Translation of "Heftige debatte" in English

This sparked a heated debate within the IOC.

At present the developing and developed nations are in the middle of a heated dispute.

For years “reconstruction” has been the subject of a heated debate.

The heated debate about the Compact for Migration – is it a campaign by the right-wingers?

Yesterday's tough debate once again makes it clear that further steps must be taken.

Needless to say, such an outcome would spell serious trouble for America’s already-contentious deficit-and-debt debate.

The initiative triggered heated debate among the Bulgarian public, it added.

The biennial ALP National conference in 1982 debated the issue vigorously.

An ambiguous frame appeared in Rihanna's accountYesterday, but already caused a heated debate in the network.

It was a very tough debate, but I believe that all elements are there and we just need to continue to work very vigorously to implement the ones that we have agreed on and the proposals that have been agreed in this House.

Two weeks or so ago we had a fierce debate here on how small and medium-sized enterprises keep the entire European economy going.

There has been a great deal of debate about the Doha round of negotiations at the WTO, most of which has focussed on the concessions that will be required from all partners, with particular regard to the EU's agricultural market, in order to bring this round of negotiations to a successful conclusion.

The heated debate and the 490 amendments proposed to the original text were subjected to further discussion and negotiations with all political groups.

The directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions goes a long way towards defining the rules of play in the fastest developing sectors of the European economy, but a fervent debate has erupted over the ambiguous interpretation of the term ‘program as such’, which precludes exceptions from patentability.

We are curious as to what the Green Paper – which should have been available some time ago – will contain, and it will certainly be the subject of vigorous and serious debate.

My task was to put forward a draft Council Resolution to Parliament, which has provoked extensive debate because there was and still is no complete agreement on whether or not the agency should have competence beyond the first pillar.

Not surprisingly, the Commission's FMD proposal has prompted vigorous debate amongst all interested parties.

One hopes that the fierce EU membership debate, now that it has begun, will be honest enough for everyone to learn from it.

Intense debate has also emerged over the ontological status of possible worlds, provoked especially by David Lewis's defense of modal realism, the doctrine that talk about "possible worlds" is best explained in terms of innumerable, "really existing" worlds beyond the one we live in.

The City Council was thus as divided as the German public, since the announcement of the monument plans sparked fierce debate.

The US has experienced a fierce debate over bankruptcy reform, demonstrating that there is no simple answer to the appropriate design of bankruptcy law or regulation.

By contrast, genetic patenting, which affects both sexes, has (rightly) generated a huge scholarly literature and a very vigorous popular debate.

In France, the think tank I created, GenerationLibre, issued a 150-page report on personal data ownership, which prompted a fierce public debate.

As a result, the fierce and lively debate – in Turkey and much more emphatically in the EU – about whether Turkey really belongs to Europe has continued, despite the start of negotiations.