As in many stadium and arena debates, like the one involving the Nets' move to downtown Brooklyn into a complex being built by the team owner, Bruce C. Ratner, the fight here centers on whether public money being dedicated to sports facilities would be better used on schools, libraries and recreation centers.
The U.N. is the world's sole universally accepted arena for debate and concord, among nations as well as broader society.
The U.S. presidential election of 2004 brought blogs to a newfound prominence as bloggers for both parties used the Internet as another arena of debate and conversation as well as fund-raising.
The passion for books is palpable, and the life of the mind celebrated whether fiction or cookbooks, poetry, biography or science, or politics, or philosophy or architecture or history – and always an air of anticipation, especially this year when the referendum on Scottish independence will be just a month away, and the festival an arena for debate just as it was last year.
Like his previous interventions, the event acted as a catalyst for social interaction and served as an arena for debate, attracting thousands of visitors on opening night.
After all, the college campus has traditionally been an arena for debate and dialogue, and has been deemed by the Supreme Court to be "peculiarly the 'marketplace of ideas.'" The search for truth requires that "bad" ideas be tested, weighed and then discarded in favor of "good" ones after study and debate.
It brings evidence and other reasons to the table and provides a common arena for debate.
Could it get bogged down in the ponderous self-regard that sunk "Studio 60," his short-lived NBC series where the inner offices of a sketch comedy show became an unlikely arena for debates about religious tolerance and the morality of paying ransom for hostages?
Economic historian Robert Higgs had dubbed these three arenas of debate the Great Contraction, the Great Duration and the Great Escape.
The more we give up on those sorts of arenas for debate, the more we will increasingly find that our society simply cannot work together whatsoever.
The campaign for the Democratic mayoral nomination is being fought in many arenas, from debates where the candidates joust on topics like policing and education, to the competition for endorsements by unions and elected officials.
