0 present participle of debate --
1 to discuss a subject in a formal way: --
[ + question word ] We debated whether to take the earlier train.
[ + question word ] The authorities debated whether to build a new car park.
They had been debating for several hours without reaching a conclusion.
However, in subsequent years, both governments became increasingly involved in debating future regulatory options of the railways, in particular with regard to organisational structure.
Establishing guilt by association was in other words a frequent and sometimes very successful strategy in the strongly polarised debating climate of the 1970s.
However, although this claim is well worth debating, it is not the crux of the argument, so let's move on.
Again, this is more than an academic debating point.
It aids the processes of learning, debating, and revising one's priorities.
Debating the privacy issues in one domain rather than another portends very different policies.
One of the working groups emphasised the importance of sharing experiences, and debating analyses of local conflict.
They are forming their own opinions, avidly discussing and debating them, and trying to bring others around to their way of thinking.
