A parallel debate is evolving in Maine where officials have asked for the removal of a dam, built in 1936, in order to preserve salmon runs.

Link to Dinosaur Theory The scientific issues involved in the nuclear winter debate stem directly from a parallel debate concerning the reasons dinosaurs became extinct.

A parallel debate recently erupted in Japan over the morality of Tokyo's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

There is a parallel debate in the development of regional institutions, such as the European Union, over whether all member states should be treated identically.

Of course, parallel debates in another place have informed our deliberations.

This debate ran alongside a parallel debate on the future of Scottish politics.

Nonetheless, a parallel debate has raged about whether the Israeli Army is losing face and deterrent power in the region.

The discussion in religious circles on global warming can be just as complex as the parallel debates in economic and scientific circles.

In the first few years of this decade, two parallel debates about the achievement gap have emerged.

Among advocates of quotas, the government's sympathy to their position is stimulating a parallel debate over what percentage should be set aside for blacks.