Sentences with phrase «precious debate time»

The private member's bill was met with stiff opposition - including a flurry 59 amendments that were attached yesterday in a bid to kill it off by wasting precious debate time.

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What on earth is this House doing spending two precious days debating an issue that has no interest outside the Westminster village and for which there is no demand in this country at a time when we are facing a domestic crisis of major proportions?

Watchdogs, however, fumed that precious time had been spent debating mimosas instead of ethics reforms.

Machines That Think duly confirmed for me that there is precious little that is new in our current debates and that we have been rehearsing these anxieties (and, conversely, utopian fantasies) for a very long time.

And, last time I looked, there's precious little censoring of true debate going on here... in fact, there's very little in the way of defense of the science and math that's being debated here.

Floods, bushfires and this year's scorching summer heatwave have raised awareness of the dangers of climate change, but an «infantile» debate over the validity of the science has cost Australia precious time, according to a key Climate Commission expert.