There was a sense, aides said, that the atmosphere for free debate was loosening up.
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"We also permit any sort of free debate about issues whereas a country or company might try to censor this or sue you, " said Mr Lackey.
Yet the laws that prohibit free debate of the Kurdish issue and the role of Islam in politics, under which hundreds of politicians and writers have been locked up, remain in place.
Some people thought it inappropriate to make comparisons to the free speech debate relating to the cartoons as that centred around people's beliefs rather than an issue of historical fact.
He noted that everyone in the room likely disagrees with one another on many fundamental issues, but so long as speech is free and debate is open, the world will be better off.
Free and open debate is an essential component of democracy, which has no place for political assassination.
The OIC has been persistent in its efforts to combat any free and open debate about Islam and Shariah.
It is impossible to gauge the chilling effect that this deplorable decision will have on free speech and debate in England but it is no exaggeration to say that it will be colossal.
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Framing things as a debate between free markets and big government just confuses the issue.
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"Kuwait has a long-standing proud tradition of open debate and free speech with free, transparent and inclusive elections and the most robust parliament in the region, " the ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
Open debate and free speech are important.
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Prior to the smoke-free law much of the debate on the legislation centred on protection of bar workers from passive smoke.
Very few have understood the role of Colombia as a strategic asset to the US. The shameful debate over the free-trade agreement with Colombia led by Nancy Pelosi understands the relation with Colombia as a commercial one and in terms of its domestic effect.
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One night there was a debate on whether Internet free speech was good or bad.
In economic policy, we are trapped in a debate between ultra-free-market economics and Krugman-style neo-Keynesianism.
The constitution guarantees a free press and there is vigorous debate in the media about political and social matters.
It focused on the issue of free speech, referring to the debate over the broadcasting of the Muhammad cartoons.
Pakistan is especially prone to this, Mr Ganguly believes, because public debate there is less free, opinion less varied than in India.
The landing gear was wedged between the back walls of the apartment building and the mosque, which once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech.
Democrats -- noting that a patients' bill of rights has been a hot issue in Congress for five years and that Republicans will be free to offer amendments during the debate -- contend that Republicans are trying to delay debate not because they need more time but because an alternative GOP measure, backed by the White House, does not have enough votes to pass.
However, when lawmakers return from their summer recess next month, Capitol Hill will be abuzz with a debate over whether to keep the Web indefinitely tax free--and it boils down to a good old-fashioned American debate over states' rights.
From there, the debate opened up in a free-for all between the Democratic rivals, as Bradley charged that Gore tried to end affirmative action programs and Gore asserted that Bradley's health care plan would leave millions of minorities without health insurance.
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The amended agreement, announced on a day when the U.S. unemployment rate ticked higher, sets the stage for a debate in Congress over whether free trade with a major Asian nation can deliver the promised benefits or will instead drain U.S. jobs.
Chief executive Richard Burge said the outbreak was a "crisis" for rural Britain yet ministers had refused to free up time "reserved merely for debate on a bill which will not help a single rural family and which would, if enacted, inflict yet another assault on their communities".
"This forum will include a wide open policy debate that every American can feel free to participate in, " the announcement letter reads.
This is the state that for the past year has been the epicenter of the debate on the merits of a free market because of President Obama's National Labor Relations Board attack on Boeing.
Mr Miliband's stance has been criticised by Labour MP Graham Stringer who said backbenchers should be free to vote in any way as the debate had been organised by the Commons backbench business committee rather than the government or the opposition leadership.
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And there will also be a short debate on the contribution of academies and free schools to educational provision in the United Kingdom.
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