Sentences with phrase «much robust debate»

Not exact matches

I will return to the detail of those legalities because that has occupied much of the afternoon's debate, but it is for that reason and in the interest of avoiding a long judicial process that we concluded that the quickest way to reduce and, we hoped, eliminate cruelty to wild animals in our circuses would be a robust licensing system, which might well result in circuses deciding to stop keeping such animals.»

In the end, its staying power may derive from the fact that the debate rests not so much upon numbers as upon an abiding faith in the value of a robust scientific enterprise.

Not much can be done to create artificially the atmosphere for debate, though the enterprising convener can plant suitably robust questioners in the audience.