The Mexico policy debate was one of the more interesting topics for critical review.

At the University of Birmingham, a ' Lunar Society ' meets every Thursday between 6-8pm to debate and discuss all manner of topics in the Guild bar, from current events to historical precedents.

Much academic debate regarded one or both of two pragmatic topics: how ( or whether ) to apply utilitarianism to problems of political policy, or how ( or whether ) to apply economic models ( such as rational choice theory ) to political issues.

The esolang community is active sporadically, and topics of discussion range from debate as to whether a language is Turing-complete to how one would go about representing abstract and hard to visualise mathematical concepts in a programming environment.

* Pardon the Interruption ( PTI ): Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon debate a fast-paced array of sports topics

* SportsNation: Charissa Thompson and Colin Cowherd debate various sports topics through different segments.

The meaning and morality of her cults and priesthoods were topics of debate and dispute in Greek and Roman literature, and remain so in modern scholarship.

At Columbia University ( end of 18th century ) there was a Urania Society, for the improvement of oratory skills, felicity of composition and aptitude to debate philosophical topics.

The constitution was rejected after intense national debate and was one of the prime topics of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

The network carries in-depth reports on current topics, political debate, and similar programming.

" Also " American students ' are encouraged to debate topics.

A vigorous public debate created a new awareness of topics such as environmental pollution and deforestation, and a host of organizations competed to spread the ecological message.

An undercurrent of debate about College Bowl's emphasis on trivia, current events, and popular culture versus the relative unimportance of those topics to ACF packets was also brewing at this time, as were concerns about question length and difficulty in ACF ( belied then, as usual, by the high scoring which normally took place at ACF tournaments ).

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 ).

Student legislators debate student-produced bills on various topics related to the Commonwealth and its laws.

Even the earliest writers who were associated with and inspired psychological humanism explored topics as diverse as the political nature of " normal " and everyday experience ( RD Laing ), the disintegration of the capacity to love in modern consumerist society ( Erich Fromm ), the growing technological dominance over human life ( Medard Boss ), and the question of evil ( Rollo May-Carl Rogers debate ).

In both team and individual debate a list of topics are given to the two sides thirty minutes before the start of the round.

In its effort to uphold the right to free speech, the Union disregarded them and continued to debate contentious topics in disguised form.

Gish has been characterized as using a rapid-fire approach during a debate, presenting arguments and changing topics very quickly.

Today, as in the past, the main points of debate between anthropic mechanists and anti-mechanists are mainly occupied with two topics: the mind — and consciousness, in particular — and free will.

Kornheiser then says " Welcome to ' PTI ', boys and girls ," and the hosts usually debate five or six topics.

Hosted by Globe columnist Bob Ryan and a rotating cast of other sports writers, the show has ten topics that the two writers debate for one and a half minutes, in the same format as PTI ( Ryan himself frequently fills-in on PTI on nights when Globe 10. 0 doesn't air ).

On March 25, 2008, SportsNet New York premiered two new half-hour shows, The Wheelhouse and Loud Mouths, which are similar to PTI and to each other, having two panelists debate sports topics.

The publicity generated by opposition to scientific ideas such as natural selection or the scientific study of the soul brings such topics into more widespread debate.

Achebe's lecture prompted a lively debate, reactions at the time ranged from dismay and outrage — Achebe recounted a Professor Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts saying to Achebe after the lecture, " How dare you upset everything we have taught, everything we teach?

There followed much debate and some extensive investigations which ranged as far as Russia, where in 1840 Murchison discovered a layer similar to the one found in Devon placed between well defined Silurian and Carboniferous deposits.

Recognized both on a state and national level, the team has accumulated numerous successes that have ranged from individual awards in public speaking, competitive acting, and debate, to third place in the state of Massachusetts in both 2009 and 2010.

Although her term was uneventful, her election generated worldwide interest from the press, sparking a debate regarding the feasibility of other towns following Argonia's lead, which ranged from objections to a " petticoat rule " to a " wait-and-see " attitude.

These examples of heritability that operate above the gene are covered broadly under the title of multilevel or hierarchical selection, which has been a subject of intense debate in the history of evolutionary science.

Much of the debate concerning theology's place in the university or within a general higher education curriculum centres on whether theology's methods are appropriately theoretical and ( broadly speaking ) scientific or, on the other hand, whether theology requires a pre-commitment of faith by its practitioners, and whether such a commitment conflicts with academic freedom.

While the need for stimulus measures has been broadly accepted among policy makers, there has been much debate over how to fund the spending.

Interjections from both government and opposition members in the House of Representatives and the Senate are common, and broadly speaking are an accepted practice, although the Speaker of the House or the President of the Senate will intervene if interjections become too frequent, if they contain inappropriate content, or if the member interjecting is disrupting debate.

However, current medical opinion is broadly against genital assignment, shaped to a significant extent by the mature feedback of adults who regret these decisions being made on their behalf at their birth. Sex reassignment surgery elected by adults is also subject to several kinds of debate.

