Sentence examples for debate qualifications from inspiring English sources

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow blasted CNN on Monday for disregarding its own previously announced debate qualifications to allow Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky). to take the main stage in Tuesday night's GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas. .

A commission spokesman, John Scardino, said the debate qualification standards were fair and entirely legal.

She debated qualifications - in the week when teaching standards at free schools were in the news - with Andrew Neil, Alan Johnson and Michael Portillo.

The Senate also has a duty to promptly consider each of these nominees on the Senate floor, discuss and debate their qualifications and then give them the up or down vote they deserve".

Her confirmation was held up for months as senators debated her qualifications and questioned her agenda, but the outcome was never in serious doubt.

ON the same night that Gov. Sarah Palin accepted the Republican nomination for vice president, a public affairs class at Baruch College in Manhattan vigorously debated her qualifications to stand, as the cliché has it, a heartbeat from the Oval Office.

Let's be clear: The president's three nominees deserve appointment, and these extremists are not debating their qualifications.

The Judiciary Committee's vote on Judge Pickering, 64, came after weeks of emotional debate about his qualifications.

Mr. Weill, the statement said, had "only reluctantly agreed to serve and was adamantly opposed to engaging in a public debate over his qualifications to do so".

Likewise, McConnell knew that he might well lose a debate about the qualifications of the person Obama named to the Court.

The case that did was the 1976 ruling of the Supreme Court in Buckley v. Valeo, which concluded that since debate "on the qualifications of candidates" was "at the core of our electoral process and [our] First Amendment freedoms," individuals could not be limited in the independent expenditures they made endorsing or denouncing candidates.