"I welcome vigorous debate, and accept and tolerate criticism or even dissent," Najib wrote in a Facebook post announcing the changes.
Mr. Gore has essentially signed off on the commission debates and accepted invitations to 42 others, a number that is almost unimaginable from a logistical standpoint and clearly intended to provide a contrast to Mr. Bush's response and paint the Texas governor as timid.
The new proposals will now need to be debated and accepted by the European Parliament and EU Member States before they become regional law — so it's likely there will be amendments (and much fierce lobbying) along the way.
Even if they remain as intangible principles, there is some public value in having them debated and accepted.
While the methodological principle of 'blinding' for minimising bias in randomised controlled trials (RCT) is widely debated and accepted, rarely is this depth of thinking applied to its correct handling with respect to design, reporting and analysis.
By the mid 1950s, the vast majority of economists had ceased debating Keynesianism and accepted the synthesis view; however, room for disagreement remained.
Second, there must have been a steady build-up of scientific evidence detailing the harmful effects of the emergency, and assigning the responsibilities for it; and these scientific data must have been debated, acknowledged and accepted by society.
If we reframed the debate around fat and accepted that it can be a form of disordered eating with physical consequences, we might start to get somewhere.
Were it alternatively to be taken as referring to the ability of a maxim to pass the filter of actual public debate and be accepted by its participants, the test would then have a very contingent outcome, depending on the real public we are facing.
Feminism, which is still being parsed in the media as well as our own homes, still being debated and discussed and accepted and dismissed, was about being able to control (to the extent that anyone can) our work lives, our love lives, our lives as a whole.
