An evening to hear and join in on chunky intellectual debate but, in Irish spirit, in a darkened candle-lit room over a pint or two.

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That is, in fact, the heart of the intellectual debate: although there are clearly dangers involved in freeing a financial system, the alternatives may be far worse.

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Clearly accessible to the lay reader, it also stood smack in the middle of the intellectual debate about just how much evolution has to say about human behaviour.

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Formalising intellectual debate on the matter was one idea.

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Stretched parallels will emerge everywhere, and will lead to an emotional, not an intellectual, debate on the war.

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The power of the Brussels consensus means that the convention on the future of Europe, whose duty it is to rethink the European Union from first principles, is in fact conducting its debate within tight intellectual boundaries.

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His work has recast the very terms of discussion and debate in multiple areas of law, ranging from intellectual property to constitutional theory.

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But in Davey's case, and whether an intellectual work can be intrinsically immoral, there are echoes of a debate on the ethics of scientific data.

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Yet, challenges abound, and you alluded to a lot of them just a minute ago -- intellectual property protections, adherence to the WTO, rules you mentioned, currency debate, drilling rights, et cetera.

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The mix of unstoppable technological change with the apparently unanswerable intellectual defeat of central planning has made globalisation appear inevitable: only its speed and its consequences seem open to debate.

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