Or, if that seems too uphill a task, he could try debating the subject with the incoming leader of a key trade union, Derek Simpson of Amicus. |
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The standard of debating was very high and both teams were complimented on an entertaining and informative debate. |
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Her mind was still debating which way to go when her body went ahead and chose for her. |
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An enormous effort will be put into analysing and debating the detail of who precisely said what to whom, and when they did so. |
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She decided to sit down cross-legged on the floor, a confused look on her face, debating whether to ask or keep quiet until a better time. |
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On the east side, held aloft by concrete flying buttresses, the debating chamber also addresses the landscape. |
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With avian flu, we are still debating what is the most humane manner to get rid of millions of chickens. |
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Terry, a big man in a rather loud suit, is openly debating whether to sign up now. |
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He held a pair of tweezers in his hand, debating whether or not to pluck away the three stray hairs between his eyebrows. |
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Tonight she was debating between lurking about chat rooms on the internet or going to a movie. |
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But the Church wants to challenge that finding by meeting and debating with leading thinkers on faith and contemporary living. |
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The columnist in question is a character, George Smith, troubadour of tank towns and breakfast debating societies in local cafes. |
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You can spend an awful lot of time as an addict, an awful lot of useless time, debating such stuff. |
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I followed silently behind the two guards, debating within my mind whether to break free and escape, or stay near to him. |
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Elsewhere, Beth and Angel are debating the relative merits of hanging and drugs as methods of ending it all. |
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His colleagues have been debating whether the carcass belongs to a bearded seal, a walrus or a beluga whale. |
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Sitting prime ministers have traditionally fought shy of debating head-to-head with their rivals so close to an election. |
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As always with the year drawing to a close I am debating whether or not to jump on the resolution bandwagon. |
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There is no debating Illinois' position as a No.1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. |
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Success is what we're after, not fiddling around debating things to do with the internal workings of the party. |
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After debating the merits of fishing for grayling or the pike, we chose to fly fish for the pike. |
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I would have thought the fact that Parliament is debating this legislation shows parliamentary power. |
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The citizens of southern California are debating the balance between feral cats versus dirty rats. |
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Personal pickiness is rather petty in debating and does nothing to further thoughtful comment. |
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The screens will allow passers-by to see what is going on inside the debating chamber of the Parliament and its committees. |
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The tone and tactics of globalisation critics may need some adaptation, but debating on who makes and manages global policies remains vital. |
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As Delhi prepares for its annual date with razzmatazz, the fashion-conscious are debating who would be in the limelight this year. |
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I was debating whether or not to approach her and ask her if anything was wrong. |
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The sisters themselves were equally nervous, debating whether or not to go for just a half container. |
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She sat cross-legged with a confused look on her face, debating whether to ask or keep quiet until a better time. |
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After all, once you are debating whether a work is art or not, you have already proven it is. |
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I told him it was too late when I saw he was debating whether or not to tell me more. |
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Christine looked at Jacquin, she was debating in her mind if she should talk to him or not. |
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After standing near the door debating whether or not to enter I decide just to go in. |
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After school, Kendra was debating with herself whether or not to go to practice. |
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He waits by the phone, debating whether to make a trip to India to search for his son. |
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Dennis put his bag down on the ground and stared at it, at if he was debating whether to open it. |
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The person who bumped into her froze and was obviously debating whether or not to make a run for it. |
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She took a sip of her iced tea, silently debating about whether to tell him or not. |
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I'm debating whether that should count as a belated Friday entry or an early Tuesday one. |
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Many of you wrote about our face-off last night, debating putting a cap on medical malpractice awards. |
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But isn't it time the subject was brought from the clouds of science fiction to the debating hall and the laboratory bench? |
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I'm debating between a tote bag, a soft-sided leather satchel or a more traditional, hinged, hard leather briefcase. |
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But when it came to the price of salt, the commissioners spent many hours debating the subject. |
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I was debating whether or not to take a closer look when I heard the slam of a phone, and I jumped in surprise. |
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That's a question we will all be debating this year when contract negotiations open between unionized nurses and the government. |
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He mocked his challenger as a vacillator who could spend the whole time debating himself. |
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He was clearly fearful of her debating strengths and had, evidently, rehearsed cutting her off and interrupting at every chance. |
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But the drama was only just beginning and, as the Lords began debating the bill, it became obvious that they were spoiling for a fight. |
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The House held four plenary sessions debating the issue before it put it to a vote on Monday. |
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Opposition parties are debating whether to request a vote of no confidence in the Government over its handling of crime. |
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I was friendly with the Student Union hacks and lots of people in the debating society and law. |
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Executives are now debating a change in name, however they are now finding that many similar call letters are already taken. |
