Sentence examples for large-scale debate from inspiring English sources

In a large-scale debate situation, I always thought you had to have ice in your veins.

"This is the moment for a large-scale debate on the future of this thing we all love, the Internet, the way we communicate, our relationship with our government and how technology and its progress can blend with more traditional notions of privacy, liberty and democracy," Mr. Knappenberger said.

Once one moves beyond the large-scale debates between Cartesian dualism and Skinnerian behaviourism to consider indefinitely complex functionalist proposals about inner organization, many of the standard arguments and intuitions of traditional philosophy may no longer seem decisive.

Mr. Clinton took reporters' questions on everything from going to war against Iraq -- "I think there should be a large-scale public debate" -- to the averted prospect of a baseball strike.

Earlier this month, Quinn's ex-boyfriend published intimate details of their relationship online, and her sexual history inexplicably became the centrepiece of a large-scale, industry-wide debate about journalism, nepotism and ethics.

To conclude, while many object philosophically to bootstrapping (mainly because of lack of proper specification of an underlying probability distribution) and its usefulness with large-scale phylogenies remains debated, nodal support levels obtained in this study compare well (if not exceed) those in the recent literature.

In a top-down system that favors political will and connections over regulatory oversight and public debate, large-scale projects in China can be designed, built and put to use in the space of just a few years.

In recent Israeli government meetings, senior officials have debated large-scale military operations against the Palestinian Authority and then voted to continue for the moment with a policy of "targeted" killings of suspected terrorists.

The industrial-scale production of β-galactosidase and the obstacles that hamper large-scale production are also debated.

At present, large-scale engineering and highly debated technical and political solutions have tamed the large river, reduced to a trickle when it finally reaches the Mediterranean.

Another example of working in partnership was a project In July 2009 with the Manchester International festival to stimulate debate on large-scale solutions to climate change.