And in a high-tech, globally interconnected economy our survival depends on scientific fact being researched, debated, accepted, understood and acted on.
He put together a far more diverse (not just a CIA/military) team of advisers, deliberately forced options to be aired and debated, accepted no easy assurances of military or diplomatic success, and created a decision making atmosphere that invited people to speak frankly to, and disagree with, him.
The last debate, at Washington University, was the only presidential commission debate accepted by Mr. Bush.
Liam Byrne of Labour, whom we interviewed after the debate, accepted the criticism … almost: "The Leaders didn't get to choose the questions," he parried.
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.
Both sides in the immigration debate accept information that confirms their biases, she said, and discard, ignore or rationalize information that does not.
These debates accept intelligence services as an integral and "normal" part of the democratic state mechanisms, performing various assigned functions for the defense and protection of democracy, regulated by legislation, financed by public funds and providing a service for the community at large like any other governmental department.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed yesterday to what aides said was the first in what would be a series of senatorial debates, accepting an invitation for a statewide forum with Tim Russert, the host of "Meet the Press," to be broadcast this fall on NBC affiliates across New York.
Most experts in the Kilimanjaro debate accept three things: for more than a century, its ice has been in a retreat that is almost assuredly unstoppable and was not caused by humans; so far, there is scant data on conditions there; and the main scientific question now is how, and how much, climate shifts driven by heat-trapping emissions are accelerating that trend.
