1.   As the debate flares, the Postal Service is benefiting from an uncanny fluke of timing.

2.   Canadian bond yields usually jump compared with U.S. Treasuries when the national unity debate flares.

3.   Debate has flared over how to resolve problems with the program.

4.   For decades debate has flared on and off about whether these lands should be opened to oil exploration.

5.   In sports, for example, a sensitivity debate flared over such team monikers as Braves and Redskins, and such gestures as the tomahawk chop.

6.   Occasionally a locker-room debate would flare over whether the offending shade was teal at all.

7.   That debate has flared recently, since Girardi began receiving the bulk of the playing time in the post-season.

8.   But the gesture got tangled in bureaucratic red tape, and debate flared over the ethics of accepting the gifts.

9.   Debate flared into heated confrontation over the amount of aid the United States should send to Russia and South Africa.