Sentences with phrase «argued for years»

Women's health advocates, women's health care providers, and researchers have argued for years (and two different presidential administrations) about the safety of emergency contraception and the importance of its place on the shelf, between the pregnancy tests and the condoms.

Resolution has argued for years that allowing couples to divorce without one partner having to blame the other for the breakdown would help couples minimise acrimony and its miserable effect on children.

Steve S beats me to it, but here's a Myles Allen quote anyway: I have argued for years that the odds on a high climate sensitivity are largely irrelevant to the warming we should expect over the coming century, and I certainly never suggested to David that my assessment of the odds on any particular level of warming by 2100 had changed.

Meanwhile, there are 600 coal - fired power stations in the US alone, and researchers have argued for years that carbon dioxide could be trapped and buried, or turned into some useful biofuel.

NRDC has forcefully argued for years that bypassing the environmental review can be perilous.

As we've argued for years now, electric cars shouldn't be either a political left or a right issue.

Proponents of whaling have argued for years that evidence of cetacean intelligence is weak and overstated.

Christy has argued for years that climate models exaggerate global warming in the bulk atmosphere, which satellites have monitored since the late 1970s.

Cat colony proponents have argued for years that the traditional method of «trap and kill» does not work.

The HSUS and its allies have argued for years that this loophole was fundamentally unfair and that those involved in the business of breeding dogs for profit should all face similar regulatory standards.

The opinion by the Court in regards to the Bell case helps to legally explain what many within society know to be true and have argued for years — that every dog in a breeding kennel, whether a puppy or an adult dog used for breeding, is a pet or companion animal under Minnesota law and must not be neglected, abused or treated poorly.

Groups such as Education Trust and the Center for American Progress have argued for years that states and districts must find ways to get their most effective teachers in front of their poorest and most disadvantaged pupils, and it's evident that the Obama administration is finally responding.

We have argued for years that these two tracks are interdependent — even codependent.

Taxpayers pay for only about 10 percent of all K — 12 education spending nationwide, but lawmakers have argued for years that federal requirements are disproportionate to the federal contribution.

That's what some physicists have argued for years: That black holes are the ultimate vaults, entities that suck in information and then evaporate without leaving behind any clues as to what they once contained.

Yet scientists have argued for years over where and when they arose.

To modern biologists, a structure as big and as odd as the spermaceti organ cries out for an evolutionary explanation, and marine mammalogists have argued for years over its function.

We have argued for years that the Mayor's list of little measures is inadequate and that an ultra low emission zone was essential.

Most of the reforms are very popular with good government groups — who have argued for years that lulus should be abolished and believe that elected officials should be paid well to encourage good candidates to run for office.

If you inject an issue that you know is combative, like LLCs, well, I don't know that you're then arguing in good faith that this is an inarguable premise when you know LLCs have been argued for years and years and years.

Sen. Jeff Klein has argued for years now that voters should judge the IDC by the results.

Cuomo said education advocates have argued for years that local property taxes shouldn't be used to fund schools, because wealthy communities have an obvious advantage.

Gambling companies have argued for years that New York loses billions of dollars a year to casinos in Connecticut and New Jersey, costing the state jobs and tax revenue.

Camp refused to define football as «primal,» even though he argued for years that football's destructiveness was essential.

We've argued for years that fiscal policy, not monetary, will have the greater role in determining the economy's future.

«Texas has argued for years that the federal executive branch lacks the power to unilaterally grant unlawfully present aliens lawful presence and work authorization.

Michael Pettis, a professor of finance and economics at Peking University, is an expert in the Chinese economy, and he has argued for years that China's trade surplus with the United States and the rest of the world is driven by much stronger forces that the value of the Chinese currency or differences in tariff policy.

Net - neutrality advocates, meanwhile, argued for years prior to the 2015 order that Title II classification is the only way to legally uphold net - neutrality laws.

Spotify Technology (NYSE: SPOT) has been arguing for years that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) undermines competition with its App Store, and the 30 % cut that third - party developers must fork over to sell through the platform makes it hard for rivals to compete on a level playing field.

If this sounds a lot like what NT Wright's been arguing for years, it's because it is.

Andy, the simple answer is which figures are readily available, but the transfer spend was just added as a guide — after all I have been arguing for years that transfer spend doesn't directly relate to league position.

I have argued for a year now that the eurozone need to follow the «remorseless logic» of monetary union» towards much greater fiscal integration.

Academics will argue for years over who should have done what to prevent it from happening.

And, of course, Jaminet has been arguing for years that safe starches promote a safe glycosylation to take place (i.e. forming important glycans in the body).

And I've been arguing for years that charter schools are the first step towards full privatization.

NCLC has been arguing for years that taxing these discharges is grossly unfair to some of the most vulnerable student loan borrowers.

This desire is so strong, that we will argue for years and years what we should or shouldn't do to protect the lucky planet we happen to reside on.

I would not have expected this to be the case as the decomposition process involves oxidation reactions that are exponential functions of temperature while the alarmists have been been arguing for years that the plant growth process is limited by, and dependent on, factors other than just temperature.

In other words, he knows — he must know, because he has been arguing for years — that there is no equivalent «alternative» to fossil fuels.

I have been arguing for years that all of these standard form contracts that are being forced upon us in the 21st century — are about as far from being «offer + acceptance + consideration» as one can get!

«I've been arguing for years that trolls are crushing startups, [which is] bad for the economy and our country,» Cuban told us via email.

When I started working on van der Kolk's clinical team as a new supervisor in 1996, he'd been arguing for years that traumatic memory included not just images and narratives, but also intrusive emotions, sensory phenomena, autonomic arousal, and physical actions and reactions.

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And, he argues, «they will add up to a very bold change for the brand and the business... If we execute the plan over the next few years, you will say, «Boy, Target made a huge transformation.»»

Poloz this year has argued that current conditions — essentially the same conditions that existed a year ago — call for more government spending.

While Republican leaders argued it would, every major independent analysis of the bill, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, showed that it would grow the federal debt over the next 10 years even when accounting for that increased growth.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

In an editorial about Theranos in the journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine earlier this year, Eleftherios P. Diamandis, the head of clinical biochemistry at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, argued that fingerprick tests are not necessarily any more painful than needle draws — though there still might be an appeal for someone afraid of needles.

For years, pros across Wall Street have argued that interest rates have nowhere to go but up.

Others argue that this may just be a natural correction for biotech stocks after a remarkable five - year bull run, which has been the greatest in the industry's history.

For years economists — not to mention everyday Americans hanging out on bar stools or on Twitter — have argued about why even mediocre CEOs get paid such ridiculous sums of money.