"harsh debate" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a discussion or discourse that is aggressive, critical, or unkind in nature. Example: The presidential candidates engaged in a harsh debate, attacking each other's policies and character without holding back.
The most notable feature of the congress was the open and sometimes harsh debate.
She exulted in the intense café life of speculative brilliance and harsh debate, and she brought Paris to bear against the cultural pessimism of the New York group.
"There must be a very harsh debate going on" around the president, said Elizabeth Picard, a political science professor and expert on Syria who is based in France.
Since its formal opening in June, the 1,013-foot 1,013-footprovoked a harsh debatowertting progress against nostalgia; a duel over conflicting notions of thasaesthetic; a struggle to define what cities and their buildings stand for.
Some immigrants are, like Ms Hirsi Ali, already joining the Dutch middle class, both in incomes and in lifestyle.Despite the harsh debate begun by Fortuyn three years ago, the country suffers from little overt racism.
"But the Vatican is also taking into consideration the tension and sometimes harsh debate that arose around the council, and so they have remained faithful to the idea of linking John XXIII with someone else".
After six months of harsh debates and, according to him, hardball from Suffolk-based ephedra manufacturers and distributors, Mr. Cooper's bill was approved in a 12-to-5 vote on Feb. 11.
After primaries, conventions and four harsh debates, this ever-so-important day in American life is coming.
Survivors of Breivik's massacre, however, told The Independent in September that they were concerned that the inclusion of the Progress Party in government could lead to a harsher debate on immigration issues.
"The harsh domestic debate in Germany has shaped the policy," said Daniela Schwarzer, a political economist at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
Were his actions encouraged in some way by too harsh a debate in Norway about immigrants and foreigners, or were they the acts of a madman who lived in a fantasy world and could have been from anywhere?
