In the policy debate, intellectual property is often justified by what seems to be a straightforward argument: if innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low.
Staying with the election, back in 2010, the Leaders debates seemed relatively straightforward: Three leaders, three debates, shared between the BBC, Sky and ITV.
Your reason for changing the title is to fix spelling, grammar, punctuation, first person usage, or capitalization, all of which are straightforward and usually not debated.
But the facts driving the debate are quite straightforward.
The terrestrial channel of the year debate was shockingly straightforward.
More often than not, the trajectory of the debate is entirely straightforward, entirely lacking subtlety, nuance, or shades of grey.
Many Japanese intellectuals cite one overriding reason to substitute platitudes, procedural posturing and straightforward avoidance for a searching debate over the past, and that is the largely unexamined role of Emperor Hirohito in planning the war and allowing his deified persona to be used to rally the hordes of fallen soldiers enshrined at Yasukuni.
The case for the latest proposals seems more straightforward, however, and has been debated for many years.A lack of conclusive evidence has fuelled the controversy over corporate governanceThe controversy over corporate governance has been fuelled by a surprising lack of conclusive evidence that improving it actually pays, in the form of higher returns to shareholders.
Prior to the live debates, everything looked relatively straightforward.
