31.   Get used to it, said Mark Silk, a scholar who has been tracking references to Jesus in public discourse.

32.   He brings the personal into public discourse, then wonders how it ever ended up there.

33.   He has become a blank category in public discourse.

34.   If the British yearned for an era of a kinder, gentler public discourse after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, their hopes have been dashed.

35.   In June, a small dissenting group of international economists and political scientists met to discuss this absence of a full public discourse.

36.   In our public discourse, one stands for the gulag and nuclear warfare, the other for quackery and the insanity defense.

37.   In recent months China has arrested scores of dissidents, closed newspapers and fired outspoken editors in an accelerating effort to tighten control on public discourse.

38.   In the last year, liberals who want more open discussion of political alternatives have been testing the limits of public discourse.

39.   Is anyone else sick of the mean-spiritedness that has infected our public discourse these days?

40.   Inside were images snatched from the shadows and thrust into the center of public discourse.