The debates among these groups resulted in numerous synods, among them the Council of Sardica in 343, the Council of Sirmium in 358 and the double Council of Rimini and Seleucia in 359, and no fewer than fourteen further creed formulas between 340 and 360, leading the pagan observer Ammianus Marcellinus to comment sarcastically: " The highways were covered with galloping bishops.

Meanwhile, Debussy was having one of his first major successes with in 1902, leading a few years later to ‘ who-was-precursor-to-whom ’ debates between the two composers, in which Maurice Ravel would also get involved.

The office of Governor-General for the Commonwealth of Australia was conceived during the debates and conventions leading up to federation.

* 1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.

In the debates leading up to World War I, a number of isolationist senators filibustered bills that Wilson considered important.

However, the rift would open again during the debates leading up to the Council of Chalcedon.

In 2008, CNN partnered with The Los Angeles Times to host two primary debates leading up to its coverage of Super Tuesday.

Rowbotham and his followers, like William Carpenter who continued his work, gained attention by engaging in public debates with leading scientists of the day.

In addition to high-profile awards ceremonies BAFTA runs a year-round programme of educational events including film screenings, tribute evenings, interviews, lectures and debates with leading industry figures.

In debates leading up to the passage of the 1765 Stamp Act, both Hutchinson and Bernard quietly warned London not to proceed.

Lowe then attended University College, Oxford and enjoyed the change ; there he gained a first class degree in Classics and a second class in Mathematics, besides taking a leading part in the Union debates.

A founder of the Rochdale Literary and Philosophical Society, he took a leading part in its debates, and on returning from a holiday journey in the east, gave the society a lecture on his travels.

In the controversy which arose between the Houses on the question of the legality of the decision of the court of King's Bench regarding Titus Oates, and of the action of the Lords in sustaining this decision, Somers was again the leading manager for the Commons, and has left a clear and interesting account of the debates.

Instances of developer misconduct in Eve Online have been substantiated, leading to debates and controversy within the game community.

Chris Mullin first visited Cambodia in 1973, and again in 1980 ; in 1989 and 1990, he was outspoken on the British Government's record in Cambodia, being a leading voice in some of the first protracted debates on Britain's provision of military support to the Khmer Rouge, and attributing increasing public interest in the issue to the documentary films of John Pilger.

This has often resulted in lengthy debates been conducted through them, leading to a set of familiar names in the letters page.

Because of his involvement in these intellectual debates, Gabo became a leading figure in Moscow ’ s avant garde, in post-Revolution Russia.

During three years, he thus played an important role during the debates leading to the adoption of the Falloux Laws in 1850-1851, which greatly increased the clergy's influence on education, to the dismay of Republicans such as Saint-Hilaire.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, left leaning policy research institute in Canada concerned with issues of social and economic justice, and one of Canada ’ s leading progressive voices in public policy debates.

In what was described at the time as ‘ perhaps the finest moment in his political career ’, he played the leading role in getting the government's Native Title Act 1993 through the Senate in one of the Parliament ’ s longest-ever debates following the High Court of Australia's decision in Mabo v Queensland.

He was a leading advocate for farmer's concerns during his time in parliament, and generally avoided ideological debates.

In this capacity, he took a leading role in arguing for the position of the west in Canada's constitutional debates.

Ponsonby was chancellor of the Irish exchequer in 1782, afterwards taking a prominent part in the debates on the question of Roman Catholic relief, and leading the opposition to the union of the parliaments.

The Public Forum, begun in 2010, is an exciting series of lectures, debates and conversations that showcase leading voices in the arts, politics and the media.

However, the Committee of Eleven, formed to work out various details including the mode of election of the President, recommended instead that the election be by a group of people apportioned among the states in the same numbers as their representatives in Congress ( the formula for which had been resolved in lengthy debates resulting in the Connecticut Compromise and Three-fifths compromise ), but chosen by each state " in such manner as its Legislature may direct.

