While many of these stories are grounded in people's fears, stories involving conflict can also act as a diversion from the struggles of people's everyday lives and be the impetus for debate and discussion on important issues.
Lord Ashdown, who is leading the Lib Dems' general election campaign, urged broadcasters to "stick to their guns" or else he feared the impetus for the debates would "ebb away".
The impetus for the debate, of course, is the Collapse of Enron, the most dastardly event in the history of business.
This under-reported trend should provide the impetus for a debate about the need for a "progressive protectionism" in the UK and Europe – is it time to reject the ubiquitous calls for open markets and the need to be internationally competitive?
Doing so would create an additional impetus for candidates to participate in R.N.C.-sanctioned debates only, but even if this happens, it will remain important to work closely with the media so they agree to broadcast them.
Mr. Anderson said that although the editorial was an impetus for his column, there were also others, like debates on talk radio.
Although the most appropriate strategy for managing drug-resistant TB is debated, these data provide additional impetus for evaluating novel approaches, such as those recently introduced in Mexico, for managing drug-resistant TB (13, 35).
Let's face it: once the press release is "released" declaring "mission accomplished" on a controversial issue there is little to no impetus for Congress people to go back and reopen these debates again.
Despite this fact, we continue to see the same, tired old debates crop up in the public eye, providing impetus for the insidious creep of creationist thinking into scientific education.
Cost-benefit analysts tend to be in endless debate about such programs, and so the social impetus for them often becomes blurred.
