Sentences with phrase «debate over several years»

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During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

The debate over whether helmets should be mandated in girl's lacrosse, which has been raging for several years, reached a new level of ferocity recently with the publication of a blistering piece in the New York Times reporting on the backlash generated by the controversial decision by the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to mandate a soft form of headgear for everyone in a girls» lacrosse game beginning this spring season.

And starting next year, he'll go through several politically thorny issues such as a possible veto of newly drawn state and federal district boundaries as well as the debate over hydrofracking.

And as he did last year in the debate over the renewal of mayoral school control, Felder is using as leverage several items that are important to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, including design - build authority for the rehabilitation of the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and the authorization of more speed cameras near schools.

Over several years of teaching and coaching debate, I have witnessed students shift their views on a host of topics as a result of their debate experience.

The firestorm over standardized testing in the K - 12 accountability system that has been building in Texas for over two years is coming to a major showdown, and the primary context of the debate is now House Bill 5, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 145 - 2 and, after several amendments, was passed by the Senate unanimously.

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Although the national debate over public education has become polarized during the past several years, with bitter divisions inside and between political parties, the PDK / Gallup poll showed a surprising level of agreement in the public at large.

Publishing industry events have been debating the ins and outs of reaching readers directly for several years, and companies have been exhibiting at these events for that same amount of time, promising both publishers and authors they could reach out to book audiences and seamlessly sell content, wiping out the need to pay fees or argue over how much a book should cost.

The definition I'd choose is much like the one stated by Richard Somerville of the University of California, San Diego, during a climate debate several years ago over the proposition that «Global Warming is Not a Crisis.»

For those old enough to remember, the debate over global warming may be reminiscent of the equally intense scare propaganda lasting for several years during the 1980s.

My background is in science and I've followed the issues in several fields over the years (the climate debate is an interest to me, but not the main field I track with).

Arguments will certainly ensue (in fact, they already have) about the safety of the levels of 1,4 - Dioxane in these products, and we're bound to see a debate parallel to the one over arsenic in drinking water from several years ago.

Over the past several years, a debate has sometimes simmered, sometimes raged around the question of whether so - called «activist investors» are on the whole good for companies, their stakeholders and the economy as a whole.

Over the past several years the primary debate has been around scaling, specifically around block sizes.