Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions.
In non-specialist blogs and websites across America, it has ignited arguments about power and money, questioning the myth at the very heart of American life – that capitalism improves the quality of life for everyone.
More recently, his "Twenty Hydrogen Myths," published last summer on the institute's Web site (www.rmi.org), ignited arguments about whether Mr. Lovins had misleadingly played down or ignored hurdles to moving from an economy based on oil to reliance on clean-burning hydrogen, which still must be produced from some basic energy source.
"The population inside the hive was able to compensate for the increased loss of worker honeybees by increasing brood production". Dr Scott Hayward of the University of Birmingham, who was not connected with the study, said the work "re-ignites arguments to ban neonics", and similar studies are now needed on other pollinator species.
The best satirists ignite debate by dragging logical arguments to their illogical conclusions, and Stanhope's provocative proposals make him a Jonathan Swift for the 9/11 generation.
As I write, only two of those club pros are above the cut line, which will no doubt ignite the argument as to whether so many of them should be there in the first place.
Galloway's comments and Assange's alleged sex crimes have "ignited bitter arguments in Britain over perceptions of rape," according to Reuters.
LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Julian Assange's desperate attempt to avoid being sent from London to Stockholm to face questioning over alleged sex crimes has ignited bitter arguments in Britain over perceptions of rape.
It was not clear last night what ignited the argument.
He has no reservations about expressing his opinions to his teammates about their play, and it was his critique of a blown defensive assignment by Thornton that ignited their argument.
