In August 2009 as part of its third legislative term in the Scottish Parliament, the Government proposes to debate the Scottish referendum bill 2010, which would set out a planned referendum for 30th November 2010 on the issue of Scottish independence.

To overcome the conventional discussions on soft and hard power, Nayef Al-Rodhan highlights the importance of justice in the debate and proposes the concept of " just power ".

Humbert proposes a hybrid solution to the debate surrounding Qumran.

Matus went on to defend this position against the Oxfordian theory ( which proposes that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the actual author of Shakespeare's works ) in the October 1991 issue of The Atlantic Monthly as part of a print debate written by advocates of both sides.

The Five Presidents Declaration ( the president of the five architecture collateral organizations ), proposes a single designation for the professional degree in architecture, sparks discussion and debate among students, educators and practitioners.

An intense debate broke out in public over the merits of such a system.

He is a major proponent of the hereditarian position in the nature versus nurture debate, the position that genetics play a significant role in behavioral traits, such as intelligence and personality.

In the early 1900s, after the rediscovery of Mendel's work, the gaps in understanding between genetics and evolutionary Darwinism led to vigorous debate among biometricians, such as Walter Weldon and Karl Pearson, and Mendelians, such as Charles Davenport, William Bateson and Wilhelm Johannsen.

Whether or not green biotechnology products such as this are ultimately more environmentally friendly is a topic of considerable debate.

Other historians debate this analysis ( such as if the order was a violation ) or debate aspects of the records, and have been either harsher or more lenient.

There is some debate in the field as to whether the mind is best viewed as a huge array of small but individually feeble elements ( i. e. neurons ), or as a collection of higher-level structures such as symbols, schemas, plans, and rules.

Some strips which are still in affiliation with the original creator are produced by small teams or entire companies, such as Jim Davis ' Garfield, however there is some debate if these strips fall in this category.

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 issue of staff training was one of hot debate in the navy, with some such as Fisher seeing no point in more training, while others such as Beresford supported the development of a formal naval staff.

Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to connected notions such as truth, belief, and justification.

However, the conclusions that should be drawn from such evidence remain in debate.

More often, however, debate of digital education reform centers around more general applications of computers to education, such as electronic test-taking and online classes.

There is still some debate amongst academics whether certain African hominid species of this time, such as A. robustus and A. boisei, constitute members of the same genus ; if so, they would be considered to be robust australopiths whilst the others would be considered gracile australopiths.

For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.

Experts continue to debate the significance and risk of such levels, though the trend has been to recommend maintenance of glucose levels above 60 – 70 mg / dL the first day after birth.

One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as a mere plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatization of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire.

This prediction has attracted debate and criticism from the AI research community, and some of its more notable members, such as Kevin Warwick, Bill Joy, Ken MacLeod, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, and Roger Penrose, have voiced their opinions on whether or not this future is likely.

Growing community unrest about the draft, the rising tide of casualties and social debate about the moral rectitude of the war fuelled the first significant stirrings of organised domestic opposition, such as the influential community anti-conscription organisation Save Our Sons.

Concerning the debate over how freedom of speech applies to the Internet, conferences concerning such sites have been sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The debate topics ranged broadly from the usual such as abortion and foreign policy to the unusual such as an incident preceding the then-current baseball playoffs, in which Roberto Alomar, the Baltimore Orioles ' second baseman, cursed and spat on an umpire.

Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate.

As a possible course of action, it also is the center of debate and is raising many questions.

The debate between proponents of private versus state capitalism is centered around questions of managerial efficacy, productive efficiency, and fair distribution of wealth.

" A good deal of theological debate has ensued and significant schisms within Christian denominations took place in the process of providing answers to these questions.

The full text is important, since the exegesis of the questions still can be a matter of inevitable debate, whenever it is asked how many have been solved.

The questions of what defines film noir and what sort of category it is provoke continuing debate.

In the United States, the debate regarding healthcare reform includes questions of a right to health care, access, fairness, sustainability, quality and amounts spent by government.

Accordingly, the debate on irreducible complexity concerns two questions: whether irreducible complexity can be found in nature, and what significance it would have if it did exist in nature.

Adams also called into question the actions of a House that would limit its own ability to debate and resolve questions internally.

The discussion ignited by his actions and the attempts of others to quiet him raised questions of the right to petition, the right to legislative debate, and the morality of slavery.

It is concerned with questions about the very nature of mind, the qualities of experience, and particular issues like the debate between dualism and monism.

At present forest history is the area of environmental history in which the most important scholarly debate is underway in India, with special interest in questions of water, air, industry, and climate change At the grass root level are organizing mass movements with the theme of Think Globally – Act locally for conservation of nature since 1993 by Vijaypal baghel, peoples are called him ecoman, greenman etc.

The Socratic method ( also known as method of elenchus, elenctic method, Socratic irony, or Socratic debate ), named after the classical Greek philosopher Socrates, is a form of inquiry and debate between individuals with opposing viewpoints based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas.

He argued that such a debate had hitherto been avoided " because, of course, to look too closely at the Middle East would raise disturbing questions about the region, about our Western policies in those tragic lands, and about America's relationship with Israel.

In Rubin's recent contribution to the debate, questions of historicity are completely eschewed in favor of an examination of internal textual dynamics and what they reveal about early medieval Islam.

There are a number of questions historians debate related to chivalry.

Much debate over the use of gender-neutral language surrounds questions of liturgy and Bible translation.

Social Constructivism encompasses a broad range of theories that aim to address questions of ontology, such as the Structure and agency debate, as well as questions of epistemology, such as the " material / ideational " debate that concerns the relative role of material forces versus ideas.

Where there is no debate on a motion with no legislative effect at a meeting, no more than ten questions requiring oral replies may be asked ; otherwise, no more than six questions may require an oral reply.

The Society seeks to debate constitutional issues and public policy questions, and this commitment extends to inviting speakers who do not agree with the society's principles.

These questions provide much food for philosophical analysis and debate.