This has engendered a debate on the efficiency of aid in promoting development.
Indeed, the tribal nature of Libya, for example, had engendered a debate between adopting federalism over decentralization, the latter clearly favoring tribal communities and a preferred option in Libya as a federalist system could exacerbate tense preexisting ethnic and tribal conflicts.
Together, they set out to "engender a national debate about the nature of Shariah and the need to protect our Constitution and country from it," Mr. Gaffney wrote in an e-mail to The New York Times.
Unlike questions about Newton's methods and his apparent deviation from the norms established by mechanist philosophers like Descartes and Boyle, Newton's conception of space and time, along with his view of the divine being, did not immediately engender a philosophical debate.
Behind the scenes, the proposed guidelines engendered a long debate.
Low-level controversies this week, mainly surrounding Tanya Gold's article in the Guardian about rape jokes in comedy, which engendered a huge debate below the line, and this response by the psychotherapist-turned-comic Taylor Glenn.
Though Germany is a secular country and Catholics make up only a third of the population, the scandal has engendered a national debate — about religious education, about single-sex institutions and, above all, about the role of celibacy in the Catholic Church.
Private Manning's actions lifted a veil on American military and diplomatic activities around the world, and engendered a broad debate over what information should become public, how the government treats leakers, and what happens to those who see themselves as whistle-blowers.
This work engendered a preliminary debate that lasted for two years.
These studies have engendered an important debate as to whether the population's overall sleep time has declined [ 4, 20, 25].
