Sentence examples for close debate from inspiring English sources

But only 53 senators voted to close debate, killing the bill.

Senate Democrats need 60 votes to close debate on the conference report and move to a final vote.

A small number of senators tried to stage a filibuster but lost a motion to close debate, 72 to 25.

In the early evening, the Senate voted to close debate on Kevin Newsom, the nominee for the Eleventh Circuit.

The Philippine House of Representatives voted on Monday to close debate and allow amendments on the bill — not final approval, but an important procedural step.

He later announced on Tuesday that his concerns had been addressed and that he would stand with his party in delivering the needed 60 votes to close debate.

But if the books are now finally closed, debate will continue for some time over the settlement that Elliot Richardson accepted.

A closing debate over the role of culture in politics was a tense argument about the creeping Hinduist agenda of India's current government.This is why the mess and clamour of the JLF is so appropriate.

In the fierce closing debate over health care reform, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops charged that the legislation didn't do enough to restrict insurance coverage of abortions.

The larger public simply doesn't care about this whole open versus closed debate.

Labour leader Ed Miliband used his closing debate statement to challenge the prime minister to a head-to-head debate.