Sentences with phrase «for fierce debate»

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

The National Representative Body will create formal and informal mechanisms that provide a space for fierce debates capturing the diversity of views across the whole population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Not exact matches

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 generatioFor 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 generatiofor two generations.

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.

It is a wild ride indeed, with high stakes, fierce debates, and all sides burning for the purity of the gospel.

And, as I quickly learned, that debate is a fierce and emotional one for many people.

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.

Tolbert and Howard waged the fiercest of this year's three countywide contests, despite little or no direct confrontation after the incumbent shunned most invitations for debates or candidate forums.

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.

But for decades, a fierce debate has raged among scientists: Could the winged dinosaur take flight on its own?

When it comes to the potential for time travel, there is still fierce debate.

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

After 200 years of ambiguity, years of fierce debate and a record number of formal comments on the proposed name, a commission has declared gigantea the one true species term for the Aldabra giant tortoises.

As a result, while debates between teachers» unions and reform - minded Democrats have been fierce, they have also largely stayed within the bounds of Democratic convention, with even Democrats for Education Reform seeking to temper criticism of teachers» unions by embracing «reform» unionism and denouncing Republican efforts to curtail collective bargaining.

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.

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.

There is no political necessity to let your fiercest critics frame the terms of debate so that they get what they have unsuccessfully sought for the past ten years — a Kyoto - type energy rationing system.

For more than a week, the episode has fueled a fierce debate on the blogosphere and in newspaper opinion columns and once again placed global warming science under intense scrutiny.

Fierce policy debates about responsibility for climate mitigation and adaptation have long focused on the «common but differentiated responsibilities» of nations, the framework used for the Paris climate negotiations.

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.

For more than a decade, a fierce debate about peak oil has been raging between those who think a peak in global oil production is at hand and those who think the world is not close to running out of oil.

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.

Supporters said the accord puts off for now fierce political debates about how or even whether to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that collect in the atmosphere and create a greenhouse effect that warms the earth's surface.

«The recent International Privacy Commissioners» Conference in Uruguay provided a perfect forum as a neutral ground for a fierce policy debate.

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.

There is fierce legal debate among the several insurers of those employers to clarify the appropriate «trigger» for mesothelioma coverage — the point from which the appropriate indemnifying insurer can be identified.

He thinks the law practice program approved late last year, after fierce debate, by the Law Society of Upper Canada could be «monumentally important» and a model for the rest of the country.

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