Positions taken in these and other focal debates were developed from the resources of a variety of traditions and schools of academic philosophy and other disciplines, including analytic philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutical, and existential philosophizings, various modes of social and political philosophy, and Afrocentrism.
Mr. Qahtani's well-documented interrogation at the detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has made his case a focal point in debates about Guantánamo and interrogation methods that critics say amount to torture.
An article of the Apostles' Creed, the statement of faith used by most Christian churches and a favourite subject of medieval mystery plays, the theme of Christ's descent into hell has persisted in theological discussion as a focal point for debates on the scope of universal salvation.
It is sometimes compared to the debate, centuries before, over the motions of the Earth (the Copernican revolution); however, though as a focal point the debate about Earth's motion can be used to define the modern controversy, the Shapley-Curtis debate actually was much more complicated.
But Mr. Orr's findings, painfully detailing the city's problems over more than 40 pages, also seem likely to become a new focal point for debate for some in Detroit who have questioned the seriousness of the city's troubles and the need for state intervention at a level rarely seen for a city of its size.
Hence, it is one focal point of debate.
It has been extensively investigated over the past years and several aspects relating to device and particulate delivery mechanisms have been the focal points for debate.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a focal point of debate in moral philosophy centered on a version of the Euthyphro problem between those who sided with Grotius and Leibniz in holding that moral goodness and obligation do not depend on God's will and those who held the opposite view, that moral goodness and obligation are as they are as a result of God's free choice.
But it sends a message to the public about the party's policy intentions and serves as a focal point for debate in Washington about the future direction of the Democratic Party.
Early cytological analyses of artificial crosses between species (described above) revealed that these two allopolyploids share a genome in common, and the identity of this missing parent is the focal point of debate.
While such wrangling is business as usual in Washington, and the changes debated this week are relatively modest, the trading commission's new overseas proposal has become a focal point in the debate over Wall Street regulation.
