Sentences with phrase «argued for decades»

Star Wars fans have argued for decades about whether Han Solo shot first in A New Hope when he meets up with Greedo.

Health experts have argued for decades about the health benefits and risks of whole eggs.

With direct access to the mantle still the stuff of science fiction, scientists have argued for decades about the shape and size of Hawaii's hotspot.

Biologists have argued for decades over whether the two basic eye plans of vertebrates and invertebrates evolved independently or originated from a common ancestor.

Researchers have argued for decades whether these anchors have their own «genome,» and if so, whether its nucleic acid sequence is DNA or RNA.

Experts have argued for decades about exactly when Earth's core differentiated.

Biologists have argued for decades over what ignited this evolutionary burst.

«It has been argued for decades that fault systems evolving over geological time may unify smaller fault segments, forming mature rupture zones with a potential for larger earthquake,» said Marco Bohnhoff, professor of geophysics at the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany, who sought to clarify the seismic hazard potential from the NAFZ.

Hawking argued for decades that it was destroyed — a major challenge to ideas of continuity, and cause and effect.

«[It] highlights what many have argued for decades — the notion that stronger copyright laws are directly linked to increased economic growth is simply false,» says University of Ottawa law professor and IP expert Michael Geist.

American producers have argued for decades that what people choose to do — or consume — in their own homes is their business and that government has no place in it.

However, with families, you've been arguing for decades.

Scientists have been arguing for decades over whether such structures are remnants of early microbial life, but the Australian formations are the best evidence yet.

Evolutionary psychologists not only know this, they have been arguing this for decades (Kenrick et al., 1990; Symons, 1979).

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He argued in a blog post that a single figure, even the son of a king, in pushing for a great deal of change in a country where the politics and power accumulated over decades are complicated, could end up producing the opposite of stability.

The book argues that most of us are not as creative as we have the potential to be and, thankfully for the time starved business owner, living up to our full creative potential doesn't necessarily mean locking yourself in a practice room for around a decade.

You may argue I'm no expert, but I've been in the news business for close to two decades, working nationally and abroad, so I've stayed in literally hundreds of hotels... from the Soviet - era «Intouristes» to the Mansion at Turtle Creek in Dallas.

«A bear market in bonds calls for more than a global cyclical upswing, as not all forces that dragged yields down over the past decades have suddenly vanished,» argued Peter van der Welle, a strategist at Robeco.

«We need to invest every defense dollar to meet the threat that we're facing right now as a nation,» she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer later on Wednesday, arguing that the Obama administration's decision to allow transgender people to serve would cost $ 1.35 billion over a decade just for sex - reassignment surgeries.

If Trump wants to argue that U.S. - Mexico trade relations have been lousy for the better part of three decades, then that's an argument he's free to make.

And for investors, private deals offer real income and asset appreciation that, over the past decade at least, has been elusive in the public markets, argues Jim Sand, CEO of Fast Track Capital, a registered exempt - market dealer based in St. Albert, Alta.

Many would argue, however, that Amazon has been a positive for the postal service, which has suffered from bleak finances for more than a decade as other means of communication replace first class mail.

We have argued in previous articles that spending by governments on public infrastructure that would provide services to Canadians for many decades in the future is not the same as spending by governments on programs and services that only benefit current generations.

Trudeau's predecessor, Stephen Harper, spent a decade arguing that it's a terrible idea for Canada to move ahead of the U.S. in curbing carbon pollution — and most of the business community agreed with him.

Other top trade advisers, including longtime China critics like Robert Lighthizer and Peter Navarro, have taken a tougher stance, arguing that these changes would do little to address the mercantilist and protectionist trade policies China has adopted for decades.

The point is that after decades of touting his business acumen, his ability to negotiate tough deals and spot good investments, and after spending this entire campaign season arguing that he's qualified for the presidency based on his skills in the market, Trump nonetheless has an investment record that at best roughly matches and at worst underperforms the market.

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Be that as it may, the point of this talk is to argue against the proposition that a particular type of demand management policy was responsible for growth achieved over a couple of decades.

For decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious preceFor decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precefor a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precept.

During these decades, of course, the evangelicals have done very well for themselves with their own seminaries, from which it has also been argued that this division makes for a comfortable and mutually acceptable arrangement (the old «separate but equal» slogan in a different context).

Over four decades in this space we have argued that the radical rejection of the intrinsically procreative purpose of the marriage act will tend to the «sex is for fun» philosophy, the destruction of the family and the abuseof children.

In her fine book Hawthorne: Calvin's Ironic Stepchild, the distinguished Hawthorne scholar Agnes M. Donohue has persuasively argued for the presence in his writing of a «Calvinist - ordained irony,» and has also tried to solve the «mystery» of the illness and artistic decline of Hawthorne's last decade.

For the last decade, some social scientists have been arguing that «happiness measurements» should replace or supplement established economic standards to judge a society's «success.»

Stanley Hauerwas, one of the most distinguished and surely most interesting Christian thinkers of the modern era, has been in the middle of this moral and theological fray for decades, arguing in various ways that being a Christian means never killing others in war.

An academic at the University of California published a paper arguing five decades of research responsible for shaping dietary recommendations was likely sculpted by the sugar industry.

while we are arguing among us AW is earning 25K today and every day of the year and has been for decades, who would you lie to for that kind of money?

People are always arguing over what world class means or who is... When youve been one of the very best GKs in world for more than a decade make no mistake about it..

For at least two decades, lay midwife advocates have argued that they should be recognized by the state as legitimate caregivers, but physicians groups have opposed them.

I am arguing that it is not, at least not for the last decade when I have been in the childbearing years.

Moe, who has been writing about education reform for more than two decades, argued last year that «The teachers unions are the raw power behind the politics of blocking [education accountability reform].

It seems fairly clear to me that the Treasury report is right when it argues that, for the next decade or so at least, people in Scotland will be significantly better off by staying in the Union.

English votes for English laws offered the solution to a decades - old conundrum in British politics, but — as Hugh McLachlan argued recently — restricting voting and scrutiny rights in this way can throw up other paradoxes.

American anthropologist James Ferguson argues that it is time to acknowledge that the jobless poor in Africa will remain so for decades.

A case can surely be made for Indira Ghandi, for instance, who redrew the map of South Asia by providing vital support to the fledgling state of Bangladesh and, as a result, initiated, some have argued, perhaps the first humanitarian intervention in the 20th Century; a full two decades before the Americans intervened in the Balkans to prevent similar atrocities.

Shedding light on lobbyingAfter decades of arguing the case for self - regulation of the lobbying profession, I have changed my view.

Miliband will argue that any reforming politician must deal with doubts about the ability of politics «to address the long - standing pressures on work, family and people's sense of fair play that has been piling up for decades».

Citing «decades of dysfunction and waste» by the state, the mayor called on Albany lawmakers Tuesday to cede control of juvenile justice services to local authorities, arguing that they can do a better job for less.

Daniel Chill, representing the Assembly Democrats, also argued for the prerogative of incumbents, saying it's «state policy» based on decades of redistricting plans that considered the existing legislators, and that the court could perhaps make it a significant factor without «putting it at the top of the list.»

The shadow Health Secretary will argue: «When it comes to helping people on to the housing ladder, Westminster has been failing people for decades.

Howe pleaded guilty to eight federal charges, and defense lawyers have argued that he lied on the witness stand to try to escape the potential for decades in prison.