Sentences with phrase «decades of debate on»

Astronomers even caught the collision's chemical fingerprints, revealing the creation of 10 to 100 Earths» worth of gold and other heavy elements, ending decades of debate on their cosmic origins.

Not exact matches

Economists can debate precisely why so many people have taken it in the teeth in recent decades, but it's clear that years of stagnant or dropping incomes have taken a toll on their ability to get ahead.

In a tour de force that will likely be debated for decades to come, Souter focused on two cases: the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954, and the New York Times Co. v. United States Pentagon Papers case of 1971.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.

Add one more striking statistic to the debate over the pro-life movement's impact on America after four decades of advocacy.

As the debate on foreign investment in Australia's agriculture rages, QIC's potential investment could well be seen as the first major move by an Australian institution in the cattle sector for more than a decade since AMP sold out of pastoral company Stanbroke.

The effectiveness of the pro-cannabis side of the debate depends on America's ability to believe — just this once, after decades of being sold bills of goods — that something isn't too good to be true.

It had Twitter lit up late on Sunday as the debates over decades of dominance, both in this event and in the much more competitive Ryder Cup, were already starting.

In 2009 Tuteur moved over to her new blog, The Skeptical OB, the name of which is, on the one hand, misleading because she hasn't been in practice for more than a decade, but is ultimately more appropriate because her old site was never really about debate.

Devolution in Scotland followed a decade - long debate involving a wide range of organisations in civil society; «devo Manc» is the result of confidential bargains between the Treasury and a small group of local deal - makers, mostly on the City Council.

In any case, even if the libertarian - minded succeed in taking control of the debate on the Right, it still won't guarantee the long - term success of their ideology: the real world is dangerously messy, and we've seen a lot of evidence over the past few decades that perfect ideas don't always work as planned when they're applied to actual people (see: markets, free).

For at least three decades, officials have debated adding a track on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, with often vehement opposition from some residents over train noise, disruption during construction and the acquisition of homes and businesses.

The furore over Vince Cable's leaked letter to No 10 bemoaning the lack of a more coherent industrial policy is yet another instalment in a debate about the right industrial policy in the UK that has been going on for decades.

«It would be a dramatic reversal of not just decades but centuries of British engagement and leadership if we were to suddenly back ourselves out of the whole enterprise, but it would also in my view have a very detrimental effect on the balance of opinion, the balance of debate in the rest of Europe,» Clegg insisted.

MPs will admit to the failure of the war on drugs tomorrow, in one of the most important developments in the debate for a decade.

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

What has happened on the electoral reform file in five of Canada's ten provinces over the past decade has already entered the post-election debate over the Liberals» reform package.

By James Briggs The Milwaukee Common Council on Tuesday capped two decades of public transit debate by approving construction of a $ 64.6 million, 2.1 - mile streetcar line.

Still, researchers have spent decades debating the implications of partially preserved brain surface features on hominid endocasts.

For decades, scientists have debated the significance of these rings, which are found around the largest impact basins on the moon, Mars, and Earth.

Their findings also fanned the flames of a decade - old debate over the influence of fire, particularly cooking, on the evolution of our species's relatively capacious brains.

And Ian Main, a University of Edinburgh seismologist who chaired an influential online debate a decade ago on whether earthquakes can be predicted, says that radon has been considered a «marginal [quake] precursor.

The debate has rumbled on for decades, but recent findings about the role circumcision can play in preventing transmission of HIV have placed the foreskin — or its absence — firmly back on the public - health agenda.

It is the product of a long and contentious debate in Congress that included efforts to eliminate the Transportation Enhancements program (TEP), which for about 2 decades has required states to spend a small portion of their federal transport funds on 12 types of activities, including bike and walking paths, but also «archaeological planning & research,» and «environmental mitigation.»

The widespread expansion of development in the U.S. in recent decades has brought the issue of wetlands loss to the forefront of debates on zoning and land use planning.

A debate rages on whether President Reagan did or didn't have Alzheimer's disease during his time in office.With what we have learned in the last decade about the disease, the question is relatively meaningless, except perhaps to score political points.The simple answer: of course he did.The newest technology — consisting of imaging and spinal taps — shows that the disease process begins its relentless course as many as 15 years before a firm diagnosis.

The WIPP Land Withdrawal Act (LWA, Public Law 102 - 579, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on October 30, 1992) was the result of six years of congressional consideration and more than a decade of public debate about the facility's mission.

Debate about so - called germline editing of eggs, sperm and embryos has been going on for decades, but it has come to a head in recent years with the development of a powerful new gene - editing technology called Crispr - Cas9 that can make extremely precise edits to DNA and which was used by the Chinese team and would be used by the British team.

