Sentences with phrase «follow years of debate»

The bills follow years of debate over the safety of genetically modified foods, which were introduced in the early l990s.

Following years of debate surrounding the project, top Forest Service officials yesterday hailed a key step forward for the nation's largest forest restoration initiative.

Not exact matches

«I bet that the Republicans follow the short - term tradition of forgoing debate and simply voting to disapprove the rule, dumping years of work down the drain because an industry lobbyist asked them to.»

If we do have an understanding of the conversation then the definitions of these «packed» concepts are subjective and we wind up debating terms like «following Jesus» which means something entirely different to me than it did to my 92 year old grandmother.

In his maiden speech — which, following a tradition now rarely observed, he waited a year after his election to deliver — Sasse argued that the upper house of the U.S. Congress was intended specifically by the framers to preserve minority opinion by enshrining a process of long - form debate to preclude a legislative fast track.

April 19 — After years of debate and discussion, the Premier League finally looks set to follow much of continental Europe and introduce a winter break from the season after next.

But I didn't vote in favor because I necessarily think that introducing helmets into the women's game is a good idea (as anyone who follows the sport of women's lacrosse knows, the issue has been the subject of furious and often heated debate in recent years, well - chronicled in a recent article on the US Lacrosse's website, which also contains a very helpful discussion of how the ASTM standard now being voted on was developed).

We've got a wonderful round - up of posts from members of the Green Moms Carnival, women who have been following the debate about cosmetics ingredients for years, and have interesting stories to share.

This year's conference season will probably have a bigger policy impact than any of the following five, because 2013's discussions and debates can still genuinely shape manifesto and policy development, which will have largely crystallised by the following year.

Ethics reform legislation was re-injected into the Albany budget debate this year following the arrest of former Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

In January this year, following Trump's comments on banning Muslims from entering the US, the House of Commons held a debate on whether he should, in turn, be banned from entering the UK.

«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.

«So I was thrilled, to say the least, after two years of hearings and debates when in 2016 the New York City Council followed the lead of Suffolk County and passed Local Law 63, the BYOBag law,» he wrote.

The potentially hefty surplus could set of a rare battle at the Capitol in next year's budget debate: What do with money a cash - strapped state hasn't seen in years following the economic downturn of the last decade.

Following one of the more robust debates so far this year, the state Senate approved legislation that would consolidate state and federal primaries to a single date in August.

This proposal follows lengthy debate and a lawsuit last year, after county lawmakers raised their own salaries and that of selected county officials.

«Providing more live coverage of the key political debates and discussions has meant that during 2015, a dramatic year in politics, we've seen a surge in people using BBC Parliament to follow proceedings.

Of course, Labour made a manifesto promise to have this debate and referendum in 1997 and had 13 years to follow up.

In recent years the right - wing populist [45] Danish People's Party has emerged as a major party — becoming the second - largest following the 2015 general election — during which time immigration and integration have become major issues of public debate.

As a 58 - year - old boomer whose work as a journalist depends on staying one step ahead of Gen - Xers, millennials, preschoolers and other would - be assassins, I've followed the debate closely.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

Given the Academy's ongoing prestige vs. populism debate, it is notable that the alleged best movies of any given year often aren't even released in most of America until the following year.

By Scott Mendelson HollywoodNews.com: Most of the ideas in Tony Kaye's Detachment are not revolutionary, especially not to anyone who has followed the last thirty years of debate regarding the public education system in America (Jonathan Kozel's many works of nonfiction come to mind).

The lessons are as follows: Lesson 1 - Intro to climate change Lesson 2 - Climate Change, real or hoax Lesson 3 - The Ice Age Debate Lesson 4 - Worst Case Scenario Lesson 5,6 - Impacts of Climate Change Lesson 7 - Impacts on the UK This content is suitable for year 9 but is taught to a high level and is more than suitable to use for GCSE.

