1.   Both demolition projects set off bitter debates.

2.   The country now faces a bitter debate over the issue.

3.   The idea of rewarding groups is also gaining steam in the bitter debate over merit pay for teachers.

4.   The number of permissible House terms has been a subject of bitter debate.

5.   And that is fueling the bitter debate over how much evidence of that is necessary.

6.   Another awkward sentence about expanding and strengthening the Security Council took a couple of months to draft because of bitter debate.

7.   Arndt, the school superintendent, said the bitter debate over the case had set back race relations in Decatur.

8.   As an old man, he contributed to the bitter debates over slavery in the run-up to the Civil War.

9.   Because of that, they are at the heart of a bitter debate that boiled over during an industry conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., last week.

10.   Because there are so many of them, the all-inclusive resorts have fueled a bitter debate among locals about the future of the former British colony.