acrimonious debate

collocation in English

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acrimonious
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.rɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/us
/ˌæk.rəˈmoʊ.ni.əs/
full of anger, arguments, and ...
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debate
noun
uk
/dɪˈbeɪt/us
/dɪˈbeɪt/
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people ...
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That was the subject ofacrimoniousdebatein the summer of 1929.
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If it is resolved today, furtheracrimoniousdebateand discussion will be avoided.
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In the weeks and months that lie ahead we are going to have much contentious and indeedacrimoniousdebate.
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Were it not for the events of yesterday evening, the next three-quarters of an hour would constitute a somewhatacrimoniousdebate.
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It means that there is now no need for us to engage in long and possiblyacrimoniousdebateas to the procedure to be followed.
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Worst of all, we shall have anacrimoniousdebateon the issue once a year.
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Unfortunately, the prolonged andacrimoniousdebatethat took place over ratification has made that very unlikely.
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I am not prepared to enter into anacrimoniousdebateabout this.
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I desire to avoid very scrupulously introducing any illustrations which are likely to arouse dispute or differences of opinion, or to bring up points which may lead toacrimoniousdebate.
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Over the past three or four years we have had a continuous and at times ratheracrimoniousdebate, with high media coverage, about afforestation and its impact on the countryside.
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The legislature ultimately voted to enact civil unions but only after months of heated andacrimoniousdebate.
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By the mid-19th century drainage difficulties were so acute that relocation on higher ground was decided upon in 1861, albeit after muchacrimoniousdebate.
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Another modern use of classical language however, is the subject of oftenacrimoniousdebate.
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This led to an at timesacrimoniousdebate, between those who accepted these dates, and those who did not.
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The actions of officials to suppress the claims causedacrimoniousdebatein parliament and the media.
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After a few hours ofacrimoniousdebate, each of the participants was asked to say a few words on what they hoped for the future of medicine.
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The admissions criteria of these academies have provoked acrimonious debates about secularism and the role of the military in fashioning the country's political culture and educational policies.
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The years before the war had witnessed acrimonious debates among practitioners of the new academic discipline of criminology over the relative significance of environment and heredity in fostering criminal behaviour.
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