Sentences with phrase «highly controversial areas»

This is one of those highly controversial areas of family law and a huge amount of time is spent arguing about it.

Retail, of course, is a highly controversial area of investment, as a lot of disruption is occurring.

Not exact matches

The law has proven highly - controversial, especially in upstate and rural areas.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

The plans were highly controversial and caused protests from neighbours and business in the area in Spitalfields, east London.

Flannery was highly critical of Australian energy policies, and some of his positions on global warming were controversial, including his insistence that nuclear energy be considered as an alternative to coal - fired power plants in populous areas without renewable sources of energy.

For this and other reasons they are often highly controversial in the local areas where they are proposed.