Equally profound disputes exist over social programmes and economic management when the baby-boomers start to retire.
What the rulings demonstrated was not simply the power of context but the importance of the different contexts from which the justices view the cases that bring them face to face with society's most profound disputes.
Iran's nuclear program is the focus of profound disputes between Tehran, which says it wants to develop its nuclear capability for peaceful purposes, and other countries, including the United States and Israel, which suspect that Iran is seeking to build a nuclear bomb.
Alistair Darling has not done his party any favours by publishing a memoir that adds further confirmatory detail about the profound policy disputes and poisonous relationships which consumed the last government.
And the fault line marked by this dispute is profound indeed, one that extends far beyond Dworkin and Posner and has a venerable and ancient history that includes Thucydides and Plato, Nietzsche and Kant, Marx and Hegel, up to Geuss and Rawls in the present.
In August this year a Chinese fighter intercepted an American Navy P-8 maritime patrol in international airspace about 135 miles (216km) off Hainan Island, which the Department of Defence described as "very, very close, very dangerous .This EEZ dispute could have profound implications for the stability of trans-Pacific sea routes, overseen for generations by America's navy.
The only real dispute is how profound the changes will be.
He warned the latest dispute could have "profound implications" for Northern Ireland's political institutions but what are those implications?
… Disagreement is inevitable when what lies at the core of the dispute is a profound question about the boundaries of science one that is irreducibly controversial because the slippery slope is precipitous in both directions," she writes.
The Government of Argentina has steadfastly welcomed these negotiating processes, reaffirming its unwavering commitment to peaceful settlement of international disputes and its profound belief in dialogue and diplomatic negotiations within the United Nations (UN) framework as the best tools to reach effective and long-lasting solutions.
