Through 2007, debates raged whether to turn the base into a mega complex around a NASCAR track called EPCAL Centre or a giant ski resort based construction of an artificial high indoor ski mountain.

The Michelin teams were unable to find a solution, and while debates raged until the second, the Michelin teams pulled into the pits at the end of the parade lap, leaving only the 3 Bridgestone teams to contest the race.

Scholarly debates over the identity of Himiko and the location of her domain Yamatai have raged since the late Edo period, with opinions divided between northern Kyūshū or traditional Yamato province in present-day Kinki.

Similar debates on the education of girls in headscarves have long raged in secular-yet-Muslim Turkey ; the European Court of Human Rights upheld the laws of Turkey, which are more restrictive than the French law ; it therefore seems highly unlikely it would declare the French law contrary to the Convention.

During the 1860s, great debates raged across Europe and the United States as to an appropriate monetary system for the changing times.

It was also a time when debates raged about the slave trade, the British occupation of India, and, more relevant to the novel, the disastrous effect of the Highland Clearances.

Debate over the origin of the Scablands raged for four decades and is one of the great debates in the history of earth science.

Philosophical debates about the nature of scientific truth and the applicability of any human reason to a subject so complex as human behaviour, considering past failures, raged.

The academic debates between datagram and virtual circuit raged for some time, but were eventually cut short by bureaucratic maneuvering.

Long debates over how to conduct a " fair " test of the efficiency of 29 " vs 26 " mountain bikes have raged online, but no serious efforts have been made to conduct a large-scale, scientific study.

In an attempt to blunt that reaction and reunite the Democratic party, presidential hopeful Stephen A. Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

The Opposition party's main role in the House is to present arguments against the Government's policies and legislation, and attempt to hold the Government accountable as much as possible by asking questions of importance during Question Time and during debates on legislation.

McCarthy, along with other candidates who had been excluded from the 1992 Democratic debates ( including two-time New Alliance Party Presidential candidate Lenora Fulani, former Irvine, California mayor Larry Agran, " Billy Jack " actor Tom Laughlin, and others ) staged protests and unsuccessfully took legal action in an attempt to be included in the debates.

But this computer is a society of creative thinkers, or people ( albeit posthuman transhuman persons ), having debates in order to generate information, in the never-ending attempt to attain omniscience of this physicsits evolutionary forms, its computational abilities, and the methods of its epistemologyhaving an eternity to do so.

Instruments of soft power include debates on cultural values, dialogues on ideology, the attempt to influence through good example, and the appeal to commonly accepted human values.

Pope Martin I had condemned both Monothelitism and Constans ' attempt to halt debates over it ( the Type of Constans ) in the Lateran Council of 649.

Coming on the heels of the Church's vocal objection to legalization of abortion as well as same sex unions and adoptions in Mexico City, " together with some statements of its supporters, suggests that it might be an attempt to suppress the Catholic Church's ability to engage in public policy debates.

Ahmadis argue that the condition of oral debate proposed by Meher Ali Shah was an indirect refusal of Ghulam Ahmad's challenge and a deliberate attempt to trap him, for if he had accepted, he would have broken his promise with God by engaging in debates, but if he had declined, it would have been assumed that Meher Ali Shah was victorious and Ghulam Ahmad had withdrawn.

Volynsky, however, now thought himself strong enough to attempt to supersede Biron himself, and openly opposed the favorite in the State Council in the debates as to the indemnity due to Poland for the violations of her territory during the War of the Polish Succession, Biron advising that a liberal indemnity should be given, whereas Volynsky objected to any indemnity at all.

The public sociology produced at Berkeley is an attempt to intervene in ongoing public debates over issues such as class and gender disparities and global inequality.

Many sites are discussion groups, others theological debates and some attempt to provide advice concerning religious doctrine.

As with the Assembly, the Council can attempt to control the executive by putting questions to ministers, raising debates, and discussing adjournment motions to highlight alleged lapses by the state government.

The phrase " methodological individualism ," which has come into common usage in modern debates about the connection between microeconomics and macroeconomics, was coined by the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1908 as a way of referring to the views of Weber.

Ralph A. Rossum, writing in the San Diego Law Review, notes that the debate over the amendment's adoption lacked " any serious or systematic considerations of its potential impact on federalism ... The popular press, the party platforms, the state memorials, the House and Senate debates, and the state legislative debates during ratification focused almost exclusively on expanding democracy, eliminating political corruption, defeating elitism and freeing the states from what they had come to regard as an onerous and difficult responsibility.

His differences with Chomsky contributed to fierce, acrimonious debates among linguists that have come to be known as the " linguistics wars ".

