Blair Jenkins, chief executive of the Yes Scotland 2014 referendum campaign and chair of the independent Scottish Broadcasting Commission (which recommended a Scottish Broadcasting Service), said the figure for spending in Scotland was affected by the referendum and associated debate.
Though these pulls on market levers only get us some way towards the second-best ideal, so much of public policy - and the associated debate - is essentially about balancing the competing incentives.
These theories may not have much relevance in the context of modern science or cosmology but the associated debates about the nature of causation have contributed to an understanding of the philosophical foundations of scientific enquiry.
Loose ends: Bloom's still-unexplained lapse, the utter ineptitude of the police (who didn't even tip off the BBC about any of their inquiries, for crying out loud), the mess of dates on gravestones, the shaky grasp of fibre-optic technology … There will be many more, and the associated debates are part of what has energised this blog.
And as The Times reported in November, the Obama administration — after years of internal debate — decided to designate the Shabab an "associated force" of Al Qaeda.
A current debate concerns whether shorter telomeres are a heritable trait [8], or a consequence of an associated disease process [9, 10] or, in fact due to an age related dysfunction in telomere regulation [11, 12].
Much of the debate focuses on the precise role fungi play in the disease process, including whether they specifically drive the inflammatory disease process or are simply an associated finding.
These indicators have come to be known as 'outcomes' and measuring these outcomes, by means of validated instruments and questionnaires, is now an important field of academic activity that generates a plethora of health-related outcome measures and associated methodological debate.
Which brings us to the rumors and associated fan debate.
A speech became a debate.
