The debate swirling around these changes is crystallized in a word: Eurocentrism.

Soon the debate was swirling throughout the nation.

A debate over whether to accept the invitation has swirled through the Vatican over the last week.

Now public debate swirls around the economic costs and benefits of importing guest workers, nurses or more foreign graduate students.

As the debate over immigration reform swirls in Washington and around the country, the emotional significance behind the phrase "path to citizenship" can be lost.

It was about jobs, and it would have made sense if the debate had swirled around jobs for welfare recipients or the working poor.

The debate swirling around the sale of the Black Cuillin, about 25 miles south of here, has raised legal questions too.

A debate swirled around this giant, curlicued sign.

In the wake of the trial, debate has swirled on this question: Are au pairs too young and inexperienced to care for young children?

The debate swirled for two hours, optimism and hope alternating with lingering bitterness and frustration.