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.

Introduced on Whitsunday 1549, after considerable debate and revision in Parliament — but there is no evidence that it was ever submitted to either Convocation — it was said to have pleased neither reformers nor their opponents, indeed the Catholic Bishop Gardiner could say of it was that it " was patient of a catholic interpretation ".

The issues between growing religious movements, which would later become known as Protestantism, and the Catholic Church had become so clear that few could escape the summons to join the debate.

The first matter brought up for debate was the dogmatic draft of Catholic doctrine against the manifold errors due to Rationalism.

* Araujo, Robert John, “ The UN Declaration on Human Cloning: a survey and assessment of the debate ,” 7 The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 129-149 ( 2007 ).

The intensity of debate spurred Catholic Church interventions against " heresy " and even a general confiscation of Rabbinic texts and in reaction, the defeat of the more radical interpretations of Maimonides and at least amongst Ashkenazi Jews, a tendency not so much to repudiate as simply to ignore the specifically philosophical writings and to stress instead the Rabbinic and halachic writings ; even these writings often included considerable philosophical chapters or discussions in support of halachic observance, as David Hartman observes Maimonides made clear " the traditional support for a philosophical understanding of God both in the Aggadah of Talmud and in the behavior of the hasid pious Jew " and so Maimonidean thought continues to influence traditionally observant Jews.

At the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ) the debate on papal primacy and authority re-emerged, and in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on the authority of the Pope, bishops and councils was further elaborated.

The Roman Catholic Church officially concluded this debate at the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1417 ).

The prevalence of this view in the usury debate allows for the development of the financial industry in Catholic Europe.

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.

Outspoken Catholic Bishop Joseph Cardinal Zen has been a key figure in the debate over the legislation: on 15 May 2003 he instructed his church members to resist the introduction of the legislation.

Theological debate about the Assumption continued, following the Reformation, climaxing in 1950 when Pope Pius XII defined it as dogma for the Catholic Church.

These observers, graciously received and seated as honored guests right in front of the podium on the floor of the council chamber, did not formally take part in the Council's debate, but they mingled freely with the Catholic bishops and theologians who constituted the council, and with the other observers as well, in the break area during the council sessions.

In this way he bypassed the debate on the fundamental articles, a bone of contention between the Catholic and Protestant approaches.

To counteract the tensions, the Protestant community and the Catholic clergy met for a debate on 8 May 1549.

In the debate between the two main parties present at the Assembly, the Presbyterians and the Independents, the Presbyterians were in favor of a form of church government that maintained the visible organizational unity of the Catholic Church while Independents, weary of the ecclesiastical tyranny they experienced under the Episcopal system, wished to organize the churches in a congregational way envisioning no legitimate authority of the church above the local congregation meeting at one time in a single place.

During a debate on the abortion drug RU486 in February 2006, she wore a t-shirt into parliament bearing the slogan " Mr Abbott get your rosaries off my ovaries ", in reference to the Catholic faith of Health Minister Tony Abbott.

The purpose of the version, both the text and notes, was to uphold Catholic tradition in the face of the Protestant Reformation which up till then had ovewhelmingly dominated Elizabethan religion and academic debate.

It is a type of American high school one-on-one debate practiced in National Forensic League ( NFL ) competitions, and widely used in related debate leagues such as the National Catholic Forensic League, Stoa USA, the National Educational Debate Association, the National Christian Forensics and Communication Association, the Texas UIL, and their affiliated regional organizations.

The National Catholic Forensic League ( CFL ) is a speech and debate league that was formed in 1951.

The same year it also gained encouragement from Scottish Catholic bishops Keith O ' Brien and Philip Tartaglia for its social stances, including marriage, rights for unborn children and supporting the Church in the adoption debate.

The National Forensic League ( NFL ), National Catholic Forensic League ( NCFL ), many national debate tournaments, State Forensic Associations, and the IEEE Pakistan Student Congress ( PSC ) all offer Congressional Debate as an event.

As an example, he pointed to " false rumors that union between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches is imminent " claiming that the disseminators of such rumors were fully aware that " the differences discussed in these theological dialogues remain numerous and require lengthy debate ".

This resulted in a debate in the city council of Amsterdam as to whether the French soldiers should be allowed to have a Roman Catholic sermon on board of the Protestant Dutch ships.