Blair's very vocal critics are lining up. Opposition Conservative politician and member of the Intelligence and Security committee Richard Ottaway says it appears that the most significant foreign affairs initiative Britain has dealt with since the WWII was argued and debated on a false premise and that he says that raises profound constitutional questions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

When do they start thinking of themselves as French? And this has been hotly debated in the literature for a very long time.

他们什么时候开始觉得自己是法国人了,这曾在文学界,引起长时间热烈的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

It was fabulous to read these people as they debated what will happen to Russia, the kind of westernizers and those in between.

两派间关于俄国走向的辩论,读起来实在是一件快事

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

For two days, the delegates debated the slavery issue and discussed their choice of a candidate for president.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

This was a 19th century British law case that's famous and much debated in law schools.

这是19世纪英国的一则法律案例,众多法学院争论不休的著名案例。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She says states rights, economic and social inequalities between the south and north and other issues were debated.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

I don't have any very good answers for that and yet it is one part of the traditional explanation is this, and it's a very important one and much debated, that at a critical time in the battle one technique would be one side would give one great big shove.

我并没有令人满意的答案,目前还有一种传统解释,很重要,同时也饱受争议,那就是在战局千钧一发的时刻,有一项技术就是一方给对方致命一推

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In addition to bluefin tuna, measures to protect sharks and coral will also be debated at the upcoming conference in Qatar.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

It's true, these questions have been debated for a very long time but the very fact that they have recurred and persisted may suggest that though they're impossible in one sense, they're unavoidable in another.

诚然，这些问题争论已久,但正因为这些问题反复出现,也许表明，虽然在某种意义上它们无法解决，但另一种意义上，却又无可避免。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Until the measure becomes law, medical testing on chimpanzees will continue to be a highly divisive, and hotly debated,issue.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

The action came as senators debated a $91-billion funding bill for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

But the bill to open such trade still faces heavy opposition in Congress and probably will not be debated until after the legislative body's August break.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

(Voice) On flu and parenting Web sites, the parties are being debated as a way to gain immunity to more severe versions of the virus that might emerge later.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Yemeni Health Minister Abdul Karim Rasae, who chaired the conference, said the decision to prevent vulnerable people from attending this year's Hajj was debated long and hard before being approved.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

In separate action, the House of Representatives debated a resolution urging Iran to step up cooperation with the U.S.and intermediaries on the case of Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who disappeared in 2007 while visiting Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28