Sentence examples for defining debate from inspiring English sources

— The defining debate of college football last season centered on the Big 12 and Southeastern Conferences.

Increasingly a defining debate for the next General Election is between the Government and ourselves, the Liberal Democrats.

The defining debate of last season was whether the Big 12 or the SEC was the country's premier conference.

Increasingly a defining debate for the next election is between the government and ourselves, the Liberal Democrats.

Nowhere have the changes been more evident than in the administration's early actions in what is likely to be a long-running, contentious and politically defining debate over the chronically imbalanced federal budget.

By 1860, at a loss to coherently address slavery, the defining debate of the time, the Whigs vanished from the planet like a bunch of pterodactyls, replaced by Republicans.

BOCA RATON, Fla .— President Obama and Mitt Romney wrapped up a series of defining debates on Monday night with a bristling exchange over America's place in the world as each sought to portray the other as an unreliable commander in chief in a dangerous era.

The questions over the Coalition's superannuation policy that defined debate this week have not been dismissed completely.

The researchers were well aware they were working in a politicised environment where programs are 'proposed, defined, debated, enacted, and funded through political processes, and in implementation they remain subject to pressures - both supportive and hostile' ([ 43], p. 94).

Because of the size of the House of Representatives versus the Senate, the House requires more structured and clearly defined debating rules whereas the Senate has unlimited time in which to discuss matters.

Michael Foot was at the heart of the defining debates of the 20th century – whether against fascism, nuclear weapons or, as leader of the Labour party, the first wave of Thatcherism.