Through those 15 years, the Congress saw many delegates come and go, but Thomson's dedication to recording the debates and decisions provided continuity.

Science textbooks have been the source of ongoing debates and have come under scrutiny from several organizations.

According to Leslie Roberts in his biography of Howe, " This was the Howe the country would soon come to know much better, the Howe on the rampage, the Howe who is impatient of criticism and deplores the debates and delays inherent in the parliamentary system.

After a series of televised debates throughout September, Hollande topped the ballot in the first round held on 9 October with 39 % of the vote, not gaining the 50 % required to avoid a second ballot, which he would contest against Martine Aubry, who had come second with 30 % of the vote.

It has come a long way since then and has been put through many valuable and essential debates.

Since 1900, English has been permitted in debates in the States of Jersey and has come to dominate.

Hypostasis had come into use as a technical term prior to the Christological debates of the late fourth and fifth centuries.

The Los Angeles Times called the book " a must-read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come.

For instance, Revolution is studied through the people who come down in the street to make the Revolution, or the events in polling stations during the first elections ( fights, quarrels, noise, debates, and so on ).

Arguments between the two have spilled onto the air and there were backstage debates about such matters as whose name would come first and which of them would get the power seat-the one facing the control room.

The office of Governor-General for the Commonwealth of Australia was conceived during the debates and conventions leading up to federation.

The lack of a consistent, rigorous, and precise understanding of what typically makes up one unit of cultural transmission remains a problem in debates about memetics.

It is to be sought in debates, in protests, in letters, in memoirs, and wherever it can be picked up.

In the debates leading up to World War I, a number of isolationist senators filibustered bills that Wilson considered important.

Lionel Robbins, former head of the economics department at the London School of Economics, who had many heated debates with Keynes in the 1930s, had this to say after observing Keynes in early negotiations with the Americans while drawing up plans for Bretton Woods:

However, the rift would open again during the debates leading up to the Council of Chalcedon.

Leading up to the 2008 U. S. presidential election, CNN devoted large amounts of coverage to politics, including hosting candidate debates during the Democratic and Republican primary seasons.

In 2008, CNN partnered with The Los Angeles Times to host two primary debates leading up to its coverage of Super Tuesday.

Matters came to a head during the years running up to the English Civil War, when the cross was seen to encompass the doctrinal debates of the period.

In 1956, he set up New Bridge, an organisation which aims to help prisoners stay in touch with society and integrate back into it. He organized many debates on prison reform in the House of Lords from the 1950s onwards and in 1963 chaired the commission whose report led to the establishment of the parole system in 1965.

While Fox drew up lists for his proposed Cabinet under the new Prince Regent, Pitt spun out the legalistic debates over the constitutionality of and precedents for instituting a regency, as well as the actual process of drawing up a Regency Bill and navigating it through Parliament.

During Season 6, Freedonia popped up again when Congressman Matt Santos, then hoping to become the Democratic nominee for president, showed his anger with modern political debates.

To that end a new Agreement of the People was drawn up by sixteen representatives of different parties, but, after long debates in the Council of Officers, it was so altered by the officers that Lilburne and other leaders of the levellers refused to accept it, and published in May 1649 a rival Agreement, drawn up themselves.

Eventually, I regret to say, the YPSL chapter, after much discussion, many debates and some downright quarrels, broke up over the socialist picnic.

In debates leading up to the passage of the 1765 Stamp Act, both Hutchinson and Bernard quietly warned London not to proceed.

This issue, when brought up with the general public several weeks later, immediately caused an uproar from the press and became one of the hottest debates on the Internet in China due to the still painful memory of foreign humiliation epitomized in the destruction of this " Garden of Gardens ( 萬園之園 )".

In the months between the Treaty debates and the outbreak of Civil War, Brugha attempted to dissuade his fellow anti-treaty army leaders including Rory O ' Connor, Liam Mellows and Joe McKelvey from taking up arms against the Free State.

Hutchinson and her allies disrupted Wilson's sermons and generated divisive debates in the Boston church, and would even get up to leave when Wilson got up to preach or pray.

The BJS would often link up on issues and debates with the right-wing Swatantra Party of Chakravarti Rajgopalachari.

When the young entrepreneur Christoph Blocher was elected president of the Zürich SVP in 1977, he declared his intent to oversee significant change in the political line of the Zürich SVP, bringing an end to debates that aimed to open the party up to a wide array of opinions.

Stone contributed up to $ 10 million to President Richard Nixon's election campaigns in 1968 and 1972 ; these were cited in Congressional debates after Watergate to institute campaign spending limits.