* The Meanings of Communion: Anglican Identities, the Sexuality Debates, and Christian Relationality, Extensive consideration of homosexuality and Anglicanism, using data from empirical research with gay and lesbian Anglicans from around the world, by Robert Vanderbeck et al.

) 2000, Ecological Modernisation around the World: Perspectives and Critical Debates, London and Portland, OR, Frank Cass / Routledge, ISBN 978-0-7146-8113-9.

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

Debates on this often revolve around the availability of alternate means of income or support such as a social safety net, charity, etc.

Debates over the practice, which opponents contend damage water quality ( mercury ) and fish habitat, continue.

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

Debates regarding practice and belief gradually became reliant on the use of scripture other than what Melito referred to as the Old Testament, as the New Testament canon developed.

Debates on the Reform Bill ( eventually the Reform Act 1832 ) had highlighted the variations in systems of governance of towns, and a Royal Commission was set up to investigate the issue.

* Commission on Presidential 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.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

Debates on medical science now had two traditions, the more conservative Arabian and the liberal Greek.

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.

" Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric.

Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.

The Corkbush Field rendezvous on November 17, 1647, was the first of three meetings to take place as agreed in the Putney Debates.

Debates on the Virginia resolutions continued.

Debates were covered on front pages of college newspapers and emphasized in yearbooks, and team members even received the equivalent of athletic letters for their jackets.

Debates on global warming and its causes made significant progress, as climate change denials were refuted by most scientific studies.

One common explanation for the decline was Perot's exclusion from the presidential debates, based on the preferences of the Democratic and Republican party candidates ( as described by George Farah in Open Debates ).

In 1647, different factions of the victorious parliamentary army held a series of discussions, the Putney Debates, on reforming the structure of English government.

Pressure grew for the abolition of the selective principle underlying the " eleven plus ", and replacement with Comprehensive schools which would serve the full range of children ( see the article Debates on the grammar school ).

While the proclaimed goal was to level school quality up, the converse claim was made that the grammar schools ' excellence was being sacrificed with little to show in the way of improvement of other schools ( for details and sources on this and related arguments, see article on Debates on the grammar school ).

Debates of the House of Commons in the Year 1774 on the Bill for Making More Effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec: Drawn Up from the Notes of the Henry Cavendish, Member for Lostwithiel, London: Ridgway, 303 p. ( online )

The authenticity of this speech is questioned, however, since the Register of Debates and the Congressional Globe do not contain transcripts of speeches made on the House floor.

Lord Palmerston Addressing the House of Commons During the Debates on the Cobden – Chevalier Treaty | Treaty of France in February 1860, as painted by John Phillip ( 1863 ).

The ' Treaty Debates ' should also be seen as the first publicly reported debate on what Sinn Féin felt that it had achieved and could achieve.

* Debates on the grammar school

* Historical Records of Australia, series 1, vols 12-17 ; E. S. Hall, Reply in Refutation of the Pamphlets of Lieut-Gen R. Darling ( Lond, 1833 ), by R. Robison ; L. N. Rose, ‘ The Administration of Governor Darling ’, Journal and Proceedings ( Royal Australian Historical Society ), vol 8, part 2, 1922, pp 49 – 96 and vol 8, part 3, 1922, pp 97 – 176 ; Parliamentary Debates ( Great Britain ) ( 3 ), 29, 30 ; Parliamentary Papers ( House of Commons, Great Britain ), 1828 ( 538 ), 1830 ( 586 ), 1830-31 ( 241 ), 1831-32 ( 163, 620 ), 1835 ( 580 ); A. S. Forbes, Sydney Society in Crown Colony Days ( State Library of New South Wales ); manuscript catalogue under Ralph Darling ( State Library of New South Wales ).

For convenient access to many of Ritzer ’ s substantive contributions to modern and postmodern social theorizing, see Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization ( 2001 ) as well as more recent work often co-authored with his many students, such as ( with J. Michael Ryan ) “ Postmodern Social Theory and Sociology: On Symbolic Exchange with a ‘ Dead ’ Theory ,” in Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical Debates ( 2007 ).

Debates are lively, sometimes controversial, and provide a platform for social, political and cultural debate articulated in a considered and eloquent manner.

The Leveller point of view had been strongly represented in the Putney Debates, held between the various factions of the Army in 1647, just prior to the King's temporary escape from army custody.

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.

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

Moreover, Lincoln had been made famous in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and was well known for his eloquence and his moderate position on slavery.

Washington University in St. Louis has been selected by the Commission to host more Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates than any institution in history.

( From 1925 the President of the University of St Andrews Union Debating Society has also been Union Convenor of Debates.

His most famous work, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, written in 1959, has been described as " the greatest Lincoln book ever.

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

** Maurice Cotter has been best speaker in the final at the Galway Irish National Law Debates in 2012, the Earlsfort Open in 2011 and the UL Open in 2011 and best speaker on tab at the Irish National Law Debates in 2011.

Others argued that insufficient time was available to understand the draft constitution, but the main arguments and debates had already been made public during and after the Dáil " Treaty Debates " that had ended on 10 January 1922, nearly six months before.

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

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.