Sentence examples for debate officials from inspiring English sources

Requests for the delay had come from those on both sides of the debate, officials said.

Another element of that debate, officials said, centered on how Dr. Albright should word her description of America's troubled encounters with Iran throughout the cold war.

At the heart of the debate, officials said, is the question of whether Iraq would give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists to attack the United States.

Yet during the debate, officials at other agencies that have traditionally played critical roles expressed concern that the new structure placed too much power in the hands of too few people inside the White House.

In 1964, in a landmark opinion written by Justice William Brennan Jr., the court ruled that in the interest of "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" public debate, officials could not collect damages unless they could prove "actual malice" — that the press had acted with reckless disregard for the truth.

But the stunningly rapid work also means that questions about what comes next may no longer be a comfortably distant debate: officials acknowledge in interviews that a 16-acre hole will occupy the site by summer's start, and they admit such a scene -- debris gone, a sense of promise palpable -- could well create pressure to have answers about downtown's future faster than anyone ever expected.

During the tournament, Hal is interrupted in the middle of his song-speech by Coach Lumbly and a Debate Official who disqualify Hal and Ben on the grounds that neither of them is home-schooled.

In internal debates, officials said, Mr. Biden has consistently expressed doubts about the public's appetite for an endless war.

While precise figures were still being debated, officials said they were leaning toward defining such attacks as those that caused less than $100 million in damages.

While the official debate continued, American officials exacted Washington's strongest form of social revenge this evening.

Amid that internal debate, military officials, including the commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. John R. Allen, registered their concerns with editors.