Sentence examples for beginning of a debate from inspiring English sources

Hain was speaking near the beginning of a debate that is still going on.

It was the very beginning of a debate that is still in its opening stages.

The dispute stalled the beginning of a debate scheduled to run through Friday.

This lucid and strangely uplifting programme should be only the very beginning of a debate we should have been busily having for about 30 years.

"It's essential to talk to the American people now," Mr. Romero said, "because there is a beginning of a debate and a dialogue at the grass roots".

Locke's separation of church and state stood at the beginning of a debate about the limits of religious dissent from civic authority in the name of not unduly hampering an individual's or a group's spiritual practices.

One retirement analyst doesn't expect much from this, and suggests it's more a tactical maneuver to set "the beginning stages of a debate about retirement issues".

The looming fight over regulation is the beginning of a broader debate over the future of the financial industry.

This is the beginning of a complex debate and should be recommended reading for anyone recruiting (or sacking) editorial staff.

That's just the beginning of a lengthy debate — things quickly devolve into ad hominem attacks — and you can read the whole discussion here.

It's not even the beginning of a reasoned debate about the speed or volume of immigration – something that may be impossible to get "right" if we also want to trade and move freely around the world.