Sentence examples for debate desk from inspiring English sources

When the monster storm struck, my colleagues at The Times's Room for Debate desk asked an array of experts whether New York should build protective barriers against the next one.

I realized quickly though that it was just because he was sharing the camera with Skip Bayless, who might as well have been barfing onto the debate desk of ESPN's First Take.

The bill backed by Mr. Golden and Mr. Klein, who intently watched this debate from his desk, would more than double the revenue of the wholesale firms.

"I have before me now a spreadsheet with, O.K., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10," a beleaguered Jim Jordan, campaign manager for Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, said today, his voice trailing off as he continued counting the debate requests on his desk.

QUESTION FROM JAMIE: I'm an U.K National, and I've never even visited America, so I'm finding certain aspects of this a little hard to follow, though I've been following the debate on the News Desk… If an agreement is not made, and Obama doesn't use the 14th amendment to keep paying the bills, what will the short and long term effects be on the rest of the world?

If any of these incidents had happened in an office -- men shouting "no means yes, yes means anal!" at a woman's desk, or debating over their work email how liquored up they'd need to be to sleep with various female colleagues -- those men would be fired.

Their fate, however, again raises the question eternally debated on news desks around the world: what price the news?

He also argued against the imprisonment without trial of the terrorism suspect Ali al-Marri, and memorably banged a desk during another debate, saying: "We are America; we don't torture.

It was so bad that she kept a trash pail beneath her desk throughout the debate, just in case".

To be honest, there is debate about whether a standing desk — in and of itself — can help reverse a sedentary lifestyle.

And throughout the debate they had flooded the desks and e-mail in-boxes of reporters with tip sheets pointing out what they said were at least eight new gaffes.