Sentence examples for fruitless debate from inspiring English sources

What the themes are in the eight Blakes on display is open to long and possibly fruitless debate.

A decade of fruitless debate resulted in a 2012 Unesco order that any work on the site would be "inauthentic".

("It is hard to imagine that anything could have saved Americans from two hundred years of fruitless debate," he writes. Then he blames Congress).

With that, he deftly dismisses decades of freighted and fruitless debate, having decided, instead, to use Carson as both his story's hero and its villain.

He recently called for "common ground" on abortion reduction and an end to the "stale and fruitless debate" over family planning.

There is an interesting but ultimately fruitless debate about the relative importance of each policy in stimulating the rebound in GDP.

A10 Taiwan called on the mainland to set aside fruitless debates over sovereignty and to resume talks on economic ties and other practical matters to improve relations.

Conversations would devolve into lengthy, fruitless debates, which an impatient Obama would end not by choosing one policy over another but by saying, "O.K., we should work this out" before the next meeting.

Unbowed by China's latest threat of force, Taiwan called on the mainland today to set aside fruitless debates over sovereignty and resume talks over economic ties and other practical matters to improve relations.

Alas, the Palestine papers also reveal the lack of political will to conclude the deal, shown by the wide gaps over substantive positions, and both sides' leaning towards fruitless debating, rather than seeking a compromise.

Again and again, Campbell uses the phrase "going round in circles" to describe the interminable, fruitless debates about whether Blair should sack Brown, try to save their relationship, or quit himself (the surprise for many readers will be how early, and how seriously, Blair considered resigning).