Sentence examples for direct debate from inspiring English sources

The new Congress, though short on married poets, will bring together in direct debate people with strong beliefs who — even if hostile — will automatically be speaking a similar language.

At the end of Mr Miliband's interview, host Paxman was caught on microphone: "Are you OK, Ed?" The programme was not a direct debate between the two leaders.

Multimethod research continues to be widely practiced in human geography, although there has been little direct debate among geographers since the end of the 1990s of this approach to research.

Ahead of the event Cameron had decided against participating in any direct debate between himself and the leader of the opposition, for fear of Ed Miliband appearing like a Prime Minister in waiting or at least that was the claim, possibly put about by Labour PR SPADs.

Mr. Gore, on the other hand, has been eager for direct debates with Mr. Bush.

And it's true that the questions are determined by the moderator, in this case CNN's John King, who could have — but didn't — direct the debate toward those issues.

This is not a claim for the supremacy of science, nor complete separation between science and politics, but is an attempt to direct political debate to the areas where it can be fruitful.

Shorten's launch speech was the plea of a leader that knows he has to do something big to change the tempo of this election campaign, to force the direct policy debate that might cut through Turnbull's soothing messages of economic reassurance and coax enough voters to look more closely at the detailed policies on offer.

We must not be so afraid of the NRA and its well-voiced advocates that we direct the debate towards mental health and the tone of political discourse.

Instead, a confident 18-year-old woman was using his microphone, directing the debate on his floor.

Nothing much that is Europe-related has pierced the inner core of issues in a national election campaign that will turn essentially on Labour's 13 years in power, general contempt for politicians and the unknown impact of the country's first direct televised debates between party leaders.