1.   Meanwhile, the referendum campaign was marked by increasingly heated rhetoric on both sides.

2.   But what is missing amid all the heated rhetoric is conclusive data.

3.   Fisher added that the heated rhetoric used in the case can be misleading, since intellectual property is limited by duration and by the fair use doctrine.

4.   He was the balancer and compromiser, a political moderate with an aversion to heated rhetoric and doctrinal rigidity.

5.   In all these cases, the two parties hope that bipartisan commissions can come up with solutions outside the heated rhetoric of election campaigns.

6.   In recent years, the controversy has been inflamed by heated rhetoric, bombings of birth-control clinics and murders of clinic workers.

7.   Many who hear the heated political rhetoric in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing are troubled by uncertainty as to the degree and legitimacy of anti-government oratory.

8.   Nice thoughts, especially after the heated rhetoric of the election and the sometimes poisonous partisanship heard in the House in the last week.

9.   Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., sponsor of the Senate bill, said heated rhetoric from any source is harmful to the search for a legislative solution.