Sentence examples for damaging debate from inspiring English sources

A few months ago, no one would have predicted such a negative, nasty and damaging debate.

The Labour leader said his priorities for government would be dealing with the "cost-of-living crisis", the NHS and creating jobs, "not a damaging debate about leaving the EU".

They lost, but as journalist Romain Burrell wrote on this site: "The violence of the clash surprised everyone … no one would have predicted such a negative, nasty and damaging debate".

This week, the Blair government decided not to prosecute her, perhaps hoping to avoid further damaging public debate.

The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said Abbott's pre-election pledge now appeared to be a lie to shut down a damaging political debate over school funding.

Shorten argued the Coalition's election-eve claims of a "unity ticket" with Labor on school funding were designed to shut down a damaging political debate, and the government's actions this week were a massive breach of trust.

You would alienate a significant portion of the Democratic Party and risk instigating a damaging internal debate that could well drag on into next year, when the new Fed appointee will take over from Bernanke.

British and US civil liberties groups on Saturday added their voices to the criticism of snooping by both UK and US intelligence services after the Guardian revealed that the British intelligence agency GCHQ repeatedly said it feared a "damaging public debate" on the scale of its own activities.

And when his fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill essentially abandoned their battle with Mr. Bush on terrorist surveillance, Mr. Obama was freed from one potentially damaging national security debate with his war-hero rival.

More worryingly, only a quarter of people are confident that Britain will come through the election without the tone of the debate damaging relations between different groups in Britain today.

This angry debate is damaging, whether we are in or out.