Sentences with phrase «contentious debate over»

The inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic devices due to powerful encryption is an «urgent public safety issue,» FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday as he sought to renew a contentious debate over privacy and security.

After seven months of contentious debate over the merger, the International Digital Publishing Forum, developer of the EPUB e-book format standard, and the W3C, the internet standards organization founded by Tim Berners - Lee, have officially combined organizations.

The most contentious debate over additional taxes on the wealthy and businesses is unlikely at this point to much on education spending.

While both President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan support charter schools, there continues to be a contentious debate over such schools.

The contentious debate over whether quotas are needed to reverse the appalling statistics on women - directed films took an interesting turn this year when the UK's BFI Film Fund, a # 27 million pot of government money, announced a «three ticks» policy which ensures a certain level of diversity behind and in front of the camera on any films they support.

Attempting to find middle ground in the contentious debate over human embryonic stem cells, President George W. Bush announced 9 August that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be allowed to fund work with embryonic stem (ES) cell lines — but only those lines that have already been derived.

The move — which would need approval from the full Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and the White House to become reality — marks the latest twist in a long and contentious debate over how to sustain an expensive and delay - prone satellite fleet.

The campaign, called Up4NYC, is the opening shot in what promises to be a highly contentious debate over housing laws in the State Legislature over the next six weeks.

The contentious debate over what to do about downtown Flushing businesses that do not have signs in English flared up again last week.

This could mark the end of a contentious debate over pension reform this year.

An overhaul of federal education law moving through Congress — the biggest legislative change in 14 years — holds the prospect of a major shift in New York's contentious debate over the linkage of student test scores to teachers» job evaluations.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday called on the state government — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo — take responsibility for the ailing subway system, escalating a contentious debate over blame for the crumbling of mass transit.

Schneiderman, who has concentrated heavily on environmental cases like Indian Point and the contentious debate over high - volume hydrofracking in the Southern Tier, said the ruling confirms extra caution is needed before re-licensing the plant.

The good - government think tank is wading into a contentious debate over the 2009 law passed as part of the super-late state budget.

Trump's dismissal of Shulkin, and the nomination of a Navy doctor with no known policy views to take his place, has brought renewed focus to an increasingly contentious debate over whether to give veterans the option of using the benefits they earned through military service to see private doctors rather than going to government hospitals and clinics.

Last month, Park District of Highland Park commissioners were told the cost to renovate Rosewood Beach would cost an estimated $ 5.58 million — about $ 920,000 more than the estimate from July 2012, amid a contentious debate over the project.

He'll be able to linger — as he has been for months — on the sidelines of contentious debates over the budget, statewide health care, schools, and taxes.

Despite the best intentions, Ontario's Feed - In tariff (FIT) program has resulted in contentious debates over energy in then province.

True, there have been some contentious debates over the right path to expanding the renewable energy economy in North Carolina, but earlier this summer it appeared as though we had turned a corner in building consensus on prioritizing renewable energy as an economic driver in our state.

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Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

There's no way the video game publisher Ubisoft could've known that its latest blockbuster game, «Far Cry 5,» would arrive at such a contentious moment in the ongoing US debate over guns.

California and Arizona, the two largest solar markets in the country, are at the center of the most contentious and closely watched debates over solar energy payments.

The entry of Walmart into the tax - reform debate accelerates the contentious discussion over how much the tax plan, still only weeks old, truly factors into these corporate decisions.

Over the last four years, we've dealt with our fair share of challenging issues, and played a role in some of the country's most contentious debates.

Nicklaus, of course, referred to the headliner in what the AP's Doug Ferguson recently termed «a contentious year in golf» that includes the debate over anchored putting and an anticipated related lawsuit, the tour acquitting Vijay Singh of doping charges and his suing the association, and the public beef between Garcia and Woods that went off the rails with overtones of racism.

Last night's debate had several contentious moments, including a fight over economic policies that evolved from a completely unrelated question.

But in the process, it laid the groundwork for another debate in the Legislature over what has become a contentious mix of ethnic and racial politics playing out in a diverse suburban district, which may preview similar fights in other locations.

One of the most contentious areas of debate over the expansion of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas concerns a spike in seismic activity in unlikely areas that have begun fracking nearby.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled today that the contentious issue of mayoral control over New York City public schools — along with several other major policy debates — will «more likely» be decided during the regular legislative session, after the state budget deadline of April 1.

So rather than letting the Republicans repeal it or rather starting all over again, trying to throw the country into another really contentious debate, let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody...

N.H. nail - biter Across the country in New Hampshire, the debate over climate change is similarly contentious.

But just how close adult and reprogrammed stem cells can come to matching the capabilities of embryonic stem cells has become a contentious question in the debate over whether the federal government should continue funding research on embryonic lines.

The reason is simple and resonates with the contentious debate that has yet to be resolved after at least 15 years of wrangling over the issue of electronic voting.

«Over the next 10 years, projects like the Neanderthal genome will lead to a contentious debate about what it means to be human,» Rick Potts says.

One of the most contentious debates in geoscience has centred on whether piles of rock in the deep mantle — to which plumes are anchored — have remained stationary, unaffected by mantle flow over hundreds of millions of years.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed late last week to step into the contentious legal debate over when school districts may be held liable for sexual harassment of students.

No single study will settle the political debate over an issue as contentious as school vouchers.

Sound bilingual education policy has generated decades of contentious debate and is a key component of two major ongoing lawsuits over bilingual education funding.

Maybe most contentious has been the debate over the state's long - term takeovers of districts like Newark and its recent takeover of Camden schools.

The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for early mathematics has been contentious, to say the least.

Despite the often contentious debates that erupt over climate change science, we've seen only one other retraction in the field since we launched in August 2010, when Edward Wegman was forced to retract a paper for plagiarism.

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over how to tackle climate change is the role of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in market - based mitigation strategies.

Debates over the optimal level of ozone have been ongoing for many years, and current efforts to strengthen environmental regulations affecting ozone concentrations remain contentious.

Over months of contentious debate, while the Waxman - Markey bill and subsequent Senate action were being considered, millions of Americans were introduced for the first time to the phrase «cap and trade,» a regulatory approach that first came to prominence in the 1990s as the centerpiece of a national program to address the threat of acid rain by limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), primarily from electric power plants.

If you watch this YouTube video of the speech, you will see that Adam is much more subdued and less argumentative than his contentious exchanges with me in the The Debate is Over speech.

One year after the CBA Futures Report, the debate over ABS still rages on and appears to be the most contentious issue, even while foreign firms state they're eyeing our territory for opportunities.

Another particularly contentious point in the current debate over European human rights is subsidiarity, which for better or worse has become linked to questions related to the authority of the Court.

That's when Segregated Witness (SegWit) will activate on bitcoin late today or tomorrow morning, bringing the years - long debate over the contentious code upgrade to an official close.

Following months of debate over how to scale bitcoin's transaction capacity, the conversation has become newly contentious as progress on much - hyped solutions continue to face the kinds of delays that perhaps should be expected when working with novel technologies.

But, this would force central bankers out of their comfort zone and into what would be a contentious public debate over anonymity and financial censorship.