Sentences with phrase «issue up for debate»

The issue up for debate was based on Ross River Dena v. Yukon, a 2012 precedent - setting decision of the Yukon Court of Appeal that held Yukon's mining laws did not provide for adequate consultation with the Ross River Dena Council.

Sticking with the environmental theme, the issue up for debate this time was whether there is a public right to a healthy global atmosphere.

After Aug. 2010, I moved back to VA but apparently the only issue up for debate here and responsible for the astronomical bill, is my short 2009 stint in MD, from Aug. 2009 to Dec. 2009.

Whatever the issue up for debate in your classroom, decide in advance — or ask students to help you identify — the stakeholders in the debate.

22:00 - By now it's painfully obvious that most of the issues up for debate today won't be reached.

Not exact matches

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

The new deal essentially shelves the issue, leaving it up for debate sometime down the road, possibly by the special Congressional committee.

The current political climate within the American Church is full of debate over a myriad of national and moral issues, however, protecting the environment should not be up for debate...

its an issue that of course is up for debate like any other, but for some reason it has more emotive power than most others too — why is that?

That's what Ockham's Razor is good for — taking complex issues and ideas that are up for debate and reducing them down to see which one requires the least amount of assumption.

In a debate with an advocate for abortion, one occasionally comes up against an informed opponent who seeks to undermine the Church's position on the issue by pointing out that the Universal Doctor of the Church, St Thomas Aquinas, held to the doctrine of delayed animation or hominisation.

@tallulah13 The Greek gods were made in the image of men by men, some, Hercules for example was a man.The living God made man in His image.You choose, but if you continue to avoid honest debate I'll quit replying to you.There are many examples of proven Bible truths, the Greek b.s you brought up just confuses the real issue and adds nothing to the conversation.You know it, I know it, so does any thinking person.Focus on the topic at hand or go elsewhere.

Angered by the new evidence - based scientific view, a handful of disgruntled therapists created a new organization to argue that hom0s3xuality was a choice and create the false impression that the issue remained up for debate.

Now it's in the news again, ever since Michele Bachmann dusted up Texas governor Rick Perry during a presidential candidate debate for issuing an executive order to require vaccination of all 11 - and 12 - year - old girls in Texas.

The cause of those issues is what's up for debate, so Jerry Crasnick took an extended look to try to figure it out by talking to sources and the Mets themselves.

We know that there is a serious debate in this country about those issues, but there is no question in my mind, that the [NFL] and the Dallas Cowboys are going to stand up for the flag

I run a modest but pretty vocal community of people who take issue with the current state of breastfeeding promotion (as well as people who are totally cool with breastfeeding promotion, but ended up using formula for whatever reason and are willing to put up with the constant drama and debate because they have few other communities where they feel safe asking questions about formula feeding).

«I have told my compatriots that we don't run on the health of our opponents and so we don't make that an issue but it has come up for public debate,» he said on Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV Tuesday night.

One interesting illustration of the issue came up when the US Republican presidential candidate last fall, Mitt Romney, opened the first of the three presidential debates by saying that he wanted to cut off funding for PBS, the public - funded broadcasting service in the US.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

Still, Long became tripped up a bit on the same - sex marriage issue in the NY1 / YNN debate this month, saying that as a U.S. senator she wouldn't advocate against repeal of the New York law at all, allowing for Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos to score a point in the forum.

«The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.»

«Mr Darling has called for a positive debate free from abuse - he should now aim to live up to that pledge, and stop trying to divert attention from the real issues.»

«Mr Darling has called for a positive debate free from abuse — he should now aim to live up to that pledge, and stop trying to divert attention from the real issues.»

When informed that James had agreed to debate him, Polanco said in a statement to Gotham Gazette, «I am glad my opponent has taken up my challenge for a spirited debate on the issues.

«When it comes to foreign policy, he had no answer at all,» Grimm told NY1 after the last debate, «After a year and a half of running for Congress, he should've studied up on the issues.»

As the UK Youth Parliament gears up for its debate in the House of Commons on 23 November, Total Politics interviews 5 budding young politicians on the 5 issues they will be deliberating.

Unfortunately, because the Assembly failed to take up this legislation today, I will be forced to consider using my executive authority to call for another Extraordinary Session so that this critical issue can finally be debated by both houses of the Legislature.»

Amid debates about renewing the party's position on issues such as austerity, immigration, patriotism and Brexit, one of the themes that came up repeatedly at fringe events was how Labour could to start to rebuild trust and support across the country by setting out a radical programme for devolution.

The issue of whether the comptroller could hold up the entire budget by refusing to certify it has been debated for years, but has never been tested in the courts.

Mr Martin rebutted calls from backbench MPs for debate on a no confidence motion against him, saying it was up to the government or opposition to debate the issue.

Health care, an issue of hot debate across the country, has been a focus for Democrats in the 19th district, especially considering Faso's involvement in a provision in the House bill that upstate Republicans in Congress have lined up to support.

Now, in an echo of the recent wrangling over Pluto's status as a planet, a pair of astrophysicists from Australia and Germany want to start a debate on the issue — and they have even set up a Web site for people to cast their votes.

But the issues thrown up are still arousing passions today, as witnessed by further arguments in favour of using tidal power in the Severn and debate over the UK government's recent go - ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset.

It was the first in a series of critical votes on emotive issues in committee stage debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - the biggest shake - up of law in this area for 20 years.

The benefits continue to be debated in the fitness world (superior athletic training; safer; better for those with back issues) but I personally enjoy challenging my muscles by varying up my techniques, choice of exercises, resistance levels and so on.

Googling that question suggests that there is sufficient nutriitonal value in microwavable brown rice for it not to be an issue but whether or not that is academically sound is up for debate I suppose.

that's up for debate based on your activity level, gender and body size, but from everything I've read and studied, I think going below 100g carbohydrates per day is rarely ever a good thing for anyone consistently unless you have a medical issue It is just not necessary.

At the same time that the board was debating the policy, wrangling over credentialing rules for teachers of limited - English - proficient students was pointing up sharp divisions on the issue among California teachers.

In debating the issue, they point out that charters with open - access admission policies are an option already available to neighborhood residents; for admission to most they need only show up on time and enroll.

For all of this year's debate about the future of testing, accountability, and other policy issues around the No Child Left Behind Act, virtually no one has brought up the question of how best to give out billions of dollars a year under the law.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, who will be taking over the Senate's education committee, has declared an NCLB update his top priority, and he wants to attack the issue fast, potentially having a bill up for debate before the end of January.

As the debate about the need for national standards heats up, it's helpful to remember this is not the first time the issue has been raised.

In an email and in - person conversations with his constituents earlier this month, Senator John Alexander (R - Wake) said the class size issue would not come up for debate at all during the legislature's January special session.

The one issue not up for debate in the Texas Legislature or in the minds of citizens is that the public school system is in a particular kind of crisis.

One of the issues that has been up for debate since ebooks gained their current state of popularity is what defines it as a book?

There are several issues that should be up for debate.

A number of municipal governments have been struggling with this issue and at least bringing it up for debate.

As Laura Nirenberg, legislative analyst for Best Friends» Focus on Felines campaign, pointed out to me, the bill's language already addresses many issues brought up in the debate.

The good news is, franchises like Dark Souls have opened up arguments that were previously closed, so I think there's room for debate on these kinds of issues.