emotional debate

collocation in English

meaningsofemotionalanddebate

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emotional
adjective
uk
/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/us
/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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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 ofemotionalanddebatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As a result, it evokes anemotionaldebatethat is often heavily politicized.
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After a long and at timesemotionaldebate, the consideration of the water clauses was thrown out.
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They are widely drawn because they are part of an important andemotionaldebate.
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This has been a detailed and, sometimes, quiteemotionaldebate.
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It must have been a veryemotionaldebatein the other place for gross indecency to be included.
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I do not want to enter into anemotionaldebateon the relative merits of small or large business.
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To me, this has been a mostemotionaldebate.
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We have heard a long, interesting andemotionaldebate.
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I listened to our recent long and, at times, highlyemotionaldebateon the restoration of capital punishment as one of the waverers.
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Thisemotionaldebateis closed.
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It was a veryemotionaldebate.
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Centuries later,emotionaldebateabout these wanton acts of cultural desecration continues.
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After a long and, in places, veryemotionaldebate, the proposition was narrowly rejected 85-82.
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This triggered anemotionaldebateover the legality of such measures.
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Many of us will remember the recent emotional debates on hunting with dogs, and the substantial vote against it.
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We have had lengthy and emotional debates on that matter recently.
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I can remember the highly emotional debates; they were just like the debate we are having tonight.
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He was horrified by emotional debates.
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