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We should subsidize embryonic stem cell research | Many funding and research restrictions on embryonic cell research will not impact research on IPSCs (induced pluripotent stem cells) allowing for a promising portion of the field of research to continue relatively unhindered by the ethical issues of embryonic research [REF]. | 0 |
We should abolish marriage | Another main proponent of the amendment was the Catholic Bishops of Alaska, which argued that the Marriage Amendment classifies the traditional view of marriage and expresses the true importance of marriage to society [REF]. | 0 |
We should subsidize public service broadcasters | The contrasting Western European model sees public media as "a representation of the national culture."[REF] . | 0 |
We should further exploit hydroelectric dams | The 1980 Constitution specified for the creation of water rights for non-consumptive use (hydropower) of water and this encouraged hydroelectric power developments. | 1 |
We should subsidize biofuels | The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) states that energy security is the number one driving force behind the US biofuels programme,[REF] and a White House "Energy Security for the 21st Century" paper makes it clear that energy security is a major reason for promoting biodiesel [REF]. | 1 |
We should abandon the insanity plea | At his trial, Bianchi pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming that another personality, one "Steve Walker", had committed the crimes. | 0 |
We should abandon the insanity plea | Although the defense's expert testimony agreed that Yates was psychotic, Texas law requires that, in order to successfully assert the insanity defense, the defendant must prove that he or she could not discern right from wrong at the time of the crime. | 0 |
We should end international aid | In September 1976, the United States Senate passed a bill that included aid for the storm victims [REF]. | 0 |
We should ban abortions | Writing for In These Times, social media activist Sady Doyle wrote that in striving against Planned Parenthood, the SBA List registered its priority as ending abortion rather than helping women prevent unwanted pregnancies [REF]. | 0 |
We should ban abortions | Aquinas held that abortion was still wrong, even when not murder, regardless of when the soul entered the body [REF | 1 |
We should abolish the Olympic Games | The General National Copyright Administration of China announced that "individual (sic) and websites will face fines as high as 100,000 yuan for uploading recordings of Olympic Games video to the internet",[REF] part of an extensive campaign to protect the pertinent intellectual property rights [REF]. | 0 |
We should adopt libertarianism | Friedman says whether this would lead to a libertarian society "remains to be proven". | 0 |
Tattoos should be banned | Laser treatment causes tattoo pigment particles to heat up and fragment into smaller pieces. | 0 |
We should ban abortions | The compilation Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, published in 1997 after Sagan's death, contains essays written by Sagan, such as his views on abortion, and his widow Ann Druyan's account of his death as a skeptic, agnostic, and freethinker. | 0 |
We should prohibit tower blocks | Many of the houses adjoining the goods yard were demolished in 1962 and 1968, and some tower blocks were built nearby. | 0 |
Sex education should be mandatory | The Raëlians disagree with those fears and stated that sex education done properly would involve educating parents as well as children [REF]. | 1 |
We should ban free newspapers | Eventually, it aims to increase circulation to three hundred thousand copies, which is similar to the other two free newspapers (Metropolis Daily: 300,000; Headline Daily: 400,000). | 0 |
it leads to increased political corruption, compulsive gambling and higher crime rates | Las Vegas became an attractive target for investment by crime figures such as New York's Bugsy Siegel | 1 |
We should end athletic scholarships | Patriot League football was non-scholarship until the league presidents voted to approve football scholarships starting with the 2013 recruiting class. | 0 |
We should abolish zoos | The zoo helps educate school children about their own environment and the animal kingdom in general at the Discovery and Learning Centre. | 1 |
We should subsidize condoms | Only 53 percent of women 15-24 know that condom use can protect them from HIV [REF]. | 0 |
We should abandon social media | A fourth of the teenagers said that social media makes them feel more confident and 15 percent said it makes them feel better about themselves (Common Sense, 2012). | 1 |
We should subsidize public service broadcasters | The television licensing scheme has been a problem for Hungarian public broadcasters ever since the initial privatization changes in 1995,[REF][REF] and the public broadcaster MTV has been stuck in a permanent financial crisis for years [REF]. | 0 |
