But let us move away from this sterile debate.

Whether there is a general justification or a series of specific legal responses to particular factual situations may well be a sterile debate.

The sterile debate about the contemporary Japanese state has, in. my opinion, emerged from the failure to confront the deeper arguments of both perspectives.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union has finally freed historians from this sterile debate.

"I find it an encouraging example of what can happen when we get rid of the sterile debate."

We must move beyond sterile debates and unleash educational entrepreneurship.

But this is a sterile debate and I do not propose to get into it.

As for the arguments as to whether or not the lobbying we have had represents patients - I believe this is a sterile debate.

"Repetitive and sterile debates often crowd out the items that really matter," he said in the report.

Legal theory has long been bedevilled by a sterile debate between positivists and natural lawyers.