Sentence examples for they were debated from inspiring English sources

They include 1,238 brought in as primary legislation, which means they were debated in Parliament, and 2,367 by secondary legislation, such as orders in council and statutory documents.

But the limits of judicial review remain as problematic as they were when they were debated two centuries ago.In fact, as Stephen Griffin lucidly argues, the court has never managed to follow a consistent interpretative approach for long.

Although the case concerned only a small geographical area, it came out of a far more general frustration that Sami issues were getting nowhere in the political arena, where they were debated endlessly but no decisions were taken, Larsson Blind said.

The list of outcomes and context expanded as coding proceeded, and they were debated, refined and adjusted between two authors (SA and AC-O).

The committee said it decided to combine the three petitions into one single debate to ensure they were debated as soon as possible, "so they would be less likely to be overtaken by events".

In others, they were debated but couldn't muster enough votes.

They were debating what the United States should do.

They were debating whether the rain would be heavy the next day.

Republicans said they were debating whether there should be one count of perjury or two.

In the House of Commons they were debating ways to bugger up the House of Lords.

On Monday, they were debating President Trump, the most powerful man in the world.