It was approved by the United Nations in 1982, after endless negotiation during which attending Law of the Sea debates was named one of the Ten Most Boring Things To Do in New York.
Both sides in the Dead Sea Scrolls debate, they said, use "sock puppets" — fake identities — on the Internet to make it seem as if scores of people are arguing a point.
Even as the European Union commissioner sought to prevent more tragedies at sea, the debate over how to treat people caught making landfall became more fraught, as the Italian authorities placed the 155 survivors of the capsizing under investigation for illegal immigration.
For a while, no one knew that 50 different names in the Dead Sea Scrolls debate were the prolific Mr. Golb, a graduate of Oberlin College who has a law degree from New York University and a doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard (dissertation: "The Problems of Privacy and Trust in Modern Literature, and their Relation to the Idea of Freedom").
Too often the suggestion that solutions can be found "over there" – across the sea – shifts the debate away from what should be done over here.
Officials involved in negotiations over income requirements for potential residents of Arverne by the Sea say a debate is brewing over whether to provide subsidies for low-income home buyers from the neighborhood or, in order to bring more working families and middle-class people into the neighborhood, restrict the development to households with an annual income of $50,000 or more.
The issue of immigration can be a battlefield, especially over asylum seekers who come by sea, where the debate is divisive and often toxic.
The frequency with which shorebirds rest at sea is still debated.
Isn't it better Gore got people debating sea levels and melting icecaps?
The States has previously debated sea defence funding, when Deputies agreed to spend about £20m to protect what they regarded as the highest priority areas, including Belle Greve Bay, St Sampson's Harbour, Perelle and the Town seafront.
