Then there was a contingent from the Defence Select Committee bidding for a general debate on defence.
The day starts with Treasury Questions at 2.30pm and then the main business is a general debate on the economy.
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The session was split into five parts and covered the government departments for business, energy, communities and health as well as a general debate.
Peers held the first part of a general debate on the report from the Joint Committee on the draft House of Lords Reform Bill on 30 April 2012.
He pointed out that the rest of the day in the Commons was dedicated to a general debate - time, he said, that could have been dedicated to private members' bills.
The day's main business is a general debate on Europe - which will provide a taste of what life in parliament is going to be like until an EU referendum is finally held.
The IMF had been resisting the payments until there was an agreement on a new bailout package until Thursday, amid a general debate with German authorities as to who would fund a new Greek bailout.
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Anyway, when MPs have got those issues off their chest, they can turn to a general debate on HS2 - the controversial plan for a high speed railway from London to Birmingham, and eventually Manchester.
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"The new government is agreed that there is a profound disconnection between the British people and what has been done in their name by British governments in the European Union, " he told MPs in a general debate on European affairs on 3 June 2010.
During a general debate on European affairs on 3 June 2010, the MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark told the Commons that he was "entirely happy to sign up" to the coalition agreement, which declares that Britain will not adopt the euro during this Parliament.
"Either we allow our population growth to continue indefinitely, with all that this will imply for our public services, our environment and our society, or we take the firm and sometimes difficult measures to bring immigration under control, " he said during a general debate on immigration on 12 December 2011.
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Mr McCluskey also played down talk of a general strike before a debate on the issue by TUC members on Wednesday.
Durante la fase preparatoria en un total de 69 reuniones, organizadas alrededor del mundo, entre junio de 1995 y junio de 1999, UNESCO e ICSU invitaron a sus diferentes contrapartes para tomar conciencia sobre la ciencia y generar un debate general a nivel mundial.
The plan was to give peers a general second reading-style debate on the new provisions, on 9 October, followed by detailed committee stage discussion on 22 October.
In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.
In some ways, the question mirrors a debate about education in general.
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The Forum is a future-oriented event designed to feed the debate launched by the Director General of UNESCO on the necessity of a new humanism for the twenty-first century.
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Do not, however, expect a debate on the subject before the general election due in April.
But he said that after the next General Election there would be a political "debate" on the issue - alongside a new "Dearing" review, re-visiting the whole question of university funding.
"I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information... this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general, " Pfc Manning told the court.
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And, look, during the recent debate about General McChrystal, remember a decent part of the Rolling Stone article discusses frustration within our own military about rules of engagement around civilian casualties.
Sixty years later, that was not a consensus shared in this year's general election as debate on today's challenges gathers pace.
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The mining tax is likely to be a hot topic of debate in Australia's next general elections which are scheduled to be help in September this year.
As the next general election draws near, this will become a much bigger debate.
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India faces a general election next year and many political parties have used the debate over the nuclear deal to stake out their positions ahead of the polls, our correspondent says.
The assembly voted in support of the minister, following a lengthy debate, but called for a special commission to study the general issue "for the sake of the peace and unity of the church".
The debate is coming at a moment when the Dutch are fretting over a general weakening of their social cohesion.
During stage one, MSPs consider the general principles of the bill in one of the relevant committees and hold a debate in the parliament.
When General Motors pulled its ad dollars from Facebook, it set off a firestorm of debate about the value of social media.
If he managed to get into the general run-off, we could see a really fascinating shift in our national debate, and hopefully a hugely positive one.
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