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.

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

Euler had limited training in rhetoric, and tended to debate matters that he knew little about, making him a frequent target of Voltaire's wit.

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

Crossman, opening the debate on 19 November, said the government would reform the Lords in five ways: removing the voting rights of hereditary peers ; making sure no party had a permanent majority ; ensuring the government of the day usually passed its laws ; weakening the Lords ' powers to delay laws ; and abolishing the power to refuse subordinate legislation if it had been voted for by the Commons.

There is considerable debate about the propriety of a money dance in English-speaking countries, where the practice is frowned upon because making guests pay for dancing or socializing with the bridal couple seems inhospitable, greedy, or distasteful.

In a meeting to decide the army's direction, Zhou sided with Mao, making Braun " fly into a rage because he was overruled in the debate.

Public policy still favors the provision of such benefits, but there is increasing debate on making them more equitable and needs-based.

Though racism has been a prominent topic in history, there is still debate over whether race actually exists, making the discussion of race a controversial topic.

McNamara's institution of systems analysis as a basis for making key decisions on force requirements, weapon systems, and other matters occasioned much debate.

He decided to raise the issue of the calls again on the programme, given that in the preceding week Lenihan changed his story of eight years and had now denied twice, first in a student debate, then in an Irish Press interview with Emily O ' Reilly, making any calls.

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.

Nietzsche in the same passage ( Part I, section 5 ) makes some of his most controversial pronouncements, wondering for instance if "... the conqueror and master race, the Aryan, is not succumbing physiologically ," to a " dark, black-haired aboriginal " race of pre-Aryans It is a matter of scholarly debate whether or not Nietzsche intended such statements to be understood literally or figuratively and similarly there may be doubts about whether or not Theognis advocated eugenics or social selection when making such statements as this:

Since unanimity may be difficult to achieve, especially in large groups, or unanimity may be the result of coercion, fear, undue persuasive power or eloquence, inability to comprehend alternatives, or plain impatience with the process of debate, consensus decision making bodies may use an alternative benchmark of consensus.

* Express versus issue advocacy: these two types of advocacy when grouped together usually refers to a debate in the United States whether a group is expressly making their desire known that voters should cast ballots in a particular way, or whether a group has a long term issue that isn't campaign and election season specific.

In 2009, Paul Krugman ignited a debate among notable blogging economists and financial journalists when he grouped Barro with " first-rate economists keep making truly boneheaded arguments against Keynesian stimulus ".

The first debate for the 1960 election drew over 66 million viewers out of a population of 179 million, making it one of the most-watched broadcasts in U. S. television history.

When Prohibition was nationally repealed in 1933, and four days before the sale of alcohol became legal in Pennsylvania again, Pinchot called the Pennsylvania General Assembly into special session to debate regulations regarding the manufacture and sale of alcohol ; this session led to the establishment of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and its system of state-run liquor stores, reflecting Pinchot's desire to " discourage the purchase of alcoholic beverages by making it as inconvenient and expensive as possible.

In order to prevent the IRS's invocation of intermediate sanctions any individual serving on the governing body of the organization may not have a conflict of interest regarding the transaction and if they are on the governing body and have a conflict they may answer questions posed by other members, but they must recuse themselves in the decision making process including debate.

After much internal debate, the NAACP temporarily retained Jones as their replacement for Murphy, making him briefly the sole attorney for all of the 99 defendants.

McGuinty was able to maintain his party's standing in the polls in the last stages, preventing Eves from making up ground during the leader's debate.

The government team then " squirrels " the motion into something debatable by making a series of logical links between the proposed motion and the one they propose to debate.

: " is broken after the signs for ' King's Son of ', and there has been considerable debate as to whether it continued to say ' Kush ', making Nakhtmin a Viceroy of Nubia, or ' of his body ', making him an actual royal son.

The incumbent pro-Airtricity deputy Supervisor was defeated by a large margin, and of the other two board members, both of whom were on the other side in the debate, only one was up for election, and received the largest number of votes for a non-supervisor seat.

