Sentences with phrase «debate over fighting»

The deaths of three enforcers within four months renewed the debate over fighting, but being a one - trick goon no longer punches your ticket to the NHL

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Deliberations were complicated by debate over Russia's recent military moves in Syria, which Moscow describes as an effort to join the fight against the extremists.

While Linux fights might have broken out over engineering approaches, and early bitcoin debates revolved around ideology and theory, Garzik thinks something much less abstract is driving bitcoin's current unrest: money.

Come on, I have had debates with Atheist but I have also had to pretty much break up potential fights between two persons of Faith over an interpretation of a scripture.

Until now, HHS cases have largely fought over the term «substantial burden» — essentially debating the political version of the youth - group perennial, «How far is too far?»

CNN: Despite fights about its merits, idea of American exceptionalism a powerful force through history It's safe to say the first European arrivals to New England wouldn't recognize today's debate over whether America is exceptional.

The debate over monergism and synergism may have some bearing over whether Israel should fight, but there is no disguising the belief that Yahweh fights, that Yahweh is a warrior.

, its speech codes, its teacher evaluations conducted sub secreto pontificio, its heated debate over the minutest matters, its hair - splitting fights over teaching loads and research assistants (tenure as benefice!)

The real fight is elsewhere and the tools for winning it aren't venting and invective, or even frank debate over starkly different positions.

Read the full story about the fight in the US Senate over Christmas on the CNN Political Ticker Editor's Note: A number of religious groups are joining in on the debate too.

Quebec dairy farmers thrust their fight over supply management into the election spotlight today, bringing a pair of cows to the site of tonight's federal leaders debate.

In London against Nigel Benn, McClellan didn't quit either, though the fight ended with him bending one knee to the canvas and the referee counting to 10; no, against Benn, McClellan fought until his brain was bleeding — until he walked back to his corner and collapsed, a blood clot growing inside his skull that would soon spark a renewed debate over the morality of prizefighting.

But even Liston's sojourn in Denver didn't still the debate over his worthiness to fight for the title.

«It seems that we are fighting for the relegation zone,» Conte said sarcastically, when asked about the pressure he was under, the constant debate over his future and the belief that, following a run of just three wins in 10 matches in all competitions, he was facing the sack.

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces took over Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in early 2014, the interim Ukrainian government was debating whether or not to fight back against the «little green men» Russia had deployed.

Under neo-liberalism it's become quite clear that we can drown in proceduralism — there's no problem keeping people busy with paperwork and accountability, or in the case of deliberative democrats for example, we can have important debates about how to redraw and then defend the borders of a democratic country legitimately — but if all those things take up all our time, we'll look up from our papers and our borders one day, and see that there isn't anything left to fight over.

The local fight over taxes on the rich is also a warm - up act for an intramural Democratic debate that Hillary Clinton will need to contend with next year.

On Oct. 28, Grimm and Recchia faced each other in their final debate before Election Day, fighting over issues such as immigration, the minimum wage and transportation.

She's fought on behalf of students and recent graduates suffering from crippling student loan debt, and to change the debate in D.C. from a discussion over whether to cut Social Security into one about how we can grow it.»

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

One shadow minister compared the state of the debate to «two bald men fighting over a comb».

ALBANY — The yearslong debate over whether to impose a fee for plastic bags in New York appeared to come to a hard - fought end last month, when the City Council voted to charge 5 cents for most plastic and paper shopping bags.

Instead, Cuomo framed the debate over the tax abatement, which is expected to pick up when state lawmakers return to Albany next month after an extended break, as a union battle for them to fight over the prevailing wage.

While the education fight last year was largely waged over the policy of testing and teacher evaluations, the debate this year is broadly over funding.

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.

Fighting for Florida and beyond, Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tangled in an intense debate last night over who's the true friend of American Hispanics, trading accusations over guest worker programs «akin to slavery» and the embracing of «vigilantes» against immigrants.

It is perfectly reasonable that he wishes to postpone any action on the EU question at present, as he describes the European leaders as preoccupied with «fighting the fire» in the eurozone, but it would be in Cameron's interest to slide off the fence in this instance, or to stop leaping back and forth over it, in order to allow a focused, informed debate to develop, without eurosceptics and europhiles alike having to second - guess his every future decision on the subject.

Heated scientific debates over the past few years have not led to consensus, and they never may, because the fight is ultimately about two different philosophies of conservation.

The prospect that fighting human - looking characters can provoke more aggression than unleashing violence against characters with no real - world counterparts could have implications for debates over gaming, especially as video games become more sophisticated and immersive, Farrar says.

Stock says the debate between agriculture and oil interests over ethanol has been needlessly divisive, and that the EPA under Pruitt should instead turn its focus to «second - generation» biofuels that do not provoke such bitter fights.

Also Read: Marvel Writer Settles Debate Over Who'd Win if Wonder Woman and Black Panther's Okoye Fought

Which is why the folks at Collider Video came together to discuss, debate, and downright fight over the Top 50 superhero movies of all time.

This is a movie that spends a lot of time — albeit little effort — watching characters discuss, debate, regret, and get into actual fights over their contracts.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

As the discussion and debate over next year's Boston Public Schools budget begins, the Boston Education Justice Alliance is fighting for the schools our communities deserve.

But in its swirl of jargon and personal acrimony — a parent at a meeting once asked Ms. Anderson, the white mother of a biracial child, why she did not want the same for Newark's «brown babies» as she did for her own — the fight over her tenure is emblematic of the bitter national debate about how to educate American students for a more competitive world.

A letter to school districts will go out Friday, adding to a highly charged debate over transgender rights in the middle of the administration's legal fight with North Carolina over the issue.

As per an article in The Tennessean: «Huffman — a former Teach For America executive and ex-husband of controversial former Washington, D.C., Chancellor Michelle Rhee — made Tennessee a flashpoint nationally for debates over teacher evaluations, teacher licensing, Common Core standards and charter schools... In recent months, Huffman lost a handful of political fights.

Then on Wednesday, a post appeared on the Post's Wonkblog comparing the Amazon / Hachette fight to the debate over net neutrality: «Wanting to give consumers access to its products through the biggest single pipeline available, Hachette may relent on the price at which it sells books to Amazon, squeezing its slim profit margins even further.»

«Cat Fight,» which appears in the latest issue of Conservation magazine, does little to cut through the rhetoric or clear up the numerous misrepresentations that plague the debate over free - roaming cats.

The debate may rage elsewhere, though here at the Nintendo World Report I daresay our fans in the forums will understand more why we have recommended an outdated NES adventure game over a classic, some may even say «classy» fighting game.

It usually takes years for the fighting game community to deliver a verdict on a new Street Fighter (the debate over Street Fighter 4 rages even now, eight years later), but at launch we can safely say Street Fighter 5 is an exciting, hugely satisfying and deceptively strategic fighting game with an intriguing line - up of characters that demands further investigation.

From the recent «Brexit» to Donald Trump's plans for a border wall, from the ongoing refugee crisis to debates over «safe spaces», we invite artists and others to discuss the geographic, social and psychological borders that we construct and fight to break down.

The hard - fought debate over selfies in art institutes rages over in London, where the National Gallery acquiesced to the selfie lobby and allowed cell phone photography in the museum.

That is bound to lead to fights over aid as recipient countries debate which can prove its risk (drought, flooding or otherwise) is related to climate change, as opposed to garden - variety climate extremes.

The challenge here, of course, is that the fight over climate science, to my mind, is a spillover from the more heated, and deeper, debate over climate policy.

Somewhat reminiscent of today's debates over baseball records and steroids, the fight over who was first to the top of the world is tainted.

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).