Sentences with phrase «by proponents as»

Since emerging in recent years, co-living has been derided as dorms for adults but hailed by proponents as a way for young, transient professionals to afford to live in desirable areas of costly cities.»

New Way to Divorce Taking Root in New Jersey 23 - Feb - 2015 Last fall, Gov. Christie signed the New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act, making New Jersey the ninth of 11 states to legitimize a practice touted by proponents as more speedy and less costly than traditional divorce.

As its title clearly indicates, the Auto Insurance Discount Act is being framed by its proponents as a discount measure designed to benefit California drivers.

Cast by proponents as simply a prohibition on the sale of pets from «puppy mills,» the law actually states that retailers can only sell dogs, cats or rabbits that are obtained from rescue groups or shelters.

The charters, often billed by proponents as a superior alternative to traditional schools, were seven times more likely than regular schools to get an F in the appraisal of the state's elementary and middle schools.

President Clinton's 1994 ESEA reauthorization was hailed by proponents as «the most extensive revision of the legislation since [its enactment in] 1965.»

Hailed by proponents as a vehicle for greater depth and flexibility in education, block scheduling has turned off some educators and parents, who criticize it as a faddish approach that fails to enhance academic performance.

New York's law, described by proponents as «rational,» hiked public college tuition each year for five years.

Genetically modified to express beta - carotene, the pre-cursor of Vitamin A, the Golden Rice is being touted by its proponents as a solution to the supposedly worsening cases of Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD).

New equity crowdfunding rules are being hailed by proponents as good news for small businesses looking to expand.

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But in December lead proponent Petronas pushed back its final investment decision by as much as a year.

Proponents say such laws are necessary to give businesses run by owners with strong religious principles a legal exemption should they be asked to perform a service — such as cater or photograph a same - sex wedding — to which they object.

Proponents of the bill were hoping a passage by the legislature would have been a call to action for other states, as more than 20 others have considered passing their own Internet privacy bills.

The state government has named a consortium led by Leighton Contractors as the preferred proponent for construction of the $ 500 million Roe 8 highway project, which is the first leg of the contentious Perth Freight Link.

Proponents argue that blockchain technology could be used to reduce the risk of many IoT devices being compromised by a single point of failure, such as a server.

But whether Bitcoin can actually replace gold (let alone traditional government - backed currency) has been a matter of fervent debate — quite literally, as evidenced by an event last week entitled «Gold Versus Bitcoin,» held at a New York comedy club, in which well - known gold proponent (Jim Rickards debated James Altucher, a self - help author now peddling Bitcoin investment advice under the moniker «crypto - genius.»

Australia's success in tightly restricting gun ownership after its worst mass shooting, and the concomitant reduction in gun crimes and mass shootings, is likely to be held up by proponents of gun control as an example for what the U.S. should do after its latest mass shooting on Sunday.

The type of volatility that more likely concerns proponents of FTTs are the sharp movements that are not driven by fundamentals, such as the 1987 crash and the flash crash in the spring of 2010.

As the proponents have benefitted by holding through every dip, there is a sense of security among the buyers that no matter what, price of bitcoin can and will only go up.

In March, Ether proponents submitted a proposal to SEC requesting «a broad regulatory exemption» since ether is mined by a diversified network of participants and has become so decentralized that it should not be deemed as a security.

To summarize, this unbiased report was produced by an organization, who has as its board member, the proponent of the research who also happens to be the CEO of the Crown Corporation which is proposing the radical changes, furthermore, this CEO was also the president and CEO of a company that has a private sector mail service that may benefit from these changes, and he is paid close to 520K per year by the Crown / governor in council who appointed him, of an organization that is fasely reporting losses.

While Japanese companies are no stranger to shareholder proposals, proponents are often perceived by companies and the public as short - term oriented investors.

While we do believe the New York Agreement (NYA) and Segwit2x proponents have the best of intentions in attempting to improve Bitcoin's protocol and have contributed so much to the development of the Bitcoin industry as a whole, we do not agree with the process by which they chose to enforce these changes.

I beleive that Liberal Socialists who feel threatened by Christian Evangelical Fundamentalists fear their political power so much, that even President Obama is a blind naive proponent of tollerance to Islamic Shariah Law as he funded the Great Iman of NYC.

Founded by Michael Novak and Notre Dame philosopher Ralph McInerny, Crisis rendered invaluable service in the 1980s and 1990s by challenging with intellectual force the hegemony then enjoyed by liberal proponents of the «post-Vatican II Church» as represented by, inter alia, lay - edited Commonweal and Jesuit - edited America.

(A decision for same - sex marriage by a state could as in the case of Massachusetts, preempts the debate in that state, but it is less far - reaching because it leaves other states to arrive at a different conclusion — unless, as some same - sex - marriage proponents have claimed, other states are required to recognize such marriages under the Constitution's requirement of giving «full faith and credit» to other states» proceedings.)

