Sentences with phrase «fierce debate in»

The Trump administration's travel ban has certainly been the source of a fierce debate in and out of the courts.

Climate change is an amorphous, complex, overwhelmingly large problem whose very existence is the subject of fierce debate in the US.

The emergence of e-cigarettes continues to evoke a fierce debate in the public health community, both domestically and abroad.

A new law on animal tests has been the subject of a fierce debate in Italy.

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.

He faces a minimum 15 - year sentence in a case that has prompted a fierce debate in a country beset by high levels of violent crime.

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

There's been fierce debate in Scotland about how to tackle the increasing number of food banks in the country.

Such archetypes tap into fierce debates in education today.

Not exact matches

The debate will likely be fierce, but officials hope it will result in a more open dialogue about overcoming harassment in games (and online) without the threats other discussions about the topic have been forced to deal with.

In fact, the fierce debates and headline - grabbing warnings surrounding the Brexit vote in June have given hope to euroskeptics around EuropIn fact, the fierce debates and headline - grabbing warnings surrounding the Brexit vote in June have given hope to euroskeptics around Europin June have given hope to euroskeptics around Europe.

«Threatening Google and other large Internet companies who are in fierce competition with each other, is a loser's debate,» Lauk was quoted as saying.

Gun - control proponents have unsuccessfully tried to restart a fierce debate that began after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

AT&T may be in the midst of negotiations to acquire Time Warner, but the rumored deal's merits are already spurring a fierce debate on Wall Street.

The issue has provoked a fierce debate within Facebook especially, with Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg insisting twice in recent days that the site had no role in influencing the election.

But it seems likely that the fierce intra-administration debates in the weeks leading up to it — which a White House aide described as «absolute chaos» — made it more likely that Trump would act impulsively without properly consulting his team or thinking through the details of the actual unveiling.

By the time the debate was done, a fierce winter storm had settled in.

For in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generations.

The video of her talk went viral and sparked a fierce debate among evangelicals about their role in the movement.

But one might imagine, for example, how the fierce debates over «globalization» that recently spread to the streets of Seattle might occasion yet another «constitutional revolution» in which the people insert themselves into the politics of international trade on behalf of either ceding or protecting the national sovereignty that the Constitution formally entrusts to them.

Yet they often engaged in fierce debates with pseudo-scientists who ascribed absolute authority to readings of the Bible.»

I identify five voices in this debate that I take to be the most completely developed and importantly contrasting «positions» in the conversation: Edward Farley's Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education and his The Fragility of Knowledge: Theological Education in the Church and the University; 2 the Mud Flower Collective's God s Fierce Whimsy; 3 Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and John B. Cobb, Jr.'s Christian Identity and Theological Education; 4 Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education; 5 and Charles M. Wood's Vision and Discernment.6 Although each of these voices makes important claims in its own right, which I hope to summarize as briefly as clarity and fairness permit, what is most important, I think, is the largely implicit interplay among them of contrasting insights and themes.

From time to time fierce theological debates took place, such as that which followed the publication of Charles Darwin's (1809 -82) theory of biological evolution in 1859.

The stunning news that the United States may be the most surveilled society in human history has opened a fierce debate on security, privacy, and accountability.

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.

The truth is, learning how to sleep when pregnant in a way that is both comfortable AND safe can be very challenging!Figuring out how to sleep when pregnant safely has also long been a source of fierce ongoing debate among healthcare professionals.

Until now, even the most eager, and unemployed, floating voter is unlikely to have seen even one of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders up close and personal, let alone, as they will be in the debates, not speechifying but tested and challenged live by their fiercest rivals.

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

In our post bag this month: the unitary authority debate sparks anger, fierce resistance to compulsory voting and Parliament isn't all about the commons

The fiercest debates about Labour's immediate future should be expected in the area of internal democracy, particularly while the Corbynite left is seeking to reform the process of intra-party decision - making.

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.

9 January 2002: The white paper comes under fierce attack in two days of Lords debate on constitutional reform.

The statement comes in the wake of a fierce debate where party leaders have struck different tones on the sensitive social issue.

NYT:»... the election followed a fierce, if brief, campaign in which a debate over same - sex marriage, which Mr. Peralta favors and Mr. Monserrate opposes, often overshadowed discussions on issues that are vital to many of the largely Hispanic district's working - class and immigrant residents, like affordable health care and school overcrowding.

But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo would like to bring them back in the state, prompting a fierce new debate over higher education in state prisons.

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.

EU car emissions fell 2.6 percent in 2012 from 2011, official figures showed on Wednesday, adding to a fierce Brussels debate on how quickly automakers can improve vehicle fuel efficiency.

Writing in a linked Comment, Christopher Colvin from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Abigail Harrison from Brown University School of Public Health in the USA say, «Currently, the increasingly narrow and fierce debates over the HIV and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate link have focused on whether a large randomised controlled trial should be done to better understand this link.

NEW DELHI — A fierce debate has erupted in India over proposed rules to create a government - run system to regulate research using animals.

In the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the nation is engaged in a fierce debate over how to reduce firearms deaths without infringing on the rights of citizens to bear armIn the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the nation is engaged in a fierce debate over how to reduce firearms deaths without infringing on the rights of citizens to bear armin Newtown, Conn., the nation is engaged in a fierce debate over how to reduce firearms deaths without infringing on the rights of citizens to bear armin a fierce debate over how to reduce firearms deaths without infringing on the rights of citizens to bear arms.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- EU car emissions fell 2.6 percent in 2012 from 2011, official figures showed on Wednesday, adding to a fierce Brussels debate on how quickly automakers can improve vehicle fuel efficiency.

Frankel took the example of the avian flu research that in 2011 sparked a fierce debate about whether it should be published, given that it identified mutations that could make the H5N1 virus much more transmittable to humans.

In fact, the season was so extreme that it instigated an ongoing debate: Has climate change made hurricanes fiercer and more frequent?

The islands did have a fierce debate about the issue, which started in 1999, when deCODE approached the territory with a plan to include its population in its gene hunt.

It also succeeds in doing what all the fierce debates can not.

When the International Astronomical Union changed its definition of what constitutes a planet in our solar system in 2006, demoting hapless Pluto to a dwarf planet, the decision sparked fierce scientific debate and an outcry from the public.

The fierce debate about student privacy often risks failing to ensure that all students benefit from the enormous breakthroughs that technology makes possible in 21st century schools.

As many of you know, several years ago in the United States we had a fierce debate about the federal role in education.

Nearly four years after a front - page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize.

A fierce debate over civic education in America's public schools has erupted in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.