Sentence examples for debated were from inspiring English sources

The rules that the professors and the United Nations technocrats have all learned, written up and debated were blatantly ignored in Sierra Leone.

Among the questions debated were: Is the primary purpose of government communications to make public policies and policymakers look good in the press?

NEW ORLEANS, April 18 — As the city imploded last September and rescue boats cruised the murky floodwaters, no question was more intensely debated: Were some neighborhoods here so inherently unsafe that they should be shrunk rather than rebuilt?

Racism, remuneration, disingenuous rows about "role models" – all of these issues could be far more meaningfully and positively debated were the players' union helmed by someone willing and able to stand up for footballers in an era when the real powers in the sport have conveniently steered the public sentiment toward the motto "don't hate the game, hate the playa".

Melissa Park, a Labor MP, earlier said that the measures being debated were "at the lower end of what we are capable of as a nation".

Instead the policies debated were largely modifications to a privatized health care system.

The debates were lively.

The debates were absorbing.

Debates were canceled.

The three presidential debates were largely uneventful.

Some of the issues under debate were.