Sentence examples for divided proponents from inspiring English sources

Controversy over the substitutability of natural and human-made capital has divided proponents of weak and strong sustainability: the former argue that the two types of capital are largely interchangeable, whereas the latter insist that natural capital is increasingly the scarcest factor of production.

It is the direction of this dependence which divides proponents of fundamentality into pluralists and monists (one form of such monism is defended in Schaffer 2010b; see also Trogdon 2009).

For most of its history, biogeography has been divided into proponents of vicariance explanations, who defend that distribution patterns can mainly be explained by geological, tectonic-isolating events; and dispersalists, who argue that current distribution patterns are largely the result of recent migration events.

The university was divided between proponents of the inclusion of the principles of social justice in course instruction and advocates of academic freedom for the faculty.

These are important criticisms, married to passions that deeply divide the proponents of these views.

Any joint resolution so reported shall become the pending business of the House in question (in the case of the Senate the time for debate shall be equally divided between the proponents and the opponents) and shall be voted on within three calendar days after the day on which such resolution is reported, unless such House shall otherwise determine by yeas and nays.

Its proponents divided the space of possible explanations, paving the way for experiments, like ours, that distinguish the two sides.

That 1997-99 effort divided the community, with proponents saying Olberz should be allowed to go ahead with the plans presented by his then-developer, Arthur Pearlman, while a grassroots group that organized under the name of "Friends of 91011" opposed the project on a number of points, not the least of which was its size.

Indeed, nudism's few local proponents are themselves divided.

Critics and proponents are sharply divided.

Anne Soy reports from Kenya where there is a generational divide between proponents of FGM and those who want to abandon the tradition.