Sentence examples for debates first from inspiring English sources

Nationally, ESPN has employed studio formats to stimulate and exploit debates, first with "The Sports Reporters," then with "Pardon the Interruption," a fast-paced half-hour of point-counterpoint on numerous subjects between Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon.

But, watching the movie again, I realized that much of it is dense and complicated debates, first among American socialists and syndicalists in a New England cottage (Jack Nicholson lurks in the corner, playing Eugene O'Neill with a quiet seducer's leer) and then among Comintern delegates in Moscow.

So there we are again in 1984, in the snows of New Hampshire, in the precincts of Iowa, at the conventions in San Francisco and Dallas, at the debates, first among the many Democratic contenders and then between the main candidates and their running mates.

If you've been following the surveillance debate, you may have noticed that it is actually two debates: first, it is a debate about whether mass surveillance works; and second, it is a debate about whether mass surveillance is a good idea, whether or not it works.

Then peers move on to a couple of short debates, first on the report of the select committee on Affordable Childcare and second on the protection of interpreters and translators working in conflict zones around the world.

So, by the end of the 1980s cp-laws had moved into the focus of two important debates: first, the structure of scientific explanations in general and, second, the status of the special sciences as autonomous scientific disciplines.

But let's have the debate first.

These sort of decisions should have been debated first".

Her mother's hotly debated first visit came and went in October.

When the debate first flared up, Mrs. Merkel seemed to steer clear of the controversy.

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