Sentence examples for opposed to debate from inspiring English sources

Help promote dialogue, as opposed to debate.

The charity's emphasis is on the value of dialogue, as opposed to debate.

Before he became leader, Turnbull said publicly he wasn't opposed to debate about removing the words "insult" or "offend" from the RDA, but by October, when he was back leading the Liberal party, Turnbull ruled out changing the legislation.

We're not opposed to debating these ideas we do that all the time.

More specifically, current research is still evaluating the sufficient and necessary implication of motor systems for language understanding opposed to debating their facilitation or cooperation.

McCain told reporters on Monday there's "lots" of things in the bill he doesn't like, but is not opposed to moving to debate. .

One estimate put the average gain for Romney pre- as opposed to post-debate at only 2.4 points in state polls.

"Obviously nobody knows whether the debate around the referendum had anything to do with what happened to Jo, but the sense that the debate had become a little bit poisonous and a little bit intolerant and focused on fear of foreigners as opposed to legitimate debate about immigration, I suspect what happened will have intensified those feelings".

On the Labour side, Shimon Peres, a former prime minister, this week publicly declared his support for withdrawal, although the party's present leader, Ehud Barak, is firmly opposed to it.The debate heats up each time the fighting with Hizbullah takes Israeli lives.

This reluctance to mix it up also has been reflected in the lack of full-throated political and cultural debates on campuses (as opposed to ersatz debates on cable TV), replaced by a quiet P.C. acceptance of differing views or an obnoxious stereotyping of anyone different.

That's a real debate, as opposed to the phony debate being conducted by politicians, interest groups and the media.