Sentence examples for competitive debates from inspiring English sources

He established the Northern Oratorical League, and later the Central Debating League, for the purpose of conducting competitive debates among Midwestern Universities, including Michigan, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Oberlin College, Iowa, and Minnesota.

His political training began while he was a law student at Glasgow University, with its prestigious and competitive debating society.

I find the image reassuring; a considered gathering of wisdom rather than the braying competitive debate of the dinner party.

Britain's political parties all seem to be thinking much the same thing.The expenses scandal has ignited a broader, competitive debate about parliamentary and constitutional reform.

Under excellent leadership, brilliant teaching and stretching extracurricular activities, such as competitive debating, the school transformed the lives of a generation of young people.

A sentence was also amended which paraphrased the interview, suggesting Assange said "there was no need for Wikileaks to undertake a whistleblowing role in Russia because of the open and competitive debate he claimed exists there".

If a perception of this kind of competitive debating as old-fashioned and the preserve of public schools and university societies goes unchallenged, then we lose a great deal.

During the course of a competitive debate round, when you have prolonged speeches and issue-oriented, rapid-fire exchange of individual contradictions and line-by-line rebuttals, what ultimately decides these things is what we call crystallization -- being able to make holistic summaries of the jumble that you've heard.

In addition, Trueblood organized and coached the competitive debate and oratory contests at Michigan.

Name calling has no place in high school and college competitive debate.

Discussion is conducted like a sport -- competitive debate rather than the engaging dialogue that women excel in.