Melissa is just one of the millions of immigrants who will be excluded from any protection, or even acknowledgment, under the current immigration debate.
In a rare acknowledgment of internal military debate about the use of lethal force in the current conflict, he said there were unresolved questions about the Salahs' deaths.
"Tabu," one of the most widely lauded movies on the festival circuit this year, was also shortlisted for a European Parliament award for films that resonate with the "public debate," an apparent acknowledgment of its unusual approach to the ever thorny subject of colonialism.
The legality of waterboarding, in which a prisoner experiences a sensation of drowning, has been come under fierce debate since the acknowledgment by Bush administration officials that a small number of prisoners who were members of Al Qaeda had been subjected to it after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The Dutch parliament was the final group of lawmakers to give its approval, voting Wednesday after heated debate and an acknowledgment by Prime Minister Mark Rutte that he had broken his campaign promise not to give Greece any more money.
Hours after the June 15 CDC report was issued, the Washington Post published its story, which essentially repackaged the CDC information, but which in a manner uncharacteristic to most Washington Post reporting thrust the information forth with a strong bias, without any counterpoint or any acknowledgment of the controversy and debate surrounding Lyme disease.
It's an acknowledgment that opinion, taste, criticism and debate are really no more than epiphenomenal spume.
Beyond that, we can model for each other what a healthy commonweal requires: respect for difference; reliance on fact instead of opinion; concern for the common good; regard for open debate and reasoned disagreement; acknowledgment of our shared humanity.
The acknowledgment is certain to fuel the simmering debate over just how real the popular, big network reality programs are.
The acknowledgment is certain to fuel the simmering debate over just how real the ever popular, big network reality programs actually are.
His public presence there — at a show about the interplay of new presidents, vice presidents and citizens — was a tacit acknowledgment of his willingness to enter into debate.
