Sentences with phrase «issues of whether»

Although this could only answer a simple question, it would stop experts and those who promote them from hiding behind name calling and allow the public to concentrate on the real hard issues of whether this is real, a danger, or no problemo!

Ongoing debate surrounds the issues of whether these programs are effective as implemented, when and where the courses should be offered, and who should pay the bill.

Nevertheless, the twin issues of whether such training should be compulsory and whether competence should be assessed at the end of it remain vexed.

Two months and a losing lawsuit later, they are still trying to work out issues of whether elected officials should have to sign the same policy every other city employee does.

We are working with DPR and hopefully, by 2019 the issues of whether we could not account for our crudes will no longer occur.

Leaving aside the (still interesting but tangential) issues of whether rule 40b can be amended prior to convention; OR lawyering of its language to benefit specific candidates; the question I have is:

They have done so in order to emphasize how important it is that the Tribunal Chair rule on the issues of whether breastfeeding women are protected from discrimination.

Even since Campbell returned to the squad last summer, there have been issues of whether to play him, loan him, sell him and his agent keeps popping up and having a moan.

While most people are firmly in one camp or the other, roughly 3 to 4 out of 10 Americans either sympathized with both sides — or with neither — on issues of whether employers should be required to provide birth control (43 %), transgender people should be able to use the bathroom of their choice (37 %), or businesses should be required to serve same - sex couples (33 %).

A nationwide assortment of state cybersecurity regulations «raises the issue of whether such regulations violate the U.S. Constitution's «dormant» Commerce Clause, which restricts states» ability to discriminate against or unduly burden interstate commerce,» write Matthew A. Schwartz and Corey Omer for the Clearing House, a banking and payments trade group.

The eight - justice court is hearing arguments Monday in two cases that deal with the same basic issue of whether race played too large a role in the drawing of electoral districts, to the detriment of African - Americans.

The justices have been more forgiving of maps based on partisan advantage, though they soon may confront the issue of whether overly partisan districts can themselves violate the Constitution, in a case from Wisconsin.

«Employers are also wrestling with the issue of whether they can [bar] employees from certain electronic activities if the employee is using their own device,» Krugel says.

The court was very concerned about this issue, but found the issue of whether the AG was failing to enforce against seasonal fantasy sports was not yet squarely before the court — but it will be.

That doesn't settle the issue of whether Indiana's RFRA is a good law, but it's an important distinction to note.

«It was just an issue of whether this torrid pace of growth would continue uninterrupted or whether we would hit some points at which we need to adjust a bit and approach consumers in a little bit different manner,» he said.

The issue of whether the oilsands would find a way to market has been a key issue in the U.S. State Department's review of the Keystone XL pipeline.

First, there's the issue of whether the donor is living or dead, Art Caplan, head of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, told Business Insider in a previous article.

Observed the report: «The context in which the policy was adopted and even the issue of whether a rule or policy has been actually adopted are also important in these cases.»

The study, in fact, does not address the issue of whether a dilbit spill, once it has happened, has more serious consequences than any other oil spill.

A mid-September deadline for comments has since passed and the CSA is now reviewing submissions on the issue of whether or not proxy advisory firms should be regulated.

The issue of whether startups should classify their workers as employees has come to the fore in recent months.

While it's unlikely the North Korean leader wants to become a new kind of activist investor — despite the generous compensation — the hacking of Sony reignites the issue of whether the Japanese conglomerate should spin off its entertainment unit as Loeb's Third Point suggested.

The presence of the Alberta Alliance Party raised the issue of whether or not the current federal system is in the benefit of Alberta.

The issue of whether it is better for a company to pay out dividends or retain earnings is yet another long - running «religious» argument.

The Supreme Court declines to resolve issue of whether state hospitals can be sued for false insurance claims.

The broader issue of whether we should accept an average current account deficit of 4 3/4 per cent of GDP in the long run would require another paper as long as the one I am presenting today.

However, there also appears to be a serious practical issue of whether Bitcoin could «scale» in size to ever represent a viable alternative to government issued currencies.

The issue of whether priests should be allowed to marry is utterly separate from the issue of child abuse by clergy.

These instances seem to raise an issue of whether the datum from which abstraction is made — concrete passage — is not different in kind from the three successive abstractions: space - time, its derivative set of time - systems, and a single member of this derivative set serving in the activity of natural measurement.

I fear, however, that Barr has misunderstood my argument and possibly misconceived the issue of whether the human intellect can discern the reality of design in the world of living things.

In one of its more famous passages, the Talmud records a debate about the mundane (but important) issue of whether a certain oven can be used to cook kosher food.

The issue of whether faith should gird us to not fear scientific truth is an intriguing one; the Holocaust was scientifically true, after all, meaning the facts could not....

Leaving aside the issue of whether or not EBC may act in an abortifacient way in some cases, every single such study has found that schemes promoting EBC simply do not reduce observed rates of unwanted pregnancies or abortions.

The issue of whether religious confessions should be considered privileged has long plagued governments and courts across the world.

Chapter 7 deals with a famous textual issue of whether David actually killed Goliath or not (cf. 2 Sam 21:19), and chapter 8 makes the case that Jesus was wrong in many of His predictions about the future.

This discussion seems to have moved from a discussion on 1 Corinthians 9 (which could be used in a wrong way) to the issue of whether those lead a church should be paid so I offer the above thoughts to restore some balance.

He told Premier: «There's a clarity on the issue of whether gay sex is right or wrong throughout scripture at every stage.

The issue of whether or not Christ possessed the visio beatifica, in his own words, is whether Jesus by this vision «saw not only the essence of God but also all that was, is or will be, in any way whatever, done, thought, or said by all, at any time» (p. 5).

In the UK at least, there's a sense in which people choose their church less on its dogma and doctrine and more on the very real issue of whether or not it has a pulse.

To me the current issue of whether gays and lesbians should be welcomed into the church is non-debatable.

You see, this is not an issue of whether you go to heaven or hell.

It was the dubious issue of whether one can actually be sure that there is true judgment in the on - going scene that led to the evolution of the myth of the Last Judgment.

At stake is the seemingly obscure issue of whether the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima can any longer describe itself as either Catholic or pontifical — ie, papal.

Following President Obama's affirmation of same - sex marriage in May of last year, LifeWay Research released data showing the public was split on the issue of whether homosexuality was a sin.

Funny that I should get this during a time I am really struggling with the issue of whether a pastor can really blog honestly or not.

This is an issue of whether we live in a secular nation or a theocracy.

3 It should be noted that I have carefully avoided the issue of whether any eternal object can monadically and / or polyadically ingress conceptually, and this is due to a lack of definitive reference in PR on the matter.

Locke postpones the whole issue of whether matter is active, writing in chapter xxi of book II:

How does the question of reactor waste disposal relate to the overall issue of whether or not we should employ nuclear power generation at all?