Sentences with phrase «controversial effort»

So this change could be easier for regulators to pursue than more controversial efforts.

One of the most advanced if controversial efforts is being pushed by electric automaker Tesla, whose semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has logged some 100 million miles but has also resulted in a death of a Florida Tesla owner, which regulators are investigating.

The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch organization started by a young entrepreneur named Boyan Slat, wants to launch a somewhat controversial effort to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and has conducted research about the scale of the problem.

That's comforting until one remembers that, on the domestic side, USDA is actually involved in a highly controversial effort to reduce the number of government poultry inspectors by turning inspection duties over to the poultry companies themselves.

In recent years, it sold off programs for cloning cattle, and abandoned controversial efforts to clone human embryos in favor of a narrower approach.

Immigration reform and controversial efforts such as the DREAM Act have long been at the forefront of the nation's political conversation.

Perhaps the most controversial effort to instill a sense of order in the system was Bloomberg's plan to end social promotion in 3rd (and then later 5th) grade.

Education advocates Friday hailed the eleventh - hour defeat of controversial efforts to rewrite state rules on teacher evaluations that they said would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school instructors.

The fuss is because it is the first phase of a more controversial effort to make genomic changes in human embryos intended to be implanted, says George Annas of Boston University.

The new industry watchdog that Mr. Steel is trumpeting is the cornerstone of Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s controversial effort to revamp the regulatory apparatus of the nation's financial system.

The Washington Post: Key Catholic Obama ally shifts position, opposes contraception mandate The White House has lost perhaps its most prominent Catholic ally in its controversial effort to expand contraception coverage, with the huge Catholic Health Association saying Friday that the mandate for most religious employers to offer coverage would not «adequately meet the religious liberty concerns.»

Sanchez opened the scoring with a controversial effort that came off his hand and wrapped up the points with an injury - time penalty after Sam Clucas was sent off for handling a Lucas Perez header on the line.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand still believes she can convince the last several senators who voted against her sweeping and controversial effort to change the way the military prosecutes sexual assault.

US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand still believes she can convince the last several senators who voted against her sweeping and controversial effort to change the way the military prosecutes sexual assault.

Space scientists are warning NASA to take its time before fully committing to a controversial effort to capture an asteroid.

Duncan often said that the administration's school - improvement efforts did not get the attention they deserved, overshadowed by more - controversial efforts to encourage states to adopt new standards and teacher evaluations tied to tests.

The new application is being rolled out after a controversial effort earlier this year to unify the enrollment systems for Boston's charter and district schools suffered a setback in the Legislature.

With Achievement First deeply involved in a controversial effort to open schools in Providence, Rhode Island, a Rhode Island Coalition for Achievement Now (RI - CAN) appeared in the Ocean State.

French began his reporting as Lowry Park Zoo was embroiled in a controversial effort to import 11 elephants from Swaziland.

It's unclear if a controversial effort to support coal can reverse that trend.

And while the controversial effort was suspended by leaders of the project last week, this would not have stopped anyone else from proceeding with it.