Sentence examples for terms of a debate from inspiring English sources

Almost a century ago, a respectful but tetchy correspondence between HG Wells and Henry James set the terms of a debate that rumbles to this day.

And thus the church was (partly) responsible for agreeing to the terms of a debate about God that it then lost.

And his tweet resonated, perhaps unluckily for him, because of the timing and tone, and above all because it did, concisely and unpleasantly, state the terms of a debate that, partly because of Edward Snowden, is at a critical point.

But a failure to win support from at least some lawmakers from both parties would undercut the panel's ability even to set the terms of a debate between the administration and Congress over how to proceed in addressing chronic annual budget deficits and a national debt that is mounting toward unsustainable levels.

If we are to make poverty history, then we need to change the terms of a debate that has gone on for more than a century, and ask not what makes particular people poor – thanks to researchers, we know the answer – but how to wrestle wealth and power away from the 1% who have tenaciously clung on to it.

"In terms of publicity, a debate in the Commons is good news for us and will hopefully get [Foreign Secretary] William Hague to do something," he told BBC News.

The news media inevitably frames allegations, irrespective of their merit, in the terms of a legitimate debate.

Sarah Palin decided she couldn't be bothered honoring the terms of a formal debate, and you overlooked her anti-factual attacks on the Democratic candidate to applaud "a complete populist pitch.

In his closing speech to the Conservative conference in Birmingham, the prime minister will also try to broaden the terms of an NHS debate that often seems unwinnable for the Tories by asserting "you can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy".

When an observer is unsettled by an artwork being impossible to readily categorize or "judge," it is more likely to produce an interactive dialogue between observers that reframes the terms of an existing debate.

The terms of a boycott require debate and discussion to ensure an optimal situation is negotiated.