economic inequality reduces social cohesion and increases social unrest | for any given amount of wealth in society, a society with more equality will have higher aggregate utility. Some studies (Layard 2003;Blanchard and Oswald 2000, 2003) have found evidence for this theory, noting that in societies where inequality is lower, population-wide satisfaction and happiness tend to be higher | 1 |
Tattoos should be banned | Tattoos are a debasement of the human body, and were nothing more than graffiti over God's handiwork [REF]. | 0 |
We should abolish standardized tests | Standardized tests of balance are available to allow allied health care professionals to assess an individual's postural control. | 0 |
We should ban beauty contests | Although many nations such as Italy and Germany have completely separate pageants for Miss Universe and Miss World, in the case of Miss Venezuela the national pageant organization must field candidates to almost all of the major world contests. | 0 |
We should protect endangered species | According to a species assessment conducted by the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species, 97 species have been identified in Brazil with vulnerable, lower risk/near threatened, endangered, or critically endangered standing [REF]. | 1 |
Single-sex schools should be banned | Also involved are the issues of single-sex education and religious education, in that the division of education along gender lines as well as religious teachings on education have been traditionally dominant and are still highly relevant in contemporary discussions of educating females as a global consideration. | 0 |
We should further exploit wind power | With increasing population growth, Canada has seen wind power as a way to diversify energy supplies away from traditional reliance on fossil fuel burning thermal plants and heavy reliance on hydroelectricity in some provinces. | 1 |
We should adopt direct democracy | David Freeman argues that Fotopoulos' approach in that book "is not openly anarchism, yet anarchism seems the formal category within which he works, given his commitment to direct democracy, municipalism and abolition of state, money and market economy" [REF]. | 0 |
We should introduce year round schooling | The school district also consists of traditional and a year-round school which is located at Youngsville Elementary School. | 0 |
We should ban the sale of violent video games to minors | City spokespersons requested that the game be pulled from shelves upon its release; NYPD union boss Patrick Lynch criticized the game, stating that "these horrible and violent video games desensitize young people to violence while encouraging depravity, immorality while glorifying criminal behavior" [REF]. | 1 |
We should end international aid | Several studies suggest that foreign aid is used as a political weapon for the U.S. to elicit desired actions from other nations. | 1 |
We should further exploit solar energy | The energy from the sun could play a key role in de-carbonizing the global economy alongside improvements in energy efficiency and imposing costs on greenhouse gas emitters. | 1 |
We should subsidize higher education | Sunset International Bible Institute is a Churches of Christ-affiliated institution of higher education in Lubbock, Texas [REF]. | 0 |
We should adopt socialism | During the campaign, Sinclair promoted the EPIC project, a socialist work program to ensure universal employment for all Californians, complete with the state control of factories, the opening of farm cooperatives and the creation of a cabinet-level California Authority for Production agency to oversee state employment... | 0 |
We should protect endangered species | The grounds currently support rare habitats for greater-crested newts, tree moles, bats and land puffins; all protected species. | 0 |
We should end mandatory retirement | Typically, mandatory retirement is justified by the argument that certain occupations are either too dangerous (military personnel) or require high levels of physical and mental skill (air traffic controllers, airline pilots). | 1 |
Sex education should be mandatory | The Raëlians disagree with those fears and state that sex education done properly would involve educating parents as well as children [REF]. | 1 |
We should abolish the monarchy | The kingdom also had established important alliances which helped it improve the possibility of Italian unification, such as Britain and France in the Crimean War. | 0 |
We should abolish temporary employment | The Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES) was awarded a $95 million National Emergency Grant (NEG) from the federal government to assist in temporary recovery jobs and to help provide job training. | 0 |
