Sentences with phrase «last day of debate»

But on the last day of debate, the government attempted to amend the bill to delay implementation of the ban to July 2007.

Not exact matches

This latest flood comes just days after HBO personality John Oliver urged his viewers to contact the FCC in support of the Obama - era rules, echoing a similar call from 2014 that many saw as boosting the public's awareness of net - neutrality the last time the topic was under debate.

After staying largely mum in the last few days about the massacre and the escalating debate about weapons, Mr. Trump said Monday that he was supportive of a bipartisan effort to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases.

It has quality assets here in Texas, quality assets in the U.S., and with the recent news coming from the Russian Parliament that they may cut off uranium and titanium exports to the U.S., it is actually going to be debating this on May 15, the stock has been up about 20 or 30 % in the last few days, in large part because of the safety that the assets provide jurisdiction wise.

The late spike was understandable (and debated at the time) as any larger whales would have wanted to try to asses what total percentage of the ultimate supply they were likely to grab by diving in a the last minute — knowing what it was looking likely to be based on the previous 10 - 12 days of inflow — which was public, of course.

I've been thinking about that the last couple of days after getting sucked into one of the debates on this blog recently.

Last week, delegates then spent three days debating Rule 44, which proposed that instead of having a committee of delegates compile and shape the proposals into a final petition, as per usual, the issue of sexuality should instead be considered by all 864 delegates — split into teams of no more than 15 people.

Only last week had a chat about arsenal and being soft in center I argued the case for the benefit of arsenal to find out we are the hard way having said that the 2 goals scored against us were suspect one being offside and the other well you can debate about its legitimacy for ever a truly horrid day

Now there is a question which opens a massive debate about how OUR club is run but the answer has got to be yes, I miss Highbury and to say I loved the clock end as a child through to leaving there for the grove as an adult is an understament, although the stadium has been a financial burden obviously it is still a wonderful place to watch football in, but football and especially Arsenal has changed so much in the last thirty years, I really am concerned about how much our supporters are charged either season tickets or match day sales including food / drink, we have removed a vast core of our traditional support and young because of these prices.

After years of protests and rallies, a compromised bill and some eleventh - hour tension on the Council floor, the intensely debated Right to Know Act has been approved by the City Council in its very last day of session.

I based my views on a Telegraph article last year by Greg Rosen, which extracted from the 6 day Commons debate in October 1971, and the nature of sovereignty at stake clearly comes through as a topic of debate, with speeches by Waddington, Enoch Powell, Heath etc, all focused on that issue.

The development comes as the Lords debate the remaining stages of the bill and Labour holds an opposition day debate in the Commons in a last - ditch attempt to prevent the health and social care bill becoming law.

EAST VILLAGE — Debate over proposed rent hikes for the city's 1 million rent - stabilized units lasted throughout the day Monday during a marathon public session ahead of the Rent Guidelines Board's annual vote next week.

In a story that's continued to develop over the last several days, the city of Rochester will have a televised mayoral debate after all.

Last week Commons leader Harriet Harman said there would be a full day's debate on the 21 proposals, which she said would cover four «big ticket areas that we want to make change on» and which she believed MPs had a «good prospect of achieving a consensus».

The day before last night's debate, Boris told Ken «You've got to stop lying» about his taxes, and the culmination of all these allegations is that all four candidates released their tax returns today, as ageed during the debate.

The debate was intensified last week as Gordon Brown agreed the terms of the treaty with European leaders after a two - day summit in Lisbon.

Talk of minimum pricing has dominated the debate on tackling alcohol misuse in the British media for the last few days.

She did not pull her punches in referring to the mistakes of the last Labour government — the shame of having argued for 90 days detention without trial, for example (it was just before the debate on crime and justice).

Last year, a Bharara radio interview in which he made veiled references to his probe into the Cuomo administration's handling of a now - defunct anti-corruption commission aired the day of the only gubernatorial debate.

