Sentence examples for course of a discussion from inspiring English sources

I did, though, (mis)appropriate the climate angle in the course of a discussion about pets.

In the course of a discussion about the Middle East, Mr. King asked Mr. Romney about the price of gas and what he would do about it as president.

And creating an atmosphere of cooperation and confidentiality at board meetings — so that members feel free to share their views and opinions, and even change them over the course of a discussion — generally benefits the co-op as a whole.

Last week, at an event organised by Farm-Africa, a partner in the Guardian's Katine project, all of these issues came up during the course of a discussion by four experts on what stops African agriculture being more productive.

The movie takes an extraordinary turn when, in the course of a discussion organized at a café, two students from the Ivory Coast are unable to identify the significance of the number tattooed on the arm of another participant, Marceline, a Jewish woman who explains it to them.

As time has gone by, journalists have been focusing on another aspect of the original BuzzFeed report that kicked off this debate – the claim that an Uber exec had "accessed the profile of a BuzzFeed News reporter, Johana Bhuiyan, to make points in the course of a discussion of Uber policies" without their permission.

This led, of course, to a discussion of how much "inspiration" Facebook drew from other sites.

We don't know which particular scoundrel provoked the comment, only that it came in the course of a general discussion of the virtues of patriotism.

In the course of a long discussion about the current state of pro tennis, my friend described a curious distinction between the men's game and the women's, curious because it is counterintuitive, to borrow my friend's adjective.

Gold spent a month eating a different kind of meat each day, including offal, and in the course of a serious discussion about food choices — "Vegetarians also get attacked on a regular basis," a friend tells him, referring to holiday meals — his book forces the squeamish among us to confront things we'd rather forget (for example, that barbecued ribs are referred to as "skeletal meats").

Instead, over the course of a longer discussion, he found that the lady's mother-in-law had recently moved into her house.