Sentences with phrase «contentious public debate»

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.

Park district officials in Highland Park have approved a $ 4.7 million redesign for Rosewood Beach, bringing to an end the first phase of what has already been a lengthy and contentious public debate on the project.

And there is the uncomfortable interaction between faith and public policy, which has led to contentious public debates that have driven decades of controversial and often contradictory decisions by state legislatures, the courts, Congress, and the White House.

Not exact matches

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.

Bill 6, the government of Alberta's contentious farm workers» safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years.

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.

And the religious organisations can not be excluded in the public debate on many contentious issues that besiege the country today.

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.

Tennessee has made a decade long effort to raise ours standards in public education, with mixed results and contentious debate among stakeholders and policymakers.

I guess staying clear of the details makes it easier to be the mature one in contentious public - policy debates.

For three years, Abbott has dominated the public climate debate with a relentless negative campaign on Labor's carbon tax, a fig leaf for his long - term climate denialism that «the science isn't settled», is «highly contentious» and «not yet proven», that «it's cooling» and «it hasn't warmed since 1998» and there's «no correlation between carbon dioxide and temperature».

«Bring it on,» says Dismore's committee, make sure it adds to and does not detract from the European Convention, call it a UK Bill rather than get caught in all the problems involved in using the contentious term «British», and get stuck into a major and creative political debate about what rights the public would want to have.

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.