public debate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpublicanddebate
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public
adjective
uk/ˈpʌb.lɪk/us/ˈpʌb.lɪk/
relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group ...
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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 ofpublicanddebatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What is seen as a legitimate objective in thepublicdebatemight not be seen as legitimate among voters, and vice versa.
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Nevertheless, by the late 1930s, the topic of sterilisation had stirred up a verypublicdebate, creating a division among psychiatrists.
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It started out with a letter to the editor in the leading newspaper but escalated to apublicdebate.
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It can be a valuable input into thepublicdebateand political processes leading to the decision.
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Thepublicdebatehas focused on drug prices and access.
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Under his view, judges should be seen as engines ofpublicdebatethat serve to promote public deliberation.
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This appears counter-intuitive, for much of thepublicdebatestresses the importance of flexible working as a condition of flexible retirement.
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Both points are clearly related to the characteristics of the issue and of thepublicdebateabout the tax during the campaign before the vote.
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Moral questions have been of utmost importance in thepublicdebate, whereas questions of efficiency have dominated the audits.
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Objectives have been evaluated in thepublicdebate, while policy programs have been evaluated in governmental audits.
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This study has demonstrated that national parliaments exert remarkably little control over thepublicdebate.
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It is only being released in the interest ofpublicdebateand discussion during the much-touted ' organic fortnight '.
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From the end of the 1970s this position dominated thepublicdebate, and that critique led to a new period of committees and surveys.
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It influences the way we think and act, but only slowly as it filters through the process ofpublicdebate.
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In political discourse, for example, it may be necessar y to tolerate insulting utterances for the sake of having freepublicdebate.
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In addition, anypublicdebateof this kind was meaningless without relocating the meaning of community, self, and social interest within a new framework.
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The proposals stirredpublicdebateover both the legality and the necessity of such a regulatory move.
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Secondly, rhetoric has changed to accommodate moral criticisms in thepublicdebate.
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