It is not, as the dissent contends, whether a Legislature may defend its districting decisions based on a "stereotype" about African-American voting behavior.
The narrow issue before the panel was whether this was an issue of conduct detrimental to the league, which would fall under Goodell's jurisdiction, or, as the players' union contended, whether the offering of money to players constituted an improper payment, which would be a salary-cap violation, the penalties for which would be decided by an arbitrator.
But there has been little precedent in New York, as elsewhere, for the decisions that now face Judge Snyder: whether the warning by Dr. Stone, once given, equals public disclosure and can be shared with a jury, or, as prosecutors also contend, whether the patient's voluntary waiver of confidentiality to his parents opened the door to allow his doctor to testify about what he said.
Nevertheless, some of the problems with which very few of these studies have been able to contend (whether Putnam's original study) or later work, have been (1) difficulty controlling for selection based on preferences for local good provision, (2) issues with the small size or highly-aggregated nature of the data, and (3) difficulty finding credible measures of inequality and fractionalization.
Philosophically, the security perspective contends, whether implicitly or explicitly, even more than the charity frame, that the strongest identity is that of nation-state.
Although it can be contended whether the use of antibiotics in the food industry contributes to antimicrobial resistance, it is clear that food-borne pathogens also increasingly acquire resistance to antimicrobial interventions.
The turn of events has set off an investigation into whether a politically connected and powerful interloper was able to use his clout to derail the standard contracting rules to benefit his client, as some critics are contending, or whether an intervention on behalf of a worthy contractor prevented the Port Authority from making a mistake, as Mr. D'Amato contends.
They see it as contending over whether the shí (stuff, thing) at hand is of the kind ox or not.
So what better time to contemplate the basketball mortality of Kobe Bryant, to decide whether the new-look Clippers can contend or whether this mercifully short season will be the Thunder's coming-out party?
They might, he contends, test whether a student knows the name of a certain concept but not whether that student can actually use that concept.
