1.   Figueroa heats his rhetoric appropriately, but is careful to keep within the boundaries of indignant discourse.

2.   Rhetoric was heated on both sides.

3.   The criminal investigation will examine whether Smith had accomplices and how much the heated rhetoric of the Rev. Al Sharpton and Morris Powell fueled his embrace of destruction.

4.   The rhetoric already is heated and fund-raising efforts have started.

5.   The rhetoric was most heated in Johnson County, Kansas, and Jackson County, Missouri.

6.   But the rhetoric is equally heated, and at the moment there are no signs of compromise.