ongoing debate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofongoinganddebate
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ongoing
adjective
uk/ˈɒŋˌɡəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɑːnˌɡoʊ.ɪŋ/
continuing to exist or develop, or happening at the ...
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debate
noun
uk/dɪˈbeɪt/us/dɪˈbeɪt/
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people ...
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There isongoingdebateabout the best way to model these effects.
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This paper makes an important, interdisciplinary contribution, to theongoingdebateon the transition from clanship to capitalism.
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Most crucially, the evidence on cross-language activation in bilingual production suggests an interpretation of theongoingdebateconcerning the sequencing of speech planning.
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It is possible that these representations relate, more or less directly, to orthographic or phonological representations, but this, again, is a question forongoingdebate.
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There is still anongoingdebateas to which is the most suitable statistical method to pool test accuracy studies.
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This has been reflected most vividly in theongoingdebatesurrounding the promised tax increase, one of the cornerstones of the peace agreements.
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A more optimistic answer, however, is that despite theongoingdebate, there are a variety of architectures that constitute operational models for implemented agent languages.
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Dynamical grammar makes an important contribution to theongoingdebateabout how much innate structure must be attributed to the language learner.
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Our finding that citizens' participation is shaped by those around them speaks to anongoingdebateconcerning the effects of contextual homogeneity on participation.
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The most interesting points in theongoingdebateseem to be concentrating on issues of data collection, such as intensity, visibility and sampling.
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Evidence to the contrary can be found in theongoingdebateon organ markets.
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However, it is worth noting theongoingdebateon use of discount factors in economic analysis.
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Theongoingdebateconcerning global warming illustrates the point.
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A major problem in this issue is theongoingdebateas to what the risks of the various options really are.
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But this is a subject forongoingdebate.
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Despite theongoingdebateon these and other fronts, the potential benefits of mental health nurse prescribing have been widely acknowledged.
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There is anongoingdebatein the literature on the level of convergence caused by regulatory competition.
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There is anongoingdebateon the relationships between agents and objects.
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Section 1 summarizes anongoingdebateconcerning whether there is a default mechanism for relative clause formation in child grammars.
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