"intensive debates" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about a situation where people discuss something very seriously and in depth. For example, "The council held intensive debates on the proposed zoning regulations."
Since the nonlinear behavior of concrete in fracture process is very complicated, intensive debates on the precise prediction of fracture energy by means of available estimating formula have never ended.
The most intensive debates took place in German-speaking countries from about 1890 up to the 1930s against the background of the formation of strong labor movements 9largely blue collar) and in the context of a political system, dominated by conservative elites eager to defend the status quo and in search of numerically important allies among the general population.
The books in this series are the products of the papers and intensive debates that took place during the seminars hosted by CESifo, an international research network of renowned economists organized jointly by the Center for Economic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.
After intensive debates, the German authorities decided that the procurement route for the applications of organic photovoltaics had too many uncertainties.
After intensive debates with other government departments, in particular Defense, the Minister of BIS announced a plan to initiate innovative procurement mechanisms to stimulate product development and manufacturing in areas beneficial for the public interest.
Interestingly, the entrepreneurial governance model has also been observed and subject to intensive debates in the higher education field in Germany (Reihlen and Wenzlaff 2014) and around the world (Clark 1998).
"We had a lengthy and intensive debate to whittle the list down to these six.
However, the ideal scaffold material for tissue-engineered conduits is still subject of intensive debate.
At a bus depot at 14th Street and the Hudson River, there was intensive debate about the settlement.
The role of science in policy and decision-making has been an issue of intensive debate over the past decade.
Yet, the robustness, repeatability, and generality of the hitherto used fMRI methodologies have been a subject of intensive debate.
