Will mere debate on that proposition, even though it be free and untrammeled, remove the dross and leave a residue of refined gold??

Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.

On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.

`` If William agrees, we should insist on a public debate '', he said at length.

Roosevelt acted as moderator of the long debate on this issue.

Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '', `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '', `` a holiday work, a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high spirits, a revel of debate, paradox, comedy and invention ''.

There was no debate as the Senate passed the bill on to the House.

Dallas may get to hear a debate on horse race parimutuels soon between Reps. V. E. ( Red ) Berry and Joe Ratcliff.

The Kennedy administration moves haltingly toward a Geneva conference on Laos just as serious debate over its foreign policy erupts for the first time.

Armed with the Nixon opinion, the Senate liberals rounded up their slim majority and prepared to choke off debate on the filibuster battle this week.

He swayed them somewhat, but the debate raged on.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

The Declaration's emphasis on freedom and equality for all, in contrast to the Constitution's tolerance of slavery, shifted the debate.

There has been some debate on whether or not humans are truly capable of psychological altruism.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

By focusing on cases and not on theory, those engaged in moral debate increase the possibility of agreement.

* The School of Diplomacy or School of Vertical and Horizontal, which focused on practical matters instead of any moral principle, so it stressed political and diplomatic tactics, and debate and lobbying skill.

Albertus was the first to comment on virtually all of the writings of Aristotle, thus making them accessible to wider academic debate.

The study of Aristotle brought him to study and comment on the teachings of Muslim academics, notably Avicenna and Averroes, and this would bring him in the heart of academic debate.

" After a vigorous debate, a formal vote for impeachment was held in the House of Representatives on December 5, 1867, and failed, 57 – 108.

have briefly summarized the debate, which took place from 1938 onwards and involved botanists on both sides of the Atlantic.

In 1998, during debate on a Succession to the Crown Bill, Junior Home Office Minister Lord Williams of Mostyn informed the House of Lords that the Queen had " no objection to the Government's view that in determining the line of succession to the throne, daughters and sons should be treated in the same way ".

Likewise there has been long debate on how perception of beauty in the natural world, especially perception of the human form as beautiful, is supposed to relate to perceiving beauty in art or artefacts.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

Scholars continue to debate the degrees to which racial categories are biologically warranted and socially constructed, as well as the extent to which the realities of race must be acknowledged in order for society to comprehend and address racism adequately.

Pitt's maiden speech in the Commons was delivered in April 1736, in the debate on the congratulatory address to George II on the marriage of his son Frederick, Prince of Wales.

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.

There is some popular concern in countries with greyhound gambling regarding the well-being of the dogs ; the effectiveness of industry efforts to address these concerns is a topic of some debate.

Social Constructivism encompasses a broad range of theories that aim to address questions of ontology, such as the Structure and agency debate, as well as questions of epistemology, such as the " material / ideational " debate that concerns the relative role of material forces versus ideas.

Much of Wheaton ’ s address focused on the debate over violence in video games.

He called the nation's attention to various recalcitrant social ills and evils, such as atrocities against women and children, caste discrimination and the ingrained attitudes it nurtured, abuse of the environment and public utilities, corruption and lack of accountability in the delivery of public services, religious fundamentalism, advertisement-driven consumerism, and flouting of human rights, and lamented the absence of public concern, political debate, and civic action to address them.

Don Foster concludes that the result of all the speculation has yielded only two " facts ," which themselves have been the object of much debate: First, that the form of address ( Mr .) suggests that W. H.

Dennis Sewell states that " On the day the House of Commons met to debate the Beveridge Report in 1943, its author slipped out of the gallery early in the evening to address a meeting of the Eugenics Society at the Mansion House.

The address is followed by a debate and vote in both houses or the one house of parliament.

Wood also spoke at a meeting in the EP sponsored by Catholics for Choice on Religion & Politics in the New Europe and made a representation in a debate to the EP President about an invitation to the Pope to address the EP.

To address the debate between Drexler and Smalley regarding molecular assemblers Chemical & Engineering News published a point-counterpoint consisting of an exchange of letters that addressed the issues.

Teens meet in their local delegations several months each year to discuss and debate issues that affect citizens of Delaware and write proposed legislation to address those issues.

The consideration of the address in reply to the Throne Speech is the occasion for a debate on the Government's agenda.

The debate between the liberal arts curriculum and industrial education continued in the University's inaugural address, as Dr. Newton Bateman outlined the various interpretations of the Morrill Act in his speech.

Issues involving substantial debate included whether Afghanistan should have a presidential or parliamentary system, whether Dari or Pashto should be the official language, and whether other local languages would be recognized, whether former king Mohammed Zahir Shah should maintain the title " father of the nation ," how to address women's rights, whether Afghanistan should be a free market economy, and whether higher education should be free.

* In 1966 he appeared on William Frank Buckley, Jr .' s Firing Line, where he explained his views on poverty, while also engaging Buckley in debate regarding government attempts to address poverty and its consequences.

During early graduate studies, he attended a lecture by Saul Friedländer, in which he had what he describes as a " lightbulb moment ": the functionalism versus intentionalism debate did not address the question, “ When Hitler ordered the annihilation of the Jews, why did people execute the order ?” Goldhagen wanted to investigate who were the German men and women who killed the Jews, and their reasons for killing.

St. Laurent initially dealt with the question flippantly, suggesting in his opening campaign address that the debate had been " nearly as long as the pipeline itself and quite as full of another kind of natural gas ".

The emerging field of social neuroscience has also begun to address this debate, by imaging humans while performing tasks demanding the understanding of an intention, belief or other mental state.

Cecilia Keaveney said in a subsequent Dáil debate, " It may not be possible to address defacing the flag through legislation, but the House must issue a strong message that this is unacceptable.

Although Post generally agrees with Lessig's argument, he does point out that copyrights are property rights and " property rights are, as a general rule, a good thing " and that Lessig does not do enough in his book to address this side of the debate.