Big political events like party congresses, which are held once every five years, can sometimes give rise to relatively unfettered debate that officials stop tolerating after the congress settles on a new slate of leaders.

Unlike the House, the Senate has a system of rules and a tradition of unfettered debate that has made it difficult to deal with controversial subjects, forcing many late-night sessions and delicate negotiations.

As always, our declassification efforts seek a balance between your need for unfettered debate and our need to protect sources and methods.

If democracy is about free and unfettered debate, it had certainly taken hold in Poland.

The governor's written response, which the newspaper had invited, said the voters would see "a full and unfettered debate" in a campaign next year, and it concluded that "we should let the process work."

Their sidewalk encounter may have been the only unfettered public debate between China's critics and its supporters during President Jiang's whirlwind tour of New York.

The question is how all of this will play out on the House floor now that the Republican leadership has reluctantly agreed to allow an unfettered debate on campaign finance in May.

These judges do so in deference to Supreme Court rulings aimed at guaranteeing robust and unfettered public debate, even at a price.

The last time the Senate had a full, unfettered debate on an overhaul of the campaign finance law was in 1993, when Democrats controlled the chamber.

Pravda, which has itself recently seemed ambivalent about the social upheavals in the country, condemned the "authoritarian" tone of the earlier article and printed a spirited defense of unfettered debate.