Sentences with phrase «acrimonious debates»

But if some of the more acrimonious debates in the cryptocurrency world seem besides the point, Garzik's involvement appears to have left him with inspiration for his latest work.

Home to recurring, often acrimonious debates over how to compensate rooftop solar customers for the excess energy they send to the grid, Arizona regulators, utilities and the rooftop solar sector are still struggling to settle on a method that can satisfy both sides.

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

The most acrimonious debate involved Proposition 30, which among other things called upon Division I - A and I - AA football programs to reduce spring practice from 20 days to 15 and upon Division I basketball programs to pare the regular season from 28 games to 25 and move the start of practice from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1.

The new policy kicked off during World Breast Feeding Week and calls attention to the increasingly acrimonious debate over the feeding of newborns.

This is no surprise following yesterday's extraordinarily acrimonious debate.

«The precipitous rise of Pegida has shaken Germany's main parties to the core and prompted an acrimonious debate at a time when Europe's biggest economy is straining to deal with a record intake of more than 200,000 asylum seekers in 2014 — mainly from Iraq and Syria — a figure higher than any other country in Europe and which is due to rise considerably this year.»

Mr. Rangel's cell phone tactic was the most colorful moment of an acrimonious debate last night between the top three candidates vying to represent uptown's 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem through parts of the Bronx.

Amidst acrimonious debate over the safety of genetically modified (GM) food crops, India's top biotechnology regulator last week declared a transgenic mustard plant «safe for consumption.»

One of the organization's main worries is that limiting access to the research results and the virus would flout the new pandemic influenza preparedness (PIP) framework, agreed to earlier this year after 4 years of often - acrimonious debate.

Even these modest plans have caused long and acrimonious debate.

The question of whether modern humans made love or war with our ancestors has swung back and forth over decades of often acrimonious debate.

Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti Engage in Acrimonious Debate Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti blasted one another with a torrent of allegations Wednesday night in the most acrimonious debate of the Los Angeles mayor's race.

«But until we have more responsible pet ownership, we're just putting Band - Aids on the problem — and engaging in this acrimonious debate that is turning people off.»

Although I don't know how the hostess picks themes or manages to manage things, in my brief experience with the blog, you are much more likely to find a sensible and creative discussion of how to actually address the issue (global warming, sustainability, and related matters of living well within our environment) on the family, local, or cultural levels than you are to find a large acrimonious debate among (often anonymous) people.

20 years of acrimonious debate of the science and policy (because your side lies their butts off and make lurid accusations about governmental control and conspiracies that don't exist)» I've seen enough acrimonious debate on this site that shows plenty of selective, cherry - picked arguments.

The past couple of weeks have offered an amazing ringside view of an unusually public and acrimonious debate over software patents.

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If you think political debate in this country is poisoned and acrimonious now, wait until the next recession.

Yet just such an unlikely resolution may be in hand for one of the most acrimonious conflicts of recent times: the debate over human embryonic stem cells....

After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.

The problem is that underlying the debate over Syria is a deepening, intensifying and ever more acrimonious fissure between the Corbyn leadership and the bulk of the parliamentary party.

Republican presidential candidates went head - to - head in an often acrimonious presidential debate in...

Republican presidential candidates went head - to - head in an often acrimonious presidential debate in Colorado.

The discourse to which these rival factions are increasingly resorting — abusive, ill - tempered and acrimonious — is beginning to lend intra-party debate a similar tone and temper to that of the earlier period.

The debate about using dispersants is becoming increasingly politicized and acrimonious, and the National Academy of Sciences has recently assembled a committee of scientists, government officials, and industry to evaluate the use of chemical dispersants in oil spill response.

The process, and persistent charter claims of being short - changed, has spurred court battles, acrimonious policy debates in the state legislature and even suggestions of a massive, class - action lawsuit against traditional public schools.

If the grilling DeVos endured in last month's confirmation hearing is any indication, any push from within the Trump administration for greater diversity of elementary and secondary school options will end in an acrimonious public vs. private debate.

However, to condemn Judith in your terms seems excessive and bizarre, especially in the context of the current acrimonious climate debate.»

Climate scientists have become entangled in an acrimonious political debate that has polarized the scientific community.

Maybe the debate is so long and acrimonious, the suspicions of motives so entrenched, the buttons so tender and swollen, that we have reached an insurmountable impasse.

But with debates regarding national climate change policy becoming more acrimonious in Washington as midterm elections approach, it is important to ask, what are the real options for climate policy in the United States — not only in 2010, but in 2011 and beyond.

Friends became intellectual foes, dueling icons in one of the world's most acrimonious political debates.

* Time Magazine named Paul Watson one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century in the year 2000, but that kind of detail tends to be lost in the acrimonious whaling debate here in Japan.

But — after acrimonious parliamentary debates, Supreme Court challenges and yards of press coverage — everyone has now heard of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.

Overall, the debate has proven to be as acrimonious as it has been divisive.

But the scaling debate has been so acrimonious because neither Bitcoin Core, the project's leading developer team, nor the backers of the major alternatives have been able to string together and communicate a clear philosophy that animates their goals for bitcoin.

The recovered memory debate has been the most acrimonious, vicious and hurtful internal controversy in the history of modern psychiatry... the term recovered memory is used exclusively as a pejorative.

Breaking Ground: Chinese Investment in U.S. Real Estate provides a necessary resource for any investor, builder, financier, or service provider looking to stay ahead of this fast - moving trend, while also providing common ground for the broader debate, too often ideological and acrimonious, over U.S - China trade and investment.