Sentence examples for debate in private from inspiring English sources

Jabari's case has stirred controversy at home and abroad, and has been the subject of a passionate debate in private discussions and the Persian-language blogosphere.

Council ambassadors took the unusual step of sending out all aides and translators, leaving the ambassadors to debate in private whether there was any point in one final postponement.

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Religious conservative leaders say they are having passionate debates in private over whether to choose a candidate based on viability or purity.

But since I'm a loyalist and prefer to have such debates in private I'll restrict myself to one thought: my old printer mate Fossy might have described such remarks as pissing on your own chips".

So, after some spirited debates in private meetings of the Democratic conference, Mr. Silver, who represents a Manhattan district, allowed this week that he might agree to a budget without a deal on school aid after all, although he said that was "unlikely".

During the tumultuous year of the late 1650s proposals for how the government should be structured and how powers should be balanced were widely debated, in private, in public debates in Parliament, and through the publication of pamphlets.

These and other significant issues are almost certain to be debated, often in private, at the Congress, which lasts for about 13 days and meets just once a year, unlike parliaments in democracies, which meet year-round.

The two women debated the crisis in private over a dinner of veal tenderloin in the modern Chancellery's eighth-floor dining room.

As those debates flared mostly in private, the confirmation hearing for Admiral Fallon as the new head of the military's Central Command became a proxy debate not only over the president's new strategy but also for the competing resolutions supported by senators of both parties.

In the debate on private sector participation in environmental governance in general, and urban water governance in particular, we can identify three — sometimes interrelated — discourses.