Sentences with phrase «center of much debate»

Originally thought to be a member of the species Homo habilis, the fossil was the center of much debate concerning its species.

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While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.

Much of the recent, heated debate surrounding Zimbabwe's coming elections centers on the nation's largest foreign investor, China — and analysts say...

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

Much modern intellectual debate, particularly within the popular arena, centers on disputes between religion and science over such seminal issues as creationism versus evolutionary theory, or theological explanations of the origin of the universe versus the «big - bang theory» of the new cosmology.

And then, on the hopeful assumption that everyone slept through the night, or at least until dawn, next would come breakfast, six - way debates over what to eat for breakfast, a belated but grandly sung Latin grace (the girls went to Gregorian - chant camp in the summer), and then backpack - packing, hair brushing that featured much wailing and gnashing of small teeth, and finally back to the elevator - button wars before a race - walk over to the convention center.

While the public vote has been the focus of much debate about the planned Islamic center and mosque, the commission can not prevent the developers from building such a community center.

This season, much of the debate has centered on which quarterback will be selected first.

Much of the debate centered on two key parts of the comptroller's job: managing the massive pension system and monitoring the city's budget and financial health.

If those issues are resolved and the North Sea grid does get developed, the idea would be for it in turn to form part of the much - debated European supergrid, supposed to be able to seamlessly transport power from the wind - rich north and sun - soaked south to the center, from where most of the demand originates.

In the lead - up to the meeting, much debate has centered on whether the declaration will make a bold enough commitment to expanding the number of people on treatment by 2015.

Much of this debate has centered on the issue of theory versus practice.

The debate in Newark did not center as much on the issues of testing and the Common Core standards that roil many suburban school districts.

In a thoughtful essay that kicked off the current round of debate, Robin Lake said her colleagues at the Center for Reinventing Public Education were hearing that «charter authorizers are getting much choosier.»

But with the rise of social media, cyberbullying and heightened pressures of a new age, bullying has been at the center of much discussion and debate.

During the debate in the U.S. Senate over the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, much of the focus centered on partisan political differences and intense opposition from special interest groups.

More specifically, much of the debate has centered around what type of program qualifies as an actual educational experience as opposed to simply providing care.

As much as it is a significant challenge, I see artists playing a huge role in shaping dialogue around issues affecting our environment and political processes — and South Florida is at center stage of many of those debates.

There is Rick Lowe's Trans.lation: Vickery Meadow project, part of the Nasher Sculpture Center's citywide exhibition Nasher XChange in Dallas — on view through Feb. 16 — which builds on his much - lauded and debated Project Row Houses, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary in Houston.

A useful political debate centered on science would center on just how much of the taxpayers dollar should go to NASA, the NIH, our state universities, Fermilab, corporate research, and of course, our military.

Much of the debate in Lima centered on what countries should include in their INDCs; how long should the commitments be for; should the commitments include financing and adaptation goals; and that old chestnut: how should the commitments of developed and developing countries be differentiated.

For example, much of the climate debate centers on the validity of observations and data.

This session was billed as a «debate» between Sharon Bradley, University of Georgia School of Law, and Beth Williams, Louisiana State University Law Center, but it turned out that the two speakers didn't really have much to disagree on; they both considered digitization a form of preservation.

Much of the debate surrounding the future of law practices centers around how New Law and the emergence of Alternative Business Structures are changing the delivery of legal services.

While the wisdom of eating meat handled by employees of the «Do It Center» can fairly be debated, forcing the store to cease serving coffee — unless, that is, the owners installed «a new three - compartment sink, a refrigerator and approved flooring» — seems like a bit much.

Life insurance rates have been at the center of much controversy in the past and I expect they will be debated in the future as well.

Much of the debate about marriage - strengthening will center on this list of allowable uses of the marriage funds.