Proponents of Hindutva share a worldview shaped by a bitter sense of grievance directed primarily at India's 180 million Muslims and at other «foreign» religious minorities as well, not least Christians.

As a matter of fact, subsistit in was proposed by Sebastian Tromp, who had been a staunch proponent of the earlier est and the position that the Church of Christ is identical with the Catholic Church.

The author reviews a book by Stanley Hauerwas: When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians are those who take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough about what liberalism and modernity mean to their proponents.

Why hasn't this piece been put on the main CNN web page for all to see how violence is not only being committed by conservatives as the media pretends but also by the gay rights proponents who hate others that disagree with their political views!

So after all, this ordinary world may not be so flat, dull and uninteresting as some proponents of transcendence claim, since by walking and running we may see and enjoy much which, in our haste to leap into transcendence, we have overlooked or deprecated.

While numerous specific instances of such similarity of temperament, method and conclusion are cited, Kuntz's major effort to compare Russell and Whitehead proceeds by classifying both as proponents of «order.»

The report was ultimately voted down, much to the outrage of its proponents, and thanks in part to work by such groups as CitizenGo and European Dignity Watch.

Proponents of classic hymns and choral music, scions of alternative new hymnody and «world music,» and lovers of the good ol' «Sankey Doodle» gospel songs have all registered their dismay, as evidenced by the infamous «worship wars» which have plagued churches in recent years.

With the advancement of the progressive Obama agenda by legislative (as distinct from administrative) means halted, Obama, now the «conservative,» will be using every ounce of his powers to sustain the parts of his program that have been enacted, while the Republicans, as proponents of change, will be seeking to reverse many of them.

This is made clear by the definition of its very proponents: «the theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.

I have been a proponent of the radical free grace of God for about fifteen years now, by which we get eternal life as a completely free gift of God, with no strings attached, and no works required on our part to gain, keep, or prove that we have eternal life.

By the turn of the last century, a three - source hypothesis (J, E and P) in Genesis was thought to be in its major lines and by its major proponents at least as well - established as the Copernican theorBy the turn of the last century, a three - source hypothesis (J, E and P) in Genesis was thought to be in its major lines and by its major proponents at least as well - established as the Copernican theorby its major proponents at least as well - established as the Copernican theory.

Second, the suspicion that the concept of individuation is considered by its proponents a «state» or finished process is countered precisely by the realization that individuation as self - help, in conjunction with the future - orientation of Jung's thought, means that the goal is in the going.

Spinoza is currently being celebrated by many proponents of a purely secular Judaism as the first secular Jew.

The rifle and shotgun, by contrast, are treated by most Americans — proponents of gun control included — as sacred.

Ever since the motu proprio was published -(interesting, incidentally, how everyone now speaks of THE motu proprio, as if there had only ever been one of them)- and it was clear that the bishops hostile to it were not going to be allowed to get in its way, the battle moved to the next set of trenches: those dug by the increasingly desperate proponents of «the spirit of Vatican II», who had so far seemed generally quiescent in defeat, but who had in fact been looking for a casus belli all along.

As for Mr. Trump, defender of traditional culture and religious freedom against «secular judges,» that forlorn hope is belied by the warm welcome afforded proponents of lifestyle libertinism — the principal driver of activist federal judging - as - legislating — at the Republican convention in ClevelanAs for Mr. Trump, defender of traditional culture and religious freedom against «secular judges,» that forlorn hope is belied by the warm welcome afforded proponents of lifestyle libertinism — the principal driver of activist federal judging - as - legislating — at the Republican convention in Clevelanas - legislating — at the Republican convention in Cleveland.

If Kristof denounces me with such abandon, how can the liberal culture he represents function peacefully in a world that includes conservative Muslims who, though by no means proponents of Jihadist radicalism, also get categorized with me as bigots, fundamentalists, and «on the wrong side history»?

True, as its proponents concede, it goes beyond the text of the First Amendment and is not compelled by its terms, but the same could probably be said of any proposed interpretation of the Religion Clause.

Proponents led by the University of the Philippines Los Banos have already filed three Motion for Reconsideration as of press time.

Dr Chito Medina, MASIPAG partner scientist, said that Health Impact Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments as required under the JDC should be done by an independent group of experts, and the process can not be confined from the data presented only by the proponents.

As Bt - talong proponents led by the University of the Philippines Los Banos have already filed three Motions for Reconsideration, the alliance called for the Department of Agriculture to uphold the CA.

Such thinking leads to or supports things like far - right Hindu nationalism, for example, or absurd claims that epistemic violence is the same or worse (as Spivak once famously claimed) than actual violence, or harmful rejections of science, or the very essentialism denied by its proponents.

As a neuroscientist, and and a proponent of Waldorf Education, I seek evidence - based support for the principles of this education system, and I am particularly intrigued by evidence from brain research, the academic field I chose.