The difference engine and printer were constructed to tolerances achievable with 19th-century technology, resolving a long-standing debate whether Babbage's design would actually have worked.

Thus, in the long-standing debate on whether free will is compatible with the doctrine of determinism, several philosophers have proposed analyses of the relevant concepts to argue for either compatibilism or incompatibilism.

The nature of political and cultural interactions between Teotihuacan and the centers of the Maya region ( as well as elsewhere in Mesoamerica ) has been a long-standing and significant area for debate.

A long-standing debate to determine the nature of a proposed high capacity road, that would link the port of Heysham to the M6 motorway with the intention of reducing traffic congestion in the city centre, is one of the most prominent issues in local politics today.

There has been a long-standing debate over the sharpness of the trade-off between ' outreach ' ( the ability of a microfinance institution to reach poorer and more remote people ) and its ' sustainability ' ( its ability to cover its operating costs — and possibly also its costs of serving new clients — from its operating revenues ).

A long-standing debate in the LightWave user community has consisted of whether or not to integrate Modeler and Layout into a single program.

Others have seen in this dichotomy, the long-standing debate whether visual art is about theoretical principles and meant to narrate a full story, or a painterly decorative endeavor, meant to delight the senses.

There is a long-standing debate as to how this situation could have arisen, and the question is not yet resolved.

Bollinger described the event as part of " Columbia's long-standing tradition of serving as a major forum for robust debate, especially on global issues.

He also resolved a long-standing cultural debate in the community by authorizing the Franco-Ontarian flag to be flown at Tom Davies Square.

The questions of what consciousness is, and what conditions are necessary for conscious thought have been the topic of a long-standing philosophical debate.

The precise role of this culture and its language to the derivation of the Pontic-Caspian cultures such as Sredny Stog and Yamna, is open to debate, though the display of recurrent traits points either to long-standing mutual contacts or underlying genetic relations.

There is a long-standing controversy between CL and Scheme advocates over the tradeoffs involved in multiple namespaces.

Diocletian's elevation of Bassus as consul symbolized his rejection of Carinus ' government in Rome, his refusal to accept second-tier status to any other emperor, and his willingness to continue the long-standing collaboration between the Empire's senatorial and military aristocracies.

The Giants ' front office operations were complicated by a long-standing feud between Wellington Mara and his nephew, Tim Mara.

Another, more psychological factor that has played a part here is that a long-standing mutual distrust or antipathy felt between former East Berliners and West Berliners ( Ossis and Wessis according to the well-known slang terms ), is still very much in evidence in the city and elsewhere in Germany, and bold civil engineering projects and architectural statements are not going to make it go away by themselves.

Several other trophies are contested within the main competition, mostly as long-standing fixtures between pairs of teams.

Williams explained that the long-standing friction between himself and Gary has been resolved, and how close they now were.

When Clinton did not respond to his satisfaction, Chief Hendrick said that the " Covenant Chain ", a long-standing friendly relationship between the Iroquois Confederacy and the British Crown, was broken.

The texts also tell of a long-standing rivalry between Amaterasu and her other brother, Susanoo.

A long-standing correspondence between New York based author Helene Hanff and the staff of a bookstore on the street, Marks & Co., was the inspiration for the book 84 Charing Cross Road ( 1970 ).

The matter of trade tariffs had been a long-standing source of conflict between the various political units of Southern Africa.

However, at Court the match was not so popular among the elder members of court due to the long-standing tensions between Austria and France, which had only recently been mollified.

In 1637, long-standing tensions between the Puritan English of Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay colonies and the Pequot escalated into open warfare.

Interpretations of the work often rely on an understanding of Egypt and Rome as they respectively signify Elizabethan ideals of East and West, contributing to a long-standing conversation about the play ’ s representation of the relationship between imperializing western countries and colonized eastern cultures.

In modern scholarship, this is taken as further evidence of long-standing connections between the plebeians, Ceres and Magna Graecia.

" There is a long-standing enmity between Morpheus and Desire, stemming from Desire's involvement in the breakup of one of Dream's romantic relationships ( seen in Endless Nights ).

Between June 1728 and July 1729 it hosted the Congress of Soissons an attempt to resolve a long-standing series of disputes between Great Britain and Spain which had spilled over into the Anglo-Spanish War of 1727.

The Bush Doctrine, in line with long-standing neoconservative ideas, held that the United States is entangled in a global war of ideas between the western values of freedom on the one hand, and extremism seeking to destroy them on the other ; a war of ideology where the United States must take responsibility for security and show leadership in the world by actively seeking out the enemies and also change those countries who are supporting enemies.

Aid would be given to both Greece and Turkey, to help cool the long-standing rivalry between them.

There are long-standing differences and disputes between herpetoculturists and professional herpetologists.

SPECTRE and its characters have been at the centre of long-standing litigation starting in 1961 between Kevin McClory and Ian Fleming over the film rights to Thunderball and the ownership of the organisation and its characters.

Depew also has a long-standing rivalry between themselves and Lancaster High School.

A long-standing common categorisation was a division between the Vlax ( from Vlach ) from non-Vlax dialects.

They tell of a long-standing rivalry between Susanoo and his sister.

In November 2006, the PSO announced a pledge of US $ 29. 5 million from the Richard P. Simmons family as the start of a capital challenge for the orchestra to address long-standing financial concerns.

* A long-standing dispute between Cambodia and Vietnam in the Gulf of Siam concerns mainly the island of Phú Quốc, which is located off the Cambodian coast.

To resolve the long-standing dispute over trusts, the Wilson Administration dropped the " trust-busting " legal strategies of Roosevelt and Taft and relied on the new a Federal Trade Commission to issue orders prohibiting " unfair methods of competition " by business concerns in interstate trade.

Freed from administrative worries and budget controversies, Brower was able to continue to travel, speak and work on many of his long-standing concerns.

According to testimony by William Cohen, "... the U. S. intelligence community obtained physical evidence from outside the al-Shifa facility in Sudan that supported long-standing concerns regarding its potential role in Sudanese chemical weapon efforts that could be exploited by al Qaeda.

Some concerns about this long-standing frameset feature of the HTML 3. 0 and HTML 4. 0 standards have led to its removal from the HTML 5. 0 standard ( except for iframes ).

In announcing this decision to the school community, the head of school noted that there were long-standing concerns about the detrimental effect of elevating a select few students above others in a ceremony with clear winners and losers, and how the practice stood in contrast to Friends ' beliefs in honoring every person.

There is a long-standing connection found in research between youth who commit crimes and mental health concerns.

The 1987 Meech Lake Accord, a package of constitutional amendments, intended to deal with long-standing concerns of western provinces and demands from the Province of Quebec, failed in 1990 when it was not ratified by all ten provincial governments.