1.   Rational discourse on public policy is vital to a democracy.

2.   Should they, then, be branded as spurious designators and banished from rational discourse?

3.   Her words offer hope that rational discourse may at last inform this painfully divisive issue.

4.   It is an intellectual argument, based largely on economics, befitting a man with a doctorate from the London School of Economics and a love of rational discourse.

5.   The chaos produces a series of one-on-one confrontations, predicated less on rational discourse than on volume, quips and personality.

6.   The convention was chaos, democracy run amok with passions that rolled over rational discourse.

7.   The difficulty, after the spilling of so much blood and the expression of so much bitterness, is finding a way to return to rational discourse.

8.   There is just something gnawing inside of me that says the impact of this verdict is going to be less rational discourse, not more.