1.   The action is likely to reopen debates about affirmative action.

2.   The cautious effort to reopen the debate was sparked by a controversial report from the United Nations Population Division this year.

3.   His results are likely to reopen the debate on race and education.

4.   Portillo is a conviction politician and is determined to use the spending review to reopen the debate about the boundaries of the welfare state.

5.   Although the international scientific community reached broad agreement on a causal link more than a decade ago, the South African president this year reopened the debate.

6.   And Daschle would clearly like to reopen the debate.

7.   And now, the issue has reopened the debate over what is and is not appropriate on the House floor.

8.   A new book on the Holocaust threatens to reopen the debate over German guilt.

9.   But critics say that any change in the political climate in Beijing would reopen the debate on the merits and science of the dam.

10.   But it also reopened a debate over whether military standards of accountability have changed in recent years.