Sentences with phrase «fierce debate»

We're living in a time of fierce debate over privacy concerns, an era where government and law enforcement argue for the right to GPS - track citizens without their knowledge.

The Internet is full of fierce debates over the pros and cons of feeding your pets grain - free, raw meat, high - fat, or low - carbohydrate diets.

There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers.

But which reptiles were its ancestors was the subject of fierce debate for more than a century.

The legislation sparked fierce debate in the blockchain community, including both criticism from the Bitcoin Foundation and adamant support from the Coin Center, a blockchain and public policy think tank.

Just how long Neandertals hung on after the arrival of Homo sapiens about 45,000 years ago has been a matter of fierce debate among researchers, some of whom argue that they hardly overlapped at all.

Last month's Orlando gay nightclub shooting proved the deadliest in national history, and prompted a flurry of fierce debate on what to do to address issues of terrorism, homophobia and access to firearms.

* / Drawing connections between the past and present often sparks fierce debates within the American political landscape.

Cryptocurrency is a subject of fierce debate within the gaming community, but there is more to cryptocurrencies than playing bank — there's also the blockchain that lies beneath the surface.

And the eventual winner may provoke fierce debate as well as great acclaim.»

After fierce debate, it was decided a special forces unit would be sent in to raid the airfield and free the hostages.

Such archetypes tap into fierce debates in education today.

The decision by committee members followed fierce debate among councillors and members of the public over the effect the development would have on Ilfracombe.

Fierce debate still rages over its significance, but many see it as a crucial piece of evidence in the story of how humans came to be — one that suggests flowers played a key role in our evolution.

Yet moves by governments around the world to designate wood as a carbon - neutral fuel — making it eligible for beneficial treatment under tax, trade, and environmental regulations — have spurred fierce debate.

Mr Joyce's speech at the annual Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics in Canberra on Tuesday comes amid fierce debate over foreign investment in Australian farms after the sale of the Van Diemen's Land Company to Chinese company Moon Lake Investments.

A bill allowing for such extensive powers to intercept and store communications was inevitably going to incite fierce debate within political and legal spheres.

Duncan's comments mark the first time the Obama administration has expressed support for a public airing of information about teacher performance — a move that is sure to fan the already fierce debate over how to better evaluate teachers.

Lobbying transparency has also been a matter for fierce debate in Brussels.

There would need to be a whole fierce debate first which would turn the whole community into a metaphorical state of civil war, then a vote, then miners have to agree, then there might be a coin - split, price would probably dive, and so on.

The October 1990 issue of this publication featured a lively and occasionally fierce debate on the subject of evolution.

Karius has been the subject of fierce debate since Mignolet was dropped over the Christmas period.

Early Homo molar; image courtesy of Jose Braga / Didier Descouens There has been fierce debate recently over whether the original «caveman» diet was one of heaps of bloody meat or fields of greens.

Eleven years later, this argument continues to trigger fierce debate among philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.

A similar nationwide project in Iceland has provoked fierce debate there and around the world.

The word of lifting is currently divided into two opposed, yet very similar, schools of thought — bodybuilding and powerlifting, with an ongoing fierce debate — which of the two is more superior.

Over the years, the legitimacy of some of his achievements has been questioned by the modern skeptics (such as his 1.200 pound squat that inspires fierce debates to this very day), but the numbers below come from official competitions:

It also facilitated fierce debate amongst students about the level achieved by each performance.

Although academics, including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and education researchers, have waged fierce debates about what these different needs are — some talk about multiple intelligences and learning styles whereas others point to research that undermines these notions — what no one disputes is that each student learns at a different pace.

Whitney Tilson and I are engaged in a pretty fierce debate about the key issues in education reform.

Concerns about the content of the standards and their associated assessments have driven fierce debate in the education sector and on the nation's political stages, though in reality, the Common Core State Standards remain in place in most states (Figure 2).17 While criticisms vary in substance and tone, those focused directly on the standards include:

In what's looking like a pretty extensive guide to the discourse surrounding the Marisa Olson - coined «post-internet» art that is «consciously created in a milieu where the centrality of the internet is assumed», it's a lofty challenge that will no doubt draw fierce debate.

Then, in late August, after much fierce debate, the California Assembly and Senate passed a new bill, known as SB 32, that would go much further, mandating an additional 40 percent cut in emissions by 2030:

President Donald Trump, who has reveled in his confrontational style with the news media, sparked fierce debate Sunday over whether he is inciting violence against journalists by posting a doctored video clip showing him bashing the head of a figure...

After a year of fierce debate on the move Cameron gave in and proposed restrictions on potential benefits claims for new migrants coming to the UK.

On a night of fierce debate between Remain and Leave campaigners during the ITV referendum debate, which of the claims actually stacked up?

The pact's approval followed fierce debates among Russian officials.

The findings of the study are part of a much larger, fiercer debate within the scientific community over the megafauna extinction.

The legislative proposal of the European Commission to set up this new EU body has provoked fierce debates, on political as well as the academic level.

While the controversial gas drilling practice has been the subject of fierce debate in New York for years it has drawn little attention in Massachusetts.

The decision by the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong to allow dual - class shares just one week ago has sparked fierce debate here.