Sentence examples for earnestly debated from inspiring English sources

Scholars have earnestly debated what Bergotte saw, failing to consider that, like the rest of us, Proust had a lousy memory.

IN 1847 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels earnestly debated the failings of capitalism in rooms above a pub at 20 Great Windmill Street, in Soho.

Mr. Kerry's representatives were so completely in charge that, in some respects, the meeting here had the feel of a student council meeting, with portentous issues earnestly debated by people who have little influence.

For the next decade, until the Bundestag began convening there officially, the Reichstag was reconstructed in an earnestly debated, self-consciously symbolic manner that said as much about reunified Germany as its ruin had said about the totalitarian years.

Campers have used the space at St . Pauls as a modern Colosseum for dramatizing and projecting their case, or cases, since the issues earnestly debated among the tents run the gamut, from the causes of the banking crisis to the plight of the world's homeless asd hungry, anarchist dogmodernhe virtues of meditation, and muColosseums.

As Washington struggled to regain a sense of equilibrium, with warplanes and heavily armed helicopters crossing overhead, past and present national security officials earnestly debated the possibility of a Congressional declaration of war -- but against precisely whom, and in what exact circumstances?

Wearing cardboard antennae and foam-rubber wings, they were celebrating European Bat Night.Thirty years ago, Portugal was earnestly debating whether it was a "European" or an "African" country: should it embrace its continental neighbours, or tie its political and economic future to its colonies?

Tocqueville, who initially came to America to study its penal system, might wonder how a democracy can so earnestly debate the justice of detaining foreign nationals at Guantánamo while displaying not a whiff of discomfort about the record number of its own citizens — now more than two million — stuffed into jails and prisons, or about the causes of racial disparity in this forgotten population.

"And when are we going to be respectful, to stop earnestly debating the issues in rooms and conference rooms such as this one and take some action?" He said broadcasters including the BBC, CNN, ITN, Australian broadcaster ABC and most of the US networks had taken action, but said "too few" newspapers and magazines were taking the challenge seriously.

The funniest bits occur not in big set pieces but in the off-the-cuff verbal byplay between George and Colm, and between the I.R.A. leader and his roly-poly lieutenant, who earnestly debate the relative merits of different brands of fast-food fried chicken while trying to recruit Colm as their designated hair-replacement specialist.

Meanwhile, another earnestly talky, school-debate scene is unfolding in Washington DC.