Sentences with phrase «country debating a series»

Since the publication of this text, Hitchens has traveled the country debating a series of religious thinkers — Christian, Muslim and Jewish — meeting them with an extremely swift mind and wickedly barbed tongue.

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The case, along with a police shooting in Missouri of teenager Michael Brown that led to no charges of a local police officer there, led to a series of protests in cities around the country and a debate over police tactics as well as calls to reform the criminal justice system.

A congressionally mandated committee is holding public hearings on the issue, a series of recent symposia have focused attention on the small number of female researchers, and faculty women and sympathetic male colleagues around the country are debating the matter more openly with administrators (Science, 11 June, p. 1757).

As part of a series of the workshops called Taking Stock, the Earth Journalism Network worked with journalists from 13 EU countries to improve their understanding and coverage of issues and reforms to lead to more informed public debate related to the Common Fisheries Policy.

During the debate over the Keystone project, the oil industry rolled out a series of studies claiming that pipeline construction would create 20,000 temporary jobs in the United States and that lower oil prices (they didn't say exactly how much lower) resulting from the new crude supplies would create as many as 250,000 more jobs across the country over the long term.

In cooperation with the local partners namely EU countries, the European Commission is organizing a series of various workshops all over the EU member nations to develop better understanding of the collaborative and shared economy, to identify the most innovative business models, to uncover real risks and regulatory barriers, and to debate the most appropriate form of regulations.