political debate

collocation in English

meaningsofpoliticalanddebate

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political
adjective
uk
/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/
us
/pəˈlɪt̬.ə.kəl/
relating ...
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debate
noun
uk
/dɪˈbeɪt/
us
/dɪˈbeɪt/
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people ...
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(Definition ofpoliticalanddebatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpolitical debate

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As late as the 1982 elections, the regime prohibited local, regional and national television and radio broadcasts from contributing topoliticaldebate.
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On a practical level, this new image of the sati as victim was deeply implicated in thepoliticaldebateabout abolition.
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They form a principal focus of currentpoliticaldebate.
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Regardingpoliticaldebate, 29 per cent of male respondents reported often discussing politics, while only 15 per cent of women did so.
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Such ideological issues, were however at the centre of public andpoliticaldebate.
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Whenpoliticaldebateis structured in value terms, it has important consequences for the stability with which individuals hold their partisan beliefs.
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In our theory, partisan instability will result when individuals organize their value beliefs in a way inconsistent with the value structure presented inpoliticaldebate.
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Exactly what constituted 'fair treatment ' in these matters was now part of the process ofpoliticaldebateand government action.
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Less a reserved pastoral idyll, it becomes a scene of energetic action, modern innovation, andpoliticaldebate.
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Thepoliticaldebatealso concentrated on problems resulting from the process of industrialization.
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This disjuncture between one's own value organization and the value structure one perceives inpoliticaldebatemay lead to conflict and instability.
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The invention of tradition is a dynamic process which gives rise topoliticaldebateand doctrinal controversy.
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The biography of the landscape is of ideological importance for thepoliticaldebateon the cultural identity of nations.
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We should instead proceed in qualitative terms to develop a method for improving the quality ofpoliticaldebate.
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These findings contrasted sharply with the negative tone of public andpoliticaldebateon immigrant integration.
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The meeting is both apoliticaldebatebetween candidates for the highest office in the land and a metaphor for the entire election campaign.
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They are seen as a way to disseminate rumours without contributing to a seriouspoliticaldebate.
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Subsequently, the committee's own frame became fiercely contested in public andpoliticaldebateon immigrant integration.
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Second, the motif of the dying child invokes the contemporarypoliticaldebateon manhood suffrage and its relation to manliness and the right of fatherhood.
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