Sentence examples for phoney debate from inspiring English sources

"There has been a phoney debate created by Aznar, who has used it to create a climate of anti-Basque aggression," he says.

BARACK OBAMA, no less, has decried as a "phoney debate" the idea that Europe and America disagree on the need for a fiscal stimulus to fix the economic crisis.

ONLY a few weeks ago Bagehot was lamenting that British politics had degenerated into a phoney debate on law and order on the one hand, and "privilege" on the other.

Duncan accused critics who said these schools would flourish at the expense of existing state schools of indulging in "phoney debates".

Keane says the issue is a "phoney booze debate" concocted by dying media outlets to sell newspapers.

And so much is phoney in the public debate over "permanent" American bases in the country.

The whole debt ceiling debate is a phoney one imported from America by someone in Canberra who watched too much of The West Wing.

In the lead-up to the 2016 election the new leader of the Greens should be able to shift both Greens policy, and the public debate, away from a phoney choice between a carbon tax and direct action and into a nuanced conversation about the need for both.

Instead, they – and many other players in the fossil fuel industry – bankrolled the rise of the climate denial industry, helping fund the "thinktanks" and front groups that spent the last generation propagating the phoney idea that there was a deep debate about the reality of global warming.

Then there is the phoney complaint that no one is allowed to debate immigration.

In her only vice-presidential debate, she was shallow, mendacious and phoney.