The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

However, the degree of influence remains debated, and it has recently been argued that its grammatical influence accounts for the substantial innovations noted between English and the other West Germanic languages.

The details of this history's composition are still widely debated, but most scholars place its origins, or at least its final form, in the 6th century BCE and the community of the Babylonian exile.

The only clues for its possible existence are Persian inscriptions that refer to two places called " Saparda ": one area in Media and another in Asia Minor, debated to be Sardis.

The country debated its role in the Central American integration process under former President Calderon.

The Australian government took a more measured position than its New Zealand counterpart over the controversial Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill being debated in the Fijian Parliament.

The nature of the Secret Gospel of Mark as well as Morton Smith's role in its discovery are still being debated.

The etymology of Rus and its derivatives are debated, and other schools of thought connect the name with Slavic or Iranic roots.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

The origin of the Parthenon's name is from the Greek word " παρθενών " ( parthenon ), which referred to the " virgin's apartments " in a house and in the Parthenon's case seems to have been used at first only for a particular room of the temple ; it is debated which room this is and how the room acquired its name.

It is debated, not because of its content, which is still valid today, but because of its timing.

The SPR was the first organisation of its kind in the world, its stated purpose being " to approach these varied problems without prejudice or prepossession of any kind, and in the same spirit of exact and unimpassioned enquiry which has enabled science to solve so many problems, once not less obscure nor less hotly debated.

Yale University Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom ( no relation to Allan ) has also argued strongly in favor of the canon, and in general the canon remains as a represented idea in many institutions, though its implications continue to be debated.

The taxonomy of the genus Brettanomyces has been debated since its early discovery and has seen many re-classifications over the years.

The Medellín conference debated how to apply the teachings of Vatican II to Latin America, and its conclusions were strongly influenced by liberation theology.

The existence of free will and its exact nature and definition have long been debated in philosophy.

During the second term of office of Democratic President Bill Clinton, the CIA acknowledged having played a role in Chilean politics prior to the coup, but its degree of involvement is debated.

However, the question of whether the Commonwealth's decline was caused by Sigismund's decisions or had its roots in historical processes beyond his personal control, remains a highly debated topic.

The Senate debated its bill until March 1930, with many Senators trading votes based on their states ' industries.

Also notable for its use of what Crane called a " psychological portrayal of fear ", the novel's allegorical and symbolic qualities are often debated by critics.

Referred to variously as the Confucian hypothesis and as a debated component of the more all-encompassing Asian Development Model, there exists among political scientists and economists a theory that Confucianism plays a large latent role in the ostensibly non-Confucian cultures of modern-day East Asia, in the form of the rigorous work ethic it endowed those cultures with.

Scholars have debated how Christian antisemitism may have played a role in the Nazi Third Reich, World War II and the Holocaust.

In the 1920s, as modern journalism was just taking form, writer Walter Lippmann and American philosopher John Dewey debated over the role of journalism in a democracy.

Loki's origins and role in Norse mythology, which some scholars have described as that of a trickster god, have been much debated by scholars.

His own role in such behavior has been much debated.

The biological role of the sinuses is debated, but a number of possible functions have been proposed:

A more recent, and still debated, development in chronic sinusitis is the role that fungus plays in this disease.

Environmental and health standards rose throughout the Victorian era ; improvements in nutrition may also have played a role, although the importance of this is debated.

Willkie, an internationalist, needed the votes of the large isolationist element, so he waffled on the bitterly debated issue of America's role in World War II, losing support from both sides.

The role of the bombings in the surrender of Japan, the ethical justification of the US for using them, as well as their strategic importance, is still hotly debated.

The founders of quantum mechanics debated the role of the observer, and of them, Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg believed that it was the observer that produced collapse.

The role of a prince held hostage by Shapur I, in the events following the death of Valerian has been frequently debated by historians, without reaching any definitive conclusion.

There is now almost universal agreement that the hippocampus plays some sort of important role in memory ; however, the precise nature of this role remains widely debated.

As with the memory theory, there is now almost universal agreement that spatial coding plays an important role in hippocampal function, but the details are widely debated.

There were, however, exceptions to this general attitude of tolerance, most notably Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah although this has been highly debated, with Al-Hakim's reputation among medieval Muslim historians conflated with his role in the Druze faith.

The role of the Central Intelligence Agency in the killing has been debated.

Although bioethical issues have been debated since ancient times, and public attention briefly focused on the role of human subjects in biomedical experiments following the revelation of Nazi experiments conducted during World War II, the contemporary field of bioethics first emerged as an academic interdisciplinary field in Anglophone societies in the 1960s.

