31.   And the Archbishop of Canterbury called for a national debate on the issue of violence in Britain.

32.   And Powell will wait to see if Dole stumbles in mid-November in the first national TV debate and in a pivotal GOP straw poll in Florida.

33.   And then, as abruptly as his race caught fire after the national debate in May, it ended.

34.   And yet he believes over time the Wildnerness Center and places like it will have a profound political impact on the national environmental debate.

35.   And though the specifics of the plan remain to be worked out, the law is already the focus of an acrimonious national debate.

36.   And whatever the board decides will only add fuel to what promises to become a national debate comparable to the earlier struggle over the best way to teach reading.

37.   Anti-abortion groups have made the procedure the focus of national debate, because the technique is so repugnant that some abortion-rights backers have reservations about it.

38.   As Osborne appealed to the Supreme Court, a national debate has risen in defense of the endangered national symbol.

39.   As with the earlier incidents, the case has stoked the national debate over gun control, violence in the media and the state of American youth.

40.   As the national debate began, the Senate appeared resolute in its initial opposition.