His death raised tension between Russia and Moldova and has revived a decades-old debate over the presence of Russian forces in Moldova.

Resolving a decades-old constitutional debate, the Court ruled unanimously that the police are ordinarily required to knock and announce their presence before entering a house to execute a search warrant.

The speech controversy stems from a decades-old debate over manualism, the teaching of sign language as the primary means of communication, vs. oralism, teaching spoken-language skills through speech production and lip reading.

Former President George Bush fanned doubts yesterday about Senator John Kerry's service in Vietnam, sustaining a decades-old debate that has dominated the presidential campaign in the last few weeks.

One thing proponents and critics of air power appear to agree on is that the early resistance of the Iraqi force to air attack is beginning to transform the decades-old debate over air power.

In 2012, the death of Vadim Pisari raised tensions with Russia and revived a decades-old debate over security in Moldova.

Each destructive storm not only churns up the sea and chews up the ocean-front but also renews a decades-old debate over whether government agencies should pay for erosion control programs.

The appointment by presidential decree of a lawyer, Tahani el-Gebaly, as a judge on the Constitutional Supreme Court, is expected to end a decades-old debate over the right of women to become judges.

Introduction of the bare-bones policies has also cast some light on the decades-old debate about whether state rules mandating the breadth of coverage have greatly inflated costs, as insurers have long asserted.

The decades-old debate is heating up again as the industry awaits a report from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is finishing a review of soft-dollar practices.