vigorous debate

collocation in English

meaningsofvigorousanddebate

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vigorous
adjective
uk
/ˈvɪɡ.ər.əs/us
/ˈvɪɡ.ɚ.əs/
very forceful ...
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debate
noun
uk
/dɪˈbeɪt/us
/dɪˈbeɪt/
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people ...
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It was our experience, however, that having patients and carers in the same groups stimulatedvigorousdebateand discussion that challenged individuals' views.
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My task had been simply to act as chairman of thisvigorousdebate.
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These conclusions suggest a need forvigorousdebateon the course of current policy.
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This led to avigorousdebateas to the origin of irreversibility given that the original equations (even after linearization) were clearly reversible.
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It is a powerful text that will undoubtedly stimulatevigorousdebateacross a range of academic disciplines.
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During the last decades, the legacy of the war has sparkedvigorousdebateacross the continent on how to interpret the past.
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Medicine, like teaching, is one of the more public of the professions and so is frequently the subject ofvigorousdebateand criticism.
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Until now, the rapidly growing academic and policy literature on globalisation, and thevigorousdebate of the related ideas or concepts, has largely neglected older people.
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Right from the beginning, these criteria were the subject ofvigorousdebate.
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We have had avigorousdebateand possibly a rehearsal of speeches which will be heard again and again in the next few months.
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That was defeated only after long andvigorousdebate.
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We have had a passionate andvigorousdebate, but it will not be decisive because there is no motion before us.
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At least in the opening phase there was avigorousdebate.
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There needs to be avigorousdebateabout that and the entry scheme that will soon start.
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To be sure, there is a need forvigorousdebatewithin a party, but not to divide it.
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We should have avigorousdebateon the balance of rural and environmental support, defining each in the context of the other, and so on.
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The prospect of restrained exchanges replacingvigorousdebatedoes not bode well for our democratic institutions.
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This has been a good andvigorousdebate—a real debate, with an interchange of minds.
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It cannot be better than the diversity andvigorousdebatein the media about the issues that face the nation.
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As so often on these occasions, we have had avigorousdebate.
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