"This political reform debate remains more of a rhetorical debate than an actual policy debate, about how to define China's democracy versus the West's," an editor with a party publication noted in a recent conversation.
Much of the debate on that question so far has been based on generalities and assertions, with those who favor principles over rules having the better of the rhetorical debate.
Or, rather, I was rooting for his puppet facsimile, Mr. Scratch, who was engaged in a spirited rhetorical debate with a Daniel Webster puppet during the climax of "The Devil You Know," an Under the Radar Festival offering from Ping Chong & Company and Phantom Limb.
This paper aims at bringing to light some weaknesses in smart city projects and holds a rhetorical debate supported by a progressive fraction of the population.
Of course, googling is a crude way of enumerating the terms of abuse in a rhetorical debate; the results will wax and wane as the Google search algorithm changes, while the virtual trawl will, inevitably, capture innocent pairings along with a huge trove of meaningless garbage.
This isn't just a rhetorical debate -- the lives of millions of animals are at stake.
"It is not fair to the victims' families who can get caught up in this rhetorical debate when we can't promise them healing because of an execution," she said.
"We've been very clear to not be drawn into rhetorical polemical debates.
Fifth, although a range of articles demonstrate that policy is socially constructed, only a few apply forms of analysis (such as discourse analysis) that consider the role of language, rhetorical argument and stories in framing policy debate.
In ancient times, rhetorical argumentation was related to oratory, used in political debates or legal proceedings.
But aren't we still in thrall to a rather "rhetorical," 1862-focused debate, treating Lincoln like some kind of coal mine canary that just could not stop itself singing about colonization activity?