There I sat with teenage mothers from remote Jefferson Davis County on their first day of a two - year commitment, and on that first day we delved into discussions of how their children's schools were faring, looked at test scores and graduation rates, analyzed whether their school leaders were following best practices, debated the Common Core State Standards, and more.

It's one of my favorite — and most fascinating — times of year: The days and weeks following the American Library Association's announcement of the winners of the Youth Media Awards, including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards, are filled with as much joy as debate.

The short debate follows Matthew Offord's Ten Minute Rule Bill presented in the House of Commons earlier this year which calls for a ban on the sale and use of electric shock collars.

Following spirited in - office debate and deliberation, we whittled down our master list of hotels openings from last year to just 100 properties.

He graduated from London's Royal College of Art in 2012, signed to David Zwirner the following year, and subsequently became the subject of heated art world debate when his prices rocketed (in some cases by as much as 3,000 percent).

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

NZ Climate Truth provides the following description on their home page: «Vincent is too modest, the content is global in scope and his penetrating analysis honed by years of reviewing IPCC reports is applied to issues arising in the Greenhouse / Global Warming / Climate Change debate.»

Mr. Black, you need to follow - up on his actions since the APS provided him the soapbox: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (hereafter referred to as TVMOB), who inherited his title, has been challenging Al Gore, who won a Nobel prize, to a debate for years now.

After years of bitter debate and haggling, we in Australia last month finally decided to follow Europe in putting a price on carbon.

Anyone that has been following AGW for the last couple of years or more knows that the debate is by far and no means over.

Got interested in the climate debate last year after becoming aware of Dr Curry and following her blog.

Although I am not a climate scientist I have been following the debate quite closely for about four years and during that time I have read many hundreds of articles regarding climate science.

The project is part of a $ 550 million plan by the state government to guarantee energy supply following a statewide blackout last year that turned into a national political debate over energy security and costs.

To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying.

This question includes multiple hypotheticals that may have seemed inconceivable a year or two ago, but now that we've shifted to debating about how they might be implemented, consider the following campaign promises of the current US President, which can not be trivially dismissed:

I began reading Senate Debates and committee proceedings when I was in Grade XI, at the North York Central Library and continued following the work of the Senate in great detail for more than 30 years, and, more generally in the last decade or so.

Little of this will come as a surprise to those who have followed the debate over U.S. patent policy in recent years, which has seen Congress propose multiple measures to curb the role of patent trolls, but deliver no new laws since 2011.

In the year that followed, students, faculty, librarians, faculty from other schools, and members of the public debated whether an expensive new university library should be able to restrict access, and if so, who could be restricted.

The following year we debated the future of the legal profession in light of Richard Susskind's book The End of Lawyers, and despite being teamed up with the inestimable intellect of UVic law school dean Donna Greschner, and the two of us giving away free dinosaur toys to all the attendees in an attempt to bribe them, we were trounced by University of British Columbia law dean Mary Anne Bobinski and her partner in crime, litigator, rock star and Paul McCartney's good friend, Michal Bain (who tires of being described as the «Bain» of my existence).

I have been following Senate Debates and committee proceedings for about 50 years, since I discovered them in the North York Reference Library in my last year of high school.

After much debate on the issue, in August 2014, Justice Paul Perell of the Ontario Superior Court ordered the destruction of IAP records following a 15 - year retention period, a decision Shapiro heralded as important to maintain the promise of confidentiality given to IAP claimants.

While debate will continue on the chances of getting a tenancy (and this is to be encouraged)-- the Bar has always been a competitive profession (certainly in my time in legal education of 30 years)-- this new initiative following Lord Neuberger's Diversity report is a good one.

There is quite a debate as to what constitutes substance abuse, so here are the definitions of substance dependence and substance abuse paraphrased from the (DSMIV) Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders: Substance dependence is defined as when a person continues to use the substance despite significant substance related problems and a minimum of (3) of the following signs are present at any time during the same year.