Sentence examples for virtual debate from inspiring English sources

Last month, government security forces shut Facebook, the online host to a vibrant if virtual debate on the president.

But the two major-party candidates for the United States Senate will go at each other nonetheless in a virtual debate on the Internet this summer.

Rossellini changed the filmmaker's point of view from the transparent replication of a presumed material reality, into a virtual debate engaged with what's in the movie and with the viewer.

Mr. Rutelli says he will engage in a "virtual debate" with Mr. Berlusconi on Friday night, when they are scheduled to appear on different networks at the same time.

When the third and last presidential debate takes place on Monday night, Stein will be in San Francisco taking part in a virtual debate with other third-party candidates in a forum hosted by Amy Goodman's Democracy Now.

While newspapers have sometimes staged online chat forums with political candidates, Larry J. Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said that he could not recall an example, on a national level, of this kind of virtual debate.

However, we didn't have to part with the European Parliament for long as we were back again the next day early in the morning once again to take part in their EU role-play game - a virtual debating experience by which each person is given a political party that they have to support, despite their own political views.

In February of last year, debaters from the University of Vermont and, nearly 350 miles away, St. John's University in Queens plugged in microphones and connected to an online forum for what organizers believe was the world's first virtual college debate.

The fact that we can agree, to a degree, what community means and even defend that concept on both sides of the "virtual community" debate, suggests there is a common proclivity to hope for something from our gathering as acquaintances and strangers.

The virtual absence of debate about the need for urgent democratic reform during the party conferences underlines the wider complacency of our political parties, who are hoping that we can return to business as usual, with an election looming ever closer.

Emails from the Honduran Internet groups that have formed a virtual community to debate and decry the military coup in their country, now demonstrate a range of feelings, from jubilation to skepticism.