Sentences with phrase «fierce public debates»

Reddit and other forums have hosted fierce public debates for years.

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.

While Whiteread has never become a public figure in the manner of contemporaries such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, her projects have become the subject of fierce public debate, both in Vienna and in London: House won her the Turner prize in 1993, but was the subject of some local hostility; some found her fourth plinth commission repetitious.

The prize always attracts fierce public debate about the nature of art.

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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.

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

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.

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.

In 1988, Mapplethorpe's major retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which included sexually explicit images depicting homoerotic and sadomasochistic subjects, sparked a fierce on - going public debate in America about censorship, the public funding for the arts and the definition of art itself.

Since its inception the Turner Prize has captured the vivid interest of the British media and public, for whom the unveiling of the short list often occasions a fierce debate about the artists» relative merits and sometimes about the very definition of art.

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