We should protect endangered species | China is a party to the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Climate Change treaty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the Endangered Species treaty, the Hazardous Wastes treaty, the Law of the Sea, the International Tropical Timber Ag... | 0 |
We should adopt multiculturalism | recognize and promote the understanding that multiculturalism is a fundamental characteristic of the Canadian heritage and identity and that it provides an invaluable resource in the shaping of Canada's future . | 1 |
Boarding schools should be abolished | At the age of twelve, Gwen met Ethan Crane at a mixer that their boarding schools had, and became fast friends, soon boyfriend and girlfriend. | 0 |
We should legalize insider trading | Until the 21st century and the European Union's market abuse laws, the United States was the leading country in prohibiting insider trading made on the basis of material non-public information [REF]. | 0 |
We should abolish the Olympic Games | The Games were initially open only to athletes in wheelchairs; at the 1976 Summer Games, athletes with different disabilities were included for the first time at a Summer Paralympics [REF]. | 0 |
We should disband NATO | Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples (JFC Naples) is a NATO military command | 0 |
We should abolish primary elections | Prior to the Republican convention, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley decided not to name a running mate, stating that he believes that the state's tradition of a gubernatorial candidate naming a preferred running mate before party conventions and primaries is "out of date."[REF] | 0 |
We should abolish primary elections | The PAN pointed to his competitive primary election as a sign of internal democracy. | 0 |
Boarding schools should be abolished | Also in Britain children as young as 5 to 9 years of age are sent to boarding schools [REF]. | 0 |
We should legalize sex selection | The technique can be used for prenatal sex discernment of the embryo, and thus potentially can be used to select embryos of one sex in preference of the other in the context of "family balancing". | 0 |
We should legalize the growing of coca leaf | As an example of the above, it is claimed by critics that Peru and Bolivia, as countries which had earlier monopolized coca cultivations until local eradication efforts later led to the eventual transfer of that part of the illegal business to Colombia, have recently had small increases in coca production despite recor... | 0 |
We should legalize same sex marriage | On May 9, 2012, President Obama became the first sitting president to say he believed that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. | 1 |
Physical education should be mandatory | For the Greeks, physical education was considered as important as cognitive learning. | 1 |
Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | In February 2002, French Minister of Education Jack Lang set up a commission to examine Holocaust denial at the University of Lyon III [REF]. | 0 |
We should abandon online dating services | Wells and True reached a settlement in which Wells agreed to pay monetary damages to True, perform community service and never use an online dating service again [REF]. | 0 |
Hunting should be banned | The study furthermore states that the cessation of hunting could cause wildlife to be severely harmed, rural property values to fall, and the incentive of landowners to maintain natural habitats to diminish [REF]. | 1 |
We should disband UNESCO | A list of 38 applications in total was announced in July 2010, after which an independent panel of experts was to assess them, with a view to paring it down and submitting it as the UK's new Tentative List to UNESCO in 2011 [REF]. | 0 |
We should legalize insider trading | There is also a significant level of labor market segmentation related to economic restructuring and insider-outsider issues; "Organized insiders with seniority benefit from rents - higher wages, better benefits, and greater tenure - by monopolizing jobs and restricting access to particular sectors. | 0 |
We should abandon television | Mason et al, who published a study in The Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, suggested that while both mothers and television are effective distraction techniques, the mothers may have been less effective because the children's fear and distress could have affected their ability to interact with their ... | 0 |
We should ban alternative medicine | Another significant sub-collection is an alternative medicine library consisting of the personal libraries of Dr. Christopher Gian-Cursio, Dr. Jesse Mercer Gehman, and Dr. Herbert Shelton, all of whom were naturopathic physicians in the early 20th century. | 0 |
