Sentences with phrase «fierce debate over»

The Chicago Tribune reports the city council was embroiled in a fierce debate over the settlement negotiations that followed the families» wrongful death lawsuits because of concern it would open the city up to liability for a range of wrongful acts committed by employees in their free time.

The owl first entered the spotlight 15 years ago, in fierce debate over clear - cutting of ancient Pacific forests.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Pennsylvania regulators levied a record fine for contaminating drinking water against major natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy, a move that threatens to intensify a fierce debate over drilling for natural gas in the state.

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

While there is fierce debate over whether or not today's wheat contains more gluten than the wheat of yore, we do know people today consume much more gluten because it's added to many processed food products.

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 arms.

The fierce debate over the bill exposes broader disagreement regarding how New York City should reduce its production of solid waste.

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.

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.

Carriers have long supported greater leeway to manage their networks as part of the U.S. government's fierce debate over net neutrality.

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.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn announced his resignation after a fierce debate with Trump over the president's plan to impose tariffs on foreign - made steel and aluminum.

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn will resign amid a fierce internal debate over proposed tariffs on foreign - made steel and aluminum.

WASHINGTON — White House economic adviser Gary Cohn will resign amid a fierce internal debate over proposed tariffs on foreign - made steel and aluminum.

The debate over GMO safety is one that is going to continue — and is likely to get more fierce.

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.

The story also dives into the fierce debate now brewing between scientists over how tick - borne illness is transmitted, detected and defined.

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.

Debate over neonicotinoids has become fierce.

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

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

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:

But a fierce debate rages over whether the rules should become permanent.

Party leader Nick Clegg told the Daily Mail online that «quite a fierce debate» had taken place in government over the issue and suggested that the scope to reward the best teachers had been «resisted» by the Conservatives.

Edelblut's nomination sparked fierce public debate, mirroring the outcry over President Donald Trump's nomination of school choice advocate and wealthy GOP donor Betsy DeVos to lead the federal education department.

Much has changed since the artist's death during the epidemic in 1996, and yet here we are today, with Rose Garden overtures to the Religious Right at the White House last month and debates, fiercer than ever, over our health care system.

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

The state's move fuels one of the fiercer debates bubbling over about using a national cap and trade: that is, what's the most responsible way to spend all the money it'd make?

The debate over the possible existence of a warming slowdown has sparked fierce scientific controversy over the past two decades.

In a relatively short period of time, the debate over patent reform has transformed an arcane, low - salience issue into one that sparks fierce controversy and national headlines.

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...