At the core of the controversy is what the opposition calls a pattern of government ministers' handing out contracts to friends and companies who donate to the Liberal Party.
Any change to Texas's protocol, especially if it involved the use a drug at the core of a controversy, would be bound to prompt more litigation on behalf of death-row prisoners.
Nevertheless, the institutional difference and competition between representative and direct-democratic processes lie at the core of the controversy whether direct democracy contributes to undermining representative democracy or can offer enrichments of democracy.
Silver didn't expect the genome to address the core of the controversy, but then again, he doesn't think any test will convince Wolfe-Simon and her co-authors that they are wrong.
At the core of the controversy was the pressing question whether African persons were fully and sufficiently human and capable intellectually in comparison to the model human par excellence: the man of Europe, the White Man, the avatar for all White people and for humanity proper, whose defining characteristics were capacities for reasoning and articulate speech (logos).
At the core of this controversy are two fundamental questions: 1) Does exposure to a novel environment reveal cryptic genetic variation in a population through phenotypic plasticity?
At the core of both controversies are questions about how Christie wields his power as governor of one of the wealthiest states in the nation.
At the core of these controversies is accounting for environmental influences that act on wild fish stocks, because environmental trends also have a potential to cause directed phenotypic changes over time.
And abortion was the real issue at the core of the furious controversy last week.
As we will detail below, the core of the ongoing controversy boils down to a discussion of i) scientific quality (methods, controls, statistical power, significance, interpretation) of a few selected recent studies, and ii) the relevance of these studies.
