Sentence examples for degree of debate from inspiring English sources

It is dated to almost 5 Ma, but despite a fair degree of debate, it can only be described as an "indeterminate hominin" at best.

The supreme court's decision has already triggered a degree of debate on the issue never before seen in Mexico where legalization is opposed by the majority of the public in the context of almost a decade of an offensive against drug trafficking cartels and the associated violence that has killed an estimated 100,000 people.

Since the preliminary agreement, Iran has allowed an unprecedented degree of public debate between those who support the Iranian negotiators and others who say they have given away too much for too little.

For example, a degree of adversarial debate is healthy and can be constructive but the current system seems to encourage knee-jerk oppositionism and discourage either consensus or reflection.

But it might at least introduce some degree of political debate and competition, which is wholly lacking at the moment, especially if Miss Suu Kyi's party were to be involved.

What you might regard as an optimistic note is the degree of thought and debate that's going into the issue of how to regulate geoengineering research before it happens.

It catapulted its already notorious director to superstardom, sent radio listeners into panic (though to what degree is the subject of debate), and put Grover's Mill, New Jersey on the map.

Like other personality traits, these are believed to have environmental and genetic components, although the degree of heritability is debated.

Rather, it seemed clear that he had emerged from the fertile ground of a racism and an Islamophobia that had attained a degree of respectability in public debate in Norway.

Given this new conception of gravely brain-injured people who nevertheless possess a hitherto unsuspected degree of mental capacity, the debate over when a patient can exercise choice about whether to have life support removed has resurfaced.

In highlighting a range of civil society sources to support his claims, and inviting closer scrutiny from his foreign critics, he injected a degree of objectivity into the debate that Georgian politics has lacked.