Sentences with phrase «decade of debate»

CNN: Church of England rejects female bishops by six votes After decades of debate, the Church of England formally voted down draft legislation that would have allowed women to become bishops.

There's also «the official timeline of The Legend of Zelda series,» putting to rest decades of debate over the chronological order of the Zelda games.

In decades of debate on school reform in Mississippi, though, one issue is ever - present but draws little public discussion: race.

«The last decade of debate has shown cross-party consensus is possible.

Astronomers even caught the collision's chemical fingerprints, revealing the creation of 10 to 100 Earths» worth of gold and other heavy elements, ending decades of debate on their cosmic origins.

After years if not decades of debate, most scientists and lay people now agree that there is such a thing as «menopause brain» — lapses in memory, difficulty concentrating, and trouble paying attention compared to before this mid-life change.

For scholars and policy makers focused on reforming urban schools, Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons From Chicago may represent the most important research over the past decade of debate.

Wilson, while settling decades of debate is a decision perhaps more important to administrative law than employment law.

The measure, adopted after decades of debate, was designed to allow the agency to generate sufficient income to relieve the county government of a contractual «net service fee» that annually averaged about $ 2 million in recent years.

Two decades of debate over assigning blame for emissions, legal responsibility for reducing them and allocating per capita rights to use the atmosphere for disposing of heat trapping gases have created a zero - sum game without opportunities for solving problems by creating mutual gains.

Adovasio, J. M., D. Pedler, J. Donahue, and R. Stuckenrath 1999 No Vestige of a Beginning nor Prospect for the End: Two Decades of Debate on Meadowcroft Rock Shelter.

The country passed a universal birth control law four years ago after more than a decade of debate, but a court order and budget cuts have hampered its full implementation.

After nearly a decade of debate, the former Hindu kingdom adopted a new constitution in September that declares the Himalayan nation to be a secular state.

After decades of debate, GE was required to undergo an extensive dredging project aimed at removing the PCBs from the river which was set to be carried out in two phases and subject to two five - year reviews, the first of which was conducted in 2012.

Mr. Cuomo pressed for the new bridge after a decade of debate over whether to repair the crumbling bridge or build anew.

The recommendation culminates a decade of debate among scientists trying to decide what concentration is safe to drink.

AFTER decades of debate and acrimony, science and society seem to have reached a consensus that greenhouse gases are increasing global temperatures.

After decades of debate, many archaeologists concluded that Philip was buried in tomb II, now commonly called the «Tomb of Philip.»

Liu and Nagel put forward the provocative suggestion that jamming could be a previously unrecognized phase transition, a notion that physicists, after more than a decade of debate, have now accepted.

After two decades of debate and some fits and starts, this is the closest yet to school vouchers in New Jersey.

So after over 3 decades of debates and speculation, it is now confirmed that Toad's mushroom cap is actually part of his head!

Off topic but interesting «After decades of debate and four years of investigation an international body of earth scientists has formally agreed to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary age by 800,000 years, reports the Journal of Quaternary Science.»

SAVOY — After a decade of debate, approvals and controversy, the game clock might have run out on a commercial wind power project in the town of Savoy.

In McDougall, the Supreme Court tried to put an end to the decades of debate as to the nature of the civil standard in Canada — whether it was «flexible» or if there were «degrees of probability» within the standard.

The UN General Assembly adopted this landmark declaration outlining the rights of the world's estimated 370 million indigenous peoples and outlawing discrimination against them — a move that followed more than two decades of debate.