"It is easy enough to score debating points about the 'impossibility' of perfect distributive justice," he continues.
To be sure, Obama is not running for reëlection to score debating points and lay out his political philosophy.
By contrast, Campbell uses them to score debating points in a film that reduces politics to an elitist pseudo-philosophical rant.
Ms. Weingarten accused the mayor of seeking to score debating points instead of pushing vigorously for a contract, which she says is badly needed to raise salaries and help attract more teachers.
However, if Mr Abe's remarks were intended not just to score debating points, but to draw attention to the very serious risks this argument carries, then he should be applauded.(Picture credit: Wikimedia Commons).
But even if Fiorina can score debating points against Trump on this issue, business credentials are not actually as important a skill set for a president as either Fiorina or Trump would lead voters to believe.
In the weak sense, one may take the language as rules and use these to score debating points, label others for political gain, or insist that others express themselves in this way.
Indeed, egged on by Israel's now indicted foreign minister, spokesmen for Israel's ultranationalist parties are all too primed to toss overboard with reckless abandon the value to Israel of its friends and allies to score debating points at home.
Unless Biden sticks to principles and not ponderous details, and unless he takes her on and holds her accountable -- contrary to the punditocracy that says he should leave her alone--unless he realizes that he is not there to score debating points, but to expose Palin for the shallow, uninformed person she is, that Palin will win the debate and her stature will be resurrected.
During parliamentary questions they frown into briefing papers and aspire to impart actual information, instead of concentrating, as real politicians do, on the serious business of scoring debating points.In this section Preach what you practise?
