Sentence examples for ends a debate from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Christie's decision ends a debate over conflicts in state law that indicates the election could be held in November 2013 or November 2014.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Invoking cloture on debate (i.e., limiting or ending a debate by calling for a vote) and holding round-the-clock sessions to tire the minority are measures used to defeat a filibuster.

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.