We should disband NATO | Saab Gripen fighter contracts: lobbying successfully for the Lockheed Martin F-35 against the Gripen for the Norwegian Air Force, and with an eye also on further contracts with the Danish Air Force, the US Ambassador rehearsed the Swedish case for the release and installation of a US radar system in its planes (involve... | 0 |
Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | The Council of Europe's Explanatory Report of the Protocol says that the "European Court of Human Rights has made it clear that the denial or revision of 'clearly established historical facts - such as the Holocaust - .. | 0 |
Suicide should be a criminal offence | this did not imply that suicide was completely unacceptable. | 0 |
We should prohibit slum tourism | Though the area has been productive of local writing talent, from the time of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) the idea of 'slumming it' in the 'forbidden' East End has held a fascination for a coterie of the literati [REF]. | 0 |
We should prohibit tower blocks | In 2007, residents of Tai Kok Tsui, increasingly aware of the problem, have been lobbying against further proliferation of such high-rises in their area which threaten the last air corridor [REF]. | 0 |
We should adopt vegetarianism | Evidence suggests that vegetarians have lower rates of coronary heart disease, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes,[REF] and osteoporosis [REF]. | 1 |
We should abolish the Olympic Games | Lawrence Bulger was an Irish 220-yard sprint champion, and through his connection with athletics was a representative at the Sorbonne in Paris when Pierre de Coubertin suggested the creation of a modern Olympic Games [REF]. | 0 |
We should subsidize public service broadcasters | In a different study, they also showed that "ownership by one of the big four broadcast networks has been linked to a considerable decrease in the amount of televised local public affairs programming"[REF] . | 1 |
We should subsidize public service broadcasters | A scientific poll conducted by Infratest Dimap for the public-service broadcaster ARD found that 61 percent of the people support the workers. | 0 |
We should ban boxing | Even if one ignores the professional part of the state boxing which has more shady side out of it there has been a strong tradition from this piece of land Olympian munusamy venu, amalraj, Xavier and many more on the Asian level have taken this country to greater glory from the 70s. | 0 |
We should ban whaling | Prof Burke's interpretation is disputed by Prof Chris Wold of the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, who argued that the IWC must maintain both the conservation and whaling industry objectives of the ICRW [REF]. This view is supported by Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law at the University of Waika... | 0 |
Boarding schools should be abolished | After illegally obtaining his medical history (revealing that Pedro is HIV positive) and hiring a private investigator who obtains pictures of Pedro on a night out in a gay club, and threatening him with both, he ends up letting her put Bernardo in a boarding school. | 0 |
We should end mining | The river has been greatly ecologically damaged in recent years by the mining and heavy metal industry in Bor and Krivelj and is consequently polluting the Danube with lead, copper and cadmium. | 1 |
Organ donation should be mandatory | By modelling different scenarios, we show that only a policy of presumed consent will substantially increase the number of organs available for transplantation" [REF]. | 0 |
We should subsidize public service broadcasters | TG4 is a public service broadcaster for speakers of the Irish language. | 0 |
We should ban whaling | Japan's Fisheries Agency announced on April 12, 2010 that the whaling fleet had caught about half of the 985 whales it has hoped to catch during the 2009-2010 whaling research season as a result of obstruction by Sea Shepherd operations. | 0 |
Big governments should be abandoned | Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It (Thomas Nelson, | 0 |
We should abolish the double jeopardy defense | The double jeopardy law has since been changed through the Criminal Code (Double Jeopardy) Amendment Act 2007 (Qld). | 0 |
We should legalize insider trading | In paragraph (c), however, the SEC created an affirmative defense to any charge of insider trading, "designed to cover situations in which a person can demonstrate that the material nonpublic information was not a factor in the trading decision."[REF] | 0 |
We should increase immigration to the United States | During these crucial years, a number of the most prominent European scientists, especially physicists, immigrated to the United States, where they would do much of their most important work; these included Hans Bethe, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Leó Szilárd, Edward Teller, Felix Bloch, Emilio Segrè, and Eugene Wigne... | 0 |
