11.   The first state to publicly debate the issue of competition in public education, Minnesota triggered the national debate about choice.

12.   What began as a squabble has polarised into a national debate.

13.   Whether or not the proposal is enacted, it May well set off a national debate.

14.   Government plans to make divorce easier has set off a national debate.

15.   The decision followed analysis of the national debate on the draft constitution, which showed that a sizeable minority were in favour of such a system.

16.   At this point the debate over the civil rights bill merged into a wider national debate concerning the legitimacy of reverse discrimination.

17.   In the absence of any significant opposition, the national debate was thus dominated by members of the ruling Rassemblement dmocratique centrafricain.

18.   A fundamental principle of our case is that the BBC must be the guarantor of the national debate.

19.   Now a hospital officer from Long Lartin has sparked a national debate by highlighting the problem in the latest issue of Nursing Times.

20.   Most of those though, are national debates -- money is the only issue which could be effected by the coming County Council elections.