Whether this mandate is still applicable today has become a hotly debated issue.

And once hotly contested, our way of measuring outcomes has actually quickly become the standard.

Interestingly, the LTC bidding committee had publicly declared UTE the winner in early February 2005, which was hotly contested by the other bidder, Infotel.

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

And we suspect that this may help to explain why older people are better than younger people at solving hotly charged emotional conflicts and debates.

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

The bloc was going places or so it seemed. But seven years, seven summits, and one new member (South Africa joined in 2010) later, the significance of the BRICS remains hotly debated.

Peter Molyneux demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft's Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real 11 year old, the virtual boy watches, listens and learns recognizing and responding to you.

While the Jewish Reform movement has been ordaining female rabbis since the early 1970s, and the Conservative movement since the early 1980s, in Orthodox Judaism the notion of female rabbis is still hotly contested.

One of the hotly debated issues concerned controversial concepts and terms such as terrorism , humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect , which, in the eyes of everybody, called for further comprehensive debate in order to reach consensus on their definition.

Across the región, Chávez s influence was strong. His backing was a decisive influence in the election of Bolivia s President Evo Morales in 2006, and the following year he supported Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Rafael Correa in Ecuador, though his impact on their victories is hotly debated.

Whether Germany should assume greater responsibility for seeking to resolve such issues is a hotly debated question, both inside and outside the country. During a year long Review 2014, experts, officials, and the wider public discussed challenges, priorities, and instruments of German foreign policy, and tried to define Germany's role in the world.

This is not really an election about such hotly debated issues as outsourcing, tax increases versus entitlement reforms, government control of production versus unfettered private sector activity, or job creators versus free riders. It is much more about the accompanying concepts of social fairness, entitlement, equality and, yes, standards of behavior for a rich and civilized society.

The more hotly debated program is one in which the NSA maps the origin and destination of US citizens telephone traffic and stores it for possible later inspection (presumably with a court order). This application of technological capacity to store what is called big data raises a new set of issues about intrusion into citizens privacy.

This benefits advertising agencies and the media, but no one else, and surely not the parties themselves, or the viewers who are bombarded with ads, especially if they happen to live in hotly contested swing states. It is difficult to believe that, say, 200 million would not have been enough to inform the electorate adequately of the candidates policies.

A country where a majority of the population still consults astrologers can well appreciate a sport in which an ill timed cloudburst, a badly prepared pitch, a lost toss, or the sun in the eyes of a fielder can transform a game s outcome. Even the possibility that five tense, exciting, hotly contested, and occasionally meandering days of cricketing could still end in a draw seems derived from ancient Indian philosophy, which accepts that in life the journey is as important as the destination.