During the 2004 Senate race in South Dakota, Republican challenger John Thune made Ellsworth a campaign issue, stating in an April 16, 2004 appearance at the base that if he were elected over incumbent Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle: “ It puts Ellsworth in a lot stronger position than having someone who's going to be in the minority and someone who doesn't have a relationship with the President of the U. S .” In a debate between the two men broadcast on KSFY-TV and KOTA-TV television on October 17, 2004, Thune said: " I think we have got to have somebody that has a relationship with the President of the United States, can work constructively across party lines in the Congress to get this done if we're going save Ellsworth " and was later quoted in the " Rapid City Journal " newspaper on October 27, 2004 claiming that: " an all-Democratic congressional delegation would have little political influence if President Bush is elected to a second term .”

In September 2010, Saint Mary ’ s hosted the first U. S. Senatorial debate between incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer and her then Republican challenger Carly Fiorina.

Ronald Reagan and John Anderson debated in 1980, but incumbent President Carter refused to appear with Anderson, and Anderson was excluded from the subsequent debate between Reagan and Carter.

During the 2004 U. S. presidential-election campaign, Gibson moderated the second presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri, between the two nominee candidates — Republican incumbent U. S. President George W. Bush and Democratic U. S. Senator John Kerry.

The relatively unknown Packwood was given little chance, but after an 11th-hour debate with the incumbent, which Packwood was generally considered to have won, and a statewide recount in which over 100, 000 ballots were challenged by both parties, Packwood was declared the winner by 3500 votes.

Thus televised presidential debates did not resume until 1976, when incumbent president Gerald Ford, perceiving he was behind in the polls, agreed to debate challenger Jimmy Carter.

Three debates were held between Republican incumbent George W. Bush and Democratic candidate John Kerry, the major candidates, and one debate was held with their vice presidential running mates, incumbent Dick Cheney and John Edwards.

Bolstered in part by a televised debate in which he appeared to be young and vibrant while Fowler appeared to be old and doddering, Clement won by an incredible 3-to-1 margin — the most lopsided defeat of a statewide incumbent in Tennessee history.

McMahon mounted a successful campaign for a Connecticut United States Senate seat in 1944, defeating incumbent John A. Danaher, with internationalism ( McMahon ) v. isolationism ( Danaher ) a major point of debate.

Following the debate, the Citizens Union announced that it had decided to prefer the incumbent, Connor, over his challenger, stating that Connor " would undeniably be in a stronger and more experienced position to effectively advance critical reforms.

Wells campaigned aggressively against incumbent Shelley Moore Capito, claiming that she was hypocritical in only agreeing to one debate when, in the 2000 Congressional Campaign, she had urged her opponent to debate in every county in the Congressional district.

It was Afghanistan ’ s first-ever debate to feature an incumbent president and was televised on Afghan national TV.

Aware the difficulties in laying transatlantic cable had not yet been solved, Lindsay took a great interest in the debate, with the revolutionary suggestion of using electric arc welding to join cables, and sacrificial anodes to prevent corrosion.

Broadband open access is an issue of policy debate in telecommunications, regarding whether or not companies which own broadband telecommunication infrastructure ( such as cable operators ) should be required to provide access to their facilities for competing businesses which do not own physical infrastructure.

Crossballs: The Debate Show is a Comedy Central television show which poked fun at cable news networks ' political debate shows, especially CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.

Before the 2008 debate, Ifill's objectivity was questioned by conservative talk radio, blogs and cable news programs as well as some independent media analysts because of her book The Breakthrough, which was scheduled to be released on Inauguration Day 2009 but whose contents had not been disclosed to the debate commission or the campaigns.

Aired during primetime on Denver's government access KMGH-Channel 7, the debate was repeated on cable channels through the following Monday.

" After more than three years of debate, six provisions were enacted to represent the intricate compromise between cable operators and municipalities.