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Both the STEPS and ATPS manifestos represent the result of more than a year's research, network-building and political debate.

He also failed to turn up for a political debate, blaming Hurricane Irene. Mr Turner, who had been evacuated from his home, was ready.

The Obama administration's health care reforms have been a central part of the US political debate ahead of midterm elections on Tuesday.

This is not the place for a political debate. This is a place for you to do your job and serve your tables.

I don't want to get involved in a political debate but I think it is normal we back him in his campaign.

Unfortunately, this pseudo-historical dispute lies at the heart of the current political debate.

The voting on Saturday was largely peaceful, a respite after weeks of turmoil and a toxic political debate over the constitution.

It was a stunning political debate that would be hard to imagine in Britain.

Since objective, technical criteria are harder to pin down in these areas, debate, including political debate, is necessary.

Actuaries, the backroom boys of finance, may yet find themselves at the heart of political debate.

Even as political debate blossomed, Iran's security services cracked down on religious and ethnic minorities.

Naturally you won't hear much about any of these ideas during the political debate ahead.

But the political debate is likely to be very different.

But, if these are the natural responses, at least from a Democrat, why aren't such remedies at the center of political debate this year?

Agreeing on a new constitution would also help shift the focus of political debate and get around the election debacle.

Now the messenger itself is at the centre of a raging political debate.

For all the Westminster grumbling, British political debate still leaves room for a moderate middle, and not just deafening partisans.

We have never witnessed such a vibrant political debate in this country.

What is notable is the level of vitriol and tribalism that permeates so much of the casual, behind-the-scenes political debate.

That would stifle a great deal more than political debate and dissent.

So far this pattern has prompted relatively little wider political debate.

Or was this an attempt to regain advantage in the internal political debate in Iran?

Political debate over the currency issue has complicated Obama's efforts to smooth relations with Beijing.

When Mr Medvedev visited Singapore last month, he found his ideal model: a thriving economy amid strict control of political debate.

It may also coarsen the tone of political debate, worries Stuart Rothenberg, a political analyst.

As the political debate continues, aid workers say shelves are bare and stomachs empty outside Pyongyang.

In both countries tabloids help set the tone of political debate, but Bild's stunts are more imaginative and upmarket.

What matters is whether the political debate has changed in ways that suit a Conservative prime minister.

Whereas income disparities have provoked lots of political debate, there has been less analysis of the economic effects.

These comparisons prompted extensive media coverage and political debate in many countries.

To sum up: political philosophy seeks to judge political partisans, but to do so it must enter into political debate.

There needs to be a political debate: how can we compete?

That question is sure to underline much of the political debate in the coming years as the government looks to fill its vast budget hole.

It also supports several websites for Chinese people aimed at increasing political debate and transparency.

Americans often complain about the rancour in their political debate. President Obama is daily reviled, seldom mocked.

Investors have been frightened off by the political debate.

Nor was there condemnation of NRK, the Norwegian public broadcaster, for hosting a political debate inside a prison.

"Given the political debate has stopped, we hope to make this judicial action (modified civil law), " the more lawyers said.

Very hard, if the current state of political debate is any indication.

After all, the dominant global political debate about the Chinese economy is about how the country is a chronic under-consumer.

The US political debate still uses the otherness of "Europe" as a reference point.

The quality of political debate has been coarsened by partisans who question not just the ideas but the motives of their opponents.

The role of scholars is to provide the empirical input to inform the political debate.

Well thank you, Mike, the last thing I want is an informed political debate about my genitalia that involves the correct anatomical words.

Economist Gary Burtless at the Brookings Institution says the political debate on deficits and the debt ceiling has made matters worse.

While political debate continued without end, science made progress.

As a result, political debate may yet intensify in the UK over whether the nuclear deterrent is financially viable.

Worries about the budget deficit are already weighing on political debate in Washington (see article).

Economic crises usually polarise the political debate.

British political debate is already dominated by the need to cut spending and raise taxes.

This year, US political debate has revolved around healthcare.

But for all the fierce political debate, there have been few attempts to find a political solution.

He drove a motorcycle to law school, where he engaged all comers in endless political debate.

More surprisingly, he also argues that a "tipping point" will be reached soon, which could shift the political debate.

So the political debate was whether or not we should impose a freeze on food prices.

There has been intense political debate in Canberra about the influx of Chinese money.

The absence of political debate in the campaign is also dispiriting.

Mr Clegg can also shift the political debate in his direction.

In the 1980s and early 1990s racially charged issues of crime and welfare were central to the political debate.

Europe's political debate was similar.

And the political debate does not yet reflect the depth of the crisis.

Linger: Hey, bro, let's watch a political debate on TV.

issues at stake in political debate.

So while the political debate rages, just what ARE British children eating?

The choices for America in Afghanistan are simpler than they appear in the fog of political debate: We can win or we can lose.

The problem of how to oppose Berlusconi without reinforcing his victorious image is evident at every level of political debate.

The good news is that the China threat that looms so large in U. S. political debate is overstated.

Its measures of corruption, for example, inveigle their way into the political debate in many of its client countries.

On the other hand, questions of private behavior and personal values have become more prominent features of political debate.

To leave them undisturbed, to carry on our political debate

He was addressing an issue that is certain to be part of the political debate as he seeks re-election;

Wooly Days' Derek Barry was also worried about the media's role in the political debate

These relativists refuse to enter into political debate because they are sure even before hearing the debate that it cannot be resolved;

US Political Debate Unfolds Over Iran Response

his speech touched off a political debate in congress