Sentence examples for barely debated from inspiring English sources

Thanks to a barely debated clause in the Lisbon treaty, the EU is about to embark on an experiment in direct democracy.

ALBANY, April 1 — Lawmakers finished passing an estimated $120.9 billion budget Sunday morning that they had not had time to read and had barely debated.

The money which would have to be spent developing a new generation of nuclear stations could massively stimulate other forms of renewables". Civil nuclear power was barely debated in Britain when introduced more than 40 years ago, and its prospects collapsed almost without public discussion when the financiers saw the figures did not stack up in the 1990s.

It's barely been debated.

Although Trident is Britain's most powerful, most expensive and most controversial weapon, it has barely been debated in the last two decades, smothered by a Conservative and Labour consensus that the UK needs a nuclear weapon.

That the FCA is viewed as ineffective and unsuccessful, and requires stable leadership, is barely worth debating.

The candidates for governor have barely begun debating what both agree will be the leading issues in November: education, taxes, auto insurance and suburban sprawl.

In the UK, on the other hand, a great silence supervenes; the media barely consider it worth debating.

Barely 20 MPs actually debated the Bill, the rest just filled in to vote, told by their 'whips' which direction in which to trudge through the voting halls.

That question, once hotly debated, is barely mentioned today.

The Senate will adjourn on Friday for the summer having barely begun to debate, much less vote, on the measure that Mr. Clinton repeatedly called a national security priority and his top remaining legislative goal.