The phrase "consequential debate" is correct and is commonly used in written English.
It refers to a debate or discussion that has significant or important consequences or outcomes. Example: The consequential debate over the new healthcare bill sparked heated arguments among politicians and citizens alike.
At the level of framing a very important and consequential debate in national affairs, the government was in deliberate dot drawing mode this week.
But beneath the jargon was an ideologically charged and highly consequential debate about the financing of legal services for the poor.
In fact, as Locke v. Davey demonstrates, the most consequential debate on the court today may be not so much over first principles, but over how far to carry those principles.
It was an entry into a deeply consequential debate about American national security in the twenty-first century: Just how far should America's reach extend into the world in order to keep Americans, and the rest of the world, safe?
"I think it was appropriate for the board to make this decision," he said, adding, "I think questions have been raised about what constitutes appropriate conduct for individual trustees and the board as a whole, and I hope those questions will go on to spark a vigorous and consequential debate".
The most important thing to emerge from the controversy about his being honored by CUNY is the need, as Mr. Kushner elegantly says, for "vigorous and consequential debate" about the conduct of one trustee and the board of trustees as a whole.
Among Progressives, though, there were consequential debates over what reform consisted of.
Meanwhile, all the heat and noise of the government's actions against Greenpeace has drowned out the truly consequential debates about growth and environmental protection in India.
Standing alongside the ranking Democrats on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the minority leader, said Mr. Bush had begun "one of the most important and consequential debates we will see in our lifetime".
Will says that the most consequential debates were the Lincoln-Douglas debates, which is a very popular thing to say, but they were media drenched crapshows that rivaled our own reality shows, with each candidate's purchased-media declaring their guy the winner and the other guy history's greatest monster.
In some ways, the attention paid to the chairs reflects the more consequential civic debate at the heart of the Broadway project: what is the best use of public space?
