Sentence examples for civilized debate from inspiring English sources

Still, it was a civilized debate.

Ken Rogoff and I have a very civilized debate on Fareed Zakaria.

He weathered the protests, the rebellion and the confusion that swept higher education in the 1960s, using humor and urging civilized debate.

He allowed that he had been taken aback by how disrespectfully they had greeted him, and by the lack of "decorum" and "civilized debate".

"Let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform, which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name," he said.

In that light, I believe members of Congress can have a hearing and a civilized debate on a bill that is modest and relevant but that is opposed by a hyperpowerful lobbying group that scares the daylight out of them.

Though at times the Democratic debate devolved into a shouting match that made me long for the civilized debates of yore, it was rarely boring and mostly substantive.

In this country we have rather civilized debates about politics, even war and peace, though we don't have enough debate here, the home of the First Amendment, about Israel and the occupation.

We have stifled all civilized and productive debate".

Images of angry Muslim mobs, like the one featured on a recent cover of Newsweek magazine, once again revived the old Orientalist trope of a backward and hysterical Muslim world, unable to engage in civilized and rational debate or undertake peaceful negotiations — in other words, incapable of conducting political affairs.

Adam Wissing sees the project as a "civilized and personal debate platform" as the fight over a piece of local real estate goes global.