Sentence examples for strained debate from inspiring English sources

For the last few months Scandinavia has pursued its own version of Europe's strained debate about immigration and race, and has lurched in parts to the political right as a result.

Mr. le Carré set "A Most Wanted Man" in Germany because of its explosive ethnic and religious mix, its strained debates over immigration and the turf-battling disarray of its intelligence services.

The debate has also further strained relations between the Catholic church and an increasingly secular state.

The strained relations, however, are coloring the debate on both sides.

These debates are making painfully clear the strained relations between the two main candidates, Paul Martin and John Manley.Most Canadians believe that Mr Chrétien planned his drawn-out disappearance deliberately to thwart Mr Martin, whom he had fired as finance minister last June and replaced with the younger Mr Manley.

None of our debate should be personal or exaggerated or strained".

THE trouble with the debate over what to do about our strained public pension systems is that so much of it is veiled in abstract, financial terms.

The killings of Garner and Brown have aggravated already strained relations between police and black Americans and rekindled a national debate over race relations.

Her warm body language of the first debate, celebrated by pundits and voters alike, had tightened into a strained grin.

What is significant for the just-war tradition is that Professor Walzer himself, despite his admonitions against strained renderings of the last-resort criterion, still considers it central to the current debate.

Reyes's strained right hamstring has been the subject of a month's worth of organizational meetings, long-distance phone calls and public debate.