A full-scale debate on the letter would dramatize exactly how split the bishops still are on a number of issues in the document.

Before long, a full-scale debate was in progress.

Now is not the time to begin a full-scale debate on the tax code.

China avoided, as it has every year since 1990, a full-scale debate on its policies toward dissenters and other minorities.

And until last night the candidates had appeared in a smattering of citizens forums, but never in a full-scale debate.

He will then submit the names formally to Congress later for confirmation and what promises to be a full-scale debate over the program's future.

Forced to swallow guns with their butter, the antiwar liberals would not open up the political process for a full-scale debate as the war escalated.

This year, the hearings were a bit more subdued, although the rhetoric veered off at times into full-scale debates on capitalism, equality and social justice.

But there has been no full-scale debate as to whether this space station is the best path to crucial biomedical knowledge.

I do not want to have a full-scale debate on this.