Sentence examples for marathon debates from inspiring English sources

Thursday that one standby of past marathon debates made its appearance: the reading from a book.

But when she was asked yesterday if she would favor marathon debates with Mr. Giuliani's replacement, Representative Rick A. Lazio, she was noncommittal.

In the long shadow of the New Deal and the Reagan Revolution, the marathon debates over whether the top marginal income-tax rate should be 35 or 39.6 percent seem unworthy of his predecessors' larger visions.

Worse still for his detractors, he has brought out a political memoir that, for a book of this kind, is written with a trenchant, lucid style and a flair for the exciting tale, even when the raw materials are textual negotiations or marathon debates.

And in the end, as it became clear that allegations were destined to become a public scandal, he led heated, marathon debates among a small circle of advisers, considering whether to brace himself for a sensational political and legal battle or cut his losses by seeking an acceptable way to step down.

The event featured some but not all of the features of marathon debates of bygone days -- cots outside the chamber for weary orators, for example, but no senators claiming they were equipped with personal plumbing devices to allow them to hold the floor at length without pause.

No more marathon debate sessions that shut down the Senate.

Tempers were frayed as the marathon debate came to a close.

What was meant to be a quick motion and vote in the Senate turned into a marathon debate.

Following a marathon debate that ended after 4am, 33 senators voted in favour, 27 against and three abstained.

Wade also chimed in on the marathon debate, saying he understood people's anger because, being from Miami, he has been through hurricanes before.