"We've been very clear to not be drawn into rhetorical polemical debates.
In the process I was involuntarily enlisted into what has been called, "The Ritalin Wars," an often-polemical public debate about whether psychiatric drugs are good or bad for children.
This conclusion is suggested by the nature of the Liber Pontificalis itself, which was only one of a set of conflicting polemical sources that debated the recent past of Rome's episcopacy.
The polemical nature of the debate means that statistics – which are already unreliable – are manipulated by both sides.
Voter registration in swing states is at record levels, at least 62.5 million people watched the first Bush-Kerry debate, the polemical film "Fahrenheit 9/11" was a huge box office success and the news media are focused on political decisions and wartime action (past and present), not marital fidelity or youthful drunken-driving records.
Other essential sui generis voices given resonant articulation off Broadway this year: that of the writer-director Richard Maxwell, who found the improbable drama in numbed prosaic lives with "Boxing 2000," and of Stephen Adly Guirgis, who brought new polemical fire to the debate play with his scorching tale of two prisoners, "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train".
The groups taking part - Youth Defence, Pro Life Ireland and the Catholic organisation, the Iona Institute - testify to the polemical nature of the debate here.
Hughes' part in Plath's heart-breaking death has been the subject of ferocious, often toxic debate, litigation and polemical poetry: "I accuse/Ted Hughes /of…the murder of Sylvia Plath, Robin Morgann wrote infamously in 1970.
Abner influenced with his polemical works the Jewish-Christian debate until the end of the Middle Ages.
