Therefore, my classes consisted of debates of, activities building on, and direct application of theories taught in the readings no lectures.
But in-depth discussion and analysis is typically not considered "good for TV ratings," especially when it's competing with cable television's preferred script, which consists of staged debates between charismatic former prosecutors and defense attorneys arguing over the legal minutia of celebrity cases.
A curious and remarkable work, Der Ackermann aus Böhmen (Death and the Ploughman is the colourful title of a modern translation), consists of a debate between its author, Johannes von Tepl, and the figure of Death that is in effect a confrontation between the moribund late Middle Ages and the life-affirming tendencies of a nascent Renaissance.
My weekend warrior routine consists of rigorous debate with my BFF about whether or not cycle class sucks.
Italy's parliamentary legislature, still defined by the constitution of 1948 and based on a symmetric bicameralism system, consists of two debating chambers of 945 members elected for five years.
The dinner table cacophony consists of scraps of debate, ironic jabs, aesthetic proclamations, academic gobbledygook, politically incorrect polemics and insults both sophisticated and juvenile.
"Dialogue With Ceausescu" (1978) consists of a split-screen debate between Mr. Grigorescu and the former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, played by the artist in a Ceausescu mask.
There ARE serious ethical challenges inherent in the processes and outcomes, but typically debate consists of pat answers and excuses, "We shouldn't play God" and that sort of thing.
Viewed in this light, the "controversy" over ROC analysis of lineup performance actually consists of a normal scientific debate about which theory of underlying latent variables better accounts for the empirical data.
