Italy is having a similar debate about whether women s clothes and behavior invite rape.

While there is a legitimate debate about whether this implies that high debt causes slow growth, Krugman turned to questioning their motives.

This has led to debate in the UK Parliament over whether the lack of tax represents a subsidy to the aviation industry, estimated at 10 billion annually in the UK.

Doubts have been raised about whether Megrahi is really near death.

Since its discovery, it has been debated whether the Narmer Palette represents a historic event or was purely symbolic.

The jury is still out on whether the hydrogen economy will be cost effective.

Opinions vary as to whether all remains belong to the same species.

In a discussion on trying to attract FDI to a service cluster in areas in which the country had traditionally not been emphasized, the panellists commented that each country had to determine whether it had the potential to be competitive.

The main theme of the Valdai conference concerned whether Russia s history and geography doomed it to authoritarian rule.

For a discussion of whether the effect of armed conflict on treaties is automatic or not, see infra section V.F.

The real question about industrial policy is not whether it should be practiced, but how.

Views varied as to whether the Model Law or regulations would be the appropriate place to deal with the issue.

For years now there has been an ongoing debate about whether the Internet is good or bad for democracy.

A comparable debate is raging over fiscal policy.

The issue of trade barriers speaks directly to the question of whether there is a genuine international commitment to Africa s development.

The risk premium could rise, for example, if investors became uncertain about whether Kuroda would adhere to his commitment.

The purpose of the questionnaire was to facilitate the debate on the subject and to investigate whether there was room for compromise regarding certain questions in the text.

It is now necessary to discuss whether an organization could also be held responsible when it authorizes or recommends conduct on the part of a member State or organization.

Further discussion of these claims and whether they have been validly filed is set out in section VI of this report.

Discussion on Montreal Protocol related issues

An important discussion is now taking place concerning an Afghanistan compact.

General debate on all decolonization items

It is debatable whether governments should ever frighten their citizens by painting the horror scenario of inevitable attack.

We really do need to ask whether Obama is trying to play a China card to shift the electoral scales in his favor.

Witness, for example, the active debate about whether technological progress is accelerating or decelerating.

Discussions had taken place on whether the Bill needed to be amended to include comprehensive provisions on sexual harassment or whether they should be incorporated into a new labour and employment act.

Meanwhile, world leaders are debating what if anything should be done.

Historians have the luxury of debating whether terrorism may have been justified in certain situations in the past.

The big question concerns whether GDP provides a good measure of living standards. In many cases, GDP statistics seem to suggest that the economy is doing far better than most citizens own perceptions.

The US Supreme Court is currently faced with the question of whether genes can be patented.

Tunisian blogger A.L.G.Y of Cos maux polis is wondering whether a new Mohammed cartoon crisis is brewing.

For too long, there has been an unnecessary debate about whether the solution to poverty in Africa and elsewhere is more money.

There is probably even less agreement in both the United States and the EU on whether the security of citizens is genuinely at stake in Afghanistan, and whether the Iranian nuclear program really poses a threat to the West.

Our editorial team launched a discussion about avoiding the use the terms terror, terrorism or terrorist, unless it was in a quote or attributed to a source, because of lack of a universal definition for the term. Definitions that do exist are broad. abuse of the term. When the term is used, it is often politicized.

And finally, we even found that 30 percent of the variation in whether or not people are in the middle or on the edge of the network can also be attributed to their genes.

The policy debate outside the region currently centers on whether to use force if talks fail.

In particular, central banks behavior during the crisis has called into question whether inflation targeting is an effective framework in the presence of systemic shocks, and, more broadly, whether it can be sustained throughout economic cycles.

Following this, there was discussion of whether the main elements of the protocol now form part of customary international law, and now this is widely accepted to be the case.

But, if politicians are to become less anxious about jobs, perhaps we need to start discussing whether jobless recoveries are here to stay, and whether the US safety net, devised for a different era, needs to be modified.

Discussions about the development of grass roots democracy led by the end of 1989 to a dispute over whether New Forum should become a party or remain a movement.

But arguments about whether the limit should be 60 of GDP or more miss a larger point.

India's worry was that unless this was done, Pakistan would perhaps commit cartographic transgressions again.

Much of the current debate centers on whether race should be a criterion for inclusion in clinical trials and, by extension, whether drug labeling should mention race specifically.

In particular, it was proposed that information regarding the fact that a person was being held in detention, the place of deprivation of liberty, the person's physical integrity and whether or not the person had died must be communicated.

But what would happen then? There has always been a debate about whether it is possible to have a single market without a single currency.