Though not initially appointed to ministerial office, a brilliant Commons performance in March 1952 against Aneurin Bevan in a debate on health caught Churchill's attention, and six weeks later, on 7 May, Macleod was appointed Minister of Health.

Rather than get caught up in the debate between McLeod and Rae, Harris used his camera time to speak directly to the camera to convey CSR points, virtually ignoring all questions asked of him by his opponents.

Its existence has been confirmed by cases where parents have been caught on video surveillance actively harming their children, but its frequency is subject to debate as Meadow claimed to have destroyed the original data which he used to substantiate the law.

The Liberal government was caught up in a debate over the naval arms race between the British Empire and Germany.

There is some debate among historians on who caught the first tarpon on rod and reel in Florida.

In the mid 1830s her description of the earthquake in Chile of 1822 started a heated debate in the Geological Society, where she was caught in the middle of a fight between two rivalling schools of thought regarding earthquakes and their role in mountain building.

Price's ideas caught fire and led to much debate in artistic and literary circles: they were parodied, for example, by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey.

Ever since the Japanese attack there has been debate as to how and why the United States had been caught off guard and how much and when American officials knew of Japanese plans for an attack.

One major point often omitted from the debate ( though Costello covers it thoroughly ) is the Philippines, where MacArthur, unlike Kimmel or Short, had complete access to all decrypted Purple and JN-25 traffic could provide ( indeed, Stinnet quotes Whitlock to that effect ), and was nonetheless caught unprepared and with all planes on the ground nevertheless, nine hours after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Mentioned in a House of Lords debate in Hansard as Radio Scargill, it was stated that it had been actively pursued and closed down by the authorities, however this was incorrect and the people involved were never caught.

" in which he dealt with the debate between Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin at the First International and afterwards he suggested that " Libertarian marxism rejects determinism and fatalism, giving the greator place to individual will, intuition, imagination, reflex speeds, and to the deep instincts of the masses, which are more far-seeing in hours of crisis than the reasonings of the ‘ elites ’; libertarian marxism thinks of the effects of surprise, provocation and boldness, refuses to be cluttered and paralysed by a heavy ‘ scientific ’ apparatus, doesn ’ t equivocate or bluff, and guards itself from adventurism as much as from fear of the unknown.

Despite the profound differences regarding their ethical and world visions, Albizu's fiery and charismatic rhetoric captured Balaguer's imagination and his recollection of this occasion was a harbinger of his passion for politics and intellectual debate.

Therefore, it is likely that the quarrel was more of a spur to Swift's imagination than a debate that he felt inclined to enter.

Scholars debate whether or not this pious community described in Sefer Chassidim existed beyond the imagination of Rabbi Judah the Pious.

The book was launched by former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who took the opportunity to criticise conservative views of Australian history, and those who hold them ( such as the then Prime Minister John Howard ), saying that they suffered from " a failure of imagination ", and said that The History Wars " rolls out the canvas of this debate.

Ongoing discussion of current celebrities and television personalities within popular culture also frequently sparks debate.

The feasibility of the basic technologies analyzed in Nanosystems has been the subject of a formal scientific review by U. S. National Academy of Sciences, and has also been the focus of extensive debate on the internet and in the popular press.

Another interesting record of medieval rhetorical thought can be seen in the many animal debate poems popular in England and the continent during the Middle Ages, such as The Owl and the Nightingale ( 13th century ) and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls ( 1382?

The connection between race and intelligence has been a subject of debate in both popular science and academic research since the inception of intelligence quotient ( IQ ) testing in the early 20th century.

Human evolution became central to the debate and was strongly argued by Huxley who featured it in his popular " working-men's lectures ".

The debate over whether she is an icon of female empowerment or a vessel for male titillation has existed for as long as she has, but the huge effect she has had on both gaming and popular culture in general cannot be denied.

Ralph A. Rossum, writing in the San Diego Law Review, notes that the debate over the amendment's adoption lacked " any serious or systematic considerations of its potential impact on federalism ... The popular press, the party platforms, the state memorials, the House and Senate debates, and the state legislative debates during ratification focused almost exclusively on expanding democracy, eliminating political corruption, defeating elitism and freeing the states from what they had come to regard as an onerous and difficult responsibility.

This was a popular treatment for almost any illness, but there was some debate about where to take the blood from.

Luther borrowed from the humanists the sense of individualism, that each man can be his own priest ( an attitude likely to find popular support considering the rapid rise of an educated urban middle class in the North ), and that the only true authority is the Bible, echoing the reformist zeal of the conciliar movement and opening up the debate once again on limiting the authority of the Pope.

Usually this is done by eliminating participants one at a time, in balloon debate style, through either disapproval voting or by voting for the most popular choice to win.

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.

Stuart Becker provides the following summary of the primary critiques of NGOs: There ’ s a debate that, NGOs take the place of what should belong to popular movements of the poor.

Andropov's legacy remains the subject of much debate in Russia and elsewhere, both among scholars and in the popular media.

