Sentence examples for sole debate from inspiring English sources

At the sole debate in the governor's race last fall, he teed off on the transportation authority, repeating a long-discredited canard about the agency's "two sets of books" and complaining that "no one is in charge of the M.T.A".

After weeks of negotiations on topics like the site, the date, whether to have an audience and the advisability of having a moderator who had announced on his radio show that Democrats are socialists, the honor of holding the race's sole debate on Friday night fell to a local family-owned station with an upgraded news studio to show off.

On Tuesday, just a week before Election Day, Brat and Trammell, his long-shot Democratic rival, faced each other in their sole debate.

As Gov. Jerry Brown and his Republican challenger Neel Kashkari were making final preparations for their sole debate Thursday night, advisors for both were trying to keep expectations low.

The candidates' sole debate at the end of October emphasized these dueling narratives: that Menendez was corrupt and did not deserve a third term, and that Hugin, a money-grubbing businessman whose company raised the price of a cancer drug, would always stand with the White House.

In the sole televised debate of that campaign, he aggressively attacked Mr. Rush until the moderator cut him off.

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic rival, Peer Steinbrück, fought each other to a virtual draw in their sole television debate of the German election campaign on Sunday night.

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic challenger, Peer Steinbrück, returned to the campaign trail on Monday, with neither triumphant after their sole television debate, a mostly decorous 90-minute exchange that restored Mr. Steinbrück as a credible candidate but yielded a rhetorical draw.

Perez, a registered Democrat who said he's more aligned with the GOP but "too lazy to change parties," said he thought Kashkari outperformed Brown in the pair's sole gubernatorial debate last month.

The sole televised debate between Schulz and Merkel was widely seen as a bore, lacking any major conflict and allowing Merkel to portray herself as the confident leader of a prospering country.

We fawned over a pair of Bottega suede slip-ons with a fur interior and gum soles ($550), debated the merits of some Neil Barrett green leather ankle boots that were on sale, and contemplated a display of giant Sorel Caribou boots for $110 — this year's hideous "it" boot, which looks like a duck shoe injected with growth hormones.