1.   Ability to use the written and spoken word in order to enter into public debate.

2.   As with the Doomsday scenario, this further militarisation of the police occurred without public debate or accountability.

3.   Education has become a central issue in public debate.

4.   First, it must present technical data on safety in a way that will encourage public debate.

5.   For a long time citizens were denied the right to air their views fully or to hold public debates.

6.   He called for a public debate on race and discrimination.

7.   He enters freely into public debate from his close attention to most subjects, but he is no Orator.

8.   Health care dominated the public debate in the presidential campaign four years ago.

9.   His eloquence is often out of place in public debates, where precision and clarity are preferred to brilliant imagination.

10.   I think we should have a public debate on this issue.