'guide the debate' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you are referring to a discussion that is meant to inform and clarify a particular topic. For example: "The moderator's job was to guide the debate and ensure that everyone had a chance to share their opinion."
It may guide the debate later if momentum gathers for an overhaul, he said.
I suggest three principles to help guide the debate: The tax subsidy rate should be the same for everyone.
There is little precedent to guide the debate over whether Congress can require most Americans to have health insurance, they say.
"Our involvement has really been just keeping an open ear to the issue as it's proceeding, not to really guide the debate," the official said.
Some say he could guide the debate, and give a lift to the White House, by speaking out against the aggressive budget-cutting proposed by many Republican candidates, particularly those backed by the Tea Party movement.
And Nicholas Kristof succinctly defended Ms. Crowley with a remark on Twitter that criticized the candidates for the way they mostly trampled on her attempts to guide the debate.
And the community that uses the Internet is only now beginning to get organized to guide the debates that will shape its future.
With this regard, the reduction of the burden of disease is an explicit criterion that, in combination with others such as efficiency (cost-effectiveness) and social equity, can allow for issuing recommendations to guide the debates about setting research priorities and, therefore, improving population health.
We understand that the results of this study might guide the ongoing debate among the science education research community in Abu Dhabi on the search for a combination of international and local science curriculum that to some degree recognizes the voice of learners who are the beneficiaries of the school science.
And to guide the public debate in a way that unifies, not polarizes.
