Sentence examples for debate firmly from inspiring English sources

The effect is to anchor the debate firmly on the middle ground, leaving completely in the dark the sorts of more radical arguments that have always been a crucial element of change.

With social care debate firmly focused on older people and how much people pay for their care, people with a learning disability are often overlooked and get a raw deal.

The policy has fixed political debate firmly on Labour's chosen ground - the rising cost of living as inflation outpaces wages.

The initial two-game ban for Rice remains a sore point for many, and it is a wound that has reopened in the light of Brady's sanction: American business magnate Donald Trump has also got involved in the debate, firmly nailing his colours to the Patriots mast: Motivated by jealousy?

(Guardian Australia's request to sit in on the debate was firmly refused: "Sorry, impossible").

These Washington, who had already clashed with the Senate on foreign affairs, refused to deliver, and, in the face of an acrimonious debate, he firmly maintained his position.

The big fatimmigration bill that died last year in Congress was, for all its flaws, an anchor that kept debate tethered firmly to reality.

When Romney tried to reply to Obama at a point towards the beginning of the debate, she firmly shut him down.

Bowling Alone provoked deep academic debate and study, firmly placing the idea of social capital on the intellectual map.

Update: At Monday night's final presidential debate, President Obama firmly branded the Times report on Iran as false: "Well, first off, those are reports in a newspaper.

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert took the rostrum as the debate opened, and firmly reminded the chamber that rules prohibit use of abusive, "profane, vulgar or obscene" language.