Sentence examples for upon a debate from inspiring English sources

The campaign will be waged in an open, comradely and friendly manner based upon a debate on the policies not personalities.

We learned of these elections when we turned on our television the other day and stumbled upon a debate involving two Democrats who both want to be United States senators.

The questions and answers also touch upon a debate that is taking place within the Army over whether the counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may have degraded the U.S. military's ability to carry out traditional combat — or what the document calls "high intensity force-on-force conflict".

In pronouncing upon a debate, they don't try and determine whether a candidate's responses correspond to existing reality, or whether he or she is capable of talking about subjects such as the deregulation of the financial markets or the devolution of the war in Afghanistan.

By all means embark upon a debate as to whether offering a universal free A&E service is the fairest, most effective and most efficient system 60 years after it was first introduced, but it requires much more cogent arguments and a substantially wider remit than a banner headline of "charge drunks who attend A&E".

I was recently skimming through my Facebook newsfeed when I happened upon a debate between two friends.

Sanders doesn't have the scandals or honesty issues that Trump could pounce upon in a debate, and Bernie matches up nicely with Trump in a general election for numerous other reasons.

Rubio hasn't even taken a full body blow other than the ones he inflicted upon himself during a debate.

McConnell forced a debate upon the country that it was reluctant to have.

Throughout the week, Mr. Clinton has injected himself into the Democratic campaign, suggesting to audiences that several candidates had unfairly heaped criticism upon his wife during a debate last week in Philadelphia.

He now had a voice in a debate upon which public safety and billions of taxpayer dollars hinged — one that ignites emotions over such primal questions as retribution versus redemption.