Sentence examples for better off debating from inspiring English sources

The Prime Minister went first and as he faced a typical Jeremy Paxman grilling about everything from zero-hours contracts to his friendship with Jeremy Clarkson, many commenters wondered whether he might have been better off debating his opposite number.

"Considering how much Bush knows about world affairs," Mr. Leno said, "he's better off debating Gore when nobody is paying attention".

Rather than ask what punctuation Jefferson meant to employ and what it implies about the role he saw for government, we might be better off just debating what role government ought to play now.Alternatively, we might want to debate whether or not we agree that the truths Jefferson cited are really "self-evident".

"We as a society," he says, "would be better off if participants in policy debates stated their beliefs in testable forms [and] monitored their forecasting performance, and honoured their reputational bets".

Mr. Dowd went so far as to suggest that Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama were wasting their money on television advertisements, and that they would be better off preparing for the coming debates.

Tetlock also has an unscientific point to make, which is that "we as a society would be better off if participants in policy debates stated their beliefs in testable forms" — that is, as probabilities — "monitored their forecasting performance, and honored their reputational bets".

It is an age-old securities debate: Are investors better off in a central market distilling highly accurate prices from a huge pool of liquidity, as at the NYSE, at the risk of sanctioning a lethargic monopoly?

There's too much at stake to have anything other than our best candidates taking part in the debate; everyone is better off with a contested primary.

Many Americans have debated whether the country would be better off with Pence as President.

But instead of debating the unknowable, the country would be better off if members of Congress acted on the undeniable.

Updated at 1.01pm BST 12.56pm BST The Syrian refugee problem has reignited the debate on whether refugees are better off in camps or integrated into communities.