The country is divided over the best way to educate them, with bilingual programs gathering steam but also provoking a sometimes heated debate with those who favor an English-only approach.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

In sometimes heated exchanges, Mrs Hodge argued that tax avoidance schemes were being used for a purpose not intended by Parliament and that it was not simply wealthy investors being marketed to.

BBC: Tax avoidance schemes 'utterly immoral', says Hodge

Prosecution witnesses, meanwhile, maintained that the tests were valid -- leading to highly technical and sometimes heated courtroom arguments and prompting the prosecution to ask for new DNA tests, a request the judge rejected.

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The evidence on the employment effects of the minimum wage is ponderous, and the argument sometimes gets heated.

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He says there were times during the trial when Judge Mukasey ruled against the government, sometimes after heated fights.

NPR: Lawyers Give AG Nominee Strong Marks

Obama addressed a supportive town hall meeting in New Hampshire that contrasted with combative events held by Democratic Congress members that have generated heated and sometimes disruptive responses.

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McCluskie told police that his sister was more heated towards him during the exchange and they would sometimes have "squabbles".

BBC: Gemma McCluskie

We cannot turn in a heated instant on a friend like that, no matter how vexed our friendship may have sometimes been.

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In the heated arguments about the progress, or non-progress, of architecture, Elizabeth Gordon was sometimes accused of being xenophobic.

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