Sentences with phrase «debating competitions used»

Debating competitions used to be populated by nerds in white starched shirts and ties.

Not exact matches

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

In the case of Everest, this competition has revolved around the use of supplementary oxygen, a practice that has been hotly debated since 1921, when British climbers — without oxygen — mounted the first Everest expedition.

@Trilarion Lack of free market competition is an often used argument in debates about net neutrality.

The findings are expected to advance our understanding of the brain's role in endurance exercise, how it can alter the physical limits of performance in healthy people and add further evidence to the debate on the use of legal methods to enhance performance in competition.

Teachers have used Elluminate's videoconferencing technology for a wide range of educational applications, from teacher training to debate competitions to geography lessons.

The basic format of the Lincoln - Douglas debates has long been used as a debate format in competition and in classrooms.

One of the ironies in the public «debate» — I use scare quotes since what is transpiring is not a true debate, but rather a competition between an organized disinformation campaign to deny the reality of climate change, and a counter effort to provide a more realistic picture — is that the IPCC is constantly accused of «alarmism,» and is consciously, intentionally, and consistently conservative in their claims.

There's a degree of hysteria in the document and email management market thanks to the visibly heated competition between NetDocuments and iManage but we will very shortly be bringing out a supplement including a table of the Am Law 200 documenting which firms use which system and which have swapped over, in an attempt to inject some facts into the debate.

As I read the latest application by the Competition Bureau against organized real estate, I thought of the great line used by Ronald Reagan when he won the debate over Jimmy Carter in 1980.