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

The debate is over the origin of their similarities.

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

Violence in this context means any unlawful touching, though there is some debate over whether the touching must also be hostile.

In the year 883, though there is some debate over the year, King Alfred, because of his support and his donation of alms to Rome, received a number of gifts from the Pope Marinus.

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

In 1937, an internal debate erupted over whether to defend Henry Ford's right to distribute anti-union literature.

In 1939, a heated debate took place over whether to prohibit communists from serving in ACLU leadership roles.

From time to time there has been debate over repealing the clause that prevents " Papists " ( Roman Catholics ) or those who marry one from ascending to the British throne.

Public interest in, and debate over, Hill's testimony is said to have launched modern-day public awareness and open discussion of the issue of workplace sexual harassment in the United States with the ultimate result that the behavior is less tolerated today.

Following the debate over Custer's Revenge, an Atari 2600 VCS title with adult themes, Atari had concerns over similar adult titles finding their way onto the 7800 and displaying adult graphics on the significantly improved graphics of the MARIA chip.

An intense debate broke out in public over the merits of such a system.

While government authorities prepared lists of aliens for deportation, many aliens fled the country during the debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Adams never signed a deportation order.

In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a lengthy debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts ( an issue which remained a defining one throughout the school's existence ), Gropius was made the director of a new institution integrating the two called the Bauhaus.

Disraeli's first premiership was dominated by the heated debate over the established Church of Ireland.

Since the mid-20th century, there has been considerable debate over how the earliest forms of life evolved and how to classify them, especially at the kingdom and domain levels and organisms that are or have been considered bacteria.

Scholars continue to debate over which history is more reliable: Chronicles or Samuel-Kings.

Many scholars debate over what happened on the threshing floor ; yet it seems unlikely Boaz and Ruth had sexual relations based on the narrative's portrayal of their character ( esp.

The debate over the credibility of the miracle of Jonah is not simply a modern one.

Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.

There has been extensive historiographical debate over the comparative strengths of the fleets, although they were ostensibly evenly matched in size, each containing 13 ships of the line.

In 1998, Lomborg published four essays about the state of the environment in the leading Danish newspaper Politiken, which according to him " resulted in a firestorm debate spanning over 400 articles in major metropolitan newspapers.

There is much debate over whether or not the social and economic consequences of casino gambling outweigh the initial revenue that may be generated.

As detailed above, proponents for both sides of the Daoism – Taoism debate make valid arguments.

English-speakers continue to debate the preferred romanization of the words " Daoism " and " Taoism ".

There is debate over how, and whether, Taoism should be categorized.

The lawn vs. garden issue is played out in urban planning as the debate over the " land ethic " that is to determine urban land use and whether hyper hygienist bylaws ( e. g. weed control ) should apply, or whether land should generally be allowed to exist in its natural wild state.

The question of " what is an organism ", and at what scale is it rational to speak about organisms vs. biospheres, gives rise to a semantic debate.

The debate surrounding ivory trade has often been depicted as Africa vs the West.

The conflict between the theories assuming humans are born with syntactic knowledge and those that claim all such knowledge is the product of learning from one's environment is often referred to as the " Nature vs. Nurture " debate.

After the book's release, Klein was heavily criticized by the news magazine The Economist, leading to a broadcast debate with Klein and the magazine's writers, dubbed " No Logo vs.

Nevertheless, due to the number and variability in the actual symptoms and nature of apneic events ( e. g., hypopnea vs apnea, central vs obstructive ), the variability of patients ' physiologies, and the intrinsic imperfections of the experimental setups and methods, this field is opened to debate.

* Modalism vs. Youtube: Trinitarianism Debate debate between reverend David Bernard of New Life UPCI versus reverend Gene Cook of Reformed Baptist Church

In addition, the DVD market in particular has allowed fans to view the entire Stooge film corpus as distinct periods in their long, distinguished career instead of comparing one Stooge to the other ( the Curly vs. Shemp debate continues to this day ).

Many Keynesian economists initially believed that the Keynesian vs. monetarist debate was solely about whether fiscal or monetary policy was the more effective tool of demand management.

The definition of a low-rise vs. a high-rise building is a matter of debate, but generally three storeys or less is considered low-rise.

It is interesting there is such a debate on the emphasis on market structure vs. market conduct on the influence of performance since it is clear that structure and conduct are themselves influenced by each other.

Derrida's countercurrent take on the issue, at a prominent international conference, was so influential that it reframed the discussion from a celebration of the triumph of Structuralism to a " Phenomenology vs Structuralism debate.

This debate became known as the early-selection vs late-selection models.

More on the " satisficing " vs " optimizing " debate can be found in Byron's 2004 edited collection of articles.

* A web page dedicated to a discussion on the " satisficing " vs " optimizing " debate.

The cladistics vs. phenetics debate of the mid-20th century revived scientific interest in generalizing comparisons.

While the view of one president and the Socrates team was that technology made it virtually possible for both to exist simultaneously, the industrial policy vs. free market debate continued as later under the George H. W. Bush administration, Socrates was labeled as industrial policy and de-funded.

" The debate over Linux vs Windows is missing, showing the origin of the OS only as a response to proprietary and expensive Sun and DEC software and hardware, and its growth solely due to the Apache web server.

Social constructionism falls toward the nurture end of the spectrum of the larger nature vs. nurture debate.

Because tallow is derived from animal by-products which have little to no value it avoids some of the food vs. fuel debate.

In the Supreme Court's last major ruling on entrapment, Jacobson v. United States (), which overturned the conviction of a Nebraska man for receiving child pornography via the mail, the subjective vs. objective debate was completely absent.

Analysts believed that was the Court's indication it considered the subjective vs. objective debate settled.

The topics discussed in the debate are often the most controversial issues of the time, and arguably elections have been nearly decided by these debates ( e. g., Nixon vs. Kennedy ).