Sentences with phrase «at controversial points»

The onus will be on selecting Members with «sound» views who can be relied on to be loyal and supportive of the Government's position at controversial points of the legislation.

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Lastly — at a panel in the afternoon Tristan Walker, Director of Business Development for FourSquare, Marci Weisler of Tipping Point Partners, Daniel Kim founder of Red Mango and Inc. blogger Howard Greenstein tackled the hotly controversial topic of leveraging daily deal sites and tapping into local marketing.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

A controversial figure in his own right, Steinbrenner found himself in trouble at various points of his career.

While Reddit's move is controversial — skeptics point out that salaries may be based on an applicant's previous pay, which may or may not have been fair — it's nonetheless a concerted effort to lessen the disparity, and one that seems to be raising awareness for the issue at large.

Peele, BuzzFeed, and Monkeypaw Productions used a controversial but widely available software to make the video, in an effort to demonstrate the dangers of «deepfakes,» aka digitally manipulated videos that have the power to «make it look like anyone is saying [or doing] anything at any point in time,» that didn't actually happen.

But while the situation has long been simmering, Tomaino's tweet comes at what might be a new boiling point, following what was arguably the account's most controversial message in history.

We actually do not have sufficient hope and courage to develop the controversial points of doctrine in such a way that they can become intelligible and acceptable for the others, or at least need no longer be regarded as separating the Churches.

The post materialized after a long phone conversation between us in the wake of my controversial post about Dave Ramsey and poverty, at which point I realized my sister knew way more about this topic than I did.

I don't think it was the healing that was the thrust of what was controversial and upset leaders, but when it was done on the Sabbath and in a synagogue, overriding their protocol about Sabbath rest with him pointing out the hypocrisy them criticising him while at the same time untying their donkey, say, on the Sabbath.

Which is true and can be found here... http://delveintojesus.com/Articles/27/Evidence-for-Jesus-Outside-the-Bible.aspx...Even though a lot of it is controversial from certain stand points look at how many people have evidence.

His resignation comes on the heels of a controversial post on his website, sakeenah.org, in which he claimed that «an enormously overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life.»

READ MORE Arsenal plot controversial transfer swoop for record - breaking forward Arsenal news Arsenal star fires bleak warning to Arsene Wenger over Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil transfers Iwobi, however, is delighted with the team's improvement since then, pointing out that they've lifted the spirits around the club to ensure victory in every game except a hard - fought 0 - 0 draw at Chelsea.

While he was among those Milan players left furious at the full - time whistle as a controversial last - gasp penalty saw Juve claim all three points, there was one moment that was picked up by cameras which will have delighted Milan supporters.

After a controversial loss at Juventus Stadium last week, the Rossoneri pick up three valuable points in a 1 - 0 victory over...

A slightly controversial transfer (at least from the point of view of Arsenal fans) as Ashley Cole made the trip across London to sign for the Blues after the Gunners offered him what he thought was a derisory wage package that would be worth around # 55k a week.

Dzyuba clearly had a point to prove after his controversial time at Spartak and probably saw this season as an opportunity to finally force himself into being a mainstay in the Russian national team.

It's been a difficult last few months for Liverpool and everyone involved at the club, after a terrible run of results, but their victory in the Merseyside Derby, one which heated and did have it's controversial moments, may just have lifted the mood in the camp and perhaps by the time May does come around next year the Liverpool players can look upon this part of the season as the pinnacle point in the season, the point where their season changed for the good... at long last!

A controversial 2 - 1 win over Tottenham Hotspur at home extended Chelsea's unbeaten run in the Premier League to ten — 8 wins and 2 draws — with Carlo Ancelotti's side the hottest property in English football right now, having registered 25 points from a possible 27.

As Brigid Schulte pointed out in the Washington Post, the adoption of «baby - friendly» measures at hospitals in and around Washington, D.C., has been somewhat controversial.

Batra, a controversial appointee of Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, at one point asked if there was a problem with political campaigns that «launder» money through 501 (c) 4 groups, a line of questioning that was cut off by JCOPE Chairwoman Janet DiFiore, an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

But as Jimmy Vielkind at CapCon aptly pointed out at today's news conference unveiling the NY Works Task Force, Smith relied on Robert Moses, the controversial master builder who remade New York through a system of bridges, byways and highways.

