Sentence examples for national arguments from inspiring English sources

Then there were heated national arguments about divorce – arguments as often about land as matrimony – and it took three referendums to introduce a divorce law.

We got our first proper sight of an organisation that will be at the centre of national arguments, and perhaps solutions, for many years to come.

In their backing of the powerless, they have often made their best and most resonant awards to women, who can represent an overlooked third way in the blocked paths of national arguments.

"The argument about the war was the national argument for several years".

carried out violent attacks, and the Palestinian question came to dominate the national argument.

These days it is no longer even a divisive national argument like Vietnam.

This is what FPTP does to the national argument: it kills it.

The effect of his intellectual capitulation is that we now have only one side in the national argument.

The much-anticipated hearings turned the theoretical national argument over capital punishment into a vivid real-life drama.

Often lost in the never-ending national argument over abortion is what a ban on the medical procedure would actually entail, what penalties would actually apply to scofflaws.

A powerful coalition of public- and private-sector unions united to campaign against the reforms, and to turn the referendum into a broader national argument.