But a debate within the government over Eskom's future, and the role of the private sector, also held things up.
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But a debate drags on over promised reparations for the worst afflicted.
Parliament is expected to approve the legislation, but a debate and vote has been repeatedly delayed, including on Wednesday at the request of Prime Minister Mohammed Basindwa, a senior opposition figure.
But a presidential debate is probably the best moment in the whole election cycle to look for it.
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He said that the solutions were "not obvious" but required a debate over subjects that some politicians considered taboo.
But a bitter debate could soon break out again: small countries, as the Amsterdam summit showed, are deeply reluctant to lose council votes or commissioners.
But the incident stirred a fierce debate here about yo-yoing, a technically challenging but potent technique that involves stuffing a bait fish with lead weight so it will sink to the ocean's bottom where big stripers lie.
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But a Hagel candidacy could start a debate about Iraq inside the Republican party.
Last week the head of the legislature asked a committee to review the bill, but no date for a debate was set.
The most recent Fed data on lending shows it is going up, but there is a debate about how voluntary that lending is.
Of course it may well be the case that there is no alternative to the old and infirm running nations in which the average age keeps falling to the 20s and lower, but it is a debate that will not go away.
The assembly voted in support of the minister, following a lengthy debate, but called for a special commission to study the general issue "for the sake of the peace and unity of the church".
Certainly a great deal of preparation goes into a debate performance, but most of what a politician says up there on the stage is extemporaneous.
"You can have a discussion about if this is distasteful, but finally we have a public debate, " he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
That is why this weekend I expect us not to produce a solution, but to make a contribution to the debate.
But he has opened a debate that was overdue at the top level.
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"It was right to have a vigorous debate but the law of the Republic should henceforth be respected by all, " he said in a statement.
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron denied there had been any change to the government's policy on wind energy, but did back a future debate on renewables, once the government had met its environmental targets.
But he does think a debate about the UK monetary policy framework, and alternatives to it, would be helpful - provided it is resolved quickly, probably in favour of the current regime or something very close to it.
The report is intended to act as a wake-up call, but it's also sparked a debate over the direction of conservation strategy.
UAE's Federal National Council, a consultative body that stirs up a modicum of debate but makes no executive decisions, will henceforth be elected after a fashion, whereas at present all are appointed by a committee of senior sheikhs.
The SPL is reluctant to be drawn into a public debate on the matter, but a spokesman told BBC Scotland a principal reason for the scheduling anomaly was the clubs' stated desire that no team should play an unequal amount of home and away matches.
He played a role in the 1996 welfare reform debate but doesn't have a national profile.
He said the supply resolutions were normally a technical tidying up exercise, but that the debate had been turned into "a bit of a mess".
Bipedalism is a crucial aspect of the human form, palaeoanthropologists believe - but there is a great deal of debate about when exactly this ability first arose in our lineage.
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Perhaps MPs are not willing to hang around on a Thursday afternoon for a Westminster Hall debate - but if these occasions are just going to be a chance for committee members to make speeches at each other, are they worth having?
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