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.

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.

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Bishop Angelo Massarelli, in six large folio volumes, are deposited in the Vatican Library and remained there unpublished for more than 300 years and were brought to light, though only in part, by Augustin Theiner, priest of the oratory ( d. 1874 ), in Acta genuina sancti et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.

As reported in several studies, the media have depicted cults as problematic, controversial, and threatening from the beginning, tending to favor sensationalistic stories over balanced public debates ( Beckford, 1985 ; Richardson, Best, & Bromley, 1991 ; Victor, 1993 ).

Gould said that the most positive review of the first edition of The Mismeasure of Man was by the British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology, which reported that " Gould has performed a valuable service in exposing the logical basis of one of the most important debates in the social sciences, and this book should be required reading for students and practitioners alike.

He used the occasion to pay compliments, and there was nothing striking in the speech as reported but it helped to gain him the attention of the house when he took part on debates on more controversial subjects.

The press organized petitions and debates and reported to the public on government policy, while leaders such as Henry Brougham ( 1778 – 1868 ) built alliances with men who lacked direct representation.

In 1628, during the debates on the Petition of Right, he supported the demands of the House of Commons, and was a member of the committee which reported against the king's right to imprison.

He reported extensively on debates in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and travelled to every part of the province writing about its geography and people.

It originally contained few, if any, puzzles, and instead reported on business transacted at puzzlers ' conventions, presented verses and skits composed by members, and relayed debates on the controversial puzzling topics of the day, such as obsolete words, esoteric references, and new types of puzzles.

Wallace E. Olson, then president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in mocking the United States income tax system and rates reported on the debates held in Congress that,

The debates were not reported and Clarke's minutes were not published at the time.

One of the most eminent savants of the period, Mazzoni was reported to have an excellent memory, which made him adept at recalling passages from Dante, Lucretius, Virgil, and others in his regular debates with prominent public figures.

* Howe reported on the debates in the House of Assembly and important trials in the courts with his own hand.

Debates in Taiwan and Hong Kong: In Taiwan and Hong Kong, newspapers and TV program reported the “ Heshang fever ” debates in P. R. China.

Following these events Time Magazine reported that there were debates about two possible candidates for Guardian.

He provided political commentary in his essays and reported on debates in the state legislature.

The program created viewer storms, debates and was reported to Swedish Broadcasting Commission several times.

The various debates in the mainstream scientific literature prompted the editors of ' Proceedings of the IEEE ' to invite Robert Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering at Princeton University, to write a comprehensive review of psychic phenomena from an engineering perspective.

He participated little in the debates ( though he did vote for or against the various articles ), but his high prestige maintained collegiality and kept the delegates at their labors.

However, the issue of historicism also finds itself at the center stage of many debates within Marxism itself ; the charge of historicism has been leveled against various theoretical strains of Marxism, typically disparaged by Marxists as " vulgar " Marxism.

In episode 6 ( Hades ) of James Joyce's Ulysses ( 1918 ), the party on the way to Paddy Dignam's funeral in a horse-drawn carriage idly debates the merits of various tramway improvements:

Ryan campaigned against Kealty in Locked On, facing off against him in various televised debates.

In contrast to many of his predecessors, Clay participated in several debates, and used his influence to procure the passage of measures he supported — for instance, the declaration of the War of 1812, and various laws relating to Clay's " American System ".

Gundam also features political battles and debates on various important philosophical issues and political ideals on the nature and meaning of war, the ideal of pacifism, and the continuing evolution-natural or engineered-of humanity and its consequences.

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.

His management of the abortive education proposals of 1896 were thought to show a disinclination for the continuous drudgery of parliamentary management, yet he had the satisfaction of seeing the passage of a bill providing Ireland with an improved system of local government, and took an active role in the debates on the various foreign and domestic questions that came before parliament between 1895 to 1900.

Though it seems now that the critical response to Styron's next novel, Sophie's Choice ( 1979 ), could hardly match the reception sparked by the publication of The Confessions of Nat Turner ( a novel reflecting the turbulent decade in which it was born even as it seems to reinforce the social and political turmoil of that time ), Styron's decision to portray a non-Jewish victim of the Holocaust generated various debates of its own.

As chairman of the council, Ståhlberg was involved in the drafting and re-drafting of constitutional proposals during 1918, when the impact of the Finnish Civil War, and debates between republicans and monarchists on the future constitution, all led to various proposals.

The involvement in the context of the student and youth movement-not only as musician and actor, but often in the political debates which were to follow the theatre performance as well, played an important role for Rio Reiser's development of political awareness and for his lifelong commitment-both privately and as musician-to liberation movements of various kinds, including, in particular, the left-wing political movement characteristic for the Sixties and Seventies ( while he liked to put an emphasis on supporting the workers ' and " simple people's " interests rather than the students ' intellectual approach ), the Gay liberation movement and later, the German ecological movement.

SGI is also criticized for its doctrinal teachings based on Nichiren Buddhism, perceived by some observers to be lacking tolerance towards other forms of Buddhism .. On the other hand, Nichiren Buddhism clarifies the way of peaceful and free expression in debates about various schools differences: “ Even in the case of the Nembutsu priests, the Zen priests, and the True Word teachers, and the ruler of the nation and other men of authority, all of whom bear me such hatred — I admonish them because I want to help them, and their hatred for me makes me pity them all the more ”.

Liddy later joined with Timothy Leary for a series of popular debates on various college campuses and similarly worked with Al Franken in the late 1990s.

During Congressional debates in Washington on 2 March 1839, Representative Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith of Maine outlined the events and the various communications sent and received since 1825.

There have been various debates as to what its original purpose actually was.

However, for more than thirty years after his fall he continued to take an active part in the judicial business of the House of Lords, and in its debates, having now turned fiercely against his former political associates, but continuing his efforts on behalf of reform of various kinds.

The different impressions left by the various Lamborghini models have generated numerous debates and disagreements over what constitutes ' classic ' or ' great ' automotive design ( elegant looks and style, vs. technical and engineering superiority ).

Perot could not have qualified for the debates in 1992 under these rules, and was able to show that various famous US presidents would likewise have been excluded from modern debate by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

A related argument is often encountered in education and more specifically in the debates on the grammar school in the United Kingdom and in the debates on gifted education in various countries.

These include addresses given to troops by their generals before battles and numerous political speeches, both by Athenian and Spartan leaders, as well as debates between various parties.

During debates on the British Telecommunications Bill in the House of Lords in 1981, various members raised concerns about telephone tapping, a matter of disquiet in the community and amongst these members.

Ghulam Ahmad is known to have travelled extensively across Northern India during this period of his life and to have held various debates with influential religious leaders.