Sentence examples for they debated for from inspiring English sources
They debated for a long time whether there was or was not a 749 Street.
They debated for some time before hanging it, because of the boys, but the picture isn't all that racy (two women, one of them clothed), and it marked a new direction in Currin's work.
They debated, for instance, whether they would publish a photograph of a black man washing a white man's feet during the church service, fearing it would be suggestive of black servitude.
Imagine watching the BBC and listening as they debated for hours whether Wayne Rooney had called the referee a t*** or a c*** and you're more or less there.
My parents were so consumed by taking away this opportunity from me that they debated for weeks and consulted friends.
After 9/11, our political leaders didn't hold interminable rounds of hearings covering the same ground they'd debated for years yet changing nothing.
"They said they debated it for a long time, and that there was a tragedy and they didn't feel comfortable performing," said one audience member, Barbara Germain.
Last week, Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee repeatedly defied the spending limits established by the White House as they debated budgets for politically popular agriculture and natural-resources projects.
Paul Downton says that they debated it for a week, and that James Whitaker made a point of visiting Cook at his home to discuss the issue with him.
E-mail messages and reports by BP engineers in the weeks before the accident make reference to money or time savings as they debated methods for closing the well.
