There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

When some question arises in the medical field concerning cancer, for instance, we do not turn to free and open discussion as in a political campaign.

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

The question of epidemic disease merits some discussion.

A few of his examples are of very great interest, and the whole discussion of some importance for theory.

Yet after long and earnest discussion Stalin accepted the Curzon Line and even agreed voluntarily that there should be digressions from that line of five to eight kilometers in favor of Poland in some regions.

What follows is therefore a description of three separate undertakings, the new frescoing of the gap, and the successive essays in conservation, with some discussion of problems that arose in connection with each.

In his view, " The dark age of pro and contra slogans, unfair polemics, and humiliations is not yet completely over and done with, but there seems to be some hope for a more constructive discussion " ( ib.

Recently there has been some discussion behind the movement about the role of the social forums.

Links in this article to specific axioms of set theory describe some of the relationships between the informal discussion here and the formal axiomatization of set theory, but no attempt is made to justify every statement on such a basis.

Aside from controversies over the merits of particular conspiratorial claims, the general discussion of conspiracy theory is itself a matter of some public contention.

However, the details of the story are at best uncertain ( see for discussion of the original Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen source and the changes in other versions ); some authors, such as Joseph Rotman in his book A first course in Abstract Algebra, question whether it ever happened.

The title, " Letter on the Blind For the Use of Those Who See ", also evoked some ironic doubt about who exactly were " the blind " under discussion.

This misses some key discussion concerning conditions under which such " groups of permanent possibilities of sensation " might exist in the first place.

Environmental skeptics have argued that the extent of harm coming from human activities is less certain than some scientists and scientific bodies claim, or that it is too soon to be introducing curbs in these activities on the basis of existing evidence, or that further discussion is needed regarding who should pay for such environmental initiatives.

" This sentence is located randomly in the middle of a discussion of southern Italy ; no further mention of Britain is made, which has led some, though not all, modern academics to suggest that the rescript does not apply to Britain, but to Bruttium in Italy.

They then had a more serious discussion regarding the chances of humans observing faster-than-light travel by some material object within the next ten years, which Teller put at one in a million, but Fermi put closer to one in ten.

For example, Hayek's discussion in The Road to Serfdom ( 1944 ) about truth, falsehood and the use of language influenced some later opponents of postmodernism.

* 1 Cor 12, 13, 14, where Paul discusses speaking in " various kinds of tongues " as part of his wider discussion of the gifts of the Spirit ; his remarks shed some light on his own speaking in tongues as well as how the gift of speaking in tongues was to be used in the church.

For some discussion of the subtleties of the Eötvös experiment, such as the local mass distribution around the experimental site ( including a quip about the mass of Eötvös himself ), see Franklin.

As to the traditional discussion on semantic externalism ( often dubbed content externalism ), some mental states, such as believing that water is wet, and fearing that the Queen has been insulted, have contents we can capture using ' that ' clauses.

Very early conferences, such as that with British diplomats in Moscow in 1941 and with Churchill and American diplomats in Moscow in 1942, focused mostly upon war planning and supply, though some preliminary postwar reorganization discussion also occurred.

" Samuel Coale, in a 1974 discussion of Kosiński's fiction, wrote that " the narrator of Steps for instance, seems to be nothing more than a disembodied voice howling in some surrealistic wilderness.

At the Doha round of trade talks through the World Trade Organization one of the items for discussion was the inclusion of some kind of minimum standard of worker protection.

The term may be confusing to some, because it is in fact a discussion group.

The tube design which forms the basis of the theoretical discussion shall be described now.

Also see safety engineering for a discussion of the procedures used to design safe systems.

* A discussion of different woods with regard to bokken design, focusing particularly on durability

Elsewhere the reader may find further discussion of design methods for practical FIR filter design.

In a May 2005, discussion on the newsgroup comp. lang. ruby, Matsumoto attempted to distance Ruby from POLA, explaining that because any design choice will be surprising to someone, he uses a personal standard in evaluating surprise.

Chapter 1 is a discussion of object-oriented design techniques, based on the authors ' experience, which they believe would lead to good object-oriented software design, including:

* Hewn and Hammered dedicated to discussion of the Arts & Crafts movement in art, architecture & design

* Organized discussion moderated by Neil R. Lincoln with eighteen Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) engineers on computer architecture and design.

There was some discussion among State Department officials whether to redo the design again, but given the thought that had gone into the 1885 version, it was decided to recreate that design.

An in-depth, technical discussion on ENIAC, including the thought process behind the design.

An in-depth, technical discussion on the ENIAC, including the thought process behind the design.

As a result of the discussion, Deutsches Theater changed the design of actor make-up.

Considerable discussion took place about the financing and the design of the new hall.

While every nuclear weapon design falls into one of the above categories, specific designs have occasionally become the subject of news accounts and public discussion, often with incorrect descriptions about how they work and what they do.

Neither of these requirements were in place at Chernobyl: since the reactor's actual design bore the approval stamp of the Kurchatov Institute and was considered a state secret, discussion of the reactor's flaws was forbidden, even among the actual personnel operating the plant.

* CPU design, a technical discussion of computing history

The Dall – Kirkham Cassegrain telescope's design was created by Horace Dall in 1928 and took on the name in an article published in Scientific American in 1930 following discussion between amateur astronomer Allan Kirkham and Albert G. Ingalls, the magazine editor at the time.

Earlier, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Johnson — who has described himself as " pretty much center-left before 9 / 11 "— transformed his blog's discussion of bicycle racing, programming, web design, and the occasional humorous news item into a very active discussion of the War on Terror, Islam and Islamism, Eurabia, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

With a new design and layout, the first issue of the revived magazine on 3 September 2003 featured Carina Lau, the actress of former controversy, in a discussion of her new movie, Infernal Affairs II, and Anita Mui, in discussion of her seeking a famous oncologist.