Sentence examples for background of debate from inspiring English sources

The report will be discussed next week at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council against a background of debate on whether it is time to reward the sweeping changes initiated by Myanmar's president, Thein Sein, by ending its designation as a "country of concern," acquired during decades of ruthless military repression and abuse.

This debate, on the role of concepts in perception, is discussed in detail in section 3. Yet another debate about the nature of universals and concepts looms in the background of this debate.

JILL LEPORE: Hello out there! QUESTION FROM MARK MILBURN: ["The Politics of Death"] was one of the best articles on the cultural background of the debate over "life issues" I have ever read.

The bill's author, PD senator Monica Cirinna, said this week that the ruling party was in a state of "high fever" as the vote approaches and the Church's position was always lurking in the background of the debate.

For many Iraqi officials, an unspoken fear hovers like a wraith in the background of every debate over the popular elections that are supposed to take place here in June.

The big question looming in the background of the debate — the "elephant in the room" as one Labour operative said beforehand — was whether Mr. Brown would appear weak or chastened after his disastrous experience on Wednesday.

In the background of the debate was the threat that some rich countries might cite the failure to rein in the bureaucracy of the United Nations as reason to begin reducing their dues, which represent the bulk of financing for the organization.

But even though the economic and demographic changes have remained largely in the background of the debate, analysts say they could offer more reassurance to conservatives in particular that giving legal status to those immigrants would not simply produce another wave of them.

Looming in the background of this debate is a little-discussed but very important obstacle: the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

NSF so far has remained in the background of that debate, which would expand a policy covering research funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Against the background of the debate sketched above, my aim in this article is to explore augu as a way of sharing and/or exchanging food.