Lord Beaconsfield's time of birth is somewhat uncertain, but he must have been some seventy-seven years of age and had lost none of his powers as a debater when his brilliant life came to its close.
Lord Aberdeen would in all probability have made a deep mark as a Parliamentary debater if the kindly fates had left to him the possibility of a career in the House of Commons.
Perhaps, as he had been an active and conspicuous debater in the House of Commons, he cannot bring himself to settle down into silence when he finds himself among the peers.
The general impression of observers at first was that Harcourt would go in merely for the reputation of a powerful debater in the House of Commons, and would not show any ambition for the steady and severe work of Ministerial office.
It is not surprising that Harcourt should have been for some time regarded as a powerful debater and nothing more.
The new leader of the Irish party has won a much higher rank as a Parliamentary debater than he ever had attained to in the days before he had become invested with a really grave responsibility.
As a parliamentary orator, as a debater on an issue squarely joined, where the position had been chosen and the ground laid out, Garfield must be assigned a very high rank.
He has been a close and eager student of the theory and the practice of our form of government, at once a philosophical statesman, a shrewd, practical politician, and an accomplished debater of legislative measures.
He was a debater rather than an orator; always courteous, intelligent, intelligible, and honorable.
As a debater he has had but few equals in our State.
He was a man of quick perceptions, of much general information, and as a debater in the Massachusetts House of Representatives his standing was always good.
He was a good debater as a young man, but as a student rather irregular.
His eminence as a debater and his pre-eminence as a parliamentarian, were established without much delay, and in 1851 he was raised to the speaker's chair.
What one debater shows to be reasonable a more expertdebater shows to be false, and what he shows to be right is again proved to be false by another debater.
It was often a sense of personal victory and of the victory of the school of thought to which the debateradhered that led him to pursue the debate.
He was a profound theologian, and a preacher and debater of great power.
Mr. Lincoln's reputation as a skillful debaterand master of political fence was secure, and admitted throughout the land.
Young was not merely a debater of apparently inexhaustible resource, but a master in the use of parliamentary tactics and political craft.
He was everywhere known as a debater of singular skill.
Fox was the parliamentary debater of England, the consummate leader of his party.
His mind was trained to logical discussion, and as a debater he was able and incisive.
As a debater in the House Mr. Davis may well be cited as an exemplar.
Douglas, says Mr. Blaine, "was everywhere known as a debater of singular skill.
The wise debater will then choose that evidence which will most quickly make his hearers feel that their own experience proves him right.
This method demands that the debater shall speak extemporaneously from his memorized brief.
When the evidence has been put into this form, the debater is said to have constructed a brief.
The intelligent debater has, however, before placing a single piece of this evidence in the proof, tested it carefully.
When this is done, the debater may, if he wishes, read from his manuscript to the audience.
The right attitude for a debater is always one of fairness.
So also, there is a mold which the debater should use in shaping his evidence.
There is but one rule that the debater needs to use: In judging evidence for a debate consider what the effect will be on the audience and the judges.
The debater who writes his forensic may, however, learn it and deliver it from memory.
The debater who is inclined to belittle his opponents will only belittle himself.
When the debater has prepared himself in this way, forgetting is fatal.
Before that step is taken, the debater who will be successful will spend much time, not in written, but in oral composition.
In the following extract from a speech of Burke, the famous debater has asserted that it is undesirable to use force upon the American colonies.
A debater may want for his argument less than the strict equivalent, and content himself with educing this much from his opponent's admission.
A few extracts from the general parts of this speech furnish an excellent illustration of the abilities of Mr. Robinson as a debater and orator, as well as of his strong convictions.
Mr. Morley is a fine platform speaker, but as yet he is not nearly as good a debater as Mr. Chamberlain.
I shouldn't be surprised if he became in time even a better debater than his father.
As a Parliamentary speaker and debater he is deservedly entitled to the high rank which he enjoys.
The success of young Lincoln as a debater had greatly troubled Aunt Indiana.
Full of the subject, the young debater sought Mr. Breckinridge after the court adjourned, and extended his long arm and hand to him.
As a debater he had no superior on the floor of the House.
He was considered the most brilliant debater in that body.
They call the best debater in the parliament of England a parvenu, and will entreat him, some day or other, to be prime minister, and ask him for stars and garters.
He has infinite ingenuity, but he can neither initiate nor propel; an intrepid debater in council and in action, he is prey to an invincible indecision.
He was a great Parliamentarian, a brilliant debater and a famous Irish Secretary in difficult times, but his political energies lay in tactics.
Such inconsiderate violence gave a great advantage to Pitt, one of whose most useful characteristics as a debater was a readiness and presence of mind that nothing could discompose.
Perhaps he was not so good a debater as his son, but he was a much better orator, a better scholar, and a far greater mind.
On February 28 he was engaging Oswald, an able debater in the House of Commons, to his cause; on March 20 he died.
A debater must remember that he need not be always in a heat.
Another eloquent debater was Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, whose influence in molding public opinion at the South had been as healthy as it had been powerful.
As a debater he had few equals in the House, but he failed when, during the discussion of the Panama Mission question, he opened his batteries upon Mr. Webster.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debater" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apologist; debater; demagogue; disputant; polemic; speaker; spieler; spokesman; talker; wrangler
