To many in the law, however, the debate about the quality of the social science proferred by jury consultants obscures a more important point.

That debate, however, obscures more serious problems with the police bill.

The entire debate over education and tuition fees obscures the most important point.

Unfortunately, thus far the debate has often obscured more than it has illuminated.

The debate over the Bush budget has obscured the importance of the size of the surplus compared with the decline in maturing debt.

The debate over the various candidates, however, has obscured a larger issue: whether such a chair should exist at all.

The ensuing debate over "Channel One" has obscured the fact that there have been corporate-sponsored educational programs in schools for years.

This debate obscured the fact that semantics networks, at least those with well-defined semantics, are a form of logic.

The political debate that he has set in motion has obscured the issues on which negotiation may well turn.

But the heated debate about pension costs has obscured an even more fundamental problem with the law, Dr. Boose said.