Sentence examples for directing the debate from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Last week a member of the U.S. Congress introduced a bill directed at the debate over whether electronic scientific journals should be freely accessible.

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.

He advised Senator John F. Kennedy during his watershed television debates with Richard M. Nixon in 1960 (and directed the broadcast of the third debate).

A few years ago, the question "What next?" would have been unthinkable to Mr. Hewitt, who directed the first televised presidential debates in 1960, created "60 Minutes" in 1968 and spent the next three decades as the program's only executive producer.

The Board of Trustees approved the plan with little debate and directed the Department of Public Works to install the signs free of charge, said Sue Smith, a historical society trustee.

Or will they vent over the damage to their favorite characters and promptly move on to debating who should direct the next stupid, overblown "Suicide Squad" movie?

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.

The criticism was expressed privately by United States government officials with direct knowledge of the debate.

What this document reveals, more than anything else, is the direct connection between the debate over secession's legitimacy and the course of reconstruction.