Sentence examples for shorten debates from inspiring English sources

In the Senate, Mr. Paterson offered small gestures to Mr. Bruno that helped smooth their ideological differences, agreeing to adjourn early on days when Republicans were holding fund-raisers and to shorten debates.

Republicans muscle through a rules change to shorten debate on nominations, further eroding the influence of the minority party.

Digging deeper today than shortened debate-level headlines, there is a considerable difference in the recommended economic policies of the two dominant parties.

Dissatisfied by a three-hour Republican debate held in California in September, Trump and Carson threatened to withdraw from the Boulder debate unless CNBC agreed to shorten the debate from three hours to two hours and to allow each candidate to deliver opening and closing statements.

Method: The same way he got CNBC to shorten its debate.

Trump claimed responsibility for forcing CNBC to shorten its debate, and the Republican Party as a whole slammed that network for the moderators' supposedly biased questions.

He then confirmed he planned to debate Shorten a third time, but he wanted the third debate to be seen by as many people as possible and said a second Sky News forum would not be the place to do it.

In broader observations about the state of national debate, Shorten pointed out that claims about a lack of political consensus were nothing new, but warned that "debilitating cynicism" and apathy were "more difficult opponents for us than even Tony Abbott".

And that's why the debate favoured Shorten – it broadened the discussion and forced Turnbull to engage on other things.

Shorten said any future debate had to take into account the Christchurch massacre, and the reasons it had been carried out.

Children suffer far more from these battles than they would if their parents' protracted debates were shortened by several years by being exposed to public scrutiny.