Sentence examples for extended debates from inspiring English sources

The Democrats have been able to block the four nominees, who they say are conservative ideologues outside the mainstream of legal thought, by threatening filibusters, extended debates.

Republican Senate officials suggested Friday that there may be more such recess appointments as a response to the Democrats' tactic of using filibusters or the threat of extended debates to block confirmation of the president's judicial nominees.

So one might imagine, in the match-up between the two candidates, that it would be Mr. Booker rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect of luring his relatively unheralded opponent into a series of extended debates.

Despite the extended debates in the last decade about depression's causes, it seems fairly clear that it is usually the consequence of a genetic vulnerability activated by external stress.

But before we embark on extended debates over "contextual correctness" and the use of liturgical reconstruction in performance practice (and the recording industry), let's keep in mind that most of us listen to CD's in our living room: where is the context?

In later years Hobbes defended his work in a series of extended debates.

Any amendment lacking the support of 60 senators can be filibustered, although uncontroversial ones can be passed without extended debate by unanimous consent.

The Republican talk-a-thon is an especially odd parliamentary creature in that it is an extended debate to protest the Democrats' use of the filibuster, which in modern usage no longer involves extended debate.

The liberals will insist that there are no concessions at all in this, since attendance is always close to a hundred per cent on civil-rights bills, and some of them may argue that it actually strengthens the South's position by making it easier to muster the one-third plus one that is necessary to maintain extended debate.

The poll last year was conducted just weeks after the fatal police shooting of Patrick M. Dorismond and the acquittal of officers in the shooting death of Amadou Diallo, incidents that led to extended debate about the aggressiveness of police tactics, especially in minority neighborhoods.

The filing deadline for such increases was last week, however, and so a rushed vote would seem to do little but eliminate the chance for extended debate.