Sentence examples for harsh debates from inspiring English sources

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.

That comment may invite debate, considering Mr. Robertson's long career of speaking out — and sometimes in ways that drew harsh criticism — in favor of conservative family values.

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.

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.

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.

"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".

But even as the two leaders made polite, if freighted, comments about improved cooperation, harsh debate in Pakistan's Parliament on Tuesday made clear that there may be very little political upside for any Pakistani warming toward Washington.

But the harsh debate has a significance beyond partisan posturing: the incendiary question of whether a Hindu temple should be built on the ruins of the mosque in Ayodhya is no longer taboo.