Sentences with phrase «last year debated»

My friend Esteban Kolsky last year debated Nelson...

As Congress last year debated a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut, special interests mobilized to support and oppose the measure.

Furthermore, over the last year a debate has raged in the U.S. over rises to the minimum wage.

Not exact matches

But four years ago, the last time the two major parties debated on the national stage, video was not a major component of social media.

A tax hike in Western Australia stands to lower the value of a massive gold deposit and further drive apart its owners: the world's biggest producers of the metal who have spent the last two years debating what the mine is worth.

Last year, the city saw quite a bit of political debate over it.

Sure, at debates, like last night's great one in Milwaukee, candidates are always asked questions that begin with, «As president, will you...» but we all know that presidents alone can't really do anything but put their socks on or, in more recent years, play a lot of golf.

There still is some debate over what to call the affliction that Canada suffered last year.

While she started her research last year, gender bias has long been a topic of debate at Facebook and other Silicon Valley tech giants.

The Fox News debate held early last month brought in a record 24 million viewers, 7.9 million of which were between 25 and 54 years old, making this the most - watched GOP primary debate ever.

But the debate should be informed by fact — and the fact is that government's share of economic output has shrunk over the last 20 years.»

Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter concurs, noting that last year analysts were debating whether Ottawa was in position to post a surplus a year earlier — 2014 — something the prime minister bragged about during the 2011 campaign.

The Federal Communications Commission has done what no one, including apparently chairman Tom Wheeler, once thought possible when the debate over net neutrality erupted early last year.

CNN noted that its growth doesn't look as impressive as its competitors in part because the network had a number of special presidential debates and town - hall events in the first quarter of last year that boosted its reach, so the rise since then is smaller by comparison.

«The key point of debate was whether the soft demand for Apple phones was already incorporated into the full - year SoC test outlook provided last quarter; it doesn't appear that it was.»

Meanwhile, in the last year, YouTube videos of alleged police brutality have gone viral, helping to inspire the growth of the #blacklivesmatter movement, and America's swelling prison population has even become a subject in presidential debates.

I have had mixed feelings over the last eight years as the American political debate over the economy has become more focused on the institutional and external forces holding workers back.

Tesla Energy's former head, Mateo Jaramillo, debated Schroeder about their respective energy storage strategies on stage at US Energy Storage Summit last year.

Hampton's future has been the subject of debate since Stephen Hester was forced out as chief executive of RBS last year.

Towards the end of the summer last year, this bitcoin scaling debate surfaced again as it was becoming clear that the transaction limit for bitcoin was semi regularly being reached and that it would not be long until it would be regularly hit and the network would become congested.

Ahead of the letter, many expected Buffett to weigh in on the «active vs. passive» debate that has been heating up over the last couple years in the investing world.

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.

Last year in one of my blog posts I argued that although I remained very skeptical about the sustainability of the China growth model I nonetheless believed that China bulls could make a plausible argument but were failing to do so largely because they did not address the three questions that were fundamental to the debate on the sustainability of the Chinese growth model.

The UN rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, added his weight to Masters» side of the debate at the end of last year when he concluded a speculative bubble was responsible for a significant part of the food price rises.

The public outcry around 401 (k) savings generated during the tax - reform debate last year showed Congress that retirement is an important issue to Americans, said Brian Graff, NAPA's executive director.

Compared to last year, the commotion from policy debates has largely settled and a path to regulatory clarity has emerged.

In a debate that lasted more than eight hours, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras argued that the commission is a requirement from the people who expect answers, and a way to eliminate any «revanchist» intentions for the «many question marks» that have arisen over the last five years.

Last year I was debating whether or not I wanted to get into web design and development.

Last year, one of the small club of Americans making these beers decided to name and codify it, and thus began the debate.

Referring to the pre-crisis experience is important because the catchphrases that have dominated the debate in the last few years (New Normal and Secular Stagnation) suggest that we have entered a new state of the world, where growth and inflation are destined to stagnate for the foreseeable future.

In key respects, the debate over fiduciary duties ended last year with the DOL Conflict of Interest Rule win.

CAPITAL MARKETS FOREIGN EXCHANGE As the Federal Reserve winds down its bond - buying program and prepares to raise rates, analysts are debating the likelihood of a repeat of last year's «taper tantrum» — when the mere hint of a gradual end to quantitative easing in the US caused huge disruptions to emerging markets (EMs).

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

In a similar case, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a born - again Christian, was jailed briefly last year after she refused to allow her office to issue marriage licenses, igniting a national debate over religious freedom and civil rights.

Most of the people I've observed who left or were fired from their pastoral post did not enter a new vocation... and it is rare, by the way, for me to meet a pastor who is bi-vocational, though the debate rages that Jesus devoted himself to singular focus those last three years of his life....

A subject of considerable debate between Hartshorne and Brightman in the last years of the correspondence is whether Hartshorne is or is not a pantheist.

Legitimate debate about the issue has in fact been conducted and permitted in the official organs of the Church's Magisterium over the last forty years.

Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.

Even in that country which has so steadfastly refused to have the abortion debate, waves have been caused by the news that in the last two years alone the bodies of more than 15,000 aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated by twenty - seven National Health Service trusts.

One part of the foolishness of the recent debates about Rand is the idea that agreeing with Rand's prediction and diagnoses in «Atlas Shrugged» — the accuracy of which has been demonstrated in the last few years to a nicety — somehow magically commits one to agreement with her total philosophy.

The debate tournament segment of the class was probably the one that formed me most — it caused me to join Pacilio's debate team for a couple years, and it was the first, and probably last, time that I and my peers were treated to full - throated political discourse in the public school classroom.

I hope what you say is true, but this is one of the biggest doctrinal debates of at least the last 400 years.

«Christ, because he changed my heart,» George W. Bush, governor of Texas and presidential candidate, declared before an Iowa debate audience late last year.

Over the last four years, we've dealt with our fair share of challenging issues, and played a role in some of the country's most contentious debates.

Many of these issues were discussed when Congress debated the farm bill last year.

Since that was the fundamental debate of the International Missionary Council meetings for the first 60 years of the last century, it is there we will turn next time.

I've had many a debate over the last 3 - 4 years here and in many other forums where the «In God We Trust» issue was brought up not only to «promote» but to also, make a false logical leap to... «There «is» a God»... and it is the christian god.

This has been a source of debate in our home since last year.

The show, at the Business Design Centre on 30 September and 1 October 2014, has grown significantly on last year, with 170 exhibitors and plenty of show floor «theatre» in the form of the BIG Packaging Debate, one - to - one advice and the Lions» Lair.

While it will be debated as to whether Young can claim the goal for himself with it having taken a heavy deflection, it will be his first goal since May last year if he is given the goal.