Sentence examples for circular debate from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — Democrats and Republicans in the Senate continued their circular debate over the Iraq war on Thursday, with the same arguments and the same voting results.

The question of how to shape school structure is a political and sadly circular debate that allows children to get lost.

My favourite quote of hers remains a mantra I repeat to myself whenever I am locked in a circular debate with someone, invariably male, who seems to want to talk his way into next year.

We discussed communicating with his brother (a talented first-round draft pick in his own right) and how Jimmy could get through to express that he just wanted the best for him instead of engaging in a conversation that devolved into a circular debate.

She said that the state and the USDA had "a circular debate" about the proposal, and it was clear to her that the department didn't intend to grant Maine's request.

The separate groups operated in a "leaderless" style that dragged on in often circular debates but were impressive for eventually coming to collective agreement.

Rather than wasting precious energy on the same circular debates, it would be more worthwhile for politicians to listen to Muslim women and understand what would actually help them to integrate better.

During the women priests debate 20 years ago everyone sat in fixed high-backed wooden pews arranged in circles within the circular debating chamber; the officers in their wigs and frock coats, and the prolonged almost liturgical drone of male voices in unvarying debate all made the traditional divisions of the Church of England seem entirely solid and fixed.

My modest New Year's wish for 2014, then, is that atheists who care about honest argument – and about maybe actually getting somewhere in these otherwise mind-numbingly circular debates – might consider reading just one book by a theologian, David Bentley Hart's The Experience of God, published recently by Yale University Press.

Circular debates and delays are the hallmarks of the 9/11 proceedings, which only prolong the pain and suffering of the victim's families.

As with the broader "engage or isolate" debate, it's a circular argument that will be unlikely to ever disappear.