It forces nationwide debate and examination.
Senator Tom Daschle, the Senate Democratic leader, told President Bush last week that there would be no attempt to filibuster the nomination but every effort to have a full debate and examination of Mr. Ashcroft's record.
The hallmarks of critical thinking are debate and examination - perhaps with yourself, but often with others - and the construction of an argument, supported by facts, logic, and in the best case, great writing or oratory.
While these groups offer a variety of solutions to the current immigration debate, an examination of their rhetoric reveals a focus on immigrants as "goods" that can be used according to demand.
While the evolutionary path of the Neisseria genus has long been a point of debate, our examination of the gRUCPs, which includes the pathogenome of Neisseria (Table 3), suggests that N. meningitidis is more closely related to the non-pathogenic Neisseria species than N. gonorrhoeae.
It was the world of John Smith, razor-sharp debating, forensic examination of weighty issues and Gaitskellite intrigues.
About 25 percent have gone paperless this academic year, according to the Cross Examination Debate Association, which sanctions debates around the country.
That case is still reverberating locally, with public debates and examinations of school policy that have exposed the risk of a particularly draconian zero tolerance practice: mandatory relocation.
These are things about which we have to make decisions that have very long-term implications for the economy and, thus, for the business community, and we are no longer capable of having the kind of public debate in the examination of these issues that we had in years past.
Not only has Fox given over precious air time for the debate, but an examination shows that its parent company, News Corporation, has also taken other steps to reach out to the group's constituency, including making campaign donations to the caucus and its members and creating internship programs at predominantly black colleges.
