Sentence examples for ineffective debate from inspiring English sources

Herein we identify areas of general consensus and propose resolutions for these four areas that would allow the field to move beyond the current and, in our opinion, ineffective debate.

Mr. Bush warned that the United Nations risked fading "into history as an ineffective, irrelevant debating society".

President Bush, going to the martial setting of a Florida naval station, challenged the U.N. to show "backbone and courage," to stand up to Iraq or be seen as "an ineffective, irrelevant debating society".

In a sometimes-misquoted statement, President George W. Bush stated in February 2003 (referring to UN uncertainty towards Iraqi provocations under the Saddam Hussein regime) that "free nations will not allow the United Nations to fade into history as an ineffective, irrelevant debating society".

If we didn't it could render the debate ineffective.

An ineffective or uninspiring debate in Jacksonville certainly won't end Romney's campaign.

In December 1838, after years of debate and ineffective action, the emperor appointed Lin Zexu as commissioner in Canton with instructions to stamp it out.

So if Democrats and liberals prove to be as ineffective in framing the budget debate as they were in Obama's first two years, then the draconian impact of the GOP approach or a Democratic-approved spending cap could be quite severe".This would disproportionately harm people who depend on Medicaid as their lifeline," Ron Pollack says.

But while consumer boycotts do send a message especially the heatedly debated ones they are practically ineffective.

Mr. Romney likes to say the president was ineffective on Iran, but at the final debate he agreed with Mr. Obama's policies.

So often stereotyped as a group of ineffective bleeding hearts, for whom every political debate is a chance to relive the civil rights era, they more than lived up to that cliché.