Most Western thinking about military ethics has its roots in Augustine, the sainted Christian writer from North Africa whose elaborate theory of "just warfare" has provided a framework for debate over the 16 centuries since his death.
The Christian conservative belief that the pornography and entertainment business simply cannot be trusted, creates a dangerous framework for debating First Amendment issues, according to the American Civil Liberties Union's legal director in Ohio, Jeff Gamso.
Such things happen – and Niakan's application will be controversial – because we lack a clear moral framework for debating the possibilities that genetic science now presents, and so we too often seek recourse in old paradigms, whether they be religious, dystopian or mythical.
CEDAW's (1979) requirement for the elimination of "all forms" of discrimination against women has been a framework for these debates (IWRAW-AP 2012).
That gives it a framework for dealing with China".
Stating the conditions will provide a framework for the moral debate that will enable us to consider whether there are moral grounds for opposing the legalization of voluntary euthanasia (and physician-assisted suicide).
At the same time, the kind of "mere Christianity" (in C. S. Lewis's phrase) that the major denominations shared frequently provided a kind of invisible mortar for our culture and a framework for our great debates.
Arguing that the Virginia Plan, which served as a framework for the ongoing debates, was "pork still, with a little change of the sauce," Hamilton advocated a kind of Executive-King who would serve for life, a Senate modelled on the British House of Lords, and the effective abolition of all state governments.
WASHINGTON — Members of President Obama's debt-reduction commission indicated on Wednesday that they were split over their chairmen's far-reaching plan for long-term spending cuts and tax increases, a development that suggests the proposal is more likely to be a framework for next year's debates than the basis for legislation anytime soon.
Along with similar work developed outside the Administration by defense analysts such as Jack Keane, a retired Vice-Chief of Army Staff, Luti's briefing provided a framework for a Cabinet-level debate on the possibility of a new Iraq deployment.
