public debate

collocation in English

meanings of publicand debate

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public
adjective
uk /ˈpʌb.lɪk/ us /ˈpʌb.lɪk/
relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group ...
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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 public debate

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What is seen as a legitimate objective in the publicdebate might not be seen as legitimate among voters, and vice versa.
Nevertheless, by the late 1930s, the topic of sterilisation had stirred up a very publicdebate, creating a division among psychiatrists.
It started out with a letter to the editor in the leading newspaper but escalated to a publicdebate.
It can be a valuable input into the publicdebate and political processes leading to the decision.
The publicdebate has focused on drug prices and access.
Under his view, judges should be seen as engines of publicdebate that serve to promote public deliberation.
This appears counter-intuitive, for much of the publicdebate stresses the importance of flexible working as a condition of flexible retirement.
Both points are clearly related to the characteristics of the issue and of the publicdebate about the tax during the campaign before the vote.
Moral questions have been of utmost importance in the publicdebate, whereas questions of efficiency have dominated the audits.
Objectives have been evaluated in the publicdebate, while policy programs have been evaluated in governmental audits.
This study has demonstrated that national parliaments exert remarkably little control over the publicdebate.
It is only being released in the interest of publicdebate and discussion during the much-touted ' organic fortnight '.
From the end of the 1970s this position dominated the publicdebate, and that critique led to a new period of committees and surveys.
It influences the way we think and act, but only slowly as it filters through the process of publicdebate.
In political discourse, for example, it may be necessar y to tolerate insulting utterances for the sake of having free publicdebate.
In addition, any publicdebate of this kind was meaningless without relocating the meaning of community, self, and social interest within a new framework.
The proposals stirred publicdebate over both the legality and the necessity of such a regulatory move.
Secondly, rhetoric has changed to accommodate moral criticisms in the publicdebate.
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