Sentences with phrase «last decade of debate»

«The last decade of debate has shown cross-party consensus is possible.

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While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country, including 12,000 miles of high - speed rail built just in the last decade.

The Northern Gateway Project, introduced in the middle of the last decade, promises to keep British Columbia mired in debate for years more to come.

Even Roberts acknowledges that «few people are really listening, that the debate is politically rigged, that few people have the nerve or willingness to hold unpopular positions» and «the development of the culture over the last few decades has inured people to the creational realities.»

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Over the last several decades the academic study of religion has been marked by a debate that, put much too simply, pits a «Yale school» against a....

The NWLC graphic caught the public debate around tax cuts for millionaires at a good time, hitting a nerve with people angry about constant talk of budget cuts without tax increases for people who've done well in the last decade or two.

Over the last decades, populism and technocracy have attracted a great deal of public attention and generated a lively scholarly debate.

As has been discussed many times in similar debates, for every type of housing fewer houses have been built in the last decade, which I know is as deeply troubling to many Labour Members as it is to us in the Conservative party.

The debate over the environmental and economic impact of hydraulic fracking in New York State has raged for the better part of the last decade.

The potentially hefty surplus could set of a rare battle at the Capitol in next year's budget debate: What do with money a cash - strapped state hasn't seen in years following the economic downturn of the last decade.

«I do worry that a return to selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decades in our schools by throwing something else into the debate», she said.

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

During a more than one - hour debate, sponsored by the Oneonta Area LWV and League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area, Faso cited how more than 1 million people have left Upstate in the last decade, in part, because of stagnant wages, job losses and exorbitant property taxes.

As debate about creating a toll system to limit traffic in the most congested parts of Manhattan heats up, a transformation in technology could make congestion pricing a far more realistic notion than when it was last proposed a decade ago.

29 GENETICALLY MODIFIED SUPERHUMANS The debate over human germ - line engineering — reworking genes in the sperm and egg to create inheritable new traits — sputtered out early in the last decade after gene therapy had a series of notable failures.

A debate rages on whether President Reagan did or didn't have Alzheimer's disease during his time in office.With what we have learned in the last decade about the disease, the question is relatively meaningless, except perhaps to score political points.The simple answer: of course he did.The newest technology — consisting of imaging and spinal taps — shows that the disease process begins its relentless course as many as 15 years before a firm diagnosis.

Whether it is actually possible to do so has remained a topic of great debate over the last several decades.

Those last two details I gathered from the Associated Press, but that attempt by a state government ultimately — some of them hoped — to overturn Roe v. Wade is Kaye's entry point for two decades - worth of protests and the debates — philosophical, moral, political, et al — that arise in the process.

She said: «For me, I do worry that a return to more selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decade in our schools, by throwing something else into the education debate rather than focusing on every school offering an excellent education.»

A couple of reports last week reanimated the debate about what to do with Catholic schools, which have been hemorrhaging students for the last couple of decades.

By: Dr. Scott P. Ardoin, University of Georgia Across the last decade great emphasis and much debate has surrounded the administration of state mandated (SM) tests in public schools.

And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the national debates and policy agendas around charters.

We think of parent trigger not as a new law, but as a new paradigm, as an entirely new way of thinking about public education and education reform and a break from the debate that has dominated the conversation around education reform for a good part of the last decade.

THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform act that will be 10 years old in January, has fallen along partisan lines even though school improvement is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation over the last decade.

Dogmatic chronologists may debate whether the first decade of the 21st century C.E. actually ended last December.

In this state of relative non-recognition within the discourse and debate around art and culture in general, the subject of the «reductive» as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80's and 90's.

The scientific basis for concern was largely in place before the issue arose as an area of policy concern, let alone the public «debate» of the last decade.

But, the AGW debate of the last decades is a concrete sociological context.

Although this claim is based on a questionable interpretation of statistical data, it has been a focal point of media debate for the last decade or more.

I mean if, as Nurse is now suggesting, the scientific mainstream understanding of global warming is that it's happening but that it's open to debate how significant it is then doesn't this completely contradict pretty much everything he, the Royal Society, and its two previous presidents Lords Rees and May have been doing this last decade or more to stoke up the Anthropogenic Global Warming scare for all they're worth?

If we are in a long - term warming trend that will last hundreds of years more, I'm afraid debates about anomaly charts, and whether or not a year set a new record, are mental masturbation — some decades will have warming, other decades will have cooling, but record high average temperatures will occur regularly or irregularly while the Modern Warming temperature uptrend is in progress. . .

I began reading Senate Debates and committee proceedings when I was in Grade XI, at the North York Central Library and continued following the work of the Senate in great detail for more than 30 years, and, more generally in the last decade or so.

Her judgment is clear and unambiguous, and settles much of the debate over the last decade.

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