Ousting the Danish leaders who recently conquered parts of England and provided some of the stiffest resistance to the Normans, and largely replacing the powerful English territorial magnates, while co-opting the most powerful of them, the Normans imposed a new political structure that is broadly termed " feudal " ( historians debate whether pre-Norman England should be considered a feudal government — indeed, the entire characterization of Feudalism is under some dispute ).

The term has become associated with neoliberal policies in general and drawn into the broader debate over the expanding role of the free market, constraints upon the state, and the influence of the United States, and globalization more broadly, on countries ' national sovereignty.

Contemporary discussions of ToM have their roots in philosophical debate — most broadly, from the time of Descartes ’ " Second Meditation ," which set the groundwork for considering the science of the mind.

This interactiveness is now broadly accepted, but many aspects of the debate continue in contemporary research in the field.

Critics of the concept argue that it conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism, defines legitimate criticism of Israel too narrowly and demonization too broadly, trivializes the meaning of antisemitism, and exploits antisemitism in order to silence debate.

After much heated debate, the Danish parliament decided in May 1965 that such documents in the Arnamagnæan Collection as might be held to be " Icelandic cultural property " ( islandsk kultureje ) — broadly defined as a work composed or translated by an Icelander and whose content is wholly or chiefly concerned with Iceland — were to be transferred to the newly established Icelandic Manuscript Institute ( now Stofnun Árna Magnússonar ), a part of the University of Iceland.

The existence of educational achievement gaps between racial and socioeconomic groups is broadly accepted ; the source and stability of the gaps remain areas of active research and debate.

The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.

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.

have briefly summarized the debate, which took place from 1938 onwards and involved botanists on both sides of the Atlantic.

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.

Anthroposophical ideas have been criticized from both sides in the race debate:

Ancient Nubia shared many aspects of its mythology with ancient Egypt and there is debate about the original source of some religious concepts that the two cultures share and, whether the assimilation was from Nubia to Egypt, the reverse, or through continuing exchanges.

*# The second basic thesis is that intellectual freedom is essential to human society — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.

Over the years Beowulf scholars have put the work of the scribes under intense scrutiny, many debate whether the scribes even held a copy as some believe they worked solely from oral dictation.

The debate might be framed starkly as follows: on the one hand, we can hypothesise a poem put together from various tales concerning the hero ( the Grendel episode, the Grendel's mother story, and the firedrake narrative ).

After several rounds of debate between Job and his friends, in a divine voice, described as coming from a " cloud " or " whirlwind ", God describes, in evocative and lyrical language, what the experience of being the creator of the world is like, and rhetorically asks if Job has ever had the experiences or the authority that God has had.

The degree to which these external factors should influence adjudication is the subject of active debate, but that judges do draw of learning from other fields and jurisdictions is a fact of modern legal life.

The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.

Practical results were mixed and mingled emerged ( such as the debate surrounding the constitutional prohibition of extradition, which later was reversed ), but together with the reincorporation of some of the guerrilla groups to the legal political framework, the new Constitution inaugurated an era that was both a continuation and a gradual, but significant, departure from what had come before.

The GAC passed motions ( by the necessary two-thirds majority ) allowing members of the Provisional IRA to discuss and debate the taking of parliamentary seats, and the removal of the ban on members of the organisation from supporting any successful republican candidate who took their seat in Dáil Éireann.

Although the first, which emphasizes the potential for energy and resource conservation and health benefits gained from cycling versus automobile use, is relatively undisputed, the second is the subject of much debate.

In the decrees on marriage ( twenty-fourth session ) the excellence of the celibate state was reaffirmed ( see also clerical celibacy ), concubinage condemned and the validity of marriage made dependent upon the wedding taking place before a priest and two witnesses, although the lack of a requirement for parental consent ended a debate that had proceeded from the 12th century.

There is still some debate as to whether or not this change from clitic to affix has occurred with French subject pronouns.

But from the very outset Alonzo Church's attempts began with a debate that continues to this day.

This narrowness of definition has caused some debate over the years, and its result, the exclusion of Hebridean sites from most major syntheses, can be seen as a shortcoming which, due to superficial typologies, results in the failure to unite these sites, whose inhabitants shared the common habit of living on water.

Rather he believed he had rediscovered first century beliefs from the Bible alone, and sought to prove that through a process of challenge and debate and writing journals.

The online publication " Katarxis 3 " ( September 2004 ) includes several essays by Christopher Alexander, as well as the legendary debate between Alexander and Peter Eisenman from 1982.

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 exact mechanism by which the corona is heated is still the subject of some debate, but likely possibilities include induction by the Sun's magnetic field and sonic pressure waves from below ( the latter being less probable now that coronae are known to be present in massive, hot, highly magnetic stars ).

In his youth Diderot was originally a follower of Voltaire and his deist Anglomanie, but gradually moved away from this line of thought towards materialism and atheism, a move which was finally realised 1747 in the philosophical debate in the second part of his La Promenade du sceptique ( 1747 ).