Sentences with phrase «come under debate»

This year is different, Giovaniello said, because as Congress discusses ways to reduce the federal deficit and whether to change the Tax Code, some of the government's longstanding incentives for home ownership, including the mortgage interest deduction and other tax provisions, will come under debate.

This year is different, Giovaniello said, because as Congress discusses ways to reduce the federal deficit and whether to change the tax code, some of the government's longstanding incentives for home ownership, including the mortgage interest deduction and other provisions, will come under debate.

Not exact matches

I'm not sure I would necessarily agree with everything they're coming up with, but I think it's really important to have these debates and discussions and to put a fire under our governmental decision makers to sort this stuff out.

This latest flood comes just days after HBO personality John Oliver urged his viewers to contact the FCC in support of the Obama - era rules, echoing a similar call from 2014 that many saw as boosting the public's awareness of net - neutrality the last time the topic was under debate.

And he has recently come under fire for sitting out of the gun debate.

«Imagine if [the Daniels affair] came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton,» he said, apparently under the impression that linking the story to its potential electoral consequences would make the money seem less connected to the election.

The teenage survivors of the Florida shooting have emerged as vocal activists in the gun control debate, and corporate America has come under pressure to do something to help.

The second coming is under heavy debate.

Although at first I thought it was rather strange that breastfeeding came under his brief, I am now sure that it is simply the case that the issue is so important to the Government, and crosses so many departmental boundaries, that they settled on him, and it was not just a case of Ministers perhaps playing «pass the parcel» with this important debate.

During the first of two parliamentary debates on the reform of the House of Lords, the Government's proposals to retain Church of England bishops have come under sustained attack.

Nick Clegg came under slightly more pressure than in the previous two debates, and it quickly showed.

The governor, however, came under scrutiny for the problems plaguing the New York City subway system and elected officials are debating ways of finding new funding sources for the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

The debate will focus on foreign affairs, with the Lib Dems expected to highlight their opposition to the war in Iraq - the party is likely to come under attack from both the other parties over their pledge to scrap Trident without a «like for like» replacement.

He was followed by actor Tony Lo Bianco, the evening's master of ceremonies who, before introducing Trump, articulated his own vision for Republicans, saying the country «must close the borders, and not with a fence that you can climb, over, or under,» and that while the nation debates the status of illegal immigrants, «droves more are coming in and taking whatever jobs there are.»

The councilwoman was caught being fed an answer on stop - and - frisk by the head of the police union, Pat Lynch, and came under fire after she was caught repeatedly staring at her cell phone during a debate in May.

9 January 2002: The white paper comes under fierce attack in two days of Lords debate on constitutional reform.

Mr. Williams also came under fire from debate moderator Gerson Borrero for refusing to release the full results and all information about an internal poll his campaign conducted, which it leaked in part to the media.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday acknowledged he has fallen short in explaining his position on charter schools, after coming under criticism from both sides of the debate.

Debate Over Rezoning of Brooklyn Schools: The Department of Education came under fire on Wednesday at a hearing on the rezoning of two Brooklyn schools.

In 2013 the Lord Speaker suggested that «if we don't reform and shrink our numbers, the Lords will collapse under its own weight»; last year she pointed out that debates are «coming under increasing time pressure as more members wish to speak, all to the detriment of our ability to hold the government to account» (pay wall).

In scientific circles much of his renown came from a pair of debates conducted under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Is it possible that people come to think more spending is needed when expenditure levels are under debate in forthcoming elections?

But the best examples may come from the recent conflicts between reform advocates and critics in which race and class have been explicit topics of the debate - when Newark's Cami Anderson is under attack for being a white interloper in a black community, or when Chicago's Rahm Emanuel is accused of being a racist murderer by the head of the Chicago Teachers Union.

By and large, education programs are coming under heavy scrutiny as a result of the teacher quality debate and international student achievement comparisons.

But the study quickly came under attack from several quarters, in part a reflection of how heated the debate over vouchers has become.

These most recent examples come at a time where the student loan debt is under scrutiny and debate, which makes it likely that people seeking student loan bankruptcy are finding a sympathetic court.

The debate over whether loot boxes should be thought of as gambling tools is not going to go away, with the UK Gambling Commission ruling that boxes do not come under its control because the rewards on offer were usable only in the game.

The fracas eventually culminated in the creation of the ad - hoc organization Action Against Racism in the Arts (AARA) and ushered in an era of lively public debates about institutional racism in the art world.1 As a result of this sort of multicultural activism and affirmative action policies, elite art schools like Yale came under greater political pressure to accept students of color.

He also said it was being debated whether it was possible to go over it and then come back down under it but seeing as that was years ago I'm sure someone has information on where that specific debate is now.

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And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our lawyers, when they say that these civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.

In that debate, Republican Sen. Robert Taft Jr. said in support of the proposal, «I feel that our society today has come to recognize, on a far broader basis than ever before, the desirability and necessity of providing adequate legal remedies to all our citizens for wrongs, real or imagined, for the full exercise of rights they have under the law; and I think the bill goes a long way in that direction.»

A good part of the debate concerning trade has come to rest around the contentious TTIP, currently under negotiation between the EU and the United States.

Blogger Maria Popova has come under fire from a number of critics for her use of undisclosed affiliate links on her blog Brainpickings, which highlights how heated the debate over alternative forms of advertising has become.

As the international debate over autonomous weapons systems emerges the autonomous features in these systems are coming under scrutiny.

This renewed momentum comes at a crucial time in the history of psychotherapy: on the one hand, we are witnessing an accumulation of knowledge about their efficacy thanks to the growing body of scientific research in a clinical environment; on the other hand, a debate is under way in various countries — including Switzerland — on the criteria for reimbursement of psychotherapy by the health insurance funds.

Mortgage rules being drafted by federal banking regulators came under the spotlight last night in the first election debate between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.