It is worth adding though, that temperature trends over the next few decades are more likely to be correlated to the TCR, rather than the equilibrium sensitivity, so if one is interested in the near - term implications of this debate, the constraints on TCR are going to be more important.

Leading Australian director Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) returns to MIFF with two productions: The Go - Betweens — Right Here; a documentary charting the four - decade long story of beloved indie rock band The Go - Betweens, in their own words and with never - before - seen archival footage; and Australia Day; an excoriating, illuminating take on a most fraught debate, set over a pulse - racing 12 hours.

Screenwriter Alex Garland has worked almost exclusively in the science fiction genre (from «Sunshine,» to «Never Let Me Go,» to «Dredd»), so it comes as no surprise that his directorial debut occupies a similar space, this time focusing on the decades - old debate of artificial intelligence.

WHY: Screenwriter Alex Garland has worked almost exclusively in the science fiction genre, so it comes as no surprise that his directorial debut occupies a similar space, this time focusing on the decades - old debate of artificial intelligence.

so can we start the «Heath Ledger is overrated» debate cause i want to know how based on 2 performances he is the best actor of the decade?

She said: «For me, I do worry that a return to more selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decade in our schools, by throwing something else into the education debate rather than focusing on every school offering an excellent education.»

Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1965 report on the structural causes of the fragmentation of the black family has been so hotly debated that serious research on the complexity of the problem has been undermined for decades.

For scholars and policy makers focused on reforming urban schools, Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons From Chicago may represent the most important research over the past decade of debate.

An outgrowth of decades - long debates on equitable funding of public schools is an effort to ensure that schools provide «adequate levels of funding» for all students in a state (Augenblick, et al., 1997).

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year for a decade, has sufficed to define the national debate on education; sustain a crusade for a set of mostly ill - conceived reforms; and determine public policy at the local, state, and national levels.

However, this debate has gone on for decades of time.

September 2007 by Wayne Thorp While stock investors have been debating the merits of growth versus value strategies for decades, James O'Shaughnessy has shown that both approaches work — but on different kinds of stocks.

The latest revision of the federal dog management plan for GGNRA adds some new areas that dogs on leashes can roam, subtracts a few areas where dogs could previously run free, and once again stirs the decades - long debate over where dogs fit in at the scenic, 80,00 - plus - acre federal playground.

1988 Cultural Geometry, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (curated by Jeffrey Deitch, catalogue) Collection Sonnabend: 25 Years of Selection and Activity, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; traveled to CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy; Musée Rath, Geneva; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan; National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (catalogue) Galerie Lelong, New York A Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York Hover Culture, Metro Pictures, New York Art at the End of the Social, The Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Australian Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; travelled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (catalogue) La Couleur Seule: L'Experience du monochrome, Musée Saint Pierre, Lyon, France (catalogue) Hybrid Neutral, Modes of Abstraction and the Social, I.C.I. Exhibition: University Art Gallery, The University of North Texas, Denton, TX; travelled to J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Alberta College of Art, Alberta, Canada; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL; Santa Fe Community College Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Works Concepts Processes Situations Information, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Robert Nickas) American Art of the Late 80s: The Binational, Museum of Fine Arts and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; travelled to Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue) Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue) New Works, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles A Debate on Abstraction: Systems and Abstraction, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York (catalogue) Viewpoints: Postwar Painting and Sculpture from the Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)

While everyone praised the new spaces, some of us resurrected a recent debate on the «boys» club» image the museum's gained after showing only three women artists out of a total seventeen solo shows for the past decade.

Feminist debates of the past three decades have had an enormous impact on the practice of art history.

In this state of relative non-recognition within the discourse and debate around art and culture in general, the subject of the «reductive» as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80's and 90's.

She was co-curator of the 5th Berlin Biennial in 2008 with Adam Szymczyk, and has edited or co-edited a number of anthologies on global exhibition histories, including «The Artist as Curator: An Anthology» (Mousse Publications, 2017), «The Biennial Reader: Anthology on Large - Scale Perennial Exhibitions of Contemporary Art» (Hatje Cantz, 2010), and «The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe» (MIT Press, 2005).

And as the «80s got under way, with the decade's double focus on Neo-Expressionism and postmodernist photography, Greenberg dropped out of the debate altogether.

It is worth adding though, that temperature trends over the next few decades are more likely to be correlated to the TCR, rather than the equilibrium sensitivity, so if one is interested in the near - term implications of this debate, the constraints on TCR are going to be more important.