Member nations are reluctant to turn their organization into a debating society like the European Parliament.
The Senate is a lot of things: a debating society, a breeding ground for filibusters.
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"One girl had just started the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and the other had just started in a debating society, " she said.
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At Oxford, she impressed her father also an alumnus by becoming president of the Union, a debating society with a line in leaden sophomoric wit.
Both 62, Mori and Obuchi attended Waseda University at the same time and were partners in the university's Yubenkai, a debating society that has produced many political luminaries.
The next thing would be to change the House of Commons from a Public School Debating Society Meeting to a place of work.
Ben Kentish, president of the union, said it should be a highlight of the debating society's 200-year history.
After activist Anna Hazare brought the government to its knees with his 96-hour fast in April demanding tough anti-corruption laws, the government is now debating a contentious law for a corruption ombudsman with Mr Hazare's "civil society" representatives.
If the six brightest pupils were whisked away from the comprehensive where I am a pupil, Benton Park in Leeds, there would be no school newspaper, no debating society, no Oxbridge entrance and no history society.
But that failure was rooted in the fact that much of current conservative policy is broadly unpopular, a problem only compounded when the party becomes more polarized and dominated by the far-right debating society.
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