Sentence examples for obscure debate from inspiring English sources

This is not an obscure debate about more devolution: some MPs fear the peace process in Northern Ireland, or at least order on the streets, could be at risk, and that there could be new demands for a united Ireland.

The once obscure debate between scientists at the national laboratories and economists at the information agency, both sides working for the Department of Energy, reflects a raging dispute between President Bush and many Democrats and environmentalists.

Suddenly the issue of identity and personal information is at the forefront of people's minds in a way that obscure debates about ID cards could never have achieved.

It has been argued that Francois Legault and the Coalition d'Avenir Quebec represents the 'normalization' of the province's politics; i.e. Quebec is no longer a socio-cultural 'solitude' obsessed with obscure debates about sovereignty but is now just a province full of federalist voters apoplectic about taxes and immigration just like the rest of North America.

Meanwhile, a seemingly obscure biological debate is raising the stakes, and the uncertainty, further still.

In other words, the culture wars aren't some obscure academic debate.

It also shows how important it is to discuss the non-controversial cases, and to not obscure the debate by focusing exclusively on the edge cases.

These safeguards sufficiently address concerns about floodgates and bad apples that often obscure the debate about whether to grant these children asylum status.

In an obscure little debate in the House of Lords last week, the Bishop of Carlisle, Graham Dow, let slip in passing a few of the things that are going on between the church and the government that maybe we ought to know about.

As the Israelis currently face threats on multiple fronts, they must focus their national attention now to address these threats and not allow the internal political bickering in the race for Prime Minister to obscure the debate about critical national security concerns.

This seems obvious, but in the first section of our discussion we will argue that some overly broad characterizations of EBM have in fact done much to obscure the debate.