Sentence examples for rough debate from inspiring English sources

Both the political calendar and the issue agenda are pushing the parties toward a rough debate about who has the elderly's best interests at heart.

Our understanding of the law based upon U.S. Supreme Court decisions 50 years ago is that we treasure "robust" and sometimes rough debate on public issues in the cultivation of democratic values.

Dunn's new pressure is part of a larger "call em out" strategy, recently telegraphed in Time magazine, to attack lies as "lies" and treat Fox as a place for rough debate with opponents -- not journalistic exchanges.

The deaths have sparked a fierce debate about Haight Ashbury's rough sleepers and the tolerance of a place long famed for peace and love.

Opening what could be a rough, yearlong debate about welfare, President Bush is proposing to increase the work requirements for welfare recipients and push the states harder to meet them.

Many an incumbent president has stumbled through a rough first debate: Reagan in 1984, Bush 41 in 1992, Bush 43 in 2004.

How rough can the debate over health policy get?

The cornerstone of the government's plan is a "climate change levy" on big polluters.In this section The king is dead It's a gas The end of foxhunting A gastronomic cluster The uses of literacy More bad news Rough justice The debate that will not die ReprintsBut the commission is unimpressed.

So government policy appears to be based on the presumption that the number of women prisoners will continue to increase.In this section The king is dead It's a gas The end of foxhunting A gastronomic cluster The uses of literacy More bad news Rough justice The debate that will not die ReprintsWhether or not prison "works" for men, its effect on women is very often traumatic.

In the rough and tumble debate in the House of Representatives, Whitlam called fellow MHRs Bill Bourke "this grizzling Quisling", Garfield Barwick (who would, as High Court Chief Justice, play a role in Whitlam's downfall) a "bumptious bastard", and stated that William Wentworth exhibited a "hereditary streak of insanity".

As Professor Anton Harber of the Wits journalism school told the Mail & Guardian newspaper on Tuesday: "Democracy delivers rough and tumble debates all the time – all citizens, especially politicians, need to be a little more thick skinned".