1.   Because of the shortage, the new rule has not only spawned debate among patients, but also among hospitals vying for their share of the lucrative transplant business.

2.   In any event, when Congress takes up the Medicare drug issue next year, the cost of the program is sure to spawn debate about prices.

3.   The death penalty, after years of being seen as something of a dead letter in American politics, has lately spawned increasing debate.

4.   The growing use of unsigned messages over computer networks has spawned a debate about how to prevent abuses without stifling the right to speak freely -- even anonymously.

5.   The move stunned the nation and spawned numerous debates across England and within the team.

6.   The rule, announced last fall, spawned sharp debate among lawyers and others who questioned its constitutionality.

7.   This budding relationship, which casts drug makers almost as a new breed of defense contractor, already is spawning a debate over the extent government should embrace industry.

8.   She has no qualms about what she did, even though the use of the technique for non-medical reasons has spawned debate on religious and medical ethics grounds.

9.   The FBI siege spawned a debate across America on the use of force by federal law enforcement agencies.