He disregarded the excited babble that arose about him and the scraps of heated talk that filled the air thickly.

The main Shiite and Kurdish political parties have been engaged in heated talks to form a coalition government.

But on an island where even a new stop sign can be wildly controversial, it generates a lot of heated talk and carping letters-to-the-editor.

The fact that there hasn't been a woman in the group has caused some heated talk among artists.

At the same time, the determined Iraqi resistance has led to more heated talk about whether there are sufficient ground troops in Iraq to do the job.

But the entrepreneurs are of particular interest in Quebec these days as heated talk of independence sweeps the province for the first time in a decade.

Senior Ukraine officials held heated talks in Sevastopol yesterday with fleet leaders and agreed to meet again in the future.

Picard remembered that meeting, and the heated talk he'd had with Hanson afterwards.

As heated talks began, both sides established their own chains of command.

For the dwindling number of ethnic Russians who remain in Chechnya, however, any heated talk of Islam is frightening.