Sentences with phrase «battle over debate»

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Republicans in Georgia have become entrenched in a ideological intraparty battle, debating over free market ideals and gun rights with Delta Airlines and the National Rifle Association in the middle.

The revelation sparked a growing debate over Facebook's privacy standards at a time when the company was battling a noticeable decline in usage.

You are correct, if one assumes atheism or a fundamentally different religious cosmology, that the possibility I stated will seem like a false cause (this unemployment came later, therefore that cosmic battle caused it), but again, that would come down to the age - old debate over whether there is a God v. Satan battle in the classical Christian sense (do either God or Satan exist and, if so, how?).

During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

The three candidates battled it out in the final general election debate on Wednesday, with plenty of jabs over policy to go around.

The racially motivated shooting by Dylan Roof led to a national debate over the prominence of the Confederate battle flag through much of the South, but a conversation over new gun control measures nationally was more muted.

Washington (CNN)- The battle over union rights in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana has dramatically shifted the budget debate from Capitol Hill to the states, almost overshadowing the threat of a government shutdown in Washington next week.

Instead, Cuomo framed the debate over the tax abatement, which is expected to pick up when state lawmakers return to Albany next month after an extended break, as a union battle for them to fight over the prevailing wage.

An Assembly hearing on fantasy sports betting was dominated by a debate over whether the practice was legal — a question at the center of an ongoing legal battle between AG Eric Schneiderman and FanDuel and DraftKings.

Over the course of an hour - long debate at the Woodstock Playhouse Monday, October 24, Congressional candidates Democrat Zephyr Teachout and Republican John Faso answered moderators» questions on trade, executive authority, the battle against ISIS and other issues, all while circling back to core campaign themes.

The debate over electoral reform has moved to centre stage in the election battle, after Home Secretary Alan Johnson claimed he was a long time supporter of PR.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Corruption and a rigged political system are battle cries of both sides in a debate over whether New Yorkers should vote this fall to rewrite the state constitution.

However, the recent court battles over the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which only recognizes matrimony between one man and one woman; Proposition 8, which banned same sex marriages in California; and the legalization of same sex marriages in other states and Washington, D.C., shows that culturally a debate is happening.

► Also on Thursday, Martin Enserink provided an update on virologist Ron Fouchier, who for the past 3 years «has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?»

AMSTERDAM — For more than 3 years, virologist Ron Fouchier has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?

Over the past few years, the debate about genomic technologies has been characterized by battles between those who have sought to reassure us about the technology and those who have raised concerns about possible impacts, environmental and otherwise.

Washington — The Congressional battle over the President's fiscal 1983 budget officially began last week, as members of education - related committees of both the House and the Senate debated among themselves the appropriate budget levels for education programs.

Rather than articulating a broad, theoretical case for reforms that have been embraced by policymakers, the books of the «aughts» were more likely to engage in debates over evidence, articulate a strategy that had not been adopted, or do battle against the strategies that policymakers did adopt.

The nationwide debate over parental choice in education may be heading for a decisive battle in the California legislature next year.

Take the debate over charter schools: the battle lines have been the same for twenty years.

Furthermore, in accepting public funds, religious schools run the risk of being mired in political debates, battles over regulation and accountability, and disruptive inquiries into their school standards in admission, curriculum, and hiring practices.

Thus, in accepting government funds, they run the risk of being mired in political debates, battles over regulation and accountability, and disruptive inquiries into their school standards and curricula.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

Few education policy battles have burned as hot as debate over the practice of requiring traditional public schools to share under - used space with charter schools.

In fact, the current situation is analogous to the beginning of the furious debate over tort reform in the early 1990's, when business leaders were finally energized and organized to take on and win a protracted battle against a threat that had seriously jeopardized the state's economic viability.

The debate in Nashville echoes themes the nation has heard from New York City and Los Angeles where students, teachers and parents have engaged in prolonged battles over decisions to co-locate charter schools in public school buildings.

About mid-way through, there was only so many debates over battle strategy that I could read without hitting the auto - play button and then picking up my phone to surf Reddit or something.

Hardcore Pokemaniacs may debate me on this issue, saying tweaks to the metagame like the split of attacks into physical and special categories or the recent Mega-Evolutions changed the way how people play competitively but at its core, Pokémon's battle system has not changed in over 10 years and it needs a good revision to stay current.

The first true battle of its type, the debate over the quality of the graphics offered by these systems is still brought up today.

Although the absorbing debate over the ethics of Pokémon training has waned, the emphasis on providing a hearty plot remains - imparting an impetus for all the monster battling.

The battle in Virginia is a microcosm of the national debate over global warming.

, many followers of the climate debate are aware of intense battles over 0.1 or 0.2 degree (consider the satellite battles.)

Schneider was influential in the public debate over climate change and wrote a book, Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate, about his experiences.

Andy Revkin's concern that battles over emissions restrictions are a losing political game in the Senate climate and clean energy debate, and a distraction from a more immediate need to initiate a «sustained energy quest» (DotEarth blog, New York Times,... Continue reading →

As battle lines are drawn in the debate over whether Britain should leave the EU, the legal sector is beginning to take sides, with both pro and anti-Brexit groups of lawyers campaigning in the run up to the June referendum.

From the legal debate over bathrooms, to the battle over renaming a Houston law school, to a billion - dollar - plus jury award, Texas was home to some of the nation's most intriguing legal news of 2016.

News From the legal debate over bathrooms, to the battle over renaming a Houston law school, to a billion - dollar - plus jury award, Texas was home to some of the nation's most intriguing legal news of 2016.

The shooting revived the long debate over gun control in the United States, with some blaming congressional inaction for the massacre and others insisting that it's too soon for such political battles.

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