Definition of Debating

Debating

of Debate

The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.

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Act, Arguing, Debate, Discussing, Discussion, Of, Or, The

Debating Quotations

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.
Meg White

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
Joseph Stiglitz

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
Karl Radek

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.
Jesse Eisenberg

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
Eriq La Salle

Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.
John Tesh

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
Paul D. Boyer

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
Daniel H. Hill

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
Alice Paul

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.
Rick Wagoner

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
George P. Shultz

The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.
Mark E. Hyman