Sentence examples for empty debates from inspiring English sources

And you will learn something about the men dying, still dying in the sand, while empty debates broil over long-ago lies; and how we reached the stage where they can be asked to stop wearing their own uniforms, in their own home towns, for shame.

But Murdoch isn't alone in his scepticism; the Tory MP David TC Davies recently outlined his own opinion on the matter in a largely empty debate on climate change in the House of Commons.

As a country, we recently agonized though a pitifully empty debate on gun control that came to no useful end, and rarely was the drug war made a part of that discussion.

Later, after Stennis refused to debate him, Barbour broadcast an "empty chair" debate splicing in disjointed clips from the Hour of Accountability for Stennis's responses.

The cartoon should have been an empty suit debating an empty chair," Donna McGough wrote.

Gail: This is the classic crowded places versus empty places debate.

One of the few congressional hold-outs was Republican senator Rand Paul, who sat in lonely vigil reading newspapers in the empty Senate debating chamber – not as a snub but to make a protest on a procedural point.

In other words, if they decide to press ahead with the three debates and empty chair the prime minister.

But Key has resisted the argument that the debate is empty symbolism, arguing, somewhat implausibly, that a change in flag "has got to be worth billions over time" in brand recognition.

More important, the debate was empty of a counterbalancing vision.

There is a long tradition in American politics of debating an empty chair.