Sentence examples for debate contest from inspiring English sources

In 1931, when Boardman and three other debaters on the forensics team were sent to a national debate contest in Parsons, Kan., they decided to save the college some money by buying a car to drive back in instead of returning by train.

Laurence Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, who became a friend, remembers judging an intercollegiate debate contest in 1962 which Shrum won.

While in official debate contests, contestants will be given little time to prepare their arguments, the students on this course had three weeks in which to consider and research their case.

The collection is organized into four series: Public Speaking and Debate Contests; Speech and Drama Courses; Department Administration Files and Cornell University Theatre and Cornell Dramatic Clubb.

The focus is on three students who uneasily unite as entrants in the speech-and-debate contest.

If it had been a student debating contest, then the honours would have gone to Al Gore.

At the age of 16 he won debating contest on whether Austrians were Germans.

For politics is not a gentle debating contest, but a war of words.

History isn't a procession or a debating contest — it is a struggle.

A scholarship he won in a statewide New York Times-sponsored debating contest allowed him to attend the American Laboratory School, where he studied acting under Maria Ouspenskaya.

I had seen him once, in the early 1950s, when he came to my teacher-training college to judge a debating contest.