It's a question that few theorists care to debate openly.

"Once an issue starts being debated openly, you have less control over it."

Before the war began, we debated openly, as democracy demands.

"I think it's fine that ideology is being debated more openly now."

An income tax had been openly debated for months, he said, and no one is ever happy about paying more taxes.

At the time of the book and the movie, Aviv's claims were openly debated.

But the French action wasn't surreptitious and can be openly debated.

That makes the supplementary budget more important, but it could not be openly debated until now.

We need to openly debate how we get out of this mess.

If the subject were openly debated, the American people would not agree to foot the bill necessary to region-build the world.