In response to this political threat and to growing popular calls for greater accountability within government, the king and the prime minister initiated an ongoing national debate on the constitutional and political future of Swaziland.

" Both sides of the debate at court realized that popular support for the Boxers in the countryside was almost universal and that suppression would be both difficult and unpopular.

While popular debate remains on what constitutes a legal definition of torture ( see discussion on the Torture page ), the ban on corporal punishment simplifies the matter ; even the most mundane physical abuse is thereby forbidden by Article 32, as a precaution against alternate definitions of torture.

While this accurately reflects the popular belief and perception in the geographic community towards environmental determinism, the debate was overlaid with hues of gray.

Historians debate the accuracy of the account about the latter discovery, but in popular lore it led to the place being called Corn Hill.

In popular culture, proponents of the Mafia and its history often debate as to who was the greater between Luciano and his contemporary, Al Capone.

Philadelphia Daily News described Culture Club as a hot new rock act, while William K Knoedelseder Jr from Los Angeles Times said about the group, " Boy George of Culture Club, a rock group MTV helped make popular ", adding that, " There's some debate in the record industry about MTV's ability to directly increase record sales across the board but there's no doubt that the channel has been responsible for exposing such rock artists as Def Leppard, Duran Duran and Men at Work to a national audience ...".

This debate has been influenced by popular culture, pornography, and physio-chemical and behavioral studies.

Biographer Walter H. Hebert describe the general's personal habits as the " subject of much debate " although there was little debate in the popular opinion of the time.

In the late 1920s the principles of equal access to " Licht, Luft und Sonne " and the social effects of a guaranteed "" Existenzminimum " became a matter of lively popular debate all over Germany.

Comic book historians continue to debate the exact boundaries of these eras, but they have come to an agreement, the terms for which originated in the fan press.

When Maroger's book became available, Reginald Marsh drew on Maroger's book-jacket an airplane dropping an atomic bomb on the Maryland Art Institute, a reference to the controversy Maroger was causing in the local press over the abstract art versus realism debate.

Though he rarely gave speeches or spoke to the press, his interventions into public debate had a significant impact when they occurred.

After much speculation and debate, owner Peter Magowan announced Bonds's departure at a press conference, stressing the fact that the Giants needed to get younger and start fielding a more efficient offense.

There is also a political dimension to the language debate, with conservative groups tending to use more archaic words in the press or everyday language.

He effectively defended Lord Godolphin against Tory attacks in parliamentary debate, as well as in the press.

He strongly defended Mariano Rumor during the parliamentary debate on the Lockheed scandal, and a part of the press reported that he might have been Antelope Cobbler, an alleged bribe recipient.

In July 2008 Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini proposed the re-introduction of the compulsory smock in public schools, provoking a debate in the Italian press.

Until about 1861, Napoleon's regime exhibited decidedly authoritarian characteristics, using press censorship to prevent the spread of opposition, manipulating elections, and depriving the Parliament of the right to free debate or any real power.

When reports of an army cover-up and Dreyfus's possible innocence were leaked to the press, a heated debate ensued about anti-Semitism, France's identity as a Catholic nation and a republic founded on equal rights for all citizens.

When reports of an army cover-up and Dreyfus's possible innocence were leaked to the press, a heated debate ensued about anti-Semitism, and France's identity as a Catholic nation and a republic founded on equal rights for all citizens.

There was a heated debate in the parliament and in the press in late 1969 concerning the educational role of the public service radio station that Yleisradio is, and the artistic value of Ginsberg's poem, whether it is art or mere pornography.

A 2005 article called the estate's allowing the British press to reproduce only fifteen photographs an attempt to " control criticism and debate.

In a debate with Project Censored's Associate Director Mark Lowenthal, Jack Shafer wrote that Project Censored had " an overbearing left-wing bias -- a fact belied by its refusal to review stories from the right-wing or conservative press, the openly partisan nature of the stories that are selected and the leftist panel of judges who help select them.

This received some press attention and rekindled a debate over full disclosure.

Until about 1861, Napoléon's regime exhibited authoritarian characteristics, using press censorship to prevent the spread of opposition, manipulating elections, and depriving the Parliament of the right to free debate or any real power.

After Glinka's death the relative merits of his two operas became a source of heated debate in the musical press, especially between Vladimir Stasov and his former friend Alexander Serov.

The controversy surrounding coverage of the trip resulted in a public debate about the balance between the right of the President and his family to privacy and the role of the press in covering the country's most public figure, regardless of where or what he is doing.

The debate over the coverage of Grover Cleveland's honeymoon is not dissimilar from disagreements between the first family and the press within the last decade.

In the aftermath of the attack, the internal White House debate over whether the intelligence reports about the plant were accurate spilled into the press.

Far from revolutionary at this juncture, Marx retained a faith that public debate in a free press would be sufficient to ameliorate the various evils facing society regardless of the Diet's weakness.

On 25 September, the National Council decided to press a debate of the affair before the elections, overturning a decision by the council's office.