Sentences with phrase «large over the debate»

Now, with Congress preparing for the reauthorization of the school lunch program, the specter of accountability is looming large over the debate.

Not exact matches

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

Back in 2000, when more than a 100 people died in Ford Explorers, many of them equipped with Firestone tires, there was a national debate over large sport - utility vehicles and whether they were prone to rollover.

The larger issue is that it's now possible to hold a serious, legitimate debate on whether these two sites wield excessive influence over hundreds of millions — or perhaps billions — of people worldwide.

It's a long running debate: is Apple's device - first, cloud - second approach to artificial intelligence a brilliant and differentiating maneuver or simply a weak attempt to keep up constrained by the company's larger business aims that prioritize hardware over software and services?

In a sign that tragedy often does not move the polarized debate over guns in society, Florida's House of Representatives voted Tuesday to kill a bill banning AR - 15 rifles, assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

The panel was inspired in large part by the recent debate in Toronto over Mayor Rob Ford's attempt to sell social housing units to private buyers.

California and Arizona, the two largest solar markets in the country, are at the center of the most contentious and closely watched debates over solar energy payments.

Once, in a debate over the wisdom of buying the largest battery manufacturer in China, Lemann prevailed on his fellow board members by saying the strategic value of the acquisition outweighed concerns over price.

Second, the debate over immigrant impacts on American wages is confined to the lower single digits — immigrants may increase the relative wages for some Americans by a tiny amount and decrease them by a larger amount for the few Americans who directly compete against them.

While associating with Bitcoin and offering upgrades and improvements has helped Litecoin succeed, the debate remains whether a non-unique altcoin can sustain its growth over larger period of time.

We already knew that Germans were complaining about the impact of the post-crisis regulatory framework in the small savings and cooperative banks of the country, and that this was reflected to an extent by the debate in the US over the slow disappearance of their small regional banks (while large banks kept growing).

The national security is a wrinkle in a larger debate over manufacturing in America: whether the government should intervene to shelter a place like Hawesville from the winds of global trade.

In Canada, the debate in society at large is over, and great strides have been made in the US and elsewhere.

But the middle ground was virtually lost in the larger debate when Clarence Darrow took over as the head of Scopes» defense team.

«Irreconcilable» disagreement over same - sex unions is once again prompting debate over splitting the historic United Methodist Church (UMC), one of America's largest denominations.

There is much debate over the relative merits of conventional farming, which has a large environmental impact on the land it uses, and organic farming, which may require greater land use for the same yield.

But for the larger group of casual fans with an outside curiosity about the national championship or the sport in general, the constant hammering over the head with terms like «native sandy areas» (and attendant rules parsing, delay, and debate) will sound like the stuff of a niche sport, and is a turnoff.

Such discussions over school lunches and healthy eating echo a larger national debate about the role government should play in individual food choices.

Teachers from across the UK will be gathering in Birmingham at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, over the Easter weekend to debate motions for which members from across the UK have voted.

The debate over parliamentary consent and security council authorisation reflect the extent to which the shadow of the Iraq war still looms large over British defence decision - making.

If this happens in a national crisis (say a nuclear warhead took out a large portion of the chain of command quickly) and has not been resolved previously, this debate might not matter and the ex-president will likely take over quickly but temporarily.

Commenting after the debate on Motion 48, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «While there has been over 40 years of advancements in equality between the sexes, in recent years there has been something of a step back.

The debate over the «Raise The Age» legislation centered in large part around shifting cases involving teens to the family court system, which some lawmakers worried was overburdened and in need of more resources to begin with.

The debate comes as the presidential campaign and the national debate writ large are convulsing over questions of race and gender in the United States.

Our overarching goal is to inform New Yorkers and enrich and enliven the debate over the decisions that affect everyone who lives or works here — or simply cares about America's largest city.

Members of Connecticut's largest teachers» union will be rallying in support overhauling the state's education system and urging lawmakers to include voices from educators in the debate over Governor Dannel P. Malloy's education proposals.

Given the race features an incumbent, the debate centered in large part on James» record as public advocate over the last four years, especially her

The continuing debate in Buffalo schools over a policy for transgender students drew such a large crowd Wednesday night that the meeting was moved from the usual, cramped board room to the much larger Common Council Chambers.

They haven't seen details on a timeline for the executive action and its implementation; how new facilities will be identified or created; what kind of programming the administration will provide to the newly relocated population; or what impact the new system will have on the larger debate over «Raise the Age,» which they expect to continue next year.

Writing in a linked Comment, Christopher Colvin from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Abigail Harrison from Brown University School of Public Health in the USA say, «Currently, the increasingly narrow and fierce debates over the HIV and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate link have focused on whether a large randomised controlled trial should be done to better understand this link.

At that point I keeled over in pain; the debate pertaining to the correct name of this large lizard plays a massive role in my life.

Ocean scientists debate over the efficacy of MPAs when it comes to migratory species, like hammerheads, with a range too large to ever protect in full.

Medical research is only a small part of the larger debate over privacy, and the U.S. spying scandals uncovered last year have prompted citizens and politicians to take a tough stance.

The debate is part of a larger controversy over whether or not the country should phase out its nuclear power by 2022, as current law stipulates.

There are suggestions that the clouded leopard may show a primitive form of sabre - toothedness — although there is some debate over whether or not its teeth are large enough relative to its skull for it to qualify as a true sabre - toothed cat.

Recently, the government, headed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, triggered a public debate over plans to construct potentially the world's largest coal port adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Area, and to excise 74,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage — listed site.

There has been a lengthy debate over how best to protect the bird, which is North America's largest grouse.

The findings of the study are part of a much larger, fiercer debate within the scientific community over the megafauna extinction.

This is clearest in the Americas, where the debate over whether humans or climate caused Late Pleistocene extinctions has raged for decades (the truth is probably a combination of these two factors, including a trophic cascade caused by human - mediated extinctions of large carnivores).

In the heated ethical debates over embryonic stem cells, Parkinson's disease often figures large.

San Antonio — In what appeared to be a major development in the debate over the quality of the teaching force, officials of the largest association of teacher educators expressed support this month for the idea of shifting teacher training from the undergraduate to the graduate level.

The summer issue of Education Next includes a debate over whether charter schools should continue to expand in cities like Washington, D.C. so that a larger share of students are attending charter schools.

More broadly, the Renewal effort's fate will have implications for the larger national debate over urban school reform.

The group has become a focal point in the larger debate over whether the existing system of education colleges and certifications are doing enough to meaningfully prepare teachers for the classroom.

Changed votes by two Board members over the approval of two Aspire charter schools at this week's Board meeting gave the public a glimpse at a much larger debate over whether charter schools based in Los Angeles should be allowed to operate their special education programs through a partnership with a far - off district that costs...

Over the course of three article - length papers, my dissertation seeks to find an empirical foothold in each of these large and unwieldy debates.

When his body was found in a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, and the coroner ruled it a suicide, Mr. Ruelas's death became a flash point, drawing the city's largest newspaper into the middle of the debate over reforming the nation's second - largest school district.

The clash over education had been building throughout the three - day convention, underscoring a larger debate taking place in education circles.

Although the national debate over public education has become polarized during the past several years, with bitter divisions inside and between political parties, the PDK / Gallup poll showed a surprising level of agreement in the public at large.