Sentence examples for semantics debate from inspiring English sources

As McNulty's notes illustrate, the question over how Blumenthal represented his service has quickly boiled down to a semantics debate.

I love Baltimore, I love Freddie Gray, and I love the millions of people who are standing in solidarity, but if we are to prevent repeating these scenes of carnage every six months, then we have to move away from the semantics in debates that separate us far to easily and instead unite to create a holistic plan for solving these deep structural ills.

Seriously, I'm just not down with: The derailing of conversations to debate semantics.

In this paper, I explore the relationship between Relevance Theory and Jaszczolt's Default Semantics, framing this debate within the picture of massive modularity tempered by the idea of brain plasticity (Perkins, 2007).

Rather than debating semantics among ourselves, let's assume Aboriginal, Indigenous and First Nations are synonyms, and join together in our rejection of the colonial Australian identity that is being imposed on us.

While people debated semantics, it happened right before your eyes.

As far as I've been able to discern, Johnson is the only Republican who openly rejected the principles espoused by the pledge, while his opponents are debating semantics more than content.

In the meantime, the debate over semantics has only further distracted the international community from the more important debate about how to save lives.

QUESTION FROM PAT: I am starting to get the impression that is going to be a debate of semantics over substance.

C1 Business Digest C2 EDITORIAL A24-25 EditoResolvingsolving the wiretap debate; the semantics of Mideast peace; it's not about the trustees; stop -- don't test those cows.

The popular semantics of "transparency" preclude debate.