The most emotional issue debated was Quebec separation.

So far, Mr. Birney said, audiences seem to relish hearing such issues debated onstage.

This is an easy one for Mr. Kaufman, who is not a coffee drinker, but an issue much debated here.

Both issues were highly controversial and hotly debated issues in West German politics at the time.

The thorniest issues dividing the two nations - drugs, migration, trade disputes - were discussed, but not debated, aides on both sides said.

The issues debated related to the structures of the state (and its relationship to society) and as result state-building is the more broadly accepted term.

First, the urgent issues: we recently debated the results of the European Council.

Mr President, basically, the issue we are now debating concerns our credibility as parliamentarians.

An important issue still debated regarding Sophocles' Antigone is the problem of the second burial.

This led to another series of minor eruptions from the capacity audience, but there were, before long, other issues to debate.