Sentences with phrase «during the debate over»

Sir John A. Macdonald, who would have turned 200 this year, advocated a single central government for Canada, without the bother of provincial legislatures: «one government and one parliament... for the whole of these peoples,» he argued during debates over Confederation.

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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.

It was perhaps a year or so after the terror attacks of 9/11, during the debates over the Patriot Act.

During the debate over Galileo, some theologians appealed to verses of Scripture to «prove» that Galileo's sun - centered model of the solar system could not be correct.

During a debate over the plan, board member Maureen Block said numerous people have told her the proposal is a bad idea.

DeFrancisco noticeably got under Cuomo's skin during the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15.

Here's some footage of Sen. John DeFrancisco railing against the Democrats during a debate over budget extenders yesterday for sending what he deemed «deceptive» robocalls into the districts of Republican senators.

Unfortunately, last month the legislation fell by the wayside during the debate over the state budget.

-- Championing of restoration of judicial discretion for low - level, nonviolent drug offenders during the debate over Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

Things got ugly last night on the Senate floor during the debate over the latest round of budget extenders — here's Sen. John DeFrancisco referring to Democrats as «patsies.»

He adds adding those classes to the code, will help undue the damage done to the state during the debate over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act last session.

The Democratic moves, including boycotting committee room votes on nominees last week and a round - the - clock debate Monday night before Tuesday's confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, reached a boiling point during the debate over Sessions — which Democrats continued overnight.

«There was a shocking lack of oversight of the grant money they gave (Taub),» Judge Valerie Caproni said during a debate over testimony when the jury left the courtroom.

During debate over the gun control legislation approved in the State senate and Assembly, the issue of mentally ill people using guns to kill others came up a number of times, particularly among legislators who are opposed to restricting access to assault weapons and other guns.

There's also a clips of Sen. Eric Adam's infamous «show me the money» speech on the floor of the Senate back in December 2007 during a debate over legislative pay raises.

In a private meeting last month, The Times reported, Ms. Stewart - Cousins said to Mr. Cuomo during a debate over who best understands suburban voters: «You look at me, Mr. Governor, but you don't see me.

Before marching in the parade on Sunday morning, Cuomo received an award from State Sen. Adriano Espaillat — who was arrested during a protest outside Cuomo's office in June, during the debate over renewing rent regulations — at a marina in Upper Manhattan.

During a debate over the consolidation held at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs this spring, Consensus representatives painted a grim picture: Syracuse is facing sluggish economic development and high poverty rates coupled with a fleeing population.

Republicans said nothing during the debate over the «big ugly,» which also included about $ 25.8 billion in funding for public schools, revived the 421 - a housing subsidy program, creates a new scholarship program for public colleges, included billions for water infrastructure, spurs municipal service consolidation and extended the state's expiring millionaires tax for two years.

Challenging board attorney Frank Miller at times, the two both raised their voices during debate over whether confidential information can ever be leaked from a closed door session, clashing in a heated close to an otherwise docile day of testimony.

Speaker Carl E. Heastie of the Assembly on Monday during debate over the so - called budget extender.

County legislators viewed presentations on the risks of fracking waste products and heard from industry representatives during debate over the bill.

(It should be noted that Price made those comments during a debate over an amendment, which he supported, that would have defunded a handful of NSF projects targeted as wasteful or unnecessary by GOP lawmakers; the hit list included grants to study bison hunting on the late prehistoric Great Plains and the sexual politics of waste in Dakar.)

But Spielberg's depiction of the state of affairs on the floor of Congress during debates over the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, is another shot of cold water to the face.

During the debate over the federal «annual yearly progress» standard, many of the proposals that would have included other indicators as measures of a school's annual yearly progress were simply thinly disguised attempts to eradicate any rigor from the system.

And during debates over health - care reform, President Clinton justified a tobacco tax as a source of financing...

That's why civil rights organizations such as the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the National Urban League, the National Disability Rights Network, and National Council of La Raza campaigned so hard — and successfully — during the debate over the Every Student Succeeds Act to convince Congress and the Obama administration to continue to require annual measurements of student progress.

Now consider that during the debate over the No Child Left Behind Act, the National Conference of State Legislatures sent members of Congress a letter criticizing the testing requirements as «an egregious example of a top - down, one - size - fits - all federal reform.»

During the debate over a strike ballot on the academy plans, there was a distinct absence of tub - thumping and rhetoric that might have been expected.

State superintendent - elect Glenda Ritz attends the December State Board of Education meeting, taking notes and listening in during the debate over the proposed REPA II teacher licensing rules.

Most districts with teacher contracts extended them for one year last spring because of the uncertainty during the debate over the state's new collective bargaining law, said Miles Turner, executive director of the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators.

As a senator, Robert F. Kennedy argued during debate over the bill to evaluate the progress of all students.

The statement could be viewed as an ominous warning that some Big Green groups are prepared to follow the same course that they did during the debate over Waxman - Markey, the House climate and energy bill that passed last year — compromise early and often to get a bill, seemingly any bill, passed.

During the debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, Jacobs was a policy adviser for the House Republican Conference under then - Chairman Mike Pence.

During the debate over the Keystone project, the oil industry rolled out a series of studies claiming that pipeline construction would create 20,000 temporary jobs in the United States and that lower oil prices (they didn't say exactly how much lower) resulting from the new crude supplies would create as many as 250,000 more jobs across the country over the long term.

ABlawg posts on the rights of farm and ranch workers were tabled in the legislature during the debate over Bill 6 by the leader of the Alberta Liberals, Dr David Swann (see Hansard, December 7, 2015), who has been a tireless advocate for the rights of these workers.

Two candidates jockeying for Colorado's 2018 gubernatorial election threw their support behind cryptocurrencies during a debate over the weekend.

As the debate continued over the potential health impact of a plebiscite continued, Casey Kennedy from Queerspace in Victoria advised services dealing with LGBTIQ clients on how to support them during the debate over marriage equality.

During the debate over Biggert - Waters, the prevailing wisdom was that actuarial rates would range from hundreds to thousands of dollars, not tens of thousands of dollars or the 1,000 percent rate increase shocks that we are learning about now.»

Not exact matches

He said he was glad that the presidential candidates at least mentioned the word «cybersecurity» during the debate instead of ignoring the subject, but he expressed dismay over Trump's comments that a recent hack into the Democratic National Committee's servers could have involved «somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.»

During a CNN debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, Sen. Bernie Sanders asked Sen. Ted Cruz if healthcare should be a right for all Americans.

But Glen Hodgson, senior vice-president and chief economist at the Conference Board of Canada, says EDC's performance during the recession puts the debate over EDC's mandate to rest «for a generation.»

Like the debate over Austin's best BBQ joint, the issue wasn't settled during SXSW.

One of the most polarizing topics of discussion in the world of cryptocurrencies, the BTC vs BCH debate took a new turn today as Thomas Lee, the co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors commented that he would rather buy Bitcoin over Bitcoin Cash during an appearance on CNBC.

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during -LSB-...]

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during renegotiations.

We can debate the number or percentage of violent passages that were given by God to his people in the Torah (Bible — Old Testament)(More than 800) or in the Qur» an (a little over 300) during times of War.

John Cavadini, chairman of the theology department at Notre Dame, focused on this during the 2006 debate over the university's hosting of a performance of «The Vagina Monologues.»

To take just one example, five hundred years ago, during the Reformation, there was a debate over just how broken human nature truly is.