Sentence examples for thematic debates from inspiring English sources

At least one commentator said the tradition was out of date and should be replaced with a U.S.-style program of thematic debates for the length of the campaign.

Over the past year, more than a million people have taken part in 88 national consultations, 11 thematic debates and the global My World survey, organised by the UN, to share their views on future development priorities.

Jean-Francis Pécresse, writing in the business daily Les Echos on Thursday, compared the one-off Sarkozy-Hollande clash unfavorably with the U.S. system in which would-be presidential candidates face off against each other in a series of thematic debates throughout the course of the campaign.

(3) Technical meetings such as the 2015 Tokyo Conference (outlined below) and thematic debates at the Global and Regional Platforms for DRR such as on the role of women and children in DRR, the health imperative for safer and resilient communities, and applying science and technology to policy and practice in DRR.  .

Nonetheless, developing more pathways within the network and from the NAP into government, as well as combining opportunities for thematic debates in training courses have been equally important.

"CEDAW and CRC are now working together, but we need to reach out to a broader audience by promoting joint country visits and encouraging joint thematic debates".

He also sought to clarify what he described as misconceptions and distortions about the meeting last Wednesday, which was officially described as a thematic debate.

"We regret in particular that the way today's thematic debate and the related panel discussion are structured fail to provide the victims of these atrocities an appropriate voice".

"The United States strongly disagrees with the decision of the president of the General Assembly to hold an unbalanced, inflammatory thematic debate today on the role of international criminal justice in reconciliation and will not participate," Erin Pelton, a spokeswoman for the United States mission to the United Nations, said in a statement.

Starting with a dynamic thematic debate and the functional requirements, the 'Munich Perspective' has methodologically integrated different spatial dimensions into an integrated framework on the city level.

As the meeting progressed to the more substantive "thematic" debate, his remarks during his presentation at the podium and from the floor were reasonable, pragmatic, and targeted.