Sentence examples for settled a debate from inspiring English sources

The vote settled a debate that had embroiled the venerable neighborhood institution for many months and divided its membership.

In the process, these guys have settled a debate about the nature of skin strength that has puzzled anatomists since the 19th century.

In that difference, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro saw an opportunity to settle a debate.

Computer scientists at Harvard and cognitive scientists at MIT teamed up to settle a debate over "chart junk". Prof. David Mooney was elected to the Institute of Medicine.

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.

At other times, her palms faced down, and moved slowly across the table top, as if she were trying to quietly settle a debate.

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.

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.

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?

"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".

We further demonstrate, with DNA sequencing data, a very deep phylogenetic split between the subfamilies Elasmotheriinae and Rhinocerotinae that includes all the living rhinoceroses, settling a debate based on fossil evidence and confirming that the two lineages had diverged by the Eocene.