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.

In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.

Our discussion of this involves using Erik Erikson's schema of `` identity vs. identity diffusion '' as a conceptual tool in superimposing a few common denominators onto the diverse personality and family configurations of the unwed mothers from whose case histories we quoted earlier.

Recall the earlier discussion about administrative controls, logical controls, and physical controls.

This indicates that the particle labels have no physical meaning, in agreement with our earlier discussion on indistinguishability.

" There has been much discussion about the ending, in which we see newspaper clippings about Travis's ' heroism ' of saving Iris, and then Betsy gets into his cab and seems to give him admiration instead of her earlier disgust.

This varies with x from a minimum of to a maximum of, as we saw in the earlier, simplified discussion.

His report of the area included a discussion of Mormon religious practices based on Stansbury's interaction with the Mormon community in Great Salt Lake City, which had been established three years earlier in 1847.

Although this war is technically an Anglo-Dutch war ( as it was between Britain and the Netherlands ), many respectable historians, such as Steven Pincus, argue that this later war stemmed from completely different causes and therefore should not be included in a discussion of these earlier wars.

Heinlein may have come up with the term himself, but there are earlier citations: a piece in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1889, used the term in reference to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 and other works ; and one in the May, 1900 issue of The Bookman said that John Uri Lloyd's Etidorhpa, The End of the Earth had " created a great deal of discussion among people interested in speculative fiction ".

* A 2001 Usenet posting ( following on an earlier discussion thread ) discussing changes in the book version in the dialog between Jack and Morningstar in chapter 6, based on the original version of the passage that appeared in F & SF.

Kerouac allows that it was street hustler Herbert Huncke who originally used the phrase " beat ", in an earlier discussion with him.

In 1837, the Roman Catholic supported clerical movement, the Ultramontanes, came to power in the Bavarian parliament and began a campaign of change to the constitution, which removed civil rights that had earlier been granted to Protestants, as well as enforcing censorship and forbidding the free discussion of internal politics.

Separate from the trilogy, but also in discussion of the subject, he wrote Intellectuals and Society, where he discusses what he argues to be the blind hubris and follies of intellectuals in a variety of areas, building on his earlier work.

Of course, the earlier discussion of deviance raises serious doubts about the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon.

In a discussion of any ancient music, however, non-specialists and even many musicians have to be reminded that much of what makes our modern music familiar to us is the result of developments only within the last 1000 years ; thus, our ideas of melody, scales, harmony, and even the instruments we use would not be familiar to Romans who made and listened to music many centuries earlier.

At a meeting of county members earlier in the day Robert Peel, then Prime Minister, had advised them not to be led into discussion by a violent speech from the member for Durham, but to let the committee be granted without debate.

At the same time, Berisha became a member of a discussion forum for changes in the Albanian Party of Labor while having been enrolled as a member a few years earlier.

One of the most beautiful Corinthian capitals is that from the Tholos of Epidaurus ( 400 BCE ); it illustrates the transition between the earlier Greek capital, as at Bassae, and the Roman version that Renaissance and modern architects inherited and refined ( See the more complete discussion at Corinthian order ).

* On February 12, 2010, during a discussion on Bill Clinton's latest heart procedure, Larry King revealed he had undergone a similar operation 5 weeks earlier.

Hill had worked for Thomas years earlier when he was head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and she charged that Thomas harassed her with inappropriate discussion of sexual acts and pornographic films after she rebuffed his invitations to date him.

During the earlier dynastic periods Chinese wheat noodles were known as " soup cake " ( 湯餅 ), as explained by the Song Dynasty scholar Huang Chaoying ( 黃朝英 ) mentions in his work " A delightful mixed discussion on various scholarly topics " (, Scroll 2 ) that in ancient times dough foods are referred collectively as " bing " and differentiated through their cooking methods.

A few years earlier, Tony would have never brought Bobby into such a high-level discussion.

Even so, most scholars did not engage in much serious discussion or analysis of the novel until the 1950s, though many in France recognized the work much earlier.

After some discussion, it was decided the best course of action would be to return to night bombing, which had been the primary concept earlier in the 1930s.