Sentence examples for the debate table from inspiring English sources

While saying he was ready to "slug it out across the debate table," Mr. Lautenberg made it clear that he thought of Mr. Forrester's challenge as little more than a political stunt.

Correctly judging that his main role as a presidential understudy was to savage the other side's principal, rather than his counterpart across the debate table, Mr Biden lobbed repeated mud pies at the absent Mitt Romney.

The methods of invitation to the debate table involved a secret plan that seemed to factor in how many tickets you could sell (or advertising you could buy).

With the debate tabled for the moment, focus will shift back to the more limited counterterrorism measure that was approved by the Senate today, officials said.

We, as leaders and activists in British Muslim communities, call upon MPs in parliament to support the motion in favour of Britain's recognition of the state of Palestine at the debate tabled for Monday 13 October.

It depletes, rather than augments, one's sense of what is on the debating table here.

Demonstrators forced their way into Oxford Union debating society tonight, and sat down at the debating table in protest at the appearance of discredited historian David Irving and the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, who are due to speak at the society tonight.

The idea of taxing bank deposits as a means of raising the €5.8bn that Cyprus needs to secure its bailout and avoid bankruptcy – which remained an option on the debating table last night, though not in its original form – has led to a swell of resentment from ordinary Cypriots towards Europe.

BBC Somerset politics reporter Ruth Bradley: There was an empty chair at the debating table at the livestock market.

Rick Santorum turned out to be an afterthought in this year's Republican field and never moved from the JV debate table to the main stage, but he was a Senator from a major industrial state who won eleven states in the GOP primaries just four years ago.

That being the case, I want a seat at the kids' debate table.