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I was debating whether or not this recipe should go into the book, as there's probably a Caprese salad in every Italian cookbook around. |
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On day three, while debating how best to conjure a satisfying lunch solely from superfoods, I had a quick off-piste cheese-and-pickle sandwich. |
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In essence, we were debating whether to levy head taxes and user fees for household garbage. |
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However, the priority was to build the new debating chambers, and provide office and library accommodation for members of parliament and peers. |
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He is supposed to be debating to you and to fellow members of Parliament, and he should not involve strangers. |
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His encounters with Donald in the parliament debating chamber had noticeably failed to land the punches expected of him. |
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After all, this is Parliament, a debating chamber, and a place where serious business is conducted. |
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Imagine overeducated music snobs debating the nuances of piano noodlings that he cranked out in one take! |
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Some would prefer politics to stick to safer ground, forever debating whether we should add or subtract a penny in the pound from income tax. |
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I won't take space debating the need to review student backgrounds in the interest of homeland security. |
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He should be taking himself there, getting on to the paepae, and debating the issues. |
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Kenyans are currently hotly debating the issue following the launch of a project to design a national costume for the country. |
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His writing turns surprisingly dry and stiff, describing confessional theology essentially as a debating tournament about churchly forms. |
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What gain is there in silencing another, through ridicule, for example, or the clever use of debating skills, if it is at the cost of truth? |
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New forms of national identification can only come out of the process of British people living, working and debating together. |
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Euro-MPs are today debating proposals to give trawlers from Spain unlimited fishing rights to nearby Irish waters. |
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No doubt its subversive yet equivocal message will keep gay fans debating long past Labor Day. |
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A Conservative councillor once hid up a chimney in the debating chamber and re-emerged to swing a crucial vote. |
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Still, it's a moot point and one that lawyers will enjoy debating if they're given the chance. |
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Again, some researchers are debating whether or not moss can actually reproduce by spores. |
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It is always great to hear a member admit that we are debating a muck-up that the Government made. |
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We were debating the possibility of leaving Zumi out of her kennel while we went out for dinner. |
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And for clarity's sake, I should say that the idea has formalist underpinnings, but debating the pros and cons of this is for another time. |
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Because I have learned the hard way, if you think someone is disruptive, reasoning with them is pointless, debating the issue is pointless. |
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I felt like I was in some cheesy disaster movie, debating who got to sacrifice their life for the safety of the others. |
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First we have journalists and politicians taking these views seriously and now we have the dills debating him! |
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My partner and I use VMWare, and we're already debating whether or not we should give VS a kick at the can. |
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The broadstroke put-down of dissenters and the accompanying lop-sided press coverage is a stalwart debating tactic. |
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Besides, we don't know whether or not Adam will start a rock band, demolish the debating team and edit the leftist student paper. |
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State legislatures across the nation are debating whether to set up their own voucher options. |
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The main problem here is the propensity of the land to flood, and Edinburgh council are still debating the best solutions. |
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When at the click of a button you have the world on your screen, why bother debating the intricate and delicate fabrics our lives? |
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The apologists for plutocracy are content this week to use anti-racism as their debating tool. |
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The clerk looked from Ben to the parcels, as if debating momentarily with himself quite what he should do with the motley little collection of brown paper packages. |
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More impressive than their appearance were their proficient debating skills. |
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There's the teacher in charge of the debating team, who's as desperate to uncloak Justin's potential as he is to guide other promising students into success. |
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There are working groups and study groups still debating the issues. |
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From inside the apartment, he could hear people calling him an infidel and debating whether to kill him on the spot. |
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Upon Googling pictures of this quintet, you will begin debating with your friends over who is the most attractive band member. |
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As a student at Sydney Boys High in the 1950s he didn't have the faintest idea what he wanted to do but, as he was good at debating, was consistently advised to study law. |
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In essence, that is why we are here today debating this bill. |
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Let us cut to the nub of the matter about why we are debating this bill. |
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A goodly number seem to have been debating over Yair Lapid and someone else. |
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Congress is now debating agricultural policy for the new millennium. |
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Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, historians have devoted nearly as much energy to debating who made the decision to use the bomb as was released in the atomic explosions. |
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Worse, this ineffectual debating society is wholly unrepresentative. |
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Guys, debating the best way to cook brussels sprouts is of marginal utility. |
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He took a keen interest in current affairs and never shirked a challenge when it came to debating things of political interest that were close to his heart. |
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After debating this issue for decades, scientists have concluded that coffee made in a percolator or with grounds in a pot contain cholesterol-raising compounds. |
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I was debating whether to bring up Chuck Norris or scientology first, and I went with Chuck Norris. |
