41.   The debate was held in a state that may have one of the most important primaries.

42.   The debate was held in the absence of Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was in Belfast for talks on the peace process.

43.   The debate was held at the New School, a Manhattan college.

44.   The encounter came after a week of unusual on-camera confrontations between the candidates as they struggled to decide whether to hold the debate at all.

45.   The final debate will be held on Friday evening at William Paterson College of New Jersey in Wayne.

46.   The debate was held at the Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas, immediately after one between US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and her Democratic challenger, Richard Fischer.

47.   The debate was held in a Boston television station, with a small audience of invited guests.

48.   The debate will be held near the library on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, where the huge media entourage is also to be situated.

49.   The GOP leaders had two motives for hoping to hold the debate in March.

50.   The Senate then closed its doors and held the debate in a closed session.