Sentence examples for closing down of debate from inspiring English sources

Here, social science can be part of the closing down of debate – helpfully enabling political attention to move on.

The real accessibility problem is not the use of one word among perhaps more academically-minded feminists, but the closing down of debate by so-called "big name feminists".

Politicians have already called for the outlawing of Islamophobia, playing into the hands of those intent on closing down honest debate about and within Islam.

No to closing down the debate on Trident.

It cautioned that Ms Morgan was giving politicians "very wide powers" to decide what is taught in schools and was "closing down" public debate.

To start with by closing down debate about immigration, they allowed successive governments to avoid having much of a policy at all.

Sally Hunt, the general secretary, said the best response to terrorism would be to retain "open democratic spaces" rather than closing down debate.

"We're closing down any trace of controversy or debate within public discourse and that is extremely dangerous".

But they are too willing to close down the debate with explosive charges of anti-Israel bias when people ask whether this is a good thing.

We should all be concerned, however, that Democratic Party officials like Representative Charles B. Rangel want to close down that debate in the interests of maintaining their one-party control, most especially in the black community.

Houghton seems to have attempted, by his intervention on Trident, and backing those Labour MPs who differ from the views of their leader, to close down a debate.