Sentence examples for ground for debate from inspiring English sources

An unsolvable problem of the past might not seem like fertile ground for debate.

There have been intellectual discussions between the church and the left for decades...the new thing is that many ordinary believers and voters are opting for the left politically and that should create a fertile ground for debate.

Although the precise shape of an appointive system is a fair ground for debate, most reasonable reformers would support a commission-based appointment system bearing no resemblance to the type of appointment scheme attacked by persons quoted in the column.

Under its outspoken president, Lawrence H. Summers, who took office shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, Harvard has become a proving ground for debate on topics ranging from grade inflation and watered-down curriculums to globalization and the Iraq war.

His job requires him to stimulate fruitful discussion, which usually isn't difficult because many of the issues he is involved with are, he says, "fertile ground" for debate.

They're also a primal form of women's culture, a staging ground for debates about sex, the nature of marriage and work, you name it.

But as a Christian progressive, I heard Obama directly challenge religious fundamentalism of every sort by associating the fear of God with "doubt" and "humility," and offering that as a "common ground" for debates within and beyond the ranks of the faithful.

This is fair grounds for debate, but the sweeping denigrations of Islam are mush.

She's such an irresistible figure that CNN has a documentary of its own in the works, which Priebus has also declared could be grounds for debate exclusion.

In a recent book called "Coffee Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate," a collection of essays by academics and foodies, there is an interview with Matt Lounsbury, Stumptown's director of operations.

Taken together, all these efforts constitute a kind of linguistic sabotage of the infrastructure of reason: if the very possibility of rational argument is submerged in a fog of uncertainty, there are no grounds for debate – and the public can be expected to decide that there is no point in trying to decide the winner, or even bothering to listen.