You know the law: if you lose the debate after accepting a challenge, you will be banished ''!!

After much debate from the Athenians, it was decided to revise the laws, including the homicide law, in 409.

Other scholars have suggested that Hebrews is part of an internal New Testament debate between the extreme Judaizers ( who argued that non-Jews must convert to Judaism before they can receive the Holy Spirit of Jesus ' Jewish covenant ) versus the extreme Antinomians ( who argued that Jews must reject God's commandments and that Jewish law was no longer in effect ).

However, in late June 2008, the Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão, introduced a proposed gun law to Parliament for " urgent debate ", pushing back scheduled budgetary discussions.

Halakha constitutes the practical application of the 613 mitzvot (" commandments ", singular: mitzvah ) in the Torah, ( the five books of Moses, the " Written Law ") as developed through discussion and debate in the classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud ( the " Oral law "), and as codified in the Mishneh Torah or Shulchan Aruch ( the Jewish " Code of Law ".

IKEA's plan to build a much larger store in Dublin caused the law to be put up for debate.

The conflict between international law and national sovereignty is subject to vigorous debate and dispute in academia, diplomacy, and politics.

Over the next four centuries this law underwent discussion and debate in both of the world's major Jewish communities ( in Israel and Babylonia ), and the commentaries on the Mishnah from each of these communities eventually came to be edited together into compilations known as the two Talmuds.

Historical jurisprudence came to prominence during the German debate over the proposed codification of German law.

* New grain ( chadash ): in Leviticus 23: 14 the Bible prohibits newly grown grain ( planted after Passover the previous year ) until the second day of Passover ; there is debate as to whether this law applies to grain grown outside the Land of Israel

In Dutch, the image is commonly used for strict party discipline, e. g., eliminating actual debate when passing a law ( compare the Whip function in English ).

The current edition of the citizenship law was adopted in 1998 after much debate and pressure from Russia and European Union, amending a more restrictive law, initially passed in 1994.

There is considerable debate about whether his conception of natural law was more akin to that of Aquinas ( filtered through Richard Hooker ) or Hobbes ' radical reinterpretation, though the effect of Locke's understanding is usually phrased in terms of a revision of Hobbes upon Hobbesean contractualist grounds.

Perjury law ’ s evolution in the United States has experience the most debate with regards to the materiality requirement.

Moreover, further debate about colonialism, which is linked to immigration, continued in France ; historian Benjamin Stora noted that colonialism is an important " memory " stake influencing how communities, and the nation, itself, represent themselves, because official state history has accepted French historic crimes and errors with great difficulty ; the historian Olivier LeCour Grandmaison also criticized the 23 February 2005 law.

Christophe Geiger notes that it is " a difficult, almost impossible task " to analyse the relationship between the Statute of Anne and early French copyright law, both because it is difficult to make a direct connection, and because the ongoing debate over both has led to radically different interpretations of each nation's law.

There is a philosophical debate within the physics community as to whether a theory of everything deserves to be called the fundamental law of the universe.

The law became the central point of debate between the parties and their gubernatorial candidates.

Cross-cutting activities include the promotion of international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of migrants ’ rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration.

There is much debate on this point, as some believe that it is a civil disobedient's duty to submit to the punishment prescribed by law, while others believe that defending oneself in court will increase the possibility of changing the unjust law.

There is now little debate about the general legal status of involuntary population transfers: Where population transfers used to be accepted as a means to settle ethnic conflict, today, forced population transfers are considered violations of international law.

The Law Commission stated its view that " the deliberate or reckless causing of disease should not be beyond the reach of the criminal law " and there is continuing debate over whether the transmission of HIV is covered as grievous bodily harm or under sections 22 to 24 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.

They are groups of judges, practicing attorneys, law professors and students who meet regularly to discuss and debate issues relating to legal ethics and professionalism.

Each ' episode ' begins as a standard historical debate, but quickly degenerates into a playground-style quarrel with the professors exchanging childish insults.

When later challenges to the legitimacy of the papers submitted by the Bogdanov brothers arose, the debate spread to the question of whether the substitution of a " publication requirement " by university professors when they do not understand students ' work is a valid means of determining the veracity of a paper.

Though the subject of an ongoing linguistic and grammatical debate for being a bizarre form of a suffixed noun affixed with a second suffix, the term nonetheless gained wide if not universal currency among students and professors, that even a secondary publication was named " The Wesleyanian " and the term has been used repeatedly to refer to its community in a number of publications, speeches and even in official documents.

Dershowitz then challenged professors Mearsheimer and Falk to a “ public debate about why they have endorsed and said such positive things about so hateful and anti-Semitic a book by so bigoted and dishonest a writer .” Falk rejected Dershowitz ' call to debate and wrote to The Daily Caller “ I have a limited taste for the sort of defamatory polemics that the Dershowitz attack mounts .” He wrote that " if the book is fairly read, and not denounced, it is concerned exclusively with ‘ Jewish identity ,’ not with Jews, and explores this reality in a highly personal, passionate, provocative, and honest manner .”

