Sentences with phrase «button issues of the day»

Whenever someone publicizes their personal opinion about the hot - button issues of our day, it's instantly met by a dozen rebuttals or counterarguments from people on the opposite side of the issue.

On the hot - button issues of the day, opinions are often sharply divided along racial lines, both in Mississippi and nationally.

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(CNN)-- Billy Graham, the dean of American evangelists, has once again broken his usual silence on hot - button issues, defending the president of the Chick - fil - A restaurant chain for his opposition to same - sex marriage days after issuing a letter decrying what he sees as the nation's moral decay.

Pay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's pay.

In performance trials with 50 hardcore gamers who spend an average of two hours a day playing video games, players reached similar scores with both techniques, with no difference in response times — a critical issue for fast - paced games where any lag adds crucial milliseconds between pressing the «shoot» button and killing the enemy, for example.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

T - Mobile's Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman has made various statements in recent days regarding the always contentious and recent hot button issue of device subsidies on US carriers when he was asked what he would do if he were in direct control of the practice at T - Mobile.

The gathering intentionally harkens back to the February 1975 meeting there of molecular biologists hashing out rules to govern what was then the hot - button scientific issue of the day: recombinant DNA and the possibility of biohazards.

«The choice of such a hot - button issue, which will attract a great deal of attention but won't actually have I would think that much of an impact at the end of the day, risks being a distraction from the more important and pressing access - to - justice challenges that we as Ontario lawyers ought to be concerned about,» says Adam Goldenberg, a lawyer with McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

At the end of the day, whether the cause you support is a hot button political issue or a relatively innocuous one, your job as a lawyer is not to promote your own interests; it is to protect and advance the cause of your client.

These days in the car insurance industry, the concept of defensive driving is a hot button issue.

Defensive Driving - A Guide These days in the car insurance industry, the concept of defensive driving is a hot button issue.