Sentence examples for debate failure from inspiring English sources

"Minimal debate, failure to pass, bring on the double dissolution.

Tony says: "Appointment to the post of UN Secretary General deserves due and deliberative debate, and failure to give it such minimizes and disrespects the office and its occupant both".

Not only did their rhetoric rise beyond the self-destructive pessimism that often dooms the Israel debate to failure, but their proposals also struck a balance between realism and hope.

This leads to the conclusion that being successful in stimulating a public debate means failure in preventing controversy.

It assumes that liberal democracy as defined by western powers is based on universal principles rather than being the result of lengthy debate, experimentation, failures and successes.

This time the police were black, but the scene has South Africans debating the failure of the ANC to deliver on basic promises to provide better lives with homes, jobs, health and education.

Deliciously funny fake Socratic symposium, with guest appearances by Hypatia, Phryne, Aristokles and Felix Salmon, debating the failure of GigaOm and the future of online media business models.

The bane of most policy debates is failure to define precisely and clearly what the problem is.

And while the government worked to influence theological debates, its failures in other fields – rendition, torture, detention without charge – undermined the legitimacy and trust which might have enabled it to play a genuine role in such discussions.

Hold a Failure Debate What is "failure" and what is "success"?

(An internal debate about whether "failure" should be "defeat" lasted for months, Burns told me).