The debate over the Americans with Disabilities Act led some religious groups to take opposite positions.

This has led to some debate over how real, and how universal, phonemes really are ( see phoneme for details ).

In the early 1900s, after the rediscovery of Mendel's work, the gaps in understanding between genetics and evolutionary Darwinism led to vigorous debate among biometricians, such as Walter Weldon and Karl Pearson, and Mendelians, such as Charles Davenport, William Bateson and Wilhelm Johannsen.

A mid-1980s debate about apologetic methodology between Ronald Enroth and J. Gordon Melton, led the latter to place more emphasis in his publications on differentiating the Christian countercult from the secular anti-cult.

The university's colours of gold and black were officially adopted in 1887, after the rugby team led the debate about the college colours for the football jerseys.

The use of microphones and amplifiers in a classical setting has led to debate within the classical community, as "... purists maintain that the natural acoustic sound of voices instruments in a given hall should not be altered.

This case led to public outcry and debate on the lack of government tolerance and in support of freedom of expression.

This has led to some debate about both the timing and origins of the festival.

Though the Virginia Plan was an outline rather than a draft of a possible constitution, and though it was extensively changed during the debate ( especially by John Rutledge and James Wilson in the Committee of Detail ), its use at the convention led many to call Madison the " Father of the Constitution ".

It is both the lack of any original corroborating manuscript source outside the Christian tradition as well as the practice of Christian interpolation that has led to the scholarly debate regarding the authenticity of Josephus ' references to Jesus in his work.

The issue has been a subject of contention within modern Jewish denominations and has led to debate and division.

The 1956 Pipeline Debate led to the widespread impression that the Liberals had grown arrogant in power when the government invoked closure on numerous occasions in order to curtail debate and ensure that its Pipeline Bill passed by a specific deadline.

Demands in Britain, for example by the Marxist John Desmond Bernal, for centrally planned scientific research led Polanyi to defend the claim that science requires free debate.

These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted.

After 1992, the discovery of numerous small icy objects with similar or even wider orbits than Pluto led to a debate over whether Pluto should remain a planet, or whether it and its neighbours should, like the asteroids, be given their own separate classification.

Findings such as these have led to debate about whether psychosis itself causes excitotoxic brain damage and whether potentially damaging changes to the brain are related to the length of psychotic episode.

This led to some debate as to the " first " Porsche automobile, but the 356 is considered by Porsche to be its first production model.

This question of the professionalism of ancient Olympic athletes is a subject of debate amongst scholars, with Young and others arguing that the athletes were professional throughout the history of the ancient Games, while other scholars led by Pleket argue that the earliest Olympic athletes were in fact amateur, and that the Games only became professionalised after about 480 BCE.

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.

In the early 1990s this led him into a debate with Derek Briggs, who had begun to apply quantitative cladistic techniques to the Burgess Shale fossils, about the methods to be used in interpreting these fossils.

The game's role-playing elements, however, have led to much debate over whether or not the Zelda games should be classified as action role-playing games, a genre on which the series had a strong influence.

A fact-finding mission in 2004 by Congress of South African Trade Unions to Zimbabwe led to their widely-publicised deportation back to South Africa which reopened the debate, even within the ANC, as to whether Mbeki's policy of ' quiet diplomacy ' was constructive.

By 1969, the debate over virtual memory for commercial computers was over ; an IBM research team led by David Sayre showed that their virtual memory overlay system consistently worked better than the best manually controlled systems.

This led to a great deal of debate in the industry, but without any visible changes until March 2005, when Electronic Arts internally announced that it was planning to extend overtime pay to some of its employees not currently eligible.

Historians debate whether the decision to form a separate country was initiated by Stalin or by the SED.

To that point, much of the debate had been equivocal on the decision to use naturalistic ( e. g., Peano ’ s Interlingua, Novial and Occidental ) or systematic ( e. g., Esperanto and Ido ) words.

After a year and a half of contentious debate and coercion, a papal election finally reached a unanimous decision.

The decision not to rename the Reichstag building was taken only after long debate in the Bundestag ; even then, it is described officially as ( Reichstag, seat of the Bundestag ).

This decision was the last border adjustment, putting an end to years of debate over the official boundary line.

A debate over whether the decision should or could be submitted for approval by the Southern Jurisdictional Conference at its July 2008 meeting in Dallas, Texas remains unresolved.

Columbia CaseWorks challenges students to debate corporate decision making and to develop appropriate recommendations and solutions.

The decision was taken only after a difficult Cabinet debate which lasted for more than an hour

A unilateral decision by the mayor without approval from the Chicago City Council or Federal Aviation Administration, the act resulted in public debate.

Strict hierarchies of command provide the opportunity for a single decision to direct the work of thousands, whilst an institutional culture devoted to following orders without debate can help ensure that a bad or miscommunicated decision is implemented without being challenged or corrected.

After more than five decades of speculation and debate, the decision to construct the link was made in 1986 ; while the original intent was to complete the railway link three years before opening the road connection, the link was opened to rail traffic in 1997 and road traffic in 1998.

Public debate surrounded Tennessee's decision to join the Confederacy.

The true reason for Hitler's decision to halt the German armour on 24 May is a matter of debate.

The established NSC process was used when the question involved a policy debate between departments with strongly held, contending positions, as it did in the case of the debate between the Departments of State and Defense in 1956 / 1957 over whether to introduce a more modern generation of weapons into Korea, where it focused debate and produced the necessary agreed-upon decision after discussion of three draft policy papers.

According to one of his aides, Johnson felt the NSC was " not a live institution, not suited to precise debate for the sake of decision.

The democratic aspect of this organizational method describes the freedom of members of the political party to discuss and debate matters of policy and direction, but once the decision of the party is made by majority vote, all members are expected to uphold that decision.

" Quite how much of a part Disney's decision to scrap Touchmark played in the creation of Vertigo is open for debate.

Although gay radicals used pressure to force the decision, Kaiser notes that this had been an issue of some debate for many years in the psychiatric community, and that one of the chief obstacles to normalizing homosexuality was that therapists were profiting from offering dubious, unproven " cures ".

Whether or not the Powell v. Alabama decision applied to non-capital cases had sparked heated debate.

Due to the increasingly consensus-based decision making process of the Chinese leadership, there is debate on how much power Hu held personally to effect change.