'settle a debate' can be used in written English.
It can be used when referring to an argument or disagreement between two parties, in which all parties involved agree on a conclusion. For example: "After much discussion, the committee was finally able to settle the debate over expanding the school's cafeteria."
At other times, her palms faced down, and moved slowly across the table top, as if she were trying to quietly settle a debate.
Please settle a debate: Joe Pesci's suit in My Cousin Vinny – a great moment in movies for men's fashion, or the greatest moment in movies for men's fashion?
He said the monitoring of Thomas and other riders competing in the Tour would help settle a debate between British Cycling's coaches and physiologists.
AN arsonist may have helped settle a debate over whether to preserve a 19th-century house in Bridgeport that some think belonged to Tom Thumb, the diminutive side-show performer.
How do you settle a debate about the merits of fiscal sustainability versus continued stimulus?
QUESTION: Settle a debate for the HuffPo Washington Bureau.
The vote settled a debate that had embroiled the venerable neighborhood institution for many months and divided its membership.
The spending report, issued yesterday by the state treasurer's office, settles a debate that flared in the struggle over this year's budget, as the state faced its worst shortfall in a decade.
"Han Mee crying," she announced, settling a debate about her reaction that has raged since her arrest on May 8. Studying the image of her mother, Lee Seong Hee, she concluded, "Men beating Mommy".
Here is a slide show of past New Yorker covers that have celebrated food and travel: "I put both mustard and ketchup on my hot dogs," Jaime Hernandez says of his image for the cover of this week's Food and Travel issue, thus settling a debate that has raged around the office ever since his piece came in.
"I put both mustard and ketchup on my hot dogs," Jaime Hernandez says of his image for the cover of this week's Food and Travel issue, thus settling a debate that has raged around the office ever since his piece came in.
