Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
There's always merit to having a debate.
He couldn't drive the horror of cannibalism from his brain, just as he couldn't wholly suppress a simple observation that seemed to rebut their savagery: these were the nicest man-eating barbarians a lonely wanderer could ever hope to encounter.
Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?" Once again this argument was unanswerable. Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop. Boxer, who...
[W]hether it is debates over men sharing housework and child-rearing, the ‘crisis’ of marriage and behind that the broader crisis of male-female relationships in adjusting to social change, or the increased sympathy for (or at least tolerance of)...
The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at ...
I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus.
Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.
He who frames the question wins the debate.
Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
But I do think its necessary to have debates.
We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.
Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.