They reflect unresolved debates that divide the country: over equality and redistribution, risk-taking and safety nets, and the role of government itself.
Along with the new popularity of buffalo, an unresolved issue is dividing the ranchers, one that was not addressed directly in the bison conference lectures though it was often a subject of conversation in the halls.
The other major area of the budget that remains unresolved is how to divide at least $1.2 billion that Gov. George E. Pataki and leaders of the Legislature have agreed to set aside for tax cuts over the next five years.
However, while not attempting to prejudge the Court, it would probably act to preserve life because the patient had not expressed a clear and convincing viewpoint, the family dispute remained unresolved, and medical opinion was divided.
Historically it's the Protestant church that has divided and separated over unresolved disagreements.
Debate regarding the effectiveness of ECT treatment is divided and will likely remain unresolved for the foreseeable future.
These experiments must unfold in divided societies with weak economies and unresolved — perhaps never to be resolved — tensions between mosque and state.
One-term presidents usually leave office with their parties divided, the economy in crisis, wars unresolved, approval ratings in the tank and a sullen public rejecting them.
Those ideals clash with the unresolved multicultural reality of modern France (the racially divided French World Cup soccer team, which fell apart during the opening round, became a national case in point), complicating endless challenges like the Corsican independence movement.
Despite the popularity that won it three elections from 1997 to 2005, the ideological divide between Labour's leftist and centrist wings remains unresolved, and in some ways has deepened.