A unique result of the war was that Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who had held a debated but important role in Japan's warfare against the Allied powers, was reduced in stature from a divine monarch to a figurehead by the occupying United States, instead of losing his throne altogether.

The role of retinopathy grading in risk stratification is debated, but it has been proposed that individuals with signs of hypertensive retinopathy signs, especially retinal hemorrhages, microaneurysms and cotton-wool spots, should be assessed carefully.

Climate scientists have debated carbon dioxide's role in global warming for over a decade, with most voices ( though notably fewer within the US ) calling it the biggest factor, while others call it negligible.

Nevertheless, Marxists have frequently debated amongst themselves over how to interpret Marx's writings and apply his concepts to the modern world.

It is also debated whether the apparent increase in frequency and severity of algal blooms in various parts of the world is in fact a real increase or is due to increased observation effort and advances in species identification methods.

In India, Buddhist monasteries gradually developed into centres of learning where philosophical principles were developed and debated ; this tradition is currently preserved by monastic universities of Vajrayana Buddhists, as well as religious schools and universities founded by religious orders across the Buddhist world.

Ultimately the characters become aware that they are only " real " in King's literary universe ( this can be debated as an example of breaking the fourth wall ), and even travel to a world — twice — in which ( again, within the novel ) they meet Stephen King and alter events in the real Stephen King's world outside of the books.

The naming origins of the Mali Empire are complex and still debated in scholarly circles around the world.

Steele and his force made the Klondike Gold Rush one of the most orderly of its kind in history and made the NWMP famous around the world, which ensured its survival at a critical time when the force's dissolution was being debated in Parliament.

In Association Football ( 1960 ), Bernard Joy wrote about the 1912 Games that the authorities in Sweden " had debated for a long time whether to include football ... because its popularity was not yet world wide ".

In 1956, he entered the University of Toronto ( UofT ) where he became a member of the Hart House debating committee, and on 14 November 1957, debated Senator and future American President, John F. Kennedy on the question, " Has the United States failed in its responsibilities as a world leader?

Each week, the panel debated hot topics from the NASCAR world.

To suggest that all of Western literature is no more than a footnote to the writings of ancient Greece is an exaggeration, but it is nevertheless true that the Greek world of thought was so far-ranging that there is scarcely an idea discussed today not already debated by the ancient writers.

Among the most debated questions during the drafting of the constitution was the status of the native and mix-race populations in Spain's possessions around the world.

Kazuki calls him " Uncle " but it is debated among fans whether they are actually related in the new world.

Similarly, the idea of greater and greater non-zero-sum gains benefitting the world at large is also debated, as such technologies allow the injury of ever larger numbers of people.

Since the closure of the trail leading under Landscape Arch due to safety concerns, and the voluntary prohibition placed on passing under Rainbow Bridge in deference to ( often debated ) Navajo and Hopi spiritual beliefs, Sipapu is now the longest natural arch in the world to have an active trail beneath it that visitors may pass under, affording spectacular views of the underside of the arch.

His article " The Coming Anarchy " published in The Atlantic in February 1994 about how population increase, urbanization, and resource depletion are undermining fragile governments across the developing world and represent a threat to the developed world was hotly debated and widely translated.

The structure, said to be the largest of its kind in the world and an engineering masterpiece, continued to deteriorate as its fate was debated.

Friendly enemies, Straton and Potter debated the following subjects: ( 1 ) " Resolved, that the Bible is the infallible word of God "; ( 2 ) " Resolved, that the world and man came by creation of a living God and not by evolution "; ( 3 ) " Resolved, that the miraculous virgin birth of Jesus Christ is an essential Christian doctrine "; ( 4 ) " Resolved, that Jesus Christ is the Divine Son of God "; and ( 5 ) " Resolved, that Jesus Christ will return in bodily presence to this earth and establish the reign of universal peace and righteousness.

He was in Cairo in 1944 when some of the British military personnel stationed there set up a " Forces Parliament " in which they debated the structure of society they wanted to see in the post-war world.

At the first International Congress on the Evolution and Paleoepidemiology the subject was examined and debated by scholars from all over the world.

Such topics debated include the argument from design -- for which Hume uses a house -- and whether there is more suffering or good in the world ( argument from evil ).

The author frequently references current issues that were being debated, such as whether to modernize and accept Western technology, or to reject Western culture and rely on technology developed in Persia and the Islamic world.