Debates in Parliament had included expressions of concern about Russian naval expansion in the northern Pacific, pointed out that the sole naval defence consisted of one 24 gun frigate, and the time it would take for Britain to come to the colonies aid.

Debates over the applicability of teleology to scientific questions came to a head in the nineteenth century, as Paley's argument about design came into conflict with radical new theories on the transmutation of species.

Debates about " soft " and " hard " primitivism intensified with the publication in 1651 of Hobbes's Leviathan ( or Commonwealth ), a justification of absolute monarchy.

Debates arise in these four fields about whether or not people or organizations are " really " rational, as well as whether it make sense to model them as such in formal models.

House of Commons Hansard Debates for 12 Jun 1996 ( pt 41 ) reports a discussion about the badge of No. 273 Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force.

Debates about the definition and validity of this syndrome have a long history.

Renee Hobbs of Temple University in Philadelphia wrote about this general question as one of the " Seven Great Debates " in media literacy education in an influential 1998 Journal of Communication article.

The next mention of fetishism was in the 1842 Rheinische Zeitung newspaper articles about the " Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood ", wherein Marx spoke of the Spanish fetishism of gold and the German fetishism of wood as commodities:

Debates over the Comprehensive system seemed about to become a major political issue, particularly with the election of a Conservative government in 1970.

Debates about whether specific forms are pseudo or true fossils can be lengthy and difficult.

Debates about the Australian of the Year award often revolve around the relative balance between sport, science and the arts.

Debates about the national flag occurred again in 1917 during the Vilnius Conference.

Debates about unilateralism recently came to the forefront with the Iraq War.

One of the commissioners of the CDC, George Farah, has written about the earlier debate MOUs in the 2004 tome No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates.

Debates about sonata form therefore reference the practice of Haydn and Mozart extensively.

Debates about scripture were underway in the mid-2nd century, concurrent with a drastic increase of new scriptures, both Jewish and Christian.

The Putney Debates came about as a result of the publication of the Case of the Armie.

After the Putney Debates, the Army commanders Oliver Cromwell and Fairfax were concerned about the strength of support which the Levellers had in the NMA.

Debates about educational policy in Austria frequently are the result of different perspectives related to the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional education system.

Debates are still raging ( January 2006 ) about non-thermal effects of microwaves that have been reported in solid-state phase transitions.

Intellectual Debates: The debates about Heshang were also carried on among intellectuals.

* Areas of Studies of Prof. Jose David Lapuz: ( 1 ) International Politics and Security Studies ; ( 2 ) Conflicting Methodologies in International Politics & Foreign Policy which he specialized in postgraduate courses University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, as a British Council Scholar under the supervision of Dr. WJM Mackenzie, C. B. E., Classics Don at Magdalen College, Oxford and James Bryce Chair of Politics at University of Glasgow, and also the head of its Department of Politics and Moral Philosophy ; ( 3 ) Ethical Foreign Policy: Where does the Ethics Come From ; ( 4 ) Nationalism in Contemporary Perspective: Insightful Overview about the extent of Ethnic COnflict in today's world ; ( 5 ) Globalization and Development and ; ( 6 ) Development of International Relations Theory and the Great Debates.

Debates surrounding the emission of bonds have stalled the approval of the national budget for many months on several occasions, reason for which in 2006 the government will finance the deficit by reducing expenditure in other posts.

Debates have recently emerged concerning the applicability of the Wenzel and Cassie – Baxter models.

He may have written parts of The Case of the Army Stated, and he put the views of his associates before the Council of the Army at the Putney Debates that were partly held in Putney parish church between 28 October and 11 November 1647.

Debates concerning not only the single parents themselves, but also the children involved, support for the families in single parent households, and more have arisen.

Classical economics is generally agreed ( but see section Debates on the definition of classical economics below ) to have developed into neoclassical economics – as the name suggests – or to at least be most closely represented in the modern age by neoclassical economics, and many of its ideas remain fundamental in economics.

Perot could not have qualified for the debates in 1992 under these rules, and was able to show that various famous US presidents would likewise have been excluded from modern debate by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Debates in the past year have seen such figures as Andrew Mitchell, David Blunkett and Nigel Farage discussing the merits of the coalition government, Max Mosley debating whether the British press have too much freedom and Max Clifford discussing reality TV.

Debates on the nature of Quebec's nationalism are currently going on and various intellectuals from Quebec or other parts of Canada have published works on the subject, notably Will Kymlicka, professor of philosophy at Queen's University and Charles Blattberg and Michel Seymour, both professors at the Université de Montréal.

Debates on the first sense of the phrase have many different points of view, from crypto anarchists who want to create a completely decentralized and anonymous banking system, to others who support enhancing the power of the government to find financial information in order to fight terrorism.

The Lane Debates have been re-enacted in recent years by historians from Yale University, the University of Connecticut and Oberlin College.

Debates surrounding the expansion and application of the doctrine have included whether or not detrimental reliance is required in order to bring the doctrine into effect, whether the doctrine can create a cause of action or merely provide a defence to a cause of action and whether or not the evolution of the doctrine has abrogated or abolished the rule in Pinnel's case.

Debates similar to those of the Historikerstreit in West Germany have been carried out in other countries independent of the German debate, especially after the Fall of Communism.

Debates have been centered on issues of incommensurability, sectarianism, fideism, relativism, truth and ontological reference.

Debates in previous years have focussed on such issues as the American presidential election, the environment and the future of the European Union.

Debates over public sociology have rekindled questions concerning the extra-academic purpose of sociology.

Debates have been raised in Iran regarding the possible health hazards of satellite jamming.

Debates within ethnic relations, particularly regarding the opposing perspectives of assimilationism and multiculturalism, have led to the accusation that feminism is incompatible with multiculturalist policy.

The name appears to have been coined by Samuel Johnson, thought to have been the author of an introductory essay ( in which " Columbia " already appears ) which explained the conceit of substituting " Lilliputian " for English names ; Johnson also wrote down the Debates from 1740 to 1743.

Debates did take place during the 1950s at the British Parliament in Westminster in which it was discussed that Hong Kong would have to be handed back to China if the colony's entrepôt trade could not be maintained.