protracted debate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprotractedanddebate
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protracted
adjective
uk/prəˈtræk.tɪd/us/prəˈtræk.tɪd/
lasting for a long time or made to last longer ...
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debate
noun
uk/dɪˈbeɪt/us/dɪˈbeɪt/
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people ...
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The 1851 data have provoked aprotracteddebateconcerning the relationship between churchgoing and urbanisation.
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They sense that theprotracteddebateover family values is artificial and misleading.
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A modest change has been brought about by means of an immenselyprotracteddebate, keenly fought in a number of different forums.
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Aprotracteddebatewould also produce frayed tempers.
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We have had a long andprotracteddebate.
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I hope that we are not to have aprotracteddebateabout consultation methods or their absence.
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We believe that our long andprotracteddebate, to which he referred, has had an admirable result.
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Anything less consolidated than theprotracteddebatethat has been going on for the past 12 hours would be difficult to imagine.
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We have made concessions during thisprotracteddebate.
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I do not intend to do so at any length, because we had a veryprotracteddebateon this subject only some few months ago.
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There was aprotracteddebatein the other place on the issue of school companies.
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Does not the wholeprotracteddebateon it and its complexity underline the value of the veto as part of the negotiating process?
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Then there is no time to indulge inprotracteddebateor fudge.
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I wonder whether we are not in some danger of making rather heavy weather of it all, and of having aprotracteddebateabout what is not a fundamental episode.
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Of course the fuller picture is not likely to emerge until a policy evolves in the course of the probably long and no doubtprotracteddebate.
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We would have had aprotracteddebate.
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This is part of aprotracteddebateabout truth and falsity.
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The need for this legal status had been the subject ofprotracteddebateand proposed legislation was narrowly defeated in 2005.
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There was aprotracteddebateover the route choice in the years leading up to this decision, with many parties strongly opposed to the final route choice.
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