Sentence examples for spirited a debate from inspiring English sources

He said he thought it was a sign of progress that a black man and a woman both running for president could have so spirited a debate as they had Monday night.

This promises to be a spirited debate on a topic you'll be hearing a lot about between now and November 2014.

Still, the new program has managed to provoke a spirited debate on a topic that was considered taboo before: sex among senior citizens.

The report led to a spirited debate at a faculty senate meeting, where some faculty called for UMass to go back to F.C.S. football or dissolve the program entirely in light of recent studies linking football players and brain trauma.

The issue was a subject of a "spirited debate" among Obama advisers when they originally developed a slogan, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The others invite spirited debate.

Issues deserve spirited debate.

This was a spirited debate, though not a suspenseful one.

Later in the day, there was a spirited debate about OpenID as a URL (as originally envisioned) vs. a new proposal to extend the spec to allow email addresses to be OpenIDs.

The technology, of course, is a means to an end: an engaged and excited electorate having a spirited debate with the President.

Few call it a serious rift, though a spirited debate appears to be under way within the Chinese government over how to handle Mr. Kim.