Mr. Bush, who had stayed out of the fractious debate in Congress, signed the measure without comment.

And at a time of fractious debate over social spending, many people come up short at the place where considerable cost meets uncertain gain.

The advances have been used by both sides in this fractious debate to support their arguments for and against a cloning ban.

The origin of their constellations remains a matter of vigorous and occasionally fractious debate.

The most fractious debates during the three-day session concerned the use of the term "reproductive health services."

Despite a fractious debate among the seven members of school board there, Don Scott, board president, said he hoped the budget would be approved.

Doing so will help repair the damage this fractious debate inflicted on an economy that was already slowing, not just here but around the world.

'Factory-efficient' abortion proposals are about to re-open decades of fractious debate.

Attempts to expand them are likely to bring fractious debates over who writes the rules.