Sentence examples for modern debates from inspiring English sources

Perhaps for that reason, modern debates about crofting tend to focus more on symbols than on practicalities.

When modern debates ask if trans people should stay within the "LGbracketcket, Sullivan's life crucially reminds us that some people are both trans and gay.

The character and behavior of the lower mantle have been the focus of one of the most quarrelsome modern debates in the geosciences.

The author seems unable to decide whether he is trying to tease out historical parallels, which shed light on modern debates, or to provide a comprehensive survey of the wavering fortunes of each competing branch of internationalism.

And this season, in particular, seemed to speak to the outside world, echoing modern debates about rape jokes, with a finale that felt like a choral response to the similarly controversial "Girls".

Theories of the emotions played a role – often a pivotal one – in the important early modern debates about causation and the proper forms of explanation.

The modern debate over Congressional prerogatives sharpened after Vietnam.

Rome's incessant warfare and expansion during the republic has spawned modern debate about the nature of Roman imperialism.

This was two years after Lord Scarman's famous Hamlyn lecture which galvanised the modern debate for a bill of rights.

The question of what makes social practice legitimate is at the heart of modern debate - as we see with the war on Iraq.

The modern debate about the surfeit of violence in American cinema and its societal effects is, in that regard, heir to the battles that surrounded the release of "Birth of a Nation".