Sentence examples for debating tournament from inspiring English sources

As an enthusiastic debater, he founded The Observer Mace debating tournament, which is still a leading debating forum for schools and universities.

He realised it wasn't a debating tournament, but a chance to empathise and connect, and he did so impressively.

Tony Blair Labour leader, 1994-2007 PM 1997-2007 "I became convinced that PMQs twice a week was an enormous amount of time for a debating tournament.

Britain's an unlikely soulmate, but a soulmate nonetheless, which is why Mrs. Merkel spent the week waving through all Cameron's carping about migrant benefits, standing up for his demands as "logical and reasonable" before the summit, and intervening again and again in the summit room like a tiger mom at her kid's debating tournament.

Tom Gole of the Boston Consulting Group and Simon Quinn of Oxford University studied the votes of judges at international school debating tournaments.

In the 50's and 60's, with debating tournaments popping up around the nation, the Fulton Society entered a period of change, as debating became less and less a form of public entertainment and personal expression.

Lee and Campbell use the n-word frequently in private conversations, and they felt comfortable bringing it into their arguments at prestigious national collegiate debating tournaments to make their point that government policies have harmed vulnerable African Americans.

They were at a high school debate tournament in Lexington, Ky., -- she was a debater and he was a coach and a judge -- and struck up a conversation in a hallway while waiting to hear who had won the tournament.

The occasion was the 10th annual off­topic debate tournament, the first world championship to be held in the United States.

LCC Speech and Debate will be hosting the 46th Annual Smelt Classic speech and debate tournament on campus in Longview the weekend of December 1-2.

Without a specific goal — a G.P.A. to reach, a debate tournament to win, a college to get into — everything has started feeling a little aimless.