Sentences with phrase «debate between advocates»

Perhaps because of my experiences as a British student and, knowing of the strong objections of British geophysics grandees like Sir Harold Jeffreys (not to mention Leslie Moore), I had assumed that there was a fair debate between advocates and rejectionists on both sides of the Atlantic, with the advantage on both sides given to the rejectionists until the data on the oceans turned the tide in the 1960s.

Literacy instruction in California at this time was taking place within a raging national debate between advocates for phonics and supporters of whole language, and Proposition 227 had recently been passed, forcing dramatic reorganization of language and literacy instruction in school.

The great debate between advocates of charter and neighborhood schools will continue.

Direct debate between advocates of alternative scenarios is rarely fruitful.

As a final note, even if 50 or 100 years from now all armies have been abolished (or if they haven't), there will still be an ongoing debate between the advocates of differing social philosophies.

Among the various longer - range challenges facing church music in the «90s, four seem to be occupying center stage: the challenge of providing church musicians in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of parishes throughout the land in almost every denomination; the continued search for musical roots in many denominations; the ongoing debate between those advocating the worship and musical tradition of the church catholic and those advocating a variety of trendy fads; and the impact of pragmatism and consumerism in determining worship practice and musical style and substance.

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As the net neutrality debate continues to rage on between Internet service providers (ISPs) and advocates calling for stricter regulation, it seems Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is eyeing a compromise.

The tariff decision on Thursday capped several weeks of freewheeling and often caustic debates that one White House aide called «absolute chaos» and featured loud disputes between Cohn and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, a leading advocate of tariffs.

The intense debate among Catholics between the advocates of «high» (orthodox) and «low» (liberal) Christologies has made even the pages of Time.

As one might expect when it comes to issues of politics in the United States, the debate became almost instantly polarized between pro-gun advocates on one side, and pro-legislation advocates on the other side.

Since the emergence of the religious education movement a half century ago, a debate has gone on, sometimes openly and sometimes covertly, between the advocates of Christian nurture and evangelism.

Christians have had similar debates, with views ranging between those who advocated «Double Predestination», which is the view that God determines those who will be saved and those who will be damned, and Pelagians who hold that human beings have freedom to choose or deny God.

Whilst acknowledging that many questions remain unanswered in the debate between those who would advocate the use of stem cells taken from human embryos, and those experimenting on stem cells drawn from tissues of the adult human body, there is a lengthy discussion of the moral status of the human embryo as being a crucial matter in this regard.

The study may clarify a continuing debate between home - birth advocates and obstetricians who favor only hospital births.

Thus some people may be induced to believe that the debate is between those who advocate making people vote and those who don't.

Louis has moderated more than two dozen debates between candidates for mayor, public advocate, city and state comptroller, state Attorney General and U.S. Senate.

The California law, adopted first, faced two court challenges from SOCE practitioners on the grounds that it violated their free speech rights, but last August a federal appeals court upheld the statute, distinguishing between the rights practitioners enjoy to advocate for the practice in public debate and the limitations on the therapeutic practices they can employ in their professional conduct governed by state licensing.

Public Advocate Letitia James, a Democrat running for reelection, squared off against her Republican opponent, J.C. Polanco, in a friendly yet competitive debate on Monday that highlighted substantive differences, and some shared opinions, between the two candidates on a range of policy issues.

In the end, despite eloquent reasoning between both sides of the lengthy Parks and Recreation debate, votes fell along political lines, with advocates of keeping Steve Noble's job representing the Noble faction on the common council, and the refuseniks hailing from «Team Gallo.»

And the most interesting debates are no longer waged between choice advocates and opponents, but within the school choice movement itself.

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.

Education policy became a debate between the forces that felt the purpose of education was to build citizens who were self - assured and of independent minds and those that advocated the development of obedient and loyal subjects for the Meiji government.

I would love you to weigh in on the «debate» between folks like Kristine Katheryn Rusch, who advocates for significantly higher prices, more careful discounting and ZERO promotional effort until an author has a decent backlist; and the Mark Coker types whose promotional guide champions a multi-pronged, full - force marketing plan worthy of a multimillion dollar corporation.

You may be aware there is a great debate these days between the advocates of active investing, who choose investments they believe will outperform the markets» benchmark indexes, and passive investors, who buy index funds and ETFs meant to match the benchmarks» returns.

Nevertheless, the new report is likely to fuel the sometimes vitriolic debate between environmentalists who see free - roaming domestic cats as an invasive species — superpredators whose numbers are growing globally even as the songbirds and many other animals the cats prey on are in decline — and animal welfare advocates who are appalled by the millions of unwanted cats (and dogs) euthanized in animal shelters each year.

The 2015 Visible Award has been developed in collaboration with Chris Dercon, Director, Tate Modern, and will be chaired by Francesco Manacorda, Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool, who will coordinate the debate, together with the advocate Dr Andrea Philipps, between a group of experts operating in different fields of culture, brought together to assess the merits of the artistic projects and lead the selection of the winner.

It could be parsed as a Pangaean Affairs article by an editorial collective of ammonites critical of the elitist vertibrate policy debate between coprolite carbon sequestration advocates, and radical therapods demanding more tree fern peatbeds to fuel posterity's struggle to power through Snowball Earth episodes in epochs to come.

how refreshing to know that there can still be a civil discourse between «advocates on both sides of the charged debate over climate science and its implications for society.»

If the science is settled, he reasons, then the idea that «The contest between climate advocates and their critics is primarily a scientific contest — a debate over who has the best science» is false.

Nevada's solar market has grown quickly in recent years, setting off a fierce debate between the state's major utility NV Energy and solar advocates as the rapid expansion of solar installations maxed out the state's 235 MW net metering cap earlier this summer.

They also debated balancing free online speech protections with national security and danger to society, including discussion of recent smartphone security and privacy issues between law enforcement and privacy advocates.

In my opinion, a better forum might be a public debate (with representatives from business, labour and the legal profession in attendance) between advocates for the current format of Bill 138 and those that would amend the bill.

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Over the years, I have watched the line between legal academic and paid advocate slowly erode — a trend that is perhaps not uncoincidental with the downward drift of the influence of legal academics in public debate.