The Universeum occasionally gives Swedish secondary school students a chance to debate with Nobel prize-winners and professors.

Judges at National Tournaments typically consist of debate coaches, professors, and teachers.

* Video debate with Sunstein and Henry Farrell on Bloggingheads. tv

Early in the evening of October 16, 2000, just three weeks before the election and the night before a presidential debate to be held at Washington University in St. Louis, the twin-engine Cessna airplane piloted by the Governor's son, Randy, crashed on a heavily forested hillside during a rainstorm and foggy conditions near Goldman, Missouri, about 35 miles south of St. Louis.

Jonathan Alston and Randy Mitchell currently coach the debate program at Science maintaining its national prominence.

Although Steward and Barnett seemed to be suggesting that anthropology as such should restrict itself to purely academic affairs, people within and without the academy have continued to debate the ways non-anthropologists have used this principle in public policy concerning ethnic minorities or in international relations ( see this interview or this article on cultural relativism and human rights for examples of this debate ).

During the February 1974 general election Barnett wrote a letter to The Times: " It depresses me to the point of desperation that debate in this General Election only touches the fringes of the fundamental question before this country.

After much reluctance and debate New Zealand agreed to change for the Tests and the All Blacks became the All Whites for the first time.

After some debate, it was agreed to adopt a Masorti form of service, using the siddur Sim Shalom.

In 1979, a move towards independence was agreed upon in principle for 1982, but a change in government caused a policy reversal, and they instead approached the Canadian government to discuss a possible union, but at the time the Canadian Government was embroiled in a debate over free trade with the U. S., and little attention was paid to the suggestion.

Lucas reluctantly agreed to the proposal, and began to disband his militia, believing the debate to be settled.

After much debate about the size of the league and who would take part, the Real Federación Española de Fútbol eventually agreed on the ten teams who would form the first Primera División in 1929.

However, the senator wanted 50 minutes to speak, too long for a closing address, and at Bryan's request agreed to open the debate instead.

After much debate about what kind of person should be President, the European Council agreed on a low-key personality and chose Herman Van Rompuy while foreign policy-novice Catherine Ashton became High Representative.

Dewey also agreed to debate Stassen in Oregon on national radio-it was the first-ever radio debate between presidential candidates.

President Tsang agreed and said that he considered ending debate even without Wong's suggestion because he would not allow debate to go on endlessly.

After fierce debate among the colonies, it was finally agreed to declare their independence from Britain, and in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed, formally and officially breaking all ties with the former mother country.

Though the German planners agreed on the necessity of taking Maleme, there was some debate over the concentration of forces there and the number to be deployed against other targets, such as the smaller airfields at Heraklion and Rethymnon.

Although Chinese nationalists have agreed on the desirability of a centralized Chinese state, almost every other question has been the subject of intense and sometimes bitter debate.

Consequently a bitter debate started on 14 December, when nearly half the TDs discovered that its terms as finally agreed were a long way from the all-Ireland republic that they had campaigned for.

In 1871, there was much debate about the exact title for the monarch of those German territories ( such as free imperial cities, principalities, duchies, and kingdoms ) that agreed to unify under the leadership of Prussia, thereby forming the German Empire.

It has become one of the most contentious phrases in retrospective analyses of the Treaty, amid debate surrounding the obligations agreed to by each signatory.

Furthermore, the legal settlement whereby Henry agreed to relinquish the crown to the House of York upon his death came about due to lengthy parliamentary debate, not a personal agreement between Henry and York, as it is depicted in the play.

There are differences between the Māori and English language versions of the Treaty, and virtually since 1840 this has led to debate over exactly what was agreed to at Waitangi.

The Socialist Party argues that this method is an example of aspects of genuine Democratic centralism, where the widest democratic discussion and debate takes place to attempt to reach agreement before any formal meeting takes place, followed by a meeting and a vote, after which, especially in times of serious struggle, the party is expected to pull together in the direction agreed.

During the debate on decriminalisation of Homosexuality in the Dáil in 1993, he agreed with a statement by Fine Gael TD, Brendan McGahon which reads: " Homosexuality is a departure from normality and while homosexuals deserve our compassion they do not deserve our tolerance " and who described homosexuals as being " like lefthand drivers driving on the right-hand side of the road.

Senator Payne's bill was passed with little debate ( the House of Representatives agreed to it in less than an hour ), and in neither house was a division required, hence no votes were recorded against the bill.

Whilst Däumig and Stoecker agreed with the International's 21 conditions of entry, Crispien and Dittmann opposed them, leading to a controversial debate over joining the Comintern to break out in the USPD ; many members felt that the necessary requirements for joining would lead to a loss of the party's independence and a perceived " dictate from Moscow ", while others, especially younger members such as Ernst Thälmann, argued that only the joining of the Comintern would allow the party to implement its socialist ideals.

Although seismologists and geologists had always agreed that the epicenter was in the Atlantic to the West of the Iberian Peninsula, its exact location has been a subject of considerable debate.

Dershowitz has written that he agreed to appear on the show after being told he would debate Noam Chomsky, not Finkelstein.