Sentence examples for start of a debate from inspiring English sources

This is what she said to MPs at the start of a debate on passport applications.

The strike action on Tuesday was timed to coincide with the start of a debate on the bill in Parliament.

And even some senators began lining up to announce their opposition well ahead of the start of a debate in that chamber.

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But he's perhaps the start of a debate we need to have in this country – which other countries across Europe are having.

Burnham made his announcement as one of his chief rivals, Liz Kendall, tried to seize the mantle as the change candidate and new Labour MPs expressed their concern that the nomination process may narrow the field to two before the party has had a chance to hear the start of a debate.

He said he hoped the Commons debate would be the start of a wider debate on drugs policy.

Mullins is hopeful that this could be the start of a public debate on familial abuse.

WAS it the start of a serious debate about German security, or a blueprint for militarism and a presidential style of foreign policy at odds with German tradition?

Several hundred labor supporters demonstrated to block access to the Congress building to impede the start of a Senate debate on a new labor code.

"What is happening could be the start of a national debate about the damage such glaring inequalities does - and it can't come too soon," she says.