Sentence examples for format of debate from inspiring English sources

Not only do these changes make it difficult for this American style of debate to be an international model on its own, so long as other cultures do not possess whatever cultural peculiarities made this highly technical format of debate attractive, they have led to dramatic demographic changes in the American "policy debate" world.

Over all, though, Mr. Feist and his counterparts say they have made no major changes to the marketing, publicity or format of debates.

"We as the Labour party signed up to a 76-point agreement in 2010 covering the format of debates and we should use that document as the starting point for these fresh negotiations".

For Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Michael Dugher said: "We have always said we support the successful format of debates at the last election: three debates between the three leaders of the three main parties.

As a candidate, he explains, he felt limited by the rigid formats of debates and advertisements.

The proposed Christmas Tree format of a debate between Ukip, Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats followed by a debate between Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats culminating in a head-to-head debate between the two potential prime ministers, Ed Miliband and David Cameron, has a creative logic but an array of flaws.

At times, Mr. Romney seemed to be taking the roundtable format of the debate too literally, forgetting that his real audience are the voters and party elites who were watching the debate at home.

None of the students had had any prior experience with debates in either English or Japanese and received training during the course only in the proper format of a debate performance.

The agreed-upon format of the debate bears critical comment.

The format of the debate didn't help him either.

The format of the debate may lend itself to such a strategy.