In one debate he supported the freedom of judgment as opposed to dogma, in another he held that the practice of science was in fact an act of religious worship.

There was no debate as the Senate passed the bill on to the House.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

There was some debate at the time whether there should be more control characters rather than the lower case alphabet.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian Language, and there is debate as to whether the Hurrian language was also of this group, or a Language Isolate.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

The term “ Arian ” bestowed by Athanasius upon his opponents in the Christological debate was polemical.

The emerging Baptist movement in 17th-century England, for example, was a microcosm of the historic debate between Calvinists and Arminians.

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

" After a vigorous debate, a formal vote for impeachment was held in the House of Representatives on December 5, 1867, and failed, 57 – 108.

But the design of the idealized free library was the subject of prolonged and heated debate.

However the exact relationship of the term Ahhiyawa to the Achaeans beyond a similarity in pronunciation is hotly debated by scholars, even following the discovery that Mycenaean Linear B is an early form of Greek ; the earlier debate was summed up in 1984 by Hans G. Güterbock of the Oriental Institute.

Consequently, there was little public concern with the issues and debate had been confined largely to academic circles until, in November 2010, the announcement that Prince William was to marry.

Kabul University was a centre for political debate and activism during that time.

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.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.

The heated debate that resulted was settled by the Bundestag ( Germany's parliament ) only on 20 June 1991.

Whorf was a spiritual man throughout his lifetime although what religion he followed has been the subject of debate.

While the House Judiciary Committee hearings ended in a straight party-line vote, there was lively debate on the House floor.

The acceptance of modernist design into everyday life was the subject of publicity campaigns, well-attended public exhibitions like the Weissenhof Estate, films, and sometimes fierce public debate.

Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete ( there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds ) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays.

The debate which has been monitored by the Irish Times in its Renewing the Republic opinion pieces, has largely centred on the make up of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament.

Although the campaign was largely unsuccessful, it created a wave of new followers, and some of Baba ’ s views found their way into academic debate on the merits and dangers of hallucinogens.

Arguments have been made both for and against this being part of the original text, but this debate largely is centered on the acceptance or rejection of supernatural intervention in the life of the writer.

Yet, according to Kesia Reeve, " squatting is largely absent from policy and academic debate and is rarely conceptualized, as a problem, as a symptom, or as a social or housing movement.

Modern scholars still debate on whether or not the Ming Dynasty really had sovereignty over Tibet at all, as some believe it was a relationship of loose suzerainty which was largely cut off when the Jiajing Emperor ( ruled in 1521 – 67 ) persecuted Buddhism in favor of Daoism at court and some scholars argue that the significant religious nature of the relationship of the Ming court with Tibetan lamas is underrepresented in modern scholarship.

After a debate that divided members largely along the lines of generation and gender, the Chickahominy Neighborhood Association voted unanimously yesterday not to bring a controversial Revolutionary War mural back to Hamilton Avenue School because its content is too violent.

The distinctive character of the gemara derives largely from the intricate use of argumentation and debate, described above.

The 1957 general strike, timed to coincide with, and influence, the UN debate on Algeria, was largely observed by Muslim workers and businesses.

Experimental studies of simulated lightning have produced results largely consistent with this model, though there is continued debate about the precise physical mechanisms of the process.

While largely uncontroversial in academia, the " Aryan Invasion theory " debate in India, involving e. g. Sita Ram Goel, Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib and Arun Shourie, is also a matter of politics.

The chapter on ' Female Ejaculation ' is largely based on anecdotal testimony, and illustrates another issue in the debate, the weight placed on anecdotes and small numbers of observations rather than biomedical investigation or clinical trials.

A heated debate arose when Kimura's theory was published, largely revolving around the relative percentages of alleles that are " neutral " versus " non-neutral " in any given genome.

While acknowledging that " the politics of Underground have been assailed and dissected by international audiences ", she feels that " this debate is largely specious as there's no hidden agenda to this robust and not terribly subtle tale of duplicity with Mr. Kusturica's central idea being a daringly blunt representation of political chicanery that fools an entire society, and of the corruption that lets one man thrive at the expense of his dearest friend ".

The evidence that has been amassed is largely anecdotal or case report based and it has attracted much intra disciplinary debate because of its frequent association with certain approaches to management ( largely described as being traditional or " philosophical " in nature ).

Two of the former platforms in the SSP both emerged from British Section of the Committee for a Workers ' International, following the " Open Turn " debate of the early 1990s, which was largely led by Scottish members.

A celebrated debate on this question took place in the House of Commons in January 1690 ; but the evident intention of the Whigs to perpetuate their own ascendancy by tampering with the franchise contributed largely to the Tory reaction which resulted in the defeat of the Whigs in the elections of that year.

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 ).

Domestically, TNR as of 2011 supports a largely modern liberal stance on fiscal and social issues, according to editor Franklin Foer, who stated that it " invented the modern usage of the term ' liberal ', and it's one of our historical legacies and obligations to be involved in the ongoing debate over what exactly liberalism means and stands for.

The debate largely centred on logical arguments about whether connectionist networks were capable of producing the syntactic structure observed in this sort of reasoning.

Today, progress in neurophysiology, and general advances in the understanding of neural networks, has led to the successful modelling of a great many of these early problems, and the debate about fundamental cognition has, thus, largely been decided among neuroscientists in favour of connectionism.

There was little debate about the European Union as the two leaders ' opinions on that subject were largely the same.