Sentences with phrase «few years debating»

It seems like we've spent the last few years debating whether or not you need a 1440p screen.

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Every few years, a new book ignites debate about structural and social impediments to women achieving professional parity.
That debate developed over a few years, he says, and when it started to heat up, his attention was elsewhere — trying to launch Alpha's listings business and then dealing with the TMX acquisition.
His interest in Canadian policy debates was rekindled a few years ago, he says, around the time he was invited to participate in a 2010 «thinkers» conference put on by then - Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in Montréal.
The arguments are similar to those made in the United Kingdom a few years ago in the debate over whether or not ISPs should be made to block sites featuring pornography.
What started as an arcane ideal debated a few years ago by techno - academics has become an issue that a good portion of the general public understands.
Huffington isn't blaming the startup culture for this, though, referring to the debate that has raged over the past few years about venture capitalists and angel investors being biased against women entrepreneurs.
I have never been even remotely an expert either on iron and steel production or on the Australian economy, but recent action in the iron ore markets and a vibrant debate within Australia has, in the past three weeks, set me up for several planned and unplanned meetings with Australians — some old friends, some fund managers and bankers, some government officials — who remembered some of the comments I made a few years ago about Australia and iron ore and who wanted to discuss future prospects.
Tuur: [00:24:41] So the way I see it is that we had a big scaling debate the past few years and the question was are we going to do on change scaling with a heart.
Referring to the pre-crisis experience is important because the catchphrases that have dominated the debate in the last few years (New Normal and Secular Stagnation) suggest that we have entered a new state of the world, where growth and inflation are destined to stagnate for the foreseeable future.
The debate over aluminum's future in the United States comes after 20 years of China flooding the global market with the natural resource, depressing prices to a level where few U.S. companies can compete.
It's a topic that Jim Belcher recently explored in Deep Church, and it's a topic that has led to some theological hair - splitting over the past few years, as NT Wright and John Piper debate the meaning justification.
For the past few years I've been hearing a lot about gender roles as evangelicals debate the place of women in the home, church, and society.
Just a few short years later, the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union catalysed a debate in which patriotism showed its less attractive face, reaching its nadir on 16th June 2016, when Labour MP Jo Cox, a campaigner for continued EU membership, was repeatedly stabbed and shot by a man shouting «Britain first».
Douglas is right that I was very much involved in the housing policy debate on our campus a few years ago.
On Morning Joe a few minutes ago, Pat Buchanan described the fear behind the death panel debate as the fear that old people without anyone around who loves them will be steered in their final years toward elective euthanasia.
«And second, can I yet again ask them to foster open national debate about Islam to include our Muslim friends so we can all understand with what we may be dealing in a few years time?»
The ongoing debate about Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) and his actions (or lack of actions) in response to the Holocaust has gained intensity over the past few years.
One part of the foolishness of the recent debates about Rand is the idea that agreeing with Rand's prediction and diagnoses in «Atlas Shrugged» — the accuracy of which has been demonstrated in the last few years to a nicety — somehow magically commits one to agreement with her total philosophy.
I found out at London's Speaker's Corner a few years ago, where there is plenty of intense debate to be had with people of all faiths and none.
I'm saying debate helps — it may not help now, or for a few years, but no reason to despair just because you aren't getting credit for it!
We hope that what happens at Emory over the next few years will stimulate discussion, debate and creative ideas at other graduate schools, leading them to take up these challenges in their own ways and build other educational models for preparing practical theologians.
As Manuka honey has risen in popularity over the past few years, a debate has broken out between Australia and New Zealand over the honey's origin.
For the last few years, though, this has been given a close run by the debate over our strikers.
We have never stopped debating the James Harden trade, even though it's clear at this point that you should never trade a talent like James Harden, even if you have talents like Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook and even if you still nearly make the NBA Finals a few years later.
The question as to whether Arsenal can still attract and sign world class players, is a debate that has been doing the rounds for quite a few years now.
There has been a lot of mystery and debate about the job of Arsenal manager this week, and for the last few years really.
Griffin is the best player in the trade: The fact that this can be debated — Harris is younger, healthier, and owed much less money — says quite a bit about how far Griffin's star has fallen the last few years.
That moved things from just Mommy Wars territory to Spousal Wars territory, which reminds me of two posts that address what I call the great gender divide: posts from Michael Noer and Elizabeth Corcoran in Forbes a few years ago, who debated the pros and cons of marrying a career woman, and from dating coach Evan Marc Katz, who addressed «What men really want from women.»
We debated between starting out with an all - in - one car seat that would last us for a few years or opting for an infant car seat and transitioning to an all - in - one later on.
There's a section in the book that covers birth certificates, and it's both critical and timely because of the ongoing national debate that has been transpiring over the last few years.
«I think even when you have a budget agreement — and I've been here 25 years — it takes a few days to put it together; in other words to structurally go through and pass all the bills and allow for the legislators to read the billls fully and debate the bills.
However, one policy debate that I have been very close to over the last few years, and one that illustrates how digital technology has changed our society and also how it creates new social contexts related to rights based issues, is that of access to pornography and sexual content online.
While the gun control debate has been a polarizing issue in America, certain aspects of the debate have grown in popularity in the wake of multiple mass shooting incidents over the past few years.
With British military activity in Iraq and Afghanistan downgraded from a few years ago it is hardly surprising that these no longer dominate the media or political debate.
The Speaker, who has sponsored a version of public campaign finance legislation since 1986, even broke protocol and debated the bills on the floor a few years back.
Cruddas has occupied a central role in the debates of the last few years as Labour struggled to renew itself in government.
«Let's do it in three years,» Stringer said at the debate, when asked about closing Rikers by WNYC's Brigid Bergin, one of the panelists asking questions, and raising more than a few eyebrows of those who follow city politics closely.
«Both of those will have a much higher prominence in the political debate in the next few years as, I believe, certain issues like the health service get in to a different place.»
Imagine if the legislature decided to abolish the death penalty, not as the culmination of an emotional debate about who we are as a society, but to save the few million bucks a year that the state pays to endlessly defend and prosecute death - row murderers.
* Miliband said the debate should not focus on affordability but about priorities within the «envelope» of «all benefits, all tax credits and all tax relief for the next few years».
Today, she added to that debate, saying the long - term financing depends on quicker - than - normal employee turnover, gives few details about how payments will work in the later years and fails to account for future drastic downturns in the economy.
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.
For years, scientists have been debating the taxonomic status of Dickinsonia — placing it with fungi, marine worms and jellyfish, to name a few.
During the past few years, the idea has stirred up a great deal of debate.
Q: There has been a lot of debate about international solidarity during pandemics in the past few years.
In the last few years, debates over differences between estimates from different groups have become increasingly heated.
Jan Beck, an insect ecologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, found himself in the middle of this debate a few years ago while leading his students on a field trip in Ethiopia.
Scientists have debated for years what will happen to our planet when the sun's fusion furnace begins to run out of fuel and swell into a red giant a few billion years from now.
Over the past few years, the debate about genomic technologies has been characterized by battles between those who have sought to reassure us about the technology and those who have raised concerns about possible impacts, environmental and otherwise.
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