The niceties of the French language are monitored and debated by an august institution, the Académie Française, which typically operates on a time scale commensurate with its venerability and has yet to offer comment.
It changes not only with respect to its tenets and research tools, but also the way its propositions are received, criticized, regulated and debated by an audience far outside the community of those who practice it.
The meet's most idiosyncratic event involved professional athletes from five different sports — football, baseball, basketball, soccer and bobsledding — gathering on the track to settle the type of debate that tends to exist only in the realm of hypotheticals conceived and debated by sports fans after a couple of rounds of beer.
The bill was passed onto the next Parliamentary stage unopposed and will now be debated by a committee of MPs.
The moral and practical issues were neatly debated by a group of real live 2004-type people, and it was alarming to see just how keen some of them were on this kind of interventionism.
Candidates are solicited from the bureau's 56 field offices, and their relative merits are then debated by a committee made up of special agents from the Criminal Investigative Division and representatives of the Office of Public Affairs.
An electronic survey of stakeholder groups was used to obtain experts' judgments of the importance of each candidate standard for PRO reporting and the survey results were then debated by a face-to-face meeting of stakeholders to achieve consensus on items that should comprise a CONSORT extension.
The current explosion in interest in recovery and drugs and alcohol treatment was debated by an invited audience of professionals from the UK drugs field and beyond at the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) on February 22, organised in cooperation with the European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (EATA), the trade body for the drug treatment sector in the UK.
Her personal charm aside, however, Ms. Knox's story is complex, disturbing and still hotly debated by an American public that loves to take sides when it comes to did-she-or-didn't-she crime tales.
