Sentences with phrase «debate the like of»

That in turn will involve informed democratic debate the like of which Labour has never yet organised.

Not exact matches

Saying newspapers made the wrong choice by moving to digital is like debating the strategic choices of the Polish army in late 1939.

The nuances of product are often in the eyes of the beholder — we can debate whether you like an Apple phone or a Google phone better.

Meanwhile, as various pundits and historians across the globe debate if and how Trump's surprising political ascendancy will shift the overall tone of U.S. politics going forward, the candidate himself feels like only a win in November will make a difference.

It sounds like the sort of trivial debate you might have with a friend over drinks at a pub, but here's an actual back and forth I had with my phone the other day while driving.

«This seems like a debate about the structure of the rules so it's not our place to comment,» wrote spokesperson Jordan Sinclair in an email.

To help producers share information, they've started an open - source project and wiki page where farmers trade tips on selecting the best crickets for breeding and debate the merits of «gut - loading» insects with foods like apples and honey to give them a sweeter finish.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

And while the debate over the impact of unlimited money in politics may seem like an American problem, we probably shouldn't get too smug.

When I think of that debate, it's like looking at a photograph where I'm like 19 or 20 thinking about those things.

But these technologies are incapable of understanding or correctly responding to more complex conversations, like debating what's the best Beatles album or arguing over a cable bill.

If that sounds like Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, that's not surprising: Annis has teamed up with John Gray, the author of that vociferously debated 1992 bestseller, on a new book that explores «gender blind spots» in the workplace.

But privately, officials debated whether this was a proper use of the legal defense fund, which was originally intended to help pay for things like vote recounts, according to news reports.

Sure, at debates, like last night's great one in Milwaukee, candidates are always asked questions that begin with, «As president, will you...» but we all know that presidents alone can't really do anything but put their socks on or, in more recent years, play a lot of golf.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.

In a set - up that sounds like something out of «The Hunger Games,» once a year managers come together to review employees» work and debate their standings.

But there has been no discussion of America's corporate consolidation during the debates, nor of funding levels at federal government organizations like the NIH, DARPA or the U.S. Department of Energy.

There is debate within the medical community about what an optimal blood pressure target is, especially for older people like Trump, and how aggressively medications should be used to lower blood pressure to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Xaxis and online ad buyers like it have been at the center of a debate over online privacy, as the effectiveness of the campaigns they run requires anonymously tracking users as they surf the web.

Instead of supporting new free trade deals, as most Congressional Republicans do, Donald Trump has opposed deals like NAFTA and the current Trans - Pacific Partnership now being debated in Congress.

Before tucking into some turkey and informed political debate with your relatives, millions of travelers like you will face the joys of modern commercial air travel.

On the other side of the debate, we have the ISPs like AT&T and Comcast, who argue that a re-classification of broadband providers the Internet under Title II (which was originally written for old phone networks) by the FCC is both out - of - date and without legal merit.

Part of the debate is whether coin buyers are merely buying the tokens like a stock, in expectation they will rise in value, or are actually holding the tokens as a way to participate in a blockchain project.

We've debated the ethics of 3D - printing guns before, so this isn't really a new subject, especially for the «maker» community, which has generally addressed the gun - printing issue by distancing itself as much as possible from the hardcore, gun - printing evangelists like DEFCAD.

Overall, the debate was probably, like many of these have been, a draw, with both candidates winning the issues where they frequently shine.

Gun makers are again the center of a national debate over how to put an end to mass shootings, and their stocks are trading like things are different this time.

Whereas Instagram is for curated, pretty photos, Facebook is for family - friends broadcast and permanence, Twitter is like the world's debating chamber, Whatsapp is a 21st century rendition of SMS, and Snapchat is a good idea badly executed.

But they are like listening to someone who drew the short straw in a high school debate and had to argue the positive effects of indentured servitude.

Smith often compares his company to CNN, and in many ways Vice has become the equivalent for many younger viewers who no longer watch traditional television, especially when it uses stale old formats like panels of aging white men debating politics.

Having a debate around hard topics like these is a critical part of our process and to do that effectively, we have to be able to consider even bad ideas, if only to eliminate them.»

While today's consumers debate the merits of wearable technology like smart watches and Google Glass, tech companies are already looking beyond that to the day when the tech disappears on — or even in — the human body.

President Obama's next - day zingers, which sounded like he came up with them in the car on the drive home from the debate, did little to raise spirits among viewers of Nova and Masterpiece.

«There's no debate here - this is not like the future of healthcare in America.

He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

«Having a debate around hard topics like these is a critical part of our process and to do that effectively we have to be able to consider even bad ideas, if only to eliminate them,» Bosworth's statement said.

And the debate is set to escalate as the number of online companies and apps like Uber and others rises.

The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House has been like a series of lightning bolts across European debates and thinking.

Wow, what a fun thinking about all these years of debates with fb representatives telling me «consumers don't want privacy rights anymore» and «a startup (sic) like facebook shouldn't be overburdened».

While terms like «patent protection» and «public domain» were clearly part of the IPR debate, it also stretched to the cost of drugs and the availability of medicines, encompassing terms like «health advocates» and «pharmaceutical companies.»

April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

Most observers would like that the government to acknowledge the contributions of the Parliamentary Budget Office to policy discussion and debate.

Others, like faculty member at the University of Nicosia, George Papageorgiou, are optimistic about bitcoin's future and see the block size debate as a healthy ongoing conversation, as bitter as it has been.

The ongoing debate about data and privacy is directly related to the question of encryption in some important ways, as Mossberg's tweet notes: messaging content is data that users would like to keep private, and encryption accomplishes that.

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

Generally there are a number of larger issues that will shape the larger debate, like (hopefully an end to the never ending debate about) the closure of the City Centre Airport or the financing of Daryl Katz «s downtown arena — but so much about municipal politics falls under the old adage «all politics is local.»

Canadian Universities like UBC, the University of Toronto, McGill, and others have just experienced lively and civil debates that pit students of Hong Kong origins against students of Mainland origins.

Although one could imagine all sorts of radical Blue Sky tax reforms — or much less radical ideas like a carbon tax or a value added tax — in the context of the current debate about how to make some alterations to the current tax system, I would suggest the following five elements in the spirit of 1986:

Listening to the hoopleheads debate the intrinsic value of Gold or lack thereof is like watching professional soccer — there will only be one point made for every 27 hours or so worth of back - and - forth tedium.

However, many researchers and commentators have entered the debate to highlight that the demise of corporate trade deals like NAFTA (or the current neoliberal global trade regime more broadly) would not plunge the Canadian economy into chaos.

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