Sentences with phrase «long debate on the topic»

Several recent studies have shown that even light and moderate alcohol consumption is linked to higher cancer risk — yet when the California government proposed warning labels, alcohol companies fought back, giving new rise to a decades - long debate on the topic.

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The Senate rules permit a senator, or a series of senators, to speak for as long as they wish, and on any topic they choose, unless «three - fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn» (usually 60 out of 100) bring the debate to a close by invoking cloture under Senate Rule XXII.

Nevertheless, her Republican opponent criticized the Obama administration's approach on the incident, using the first topic of the debate to stake out an agressive posture she continued throughout the hour - long forum.

When I pressed by pointing out that the issue has very much been in the news recently, and that Gillibrand would almost certainly invite a debate on the topic, Long elaborated a bit.

The rules permit a senator, or a series of senators, to speak for as long as they wish and on any topic they choose, unless «three - fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn» [1](usually 60 out of 100 senators) bring debate to a close by invoking cloture under Senate Rule XXII.

«If future studies continue to not find strong longer - term salvage harvest effects on forest understory vegetation,» Knapp said, «the debates about pros and cons of post-fire management could then narrow to topics such as snag habitat and woody fuel levels that are unequivocally impacted by salvage harvest.»

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

This long debated topic of authors being concerned with pirated eBooks arose once again the other week with a conversation with an author and seems to be still making it's way around the nether - webs on the tongues of writers and authors entering the marketplace.

Back on topic, a long but interesting read featuring actual debate on the Amazon vs Hachette debacle: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/michael-cader-of-publishers-lunch.html The first comment also links to Data Guy's breakdown of daily gross takes across a large range of price points, though only for a single day.

This is one topic that is heavily debated because at issue isn't just the math, which depending on the mortgage interest rate, makes more sense financially to take as long as you can to pay off the house.