He refused to debate with Ms Bock (who is white), and closed his downtown Oakland campaign office.
He refused to debate with Mrs Arroyo, or to describe his policies in any detail, reinforcing the impression that he was simply a surrogate for Mr Estrada and the circle of Ferdinand Marcos, a former dictator, a witness at Mr Poe's wedding.
Mr Sarkozy had attacked Mr Hollande for refusing to hold three election debates instead of one, but there has been just one debate per presidential election since 1974, apart from in 2002 when Jacques Chirac refused to debate with the far right's Jean-Marie Le Pen.
That's just an approach we disagree with, and we look forward to the debate with whomever emerges from the primary process.
He was also willing to debate issues with you and not stand on ceremony.
"We look forward to inspiring debate with a truly global feel at this year's festival, " she said.
Bristol City Council has pledged to debate petitions with more than 3, 500 signatures on its own website.
She also believes in contributing to the debate with viewers off-camera with regular speaking and moderating appearances around the world, and is well known for her style in stimulating frank and lively question-and-answer sessions.
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I've already announced that in two weeks I'll be holding a meeting with people from both parties, and as I told the congressional leadership, I'm looking forward to a constructive debate with plans that need to be measured against this test.
Here to recap the debate with us is Luis Clemons, editor with CandidatoUSA, an online publication dedicated to covering election news and politics relevant to Latino voters.
It is simply not fruitful to attempt to debate business logic with those who do not recognize logic to begin with.
This is a controversial idea, so Mayor Bloomberg decides to settle the debate with an auction.
McCain, and look forward to a substantive debate with him these next five months.
Bishops are due to meet in July to debate the proposals with the general synod, Dean Osborne said.
And in terms of talking about the benefits of the health care reform law, we look forward to having that debate with the critics.
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Some regional leaders elevated the trade-off between these two goals to a philosophical debate with their liberal critics at home and in the West.
My visit to Germany last week produced valuable opportunities to debate public policy with people who were coming from a very different place than I was.
The Lib Dems went into a head-to-head debate with the Blackguards and Doomsayers and came up smelling of roses, or whatever bloom represents them, a wallflower perhaps.
Lautenberg, 78, said he had directed his staff to try to set up a face-to-face debate with Forrester on issues such as the economy, Medicare, Social Security, the environment and national security.
This legislation, which reduces trade barriers for reformist African and Caribbean countries, was languishing in the Senate, where a senator from a textile region intended to kill it with a filibuster. (A narrower, but more generous, version has already twice passed the House.) On October 29th Republican efforts to proceed with debate failed as Democrats demanded the attachment of numerous unrelated items such as raising the minimum wage.
Such a model is empowered not only by the willingness to debate in an open platform with advocates and detractors alike, but also facilitation to drive constructive debate and results.
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It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate.
Even though the Democrats command a majority of 55 votes, Senate rules in this case require them to come up with 60 to end debate.
In contrast, Europe could return to an older debate over whether to cut ties with the political wing of Lebanon's Hezbollah.
France added urgency to the EU arms debate Monday, with Fabius pointing to increasing signs that chemical weapons were being used in the conflict.
The Bush administration appears to be engaged in a lively internal debate over what to do with the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The plan points up Bloomberg's ambition to leave a legacy of think-big projects, and it's poised to resolve a yearslong, sometimes divisive debate over what to do with the historic armory and what the city's poorest borough would get out of it.
The euro zone's misfortune is that its political leaders have allowed the vital structural overhauls needed to restore growth to become conflated in the public debate with the necessary fiscal adjustments needed to curb borrowing under the toxic label of austerity.
We're Greenpeace and the Yes Men, and we're ready to sit down with Shell any time to debate the ethics of Arctic drilling.
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