Sentence examples for the first debate for from inspiring English sources

In the first debate, for Republican candidates, the two participants argued for tougher penalties.

At the first debate for Republican candidates, and again today at her campaign announcement, she surpassed expectations.

Next, the news media, having "called" the first debate for Mr. Romney, might be inclined to do the opposite in this case — fairly or not.

If there is a tendency for the winner of the debates to reverse themselves, then a loss in the first debate for Mr. Obama might predict a win for him in the second one.

Since "Saturday Night Live" made fun of him after the first debate for using the arcane word "lockbox" to describe where he would put the Social Security trust fund, Mr. Gore has been more self-conscious about the word.

This was hardly the first debate for the Democrats -- they were going at it almost weekly toward the end of last year -- but it was easily the one to generate the most excitement ahead of time.

During the second debate, for example, he insisted, inexplicably, that "there is no Soviet domination of eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration".

The Republican presidential hopefuls are getting together Thursday for the first debate of 2016.

Wednesday night, for example, the first debate of the campaign will be broadcast statewide.

His erratic performance in the first debate confirmed for many people that he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office.

Debates are now woven into the U.S. political fabric on the national and state level, as I note in my preview of the first debate, scheduled for Wednesday in Denver, between President Obama and the Republican candidate Mitt Romney.