In POWER2010's Deliberative Poll last month these two proposals received resounding support from a gathered microcosm of the population, given sufficient time and information to understand the proposals they debated; meanwhile, support for Brown's Alternative Vote actually fell over the two days from 43 % to 36 %!

The contentiousness of the debate was on full display over the last two weeks, as a pro-charter school group filed its second lawsuit alleging a «crisis» of violence in the city's schools — after which leaders of the city's education and police departments spent consecutive days reassuring reporters that city schools are safer than ever.

«However, in light of the debate over the last few days it is clear that compliance with the «legislative» test of the manifesto commitment is not adequate.

But certainly by doing what she did from her earliest days in opposition to her last ones in government: by striving to set the terms of debate.

The survey was conducted over three days last week, including Wednesday, when Schroeder went after the mayor on a range of issues during a debate televised on WNED.

The Last Days of the Neanderthals The proven proximity has fostered a debate over whether humans and Neanderthals might have mated with each other as well.

The study challenges a long - held assumption that the last common ancestor (or LCA) of humans and apes - the identity of which is still a matter of debate - would have resembled a chimpanzee with hands like modern - day chimps.

Last day of the conference ended with final panel debate (as usually with beer and potato chips).

10 Things We Learned At The GDI Amsterdam Conference — Highlights from the day of insights & debate in our roundup of last week's conference.

The trailer that cut between the two halves of last night's presidential debate was of Steven Spielberg's «Lincoln», starring Daniel Day Lewis as the...

The contentiousness of the debate was on full display over the last two weeks, as a pro-charter school group filed its second lawsuit alleging a «crisis» of violence in the city's schools — after which leaders of the city's education and police departments spent consecutive days reassuring reporters that city schools are safer than ever.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

Over the last few day's I've seen a lot of debate over whether or not the Retina display is really as great as Apple claims it is.

John Johnson, owner of Ventura Harbor Boat Yard, spent most of a day last week thinking of ways to drum up repair business, and debating how many employees he was going to have to lay off that afternoon.

On the last day of the course, the students made presentations and debated the proposals, ultimately selecting Tajima's project for the commission.

Moments of Experience The Spectator; June 19, 2004; Gascoigne, Laura; 700 + words At its annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in May, the Royal Society of British Artists held a debate... these days is on paper: Grayson Perry won last year's Turner Prize by drawing on pots.

We debated whether the Democratic platform tussle over a carbon price and natural gas policy between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, resolved a few days ago, was the last gasp of climate change as a big issue in the presidential campaign.

The debate dominated the final days of the legislative session last month, resulting in a defeat for Brown and the bill's author, state Senate leader Kevin de León (D - Los Angeles).

In the last couple of days I have put up a few posts at RealClimate to suggest that a common public forum would serve a useful purpose in the climate debate.

The fact that the last thread garnered almost 1000 comments in one day is very significant as far as the demographics of the debate is concerned.

After years of posturing and months of debating, we're mere days away from — at long last — actually voting.

Parliament debated the database on the last day of February.

Last Sunday I streamed two hours of the Vikings - Texans game, used the phone throughout the day, and obsessively scrolled Twitter during the presidential debate.

The mandate adopted last November allowed us to hold four days of substantive debate on this emerging issue.

Mr. Zuckerberg's last public post on Facebook was a March 2 photo of himself and his wife, Priscilla Chan, baking hamantaschen cookies to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim; Ms. Sandberg's most recent post was a four - day - old photo from her child's debate competition.

So one of the fundamental principles that the Democrats base their support for this disallowance motion on is the fact that the State regimes are based on legislation which, at the end of the day, will not hold up», Senator Woodley as reported in Senate 2000, Debates, No. 16, p19520 The speaker from the Greens party said «I will be voting for this disallowance because the regulations brought forward from Western Australian legislation do not uphold the spirit of the legislation that has gone through this parliament in the last decade of the High Court rulings that Indigenous people should have a real say in what is happening on their land», Senator Brown as reported in Senate 2000, Debates, No. 16, p19524