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The RNC report recommends cutting the number of debates in half and shortening the debating season. |
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And we would be debating whether the midfield should be changed or not and wondering heretically if big Jock Stein had come too late to the management of the Scottish team. |
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At its best, the summer school brings the Trinity College debating society or the television studio in the local parochial hall or hotel conference room. |
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It was quite a popular debating tactic in the 80's among leftists. |
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I can see she is debating whether or not to tell me the truth. |
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Viewed in this light, his high-flown rhetoric about the timeless values of freedom and democracy can seem an abstraction fit only for university debating halls. |
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In the hold of the Dunera they had drawn drawings, held lectures in philosophy, formed a debating society, fashioned chess sets out of maggoty bread-dough. |
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Now, in the greatest age of science ever, Americans are debating whether Adam and eve rode dinosaurs. |
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In 1851, ex-slave Sojourner Truth addressed a convention of white suffragettes and white ministers debating which issue was more important, abolition or women's suffrage. |
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Yesterday the chavs were debating age differences in relationships. |
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Still debating whether to call B. It would be such a step back if I do. |
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When the framers of the constitution were first debating it, few people imagined that Congress would prove to be the basic guarantor of American liberties. |
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Washington lectures London on the foolishness of debating process instead of getting to grips with real problems? |
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Lawmakers have been debating whether the recordings, reportedly illegal wiretaps by military intelligence agents, could be used in legal proceedings. |
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Cook is the school swot whose achievements in politics have not surprised anyone who sat with him in a classroom or opposite him in any debating chamber. |
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They made him watch a parody of his debating style from television's Saturday Night Live. They abjured him to avoid anecdotes where he might misstep. |
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Other topical issues got the panel debating the grey areas of liberalism, such as the contradictions in banning fox hunting and smoking in public places. |
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I stared at the plate for a while debating whether to try it. |
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Girls, allegedly timorous and lacking in confidence, now outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, on school newspapers, and in debating clubs. |
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A group of young men from the city's environmental protection department stood around disconsolately, debating whether to go and have a drink instead. |
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In this clip, a group of rebels has allegedly seized a Basij militiaman, and is debating the next course of action. |
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The chambers were almost deserted, but a few senators were debating a mind-numbing bill about federal library services. |
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There are, obviously, no gimmes in mini-golf for the sport would verge on the ridiculous if players stood on the tee debating whether each other's tee shots might be given. |
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On Sunday morning, the meeting continued in his house, partly a debating forum, partly a steering committee. |
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The students are to take part in a national debating competition pitting their skill against students from over 200 schools and colleges all over Ireland. |
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The world, as the rules crashed down around us, began debating the values and principles by which we wished to live and the costs we would accept to live by them. |
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The whole country, the entire populace, should be discussing and debating this in an attempt to work our way out of the morass and design new beginnings. |
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Why spend all of that precious time debating the meaning of the words to be used in the Constitution if the framers' understanding of those words made no real difference? |
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The debating chamber was subsequently closed, and MSPs moved to The Hub for one week, whilst inspections were carried out. |
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Also run school debating competition, lots of wargames, end-of-term films and modelmaking on Sat mornings. |
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Students' oracy skills are developed very well through lessons in public speaking and debating. |
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So unsuited and ill prepared for the rigors of high-stakes debating. |
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Rebels say the delay in debating the issue will do nothing to damp down opposition. |
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They will condemn those who subscribe to delegitimising activities, using ad hominem attacks instead of debating the issues. |
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Scientists are debating the possible derivation of birds from dinosaurs. |
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He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends. |
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It could have been worse. Vince had been debating whether to have Buddy call her Guncle Lisa. |
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Its debating chamber, in timber, is an abstract version of a lavvo, the traditional tent used by the nomadic Sami people. |
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The debating societies are an example of the public sphere during the Enlightenment. |
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The debating societies were commercial enterprises that responded to this demand, sometimes very successfully. |
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However, he did not have such an opportunity, as Parliament spent months debating legal technicalities relating to the regency. |
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Under reforms made in 1999, the House of Commons uses the Grand Committee Room next to Westminster Hall as an additional debating chamber. |
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Council advises on shaping policy, raising and debating issues, providing guidance, perspective and a sounding board for the trustees. |
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Direct replies to someone's contribution are not permitted, with an aim of seeking truth rather than of debating. |
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Members are able to sit anywhere in the debating chamber, but typically sit in their party groupings. |
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The Presiding Officer, parliamentary clerks and officials sit opposite members at the front of the debating chamber. |
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Parliamentary time is also set aside for question periods in the debating chamber. |
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The university's debating society is the oldest in Scotland, founded in 1848 as the King's College Debating Society. |
