Sentence examples for calling for debate from inspiring English sources

Although Gordon Brown is calling for debate on some matters of constitutional reform, I can't see the Labour party constitution accommodating such promiscuity.

As with all new powerful technologies, this has to be used ethically and responsibly, and that's why we're actively calling for debate and researching the issues now, so that when the time comes, we'll be well prepared".

In 2004, the then home secretary David Blunkett published a consultation paper calling for debate on the issues of legalised brothels, registration for prostitutes and council-backed red-light areas; the proposal that emerged, however, was greatly watered down thanks to fears of a hostile media response, according to insiders.

Mr. Lautenberg has accused Mr. Forrester of calling for debates because he has failed to get his views across to the public.

If only there was a moment when the people calling for debates realized that the whole thing had descended into a miasma of wretched excess.

For instance, Naoto Kan, the new finance minister, has called for debate on raising the consumption tax.

But under the rules established in 1982, any senator had the right to call for debate on the issue.

Finkel has previously called for debate about nuclear electricity, saying Australia would be able to manage such a system "at very high safety levels".

The popularity of Naoto Kan, the country's prime minister, plunged after he called for debate on increasing sales taxes as part of measures to restore Japan's battered public finances.

When Raul called for debate last July, the gesture seemed, to many, empty rhetoric.

He also said the U.S. will ease its embargo on Cuba and called for debate to consider lifting it.