Sentences with phrase «fueled years of debate»

That goal has fueled years of debate over when women should start going for regular mammograms and how often to get them.

Not exact matches

The price of bitcoin surged through $ 10,000 on Wednesday, adding to its ten-fold jump in value this year and fueling a debate as to whether the virtual currency is gaining mainstream acceptance or is merely a bubble waiting to burst.

It's a tired debate, but yet another home run explosion — an average of 2.6 per game had been hit through Sunday; last year's record total (5,528 homers) was achieved at a pace of 2.3 — again has fueled talk that the ball is juiced.

The debate over the future of blocklong Haas Park in Logan Square has been fueled by an apparent gang - related shooting last week of a 20 - year - old man near the park.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

The listing of the coho salmon seems likely to fuel the already heated debate surrounding the Endangered Species Act this year.

Scientists have debated for years what will happen to our planet when the sun's fusion furnace begins to run out of fuel and swell into a red giant a few billion years from now.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after she was passed over for an Oscar nomination for best director, an exclusion that fueled a debate over the lack of diversity in this year's Academy Awards nominations.

ANITA / U.S.A. (Director: Freida Mock)-- Anita Hill, an African - American woman, charges Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment in explosive Senate hearings in 1991 — bringing sexual politics into the national consciousness and fueling 20 years of international debate on the issues.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

For years the debate over fuel economy has been about making cars smaller and lighter, changes that could put people at greater risk of dying or being injured in crashes.

Nevertheless, the new report is likely to fuel the sometimes vitriolic debate between environmentalists who see free - roaming domestic cats as an invasive species — superpredators whose numbers are growing globally even as the songbirds and many other animals the cats prey on are in decline — and animal welfare advocates who are appalled by the millions of unwanted cats (and dogs) euthanized in animal shelters each year.

It's been fiercely debated (read: argued via deafening screaming matches) ever since Ocarina of Time was released; fuel was only added to the fire when the OoT manga, while non-canon, chose to support the side of Zelda actually transforming into a boy for the seven years Link slept through.

In the first weeks of this 10th anniversary year of the September 11th attacks and the subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, with global economic and political policies fueling conflict and prompting revolt, there have been numerous programs, talks, and debates around the city about walls: metaphorical walls created by censorship, physical walls dividing Israeli and Palestinian territories or Mexican borders, but also boundaries that some artists insist are essential to maintaining the integrity of cultural expression and identity.

Every year at this time Hong Kong's social life goes into overdrive with a whirlwind of more than 25 gallery openings, charity art auctions, debates and champagne - fueled parties held on warehouse rooftops, at poolsides and parking garages.

Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global warming denialists don't have to win the debate — they simply have to confuse the public indefinitely to successfully undermine any political action which might hit the interests of their backers in the fossil fuel industries

While the present policy debate on climate change focuses on 2020, 2050 and 2100 targets, our present use of fossil fuels will continue to affect the atmosphere and the oceans for many, many thousands of years.

«This doesn't work for something like Segregated Witness (SegWit) of course,» he said, referring to a bitcoin code change that fueled a two - year debate in the community over the technical direction of the protocol.