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He followed in the footsteps of Bertrand Russell by debating with the Jesuit scholar Frederick Copleston on the topic of religion. |
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The GUU has since won the Mace debating championship fourteen more times, more than any other university. |
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He became involved in debating with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and the Glasgow University Union. |
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In 1962, he won The Observer Mace debating competition, speaking with Gordon Hunter. |
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During Question Time that evening, panellists paid tribute to Smith instead of debating. |
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The creation of the Union in 1895 provided a new debating chamber in Marischal College and the society's first permanent home. |
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His experiences debating made him a more articulate communicator, not least because the topics were often controversial. |
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The Senedd is the National Assembly for Wales building which includes the debating chamber and committee rooms. |
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In 1648 events rendered weighty the debating point whether Hammond derived his authority from army or parliament. |
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I find such a pleasure, sir, in obeying your commands, that I take care to observe them without ever debating their propriety. |
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The Senate is responsible for debating and approving bills passed by the House. |
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It was his admiration for the wide learning and debating skills of his uncle, Lewis Dembitz, that inspired him to study law. |
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Hansard Editors follow strict rules on what changes they can make to the words MPs use in the debating chamber. |
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I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen. |
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You can see an animated depiction of them debating the auteur theory. |
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I was a part of this tour, debating Meyer in Richmond, Virginia in April. |
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The Cabinet is still debating a draft electoral law based on proportional representation. |
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The first two rounds of debating were held in the Oxford style where each team of three students had one speaking for the motion, against the motion and as an interjector. |
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The stimulus posturing, debating and finagling is now over, a done deal. |
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Originally the chapters were little more than a debating circle and comfort station for young conservatives who felt themselves victimized by liberal persecution. |
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The Scouts have been debating the rewording of their promise but decided that Duty to God was more important than knots, woggles and ging-gang-goolie. |
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Mums-to-be debating whether to use disposable nappies or reusables should know that many local councils now offer agrantofpounds 30tohelpwiththeinitial cost of washables. |
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While democratic forces remain active throughout the African continent, scholars continue to spill ink debating the promises and pitfalls of African democratic transitions. |
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He visited the public gallery of the House of Commons, studied the techniques of famous preachers, and honed his own skills in the school debating society. |
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In December 2014, the Sejm refused to deal with a civil partnership bill proposed by Your Movement, with 235 MPs voting against debating the bill, and 185 MPs voting for. |
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The traditionally strong executive branch tends to overshadow the Congress, whose role is generally limited to debating and approving legislation initiated by the executive. |
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One of The Railway Series books, The Eight Famous Engines, contains a story about Gordon, Duck and a foreign engine debating which station London is. |
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Raphael Holinshed's story is that a part of the Scottish army returned to Scotland, and the rest stayed at Ford waiting for Norham to surrender and debating their next move. |
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The oldest society in Queen's University is the Literary and Scientific Society which focuses on debating political, cultural and social issues within Northern Ireland. |
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Brown is decidedly off-message as his socialist cohorts are desperate to avoid a Salmond trap by debating on national TV with the evil Tories from the south. |
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Center Forward is the leading public policy organization aimed at debating and elevating the priorities of the vast percentage of Americans who consider themselves centrist. |
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Congress will soon begin debating the addition of a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program to bring the program into the modem medical era. |
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Other scenes have the freedom fighters wasting time in debate, with one of the debated items being that they should not waste their time debating so much. |
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An 1895 graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, Belloc was a noted figure within the University, being President of the Oxford Union, the undergraduate debating society. |
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When Parliament was debating the Quebec Bill for a constitution for Canada, Fox praised the revolution and criticised some of Burke's arguments, such as hereditary power. |
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Another tale features a pelican and a griffin debating church corruption, with the pelican taking a position of protest akin to John Wycliffe's ideas. |
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Another debate poem is Solomon and Saturn, surviving in a number of textual fragments, Saturn is portrayed as a magician debating with the wise king Solomon. |
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Both sides have also looked to more philosophical arguments, debating whether people have a fundamental right to have health care provided to them by their government. |
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The debating societies discussed an extremely wide range of topics. |
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However, the Rump returned to debating its own bill for a new government. |
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The Senate quickly met and began debating a change of government, but this eventually devolved into an argument over which of them would be the new princeps. |
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George W. Bush and John Kerry had contrasting debating styles. |
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I remember an anecdote of a well-known French theorist, who was debating a point eagerly in his cenacle. It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. |
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Debating the defects of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is, in many respects, a mug's game. |
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Debating turned the head boy from shy student to speech star. |
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The GUU has also won the World Universities Debating Championships five times, more than any other university or club in the series' history. |
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