Why not?" There was no mention of the more pressing controversy surrounding the Qatar 2022 World Cup that have caused concern from sponsors, the media and politicians.
Conversely, participant access to effective preventive methods are likely to reflect a more recent, contemporary and pressing controversy for stakeholders, given the latest successes of prevention products in trials such as PrEP [ 61] and microbicides [ 62].
It informs a vast range of pressing controversies and in ways that are unclouded, at least directly, by the freighted question of abortion.
The second World Congress on Controversies to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension (CODHy), held in Barcelona at the end of October 2008, brought together leading international experts with the goal of discussing the most pressing controversies in these three disciplines and reaching a consensus on treatment guidelines for the coming 2 years.
Although some of the more pressing controversies about availability of treatments were managed using the technology appraisal processes (the appraisal process used by NICE to make binding recommendations about the adoption (or not) of new therapies by the NHS), it is logical to have a single guideline incorporating recommendations about currently available treatments.
No, the actual most fascinating Twitter account is @rejectpetitions, a feed which – as far as I know – has no interest in "bench-pressing controversy" by, er, openly aligning itself with the powers-that-be (ah, what breathtaking vistas of possibility "free thought" can open up!), and instead just gets on with the serious business of listing all the e-petitions the UK government has rejected.
As "Scandal" has churned ahead over the past few years, attracting more and more viewers and becoming one of the most-watched dramas on television, it has started engaging with some of the pressing political controversies of our time — notably, issues of domestic surveillance and the reach of our intelligence infrastructure.
At the core of the controversy was the pressing question whether African persons were fully and sufficiently human and capable intellectually in comparison to the model human par excellence: the man of Europe, the White Man, the avatar for all White people and for humanity proper, whose defining characteristics were capacities for reasoning and articulate speech (logos).
For Christians, the controversy raises a pressing question: Does religious liberty authorize Christians to exclude some fellow citizens from social goods because we disapprove of their behavior?
We'll soon find him, like Nixon during Watergate or Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, spending most of his time on foreign junkets, where naïve audiences play into his hands by pressing him on the bogus controversies that make him a hero to the Arab street.
More pressing for Blatter, though, is the continuing controversy over Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
