Sentence examples for semantic debate from inspiring English sources

But this semantic debate misses the larger point.

Indeed, in Washington, vigorous semantic debate has sprung up alongside the heated policy debate.

IT SEEMS more like an abstruse semantic debate than a threat to world peace.

"What a nightmare!" she cried last week, on hearing of this semantic debate for the first time.

"I am certainly not putting a date on it," Mr. McCain said with exasperation during a circular, semantic debate in the back of his campaign bus.

Matt Daniels, a lawyer who founded the Alliance for Marriage and who is another drafter of the amendment, said the semantic debate was beside the point.

Companies can sometimes get caught up in the semantic debates of what does and doesn't count as SDN and miss the point of this powerful movement.

One is the semantic argument.

It's a semantic argument".

Among the research lines most actively pursued are investigations on conceptual change, the semantic view, the debate over realism, and social-philosophical studies of science.

In the role of defense attorney Jake Ehrlich, Mad Men's Jon Hamm spends much of his screen time arguing semantic points and debating linguistic terminology with a procession of sour-faced literary snobs.