Sentence examples for peculiar debate from inspiring English sources

As the silent protests in Tehran dominated television screens around the world last week, a peculiar debate in Washington erupted.

The committee is a peculiar debating society where politeness rules, politics is scorned, and intellectual arguments hold great sway.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a an extremely peculiar situation right now," debate moderator Elliot Rodriguez of CBS Miami told the crowd, as the camera panned to two empty lecterns onstage.

What it will do is help you to define more precisely why you feel this way, by drawing on the parallel world of high-school debate and its peculiar rules.

They gather after each debate for a peculiar ritual known as the "spin room" that has taken on an outsize importance in a political season defined by gaffes (a brain freeze), flubbed jokes (a $10,000 bet) and factually challenged assertions (suggesting a vaccine causes mental retardation).

The ethanol debate underscores the peculiar effects of the nation's presidential selection system, for Iowa's role as the first state to vote in the presidential nomination process is perhaps one reason the ethanol tax break has survived for more than two decades.

It is sobering to think that the constitutional right the administration values so highly is the right to bear arms, that peculiar product of an obsolete debate over the danger of standing armies -- and this at a time when our standing army is the most powerful the world has known.

The single-minded conversations have echoed those dominating talk radio and Internet fan boards, which have sometimes dotted the debates with a peculiar either-or proposition: Would the Giants rather beat the Patriots and lose in the first round of the playoffs, or lose to the Patriots and then beat Tampa Bay the next week?

The overall theme of the debates was the peculiar institution of slavery.

The tone of the debate here is very peculiar".

And yet the Tories' language has upset the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and inspired the Liberal Democrats to refer both other parties to the Commission for Racial Equality for politicising this sensitive debate.This charge is peculiar.