intense debate

collocation in English

meanings of intenseand debate

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intense
adjective
uk /ɪnˈtens/ us /ɪnˈtens/
extreme and forceful or (of a feeling) ...
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debate
noun
uk /dɪˈbeɪt/ us /dɪˈbeɪt/
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people ...
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Examples of intense debate

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Both issues are subjects of intensedebate in the globalization and varieties of capitalism literature.
The relative validity of the gateway and common liability models has been the topic of intensedebate since the early 1970s.
As one would expect from science distilled from intensedebate, these volumes are a rich source of information.
These equations have stimulated intensedebate and important advances in both methods.
At roughly the same time, in the late 1960s, an intensedebate arose in the daily press on issues related to immigration.
As not only a transnational political economy but also a very personal experience, it invites intensedebate ' ' (28).
What caused the melting, where the melting occurred, and the nature of the starting materials are still subjects of intensedebate.
The parliamentary session seems to have become an intensedebate over the freedom to teach and the nature of public education.
It is an appropriate contribution and many of the chapters will, through various reasons, provoke intensedebate among vertebrate palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists.
These scandals led to a period of intensedebate about the scope and limitations of research involving human subjects.
Senegalese feel free to criticise their leaders openly, while engaging in intensedebate over the best alternatives.
Bursts of intensedebate have been followed by years of scholarly silence, and questions that were raised in the early days of rock writing remain unresolved today.
The current intensedebate about the technology has obscured the fact that the choice for developing countries may not simply lie in accepting or rejecting the technology altogether.
Quirk has not answered any of these questions: that he has raised some very provocative questions is, of course, in itself a contribution to an intensedebate.
Heartfelt thanks to all those who have spoken in this short but intensedebate.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There has been an intensedebate in the medical profession about the ethics of doctors using their medical knowledge in the administration of death.
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Let me spend a little time on two issues which have been the subject of your intensedebate.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Most, if not all, of the issues they raise were the subject of intensedebate within all the institutions.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The forum witnessed an intensedebate, and one that looked to the future, on many of the themes of the annual report.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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