An interesting subject for debate, especially one which is not essential to the matter under discussion.
Example sentencesExamples
- The idea is to foster discussion among colleagues with different points of view - not to win debating points with clever put-downs.
- Grow up, you are no longer playing student politics and scoring debating points; go and talk to some real people and offer a real alternative.
- Since changes in the rights of a defendant to trial by jury could only by authorised by Parliament this proposal is more a debating point than a practical suggestion.
- These are not dry statistics or theoretical debating points.
- Accusing anyone who points to European models of wanting ‘privatisation’ might score some cheap debating points, but it's nonsense.