Sentence examples for reopen debate about from inspiring English sources

The first was to challenge the "pact of silence", as some on the left call it, and reopen debate about the dictatorship.

After he became premier last year it was hoped that Mr Wen would reopen debate about the darkest moment in the Communist party's recent history.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called Tokyo's desire to reopen debate about the location of U.S. bases in Okinawa "counterproductive" and the alternatives to current plans "politically untenable and operationally unworkable".

But Smith's team have received advice from experts in parliamentary procedure that they can help to reopen debate about the amendments, by attaching them to a separate piece of legislation – the trade bill, also currently passing through the Lords.

Others, including Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Attorney General William P. Barr, have been more aligned with McConnell, who has feared that any wholesale rejection of the 2010 health-care law would exert pressure on Congress to reopen debate about how to replace the ACA, according to the individual, who spoke about internal conversations on the condition of anonymity.

The activists were protesting the July 5 shooting of a black man, Alton Sterling, outside a convenience store, one of a string of high-profile police killings of black people by white officers over the past two years that were caught on video and reopened debate about race and discrimination in the United States.

This reopened debates about the problem of equality of the races in the colonies and raised "A graver question, that of the abolition of the trade and slavery" (SFHR, 60).

Mr. Snowden's disclosures prompted some calls from Congress on Sunday to hold hearings about the surveillance programs or reopen debate on portions of the Patriot Act.

Forty years later, this rediscovered prehistoric slasher has reopened debate on a radical theory about who the first Americans were and when they got here.

The two-month loan will also reopen the debate about whether the marbles should be returned to Greece.

Reminding us that the young no longer have an undocumented past, Janine Gibson's character argues that every generation needs to reopen the debate about security and civil liberty.