However, there is little evidence that his paper had any effect in the internal Soviet philosophical battles over Einstein's work.

Danah Boyd, a social-media researcher at Microsoft Research New England, added, "This is a philosophical battle.

But it's on the way, and the philosophical and political battles will be fought and the decision made, one way or the other, in 1988.

The law includes programs that were hammered out between Congress and Housing Secretary Jack Kemp after a long, philosophical battle over the future of the housing program.

Connolly and Nehemiah have been waging a philosophical battle, Nehemiah said.

A philosophical battle goes on between academic teachers and vocational instructors over the continued emphasis on preparing high school students for college.

Ultimately they hoped to reignite the philosophical battle over the role of government.

A Cowboy's Symbolic Power But the philosophical battle over public land, like the storied heritage of the cowboys, cannot easily be reduced to pure economics or numbers.

Thus, a philosophical battle of wit begins.

The budget is simply the arena in which this continuing philosophical battle is fought.