The University at Buffalo has wrapped up an annual two - day conference, during which many controversial philosophical points of view were brought up.

But at the same time, he has pointed to the SAFE Act, a package of controversial gun control laws that was approved in 2013 following a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

It was among the least controversial measures before the Council today — which included two major land use projects, the creation of condos at the graffiti mecca 5Pointz in Long Island City and the creation of mixed use developments in blighted Willet's Point, Queens.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

At the conference, which lasted 80 minutes, Trump forced a point he has been repeating in early morning tweetstorms for days: all of the controversial news about his administration is nothing more than «fake news» — a term he has come to use for any news article he does not like — and that the mainstream media is out to get him.

Speaking at Thursday's SUNY board meeting, Cuomo referenced his past efforts to advance women's rights in New York: the Women's Equality Act, a 10 - point bill that has failed to pass the Legislature for two sessions because of a controversial abortion plank.

HARTFORD — A day after announcing his plans to leave soon, state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor addressed superintendents at their annual back - to - school meeting Tuesday, pointing to progress made during his watch and urging them to go forward with controversial education reforms.

The speaker came under fire from members of the audience at one point, with advocates attacking her for supporting the hiring of 1,300 new NYPD officers in 2015 and her ongoing parliamentary obstruction of several controversial police reform bills favored by liberals.

Umar had made a controversial comment at the end of Tuesday's proceedings while pointing out a newspaper publication which said he adjourned the trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki indefinitely.

John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, pointed out that budgets have passed with fairly controversial measures tucked in at the last minute by lobbyists and their government allies thanks to the lack of thorough review.

A lawsuit seeking to halt the shutdown of a long controversial nuclear power plant located at Indian Point in Buchanan is dead on arrival after staunch opposition from Westchester County's Democratic lawmakers.

That scale makes it a somewhat controversial point in science, because it seems like an impossible feat to map an entire human brain at the cellular level.

And insulin, a theorized yet controversial hunger hormone, did not: insulin was lower at week 16 while Hunger was 2x higher; and insulin was 2x higher at week 32 compared to week 16 while Hunger was the same at those time points (Table 3).

Since last year I have lost 13 % body fat while preserving most of my lean muscle on a very strict and controversial diet using HCG injections (and my OBG and PCP's support — after all what did I have to lose at that point was my thinking....

Not wanting to carry the baggage of the controversial BPP, Marvel at one point changed the character's name to the Black Leopard, but the original name prevailed.

At one point, he and Jobs debate how Steve's controversial exit from Apple really went down.

It's hard to believe that at one point, the most controversial issue surrounding Woody Allen was whether or not he should be making serious movies.

But with Zero Dark Thirty's controversial boycotts, it'll be hard to pull a win for Chastain at this point (In my opinion.)

Understand that at this point in the sport, in 2017, it's not controversial that women and men do not compete at the same level.

Some of the things I suggest are controversial; but even setting your book for free to get more downloads will be much more effective than marketing your book and trying to sell it at a higher price point.

The point is, Rise of the Tomb Raider's controversial exclusivity is going to be a stain on the series regardless of how you look at it, and fans of the series, even the ones with flags firmly planted in the camp of Xbox, should be worried about what this means about public perception of the series moving forward.

Software patents are controversial in and of themselves, simply because while most agree that creators deserve rights over their ideas, there's often only one way to do things in software and the speed at which things move mean that a patent is more likely to hobble innovation than promote it — which is after all the intended point of the system in the first place.

Marc Dennis presents a witty, realistic painting of a young woman looking at Gustave Courbet's controversial canvas Origin of the World from the vantage point of the woman's long hair obscuring Mr. Courbet's subject's genitals and pubic hair.

Charlotte Burns: It's interesting too, howart can be controversial at one point and then later pass without fanfare.

Wigley made a controversial but I think correct point a few years back that if the real concern of Kyoto and IPCC is the really severe climate change at the end of the century, the cutting emissions now will have less effect on that than cutting emissions closer to that time.

As to your last point, the idea that Pacific climate is affected by tiny changes in the Earth's rotation is ridiculous (and not controversial at all).

The results are at best inconclusive, since three of the updated series, including Michael Mann's celebrated and controversial tree - ring reconstructions, do not refute the hypothesis, while the others quite significantly point to different dates of maximum temperature achievements into the past centuries, in particular those associated to the Medieval Warm Period.