Sentence examples for end a debate from inspiring English sources

But it does mean that the judiciary bears no license to end a debate reserved for the people and their representatives.

(The cloture rule, as it is known, has been in effect since 1917; before 1975, it took a two-thirds vote to end a debate).

If the majority leader wants to end a debate, he or she first calls for unanimous consent for cloture, basically a voice vote from all the senators present in the chamber.

The team's results, which were published Thursday in the journal Science, may help end a debate over how the Chicxulub crater formed in the minutes following the colossal collision.

As had been the case through a long, embittered presidential campaign (see: "basket of deplorables," "nasty woman"), an off-the-cuff phrase meant to end a debate was instead turned into a badge of honor by the other side.

WASHINGTON — Seeking to end a debate that has brewed for nearly a decade, the director of the Transportation Security Administration announced on Friday that a union would be allowed to bargain over working conditions on behalf of the nation's 45,000 airport security officers, although certain issues like pay will not be subject to negotiation.

Siebe Gorman was wrong.The Lords thus ended a debate which had surfaced in New Zealand in 2001.

Senate rules put the onus on the majority for ending a debate, regardless of how frivolous the filibuster might be.

The ending, a debate between Schreck and a high school student (Thursday Williams and Rosdely Ciprian alternate in the role), suggests a hard-won optimism.

The move likely ends a debate that intensified in 2002 when Martha Burk of the National Council of Women's Organizations urged the club to include women among its members.

Actually, a United States senator who ends a debate by saying "I have been leading this state for eight years" is not really a person who seems to have much trouble with being ignored.