about greenhouse gas emissions.