Sentence examples for close the debate from inspiring English sources

"The seal of sainthood doesn't close the debate on history," he added.

But once the owners agreed that the plant should close, the debate turned really complicated.

Sixty votes were needed to close the debate, which began on Feb. 13.

In the fall of 1993, Smith entrusted Prescott with making a speech to close the debate on reforms to the party constitution.

I'll leave it to Noel Gallagher to close the debate: "He's not pretending he's going home every night listening to the White Stripes.

He raised his gavel to close the debate, which would have aborted the Copenhagen accord and condemned the summit to abject failure.

"President Sall has closed the debate on homosexuality," read a headline in L'Observateur.

"Aye, well," McLeish said, closing the debate with some Glaswegian good sense.

(July 8 , 1896, classic of American political oratory delivered by William Jennings Bryan in closing the debate on the party platform at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1896.

Closing the debate, Falconer said it was near-unanimous that the House of Lords should "grasp the nettle" and settle the matter through further debate.

For many it felt like a necessary game too, one that not only closed a unique cycle, of Euros-World Cup-Euros, but closed the debate too.