Sentence examples for periodic debate from inspiring English sources

While in much of the city it is local zoning rules rather than the limit that constrain building heights, the height limit does bind in the busiest office and residential areas, including the city's central business district.The inconveniences generated by this policy have prompted periodic debate over whether and how it ought to change.

At some point in the 1990s — back when people were flapping their gums about the pros and cons of defending against intercontinental ballistic missiles — during a periodic debate over missile defense, some bright spark observed that not all incoming nuclear missiles were necessarily going to be suborbital vehicles screaming in from space on ballistic trajectories.

Politicians have periodic debates about what to do with the Soviet leader but so far no decisive plan has been made to remove Lenin from public display.

But the response to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan to ban the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks in some locations reminds me (loosely) of our periodic debates.

A few years earlier one of France's periodic public debates about the reopening of brothels had inspired the idea of a movie set in a present-day bordello.

LAGOS, Nigeria — After 15 years of political debate and periodic violence, the Nigerian government officially handed over the potentially oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon on Thursday in a ceremony overseen by senior politicians, United Nations officials and a heavy military presence.

Contemporary chroniclers were mostly critical of John's performance as king, and his reign has since been the subject of significant debate and periodic revision by historians from the 16th century onwards.

In a society that takes pride in the mildness of its political debates (with the exception of periodic dust-ups over Quebec sovereignty), immigrant fiction writers are among the country's sharpest social critics.

A variety of evolutionary forces have been invoked in these debates, but chief among them are periodic selection, genetic drift, and the effects of both homologous recombination (HR) and nonhomologous recombination (NR).

We'll be kept informed by periodic government statements, but we won't get to debate anything.

A current debate in Sweden endorsed by the Swedish Transport Agency concerns whether periodic medical testing should be implemented for people starting at age 65 or 70 years to check their fitness to drive.