We should subsidize higher education | One study noted that average pay levels in the catering sector exceeded wages in higher education [REF]. | 0 |
less intrusive options, including those that emphasized delay and spacing of births, could have achieved the same results over an extended period of time | These researchers note further that China could have expected a continued reduction in its fertility rate just from continued economic development, had it kept to the previous policy | 1 |
We should fight nationalism | Alleged Czech brutality and persecution under Prague helped to stir up nationalist tendencies, as did the Nazi press. | 0 |
Single-sex schools should be banned | Noting the objections of those who were particularly concerned to retain a local comprehensive school for girls, Thatcher stated in the House of Commons that to make the school a co-educational establishment would be to go against those wishes [REF]. | 0 |
We should ban the use of child actors | Anderson Jones of Entertainment Weekly asserted, "Teen actress Norwood acts her age. | 0 |
We should abolish the two-party system | Arguably the most important part of their analysis lies in a state-transition diagram (in Chapter 5) that Winograd and Flores claim underlies the significant illocutionary (speech act) claims of two parties attempting to coordinate action with one another (no matter whether the agents involved might be human-human, hum... | 0 |
We should further exploit sustainable energies | Likewise, unless clean energy supplies come online rapidly, slowing demand growth will only begin to reduce total emissions; reducing the carbon content of energy sources is also needed [REF]. | 0 |
We should end progressive taxation | "Progressive indexing" would lower the COLA or benefit levels for higher wage groups, with no impact or lesser impact on lower-wage groups. | 0 |
We should subsidize distance education | In 1987, when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools demanded faculty members with master's degrees to lecture 100% of its undergraduate courses,[REF] the Institute invested considerably in both distance learning and computer network technologies and training, effectively becoming, on 1 February 1989, the fir... | 0 |
We should end international aid | Recent studies have shown that looking for podocytes (specialized cells of the kidney) in the urine has the potential to aid in the prediction of preeclampsia. | 0 |
We should ban male infant circumcision | "The AMA supports the general principles of the 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which reads as follows: "valuation of current evidence indicates that the health benefits of newborn male circumcision outweigh the risks; furthermore, the benefits of newborn male circumcision just... | 1 |
We should subsidize journalism | Unlike in my earlier films, here I have used dialogue predominantly to comment, endorse or simply report on the course of the plot to lend the story a narrative form akin to that of the epics where reportage plays a major role in making the experience larger- than- life." | 0 |
We should ban the use of child actors | Beginning a career as a child actor at the age of four, Ohrner rose to prominence as a teen idol during the early 1980s, starring in the television series Timm Thaler, Merlin and Manni, der Libero, as well as achieving crossover success as a singer with his English-language pop singles, "Rock 'n' Roll in Old Blue Jeans... | 0 |
We should subsidize biofuels | To make a positive contribution to a low carbon future, biofuels must be sustainable. | 1 |
We should ban cosmetic surgery | Professor Ramaswami Venkataswami is a plastic surgeon, founder of the Institute for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hand and the Department of Plastic Surgery (IRRH and DPS) of Stanley Medical College and Hospitals (SMC), Chennai, India. | 0 |
We should further exploit nuclear power | Nuclear power plants are a complex energy system[REF][REF] and opponents of nuclear power have criticized the sophistication and complexity of the technology. | 1 |
We should abolish the US Electoral College | The anti-self-government movement carried significant popular weight; an advisory referendum held in 1978 concluded that only 30.5 per cent of electors were in favour of self-government;[REF] and Duby plus two other members of his No Self Government Party and a representative of the Abolish Self-Government Coalition we... | 0 |
We should ban herbal medicine | Herbalists deny that herbal synergism can be duplicated with synthetic chemicals They argue that phytochemical interactions and trace components may alter the drug response in ways that cannot currently be replicated with a combination of a few potentially active ingredients [REF]. | 0 |
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