Sentence examples for debate could take from inspiring English sources

Republicans have warned that debate could take several months.

The floor debate could take weeks, lawmakers and aides say.

"I'd like to know how this debate could take place if nobody knew about this program," she said.

The Runciman Commission in 1993 recommended that this section should be repealed so that proper debate could take place rather than "surmise and anecdote".

A confrontation between principle and pragmatism had become an elegy for a period in which such a debate could take place.

Their more serious work, though, was the creation of alternative culture – a space where open political debate could take place, where important books were distributed in lovingly typed samizdat editions.

It was the final scheduled Republican debate on the calendar, but unless a presumptive nominee emerges swiftly, debates could take place throughout the spring as the party's nominating contest becomes a drawn-out fight for delegates.

But if not for one or two pious references to the proximity of ground zero -- a few blocks -- the debate could have been taking place in Iowa.

"Kicking 100,000 young Floridians off their parents' insurance plan — who, me?" Yet the new study schedule, which leaves the president with a bare 16 days to campaign after debate preparation, could take away his more potent weapon: himself.

After senators close debate, Paul could take an additional hour to speak against the agreement — as could other senators — before the Senate votes on final passage, meaning a final vote in that chamber could take place closer to 3 a.m.

The idea of replacing plant-by-plant enforcement with a national trading system is popular among industry groups and acceptable to some environmentalists, though people on both sides argue about which pollutants should be capped and at what level, debates that could take months or years to resolve.