In April 1850, during heated Senate floor debates over the proposed Compromise of 1850, Benton was nearly shot by pistol-wielding Mississippi Senator Henry S. Foote, who had taken umbrage to Benton's vitriolic sparring with Vice-President Millard Fillmore.

Randolph vehemently opposed the War of 1812 and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 ; he was active in debates about tariffs, manufacturing, and currency.

McClernand served as Douglas ' ally and liaison in the House during the Compromise of 1850 debates, and later served as one of his campaign managers in the divisive Democratic presidential nomination convention held in Charleston, South Carolina in 1860.

There were long debates on such issues as sovereignty, the exact powers to be given the confederate government, whether to have a judiciary, and voting procedures.

When debates polarise between techniques, the methods are often referred to by a colour code, based on the colours of the bindings of the two volumes from the first Oxford Conference, where the approaches were first distinguished.

In southern China, fierce debates about whether Buddhism should be allowed to exist were held frequently by the royal court and nobles.

The original acts and debates of the council, as prepared by its general secretary, Bishop Angelo Massarelli, in six large folio volumes, are deposited in the Vatican Library and remained there unpublished for more than 300 years and were brought to light, though only in part, by Augustin Theiner, priest of the oratory ( d. 1874 ), in Acta genuina sancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini nunc primum integre edita ( 2 vols., Leipzig, 1874 ).

Whilst the Restoration Movement accepted Thomas's right to have his own beliefs, when he started preaching that they were essential to salvation, it led to a fierce series of debates with a notable leader of the movement, Alexander Campbell.

Doctrinal issues arose, debates were held and statements of faith were created and amended as other issues arose.

In 1206 Diego of Osma and his canon, the future Saint Dominic, began a programme of conversion in Languedoc ; as part of this, Catholic-Cathar public debates were held at Verfeil, Servian, Pamiers, Montréal and elsewhere.

) As a consequence, debates about freedom versus " necessity " were a regular feature of Enlightenment religious and philosophical discussions.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

The early debates were made before the much greater calculating powers of modern computers became available but also before research on chaos theory.

In the late 19th century the major debates were between fundamentalist Calvinists and theological liberals, who rejected a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Medieval charters of liberty such as the English Magna Carta were not charters of human rights, let alone general charters of rights: they instead constituted a form of limited political and legal agreement to address specific political circumstances, in the case of Magna Carta later being mythologized in the course of early modern debates about rights.

During the process, there were two major debates, centering around the issues of borders and religion.

Sanders proposed that many of Neusner's interpretations of Pharisaic discussions and rulings were questionable ( e. g., Neusner concludes that 67 % of the debates between Pharisaic " houses " dealt with ritual food purity ; Sanders concludes that less than 1 % do — see Sanders, p. 177 ).

While there were debates over the specifics, especially the route to be taken, there was a public consensus that such a railroad should be built by private interests financed by public land grants.

“ They were asked for their opinions and views about a range of recent policy issues and debates.

Over time, different traditions of the Oral Law came into being, raising debates about what the laws or their rulings were.

In 1949, Hilda Terry wrote a letter challenging that rule, and after more than six months of debates and votes, three women were finally admitted for membership in 1950 — Terry, Edwina Dumm and gag cartoonist Barbara Shermund.

Its debates were televised daily.

These terms were developed during the debates of the 1960s and 70s accompanying the rise of cladistics ( a clade is a term for a monophyletic group ).

In the debates between Trudeau and Lévesque, Canadians were treated to a contest between two highly intelligent, articulate and bilingual politicians who, despite being bitterly opposed, were each committed to the democratic process.

The negotiations themselves are seen through the memory of three who were there: a warrior who could hear the debates but not see it from his hiding place in the floor of the house, a young boy who could see the action but not hear it from his perch in the tree outside, and the boy as an old man recalling that without " Someone In a Tree ", a silent watcher, history may have been incomplete.