Sentence examples for irrational debate from inspiring English sources
And as long as they do, the boundary between rational and irrational debate about Israel will continue to shift.
There is, Mr Clegg told NYU, much "uncivilised and irrational debate" going on in Parliament "every day".
Denmark - one of the most egalitarian and affluent societies in the world - has increasingly succumbed to an irrational debate that pretends to be about the role of religion in society in general, but in fact is about a yes or no to Islam and Muslims in Danish society.
Moral panics occur when concern over a perceived threat to the social order sparks intense media attention, often irrational public debate and the involvement of people not immediately associated with the issue at hand.
They also have a habit of behaving like an irrational mob, "shutting down debate quite aggressively", argued Gordon Brown's former polling guru, and many of them only communicate with narrow groups of like-minded people.
There seems to be a curious, irrational, visceral element in the debate - just as there is in the debate over the future of Britain's Trident nuclear missile arsenal.
We strongly agree that Israel's influence upon United States policy is indeed an "issue for legitimate debate," and that irrational name-calling only obfuscates the serious matters under discussion.
One of the leading signatories to the letter announcing the "pause" – Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical College in the Netherlands – told me: "In the US, the debate has been irrational.
They appeared torn between characterizing the tough stand of the Bergen legislators and other opponents as an initial bargaining position for the debate and denouncing it as downright irrational.
Think like you're presenting an argument for the debate team, so don't be impassioned and irrational about it.
The controversial opponents to animal research are outlawed by referring to them as irrational 'activists', which deprives them of a legitimate position in public debate as well (Brown 2009b).
