The discussion inside the White House includes at least two distinct debates: Should Mr. Obama assume a more populist or centrist theme in his message?
MY new column looks at today's seemingly distinct debates about British capitalism, executive pay, welfare caps, the squeezed middle and immigration, and concludes that behind them lies something bigger, simpler and more dangerous.
Following the attacks of Sept. 11, Krauthammer said there was a "very distinct ideological debate" about America's role in the world.
But in recent years there has been a distinct lack of debate about marriage as potentially problematic for women.
As Obama pointed out in his final press conference, there is a distinct difference between debates over policy and moments when "core values may be at stake".
But their differing perspectives are also a window into two distinct but related debates, one economic, one political, and both important in determining where the nation goes the rest of the year.
However, the current taxonomy of the group remains a source of debate, with distinct lineages indicated either as one species or distinct species or subspecies (e.g., [27], [28], [29], [30]).
He noted that the endorsements covered viewpoints from two distinct sides of the debate: elderly Americans fearful that a health care overhaul could cut into Medicare, and the nation's doctors and medical professionals.
There has been a distinct absence, in this debate, of the kind of coded black-white racial tension that was used to defeat welfare-state initiatives as recently as the early 1990s.
The American species, Anhinga anhinga, is widely acknowledged as distinct, but there is debate regarding whether the darters that appear in Africa, Asia, and Oceania constitute one species (A. melanogaster) or whether they should be separated into three (A. melanogaster, A. novaehollandiae, and A. rufa).
There are, in fact, many distinct issues in this debate, and sometimes several of them are run together.
