Sentences with phrase «longer much debated»

The effects on children of the increase in single parents is no longer much debated.

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This was the year Edmonton's long hoped - for, much - debated downtown arena development finally took shape, aiming for a puck drop at the start of the 2016 — 17 NHL season.

The clash between Apple and the Justice Department has driven straight to the heart of a long - running debate over how much law enforcement and intelligence officials should be able to monitor digital communications.

Without getting into a debate about the wisdom of protectionist tariffs (not that it would be a particularly long one), the reality is that these initial measures don't really affect China all that much.

A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

Though standing behind the present shifts of mood in the country, it is of much deeper rootage than the new regime or the debates over this or that policy, and it is of much greater consequence for the longer future.

That it was unusual for a Jewish rabbi to be unmarried and there was much debate about this for a long time, as there still is today.

Tradition has not carried much weight in public debate for centuries: Why, many will ask, preserve an archaic institution that has long oppressed women, excluded gays, and given free rein to brutes?

By presenting a collection worldwide and 20 centuries long in scope, they also remind us of the often parochial character of our own debates and the church's enduring ability to continue confessing faithfully through crises much greater than our own.

The long record of racial mixing under slavery between masters and female slaves (as in the much - debated case of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings) produced populations that were so lightskinned that they passed into white society (as several of Sally Hemings» children did) and populations so darkskinned that they lost all memory of the white European genes they inherited.

While this debate has provided fodder for policy wonks, it has not had much influence on Capitol Hill which seems poised to allow federal unemployment benefits to lapse without much of an alternative strategy for getting the long term jobless working again.

But I do wonder how much longer our society will stay trapped in a futile debate on sexuality limited to the moralists and the medicalists, neither of whom has much sense of the moral wisdom, compassionate understanding and sense of ambiguity available to us from the biblical tradition.

While one can debate Francis's prudential judgments all day long, it is much more productive to focus on these affirmations of orthodoxy, and the pope's consistent message of hope in Christ and the saints.

After a long and heated debate, the council decided that the evidence from the Bible and tradition lent itself much better to the belief that Jesus was God rather than a lesser being.

There are debates about expository versus topical preaching, whether women should be allowed to preach, how long the sermon should be, whether the teaching should be participatory or a monologue, how much time should be given to illustration and application, whether to use powerpoint and encourage sermon notes or not, and on and on.

Following Man United's last gasp equaliser against equaliser against West Ham last weekend, the style of the goal casued much debate with Sam Allardyce describing the Red Devils as a «long ball» team.

the guy's story crossed him over to an audience well outside those who watch NFL games... he was much more FAME - ous than the long - debated Art Monk.

A Winter break could also go a long way in helping to turn around the fortunes of English clubs in Europe but whether that concept will ever be implemented is the subject of much debate.

For the perfectionist or the procrastinator, it can be easy to spend too much time on each section, trying to get everything just right or debating too long on how you want it organized.

Schools that serve children of color, who are at much higher risk of childhood obesity than white children, have been conspicuously missing from the debate and experts say the opposition could negatively impact the NSLP in the long run.

Real social change is to be achieved over the long term through organisation, agitation, and direct action, as much as it is through debates, votes, and detailed committee work in parliament.

I will return to the detail of those legalities because that has occupied much of the afternoon's debate, but it is for that reason and in the interest of avoiding a long judicial process that we concluded that the quickest way to reduce and, we hoped, eliminate cruelty to wild animals in our circuses would be a robust licensing system, which might well result in circuses deciding to stop keeping such animals.»

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.

«Do you want Bobby Jindal's campaign dictating how the debates will be run when Bobby Jindal may not even be in the race much longer?»

The second and final Democratic mayoral primary debate on Wednesday was a frenetic hour - long affair in which Mayor Bill de Blasio spent much of his time on the defensive, facing probing questions from debate moderators and tough criticism from his opponent, Sal Albanese.

Long notes one finding lost in much of the public debate: Just 6 percent of New Yorkers in this month's Quinnipiac poll said same - sex marriage should be the top issue in Albany.

The exact extent of their intelligence and learning capability is much debated among biologists, but maze and problem - solving experiments have shown that they do have both short - and long - term memory.

Using super high - resolution CT scans, Kappelman originally planned to learn more about Lucy's movement and lifestyle — researchers have long debated how much time, if any, A. afarensis spent in trees.

The subject of how much influence parents have on intelligence has long been debated.

There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.

Scientists have long debated how much of, or even if, the rest of our genome does anything, some going so far as to designate the part not devoted to encoding proteins as «junk DNA.»

Since I have been an amateur astronomer for so long I debated if I should get this course thinking I would not learn much from it.

The debate is already raging, and since the movie very much leaves open the option for a sequel, we might be talking about this for a long time.

How much longer he can continue in these action roles is also up for debate, but until then, his latest offering works as perfectly serviceable entertainment.

Bryan authored a much - discussed draft of legislation last year that would have funneled five of the state's lowest - performing elementary schools into the state - controlled achievement districts as a pilot program, although the notion did not gain any significant traction during the General Assembly's long budget debates last summer.

Much of the public debate over tenure has focused on whether it is possible to fire tenured teachers who are no longer making the grade.

Rather than confront the long - term, gritty challenges of implementing changes needed to fundamentally improve public education, there is a tendency to turn inward to squabbles and debates over the latest new idea — a much less difficult task.

The importance of additional school resources for student achievement has long been debated, with many researchers arguing that school resources do not matter much in explaining differences in student achievement between schools, and therefore that money does not matter.

One of the longest running debates surrounding self - published and indie press titles is how much a book is worth.

But even then, the digital debate was about so much more than e-book versus print and it had been for a long, long time.

In addition, our data shows that the common refrain that active doesn't stand a chance versus passive index funds and ETFs is not true, and the focus on the active - passive debate often obscures the much more important issues of good savings habits, appropriate asset allocation, and taking a long - term view.

However, the thing that is still up for debate is how badly this will hurt Sony in the long run, as well as how much their competitors will gain from it.

Turner Contemporary has been a long time coming, the product of a few individuals» commitment to bringing the best of historical and contemporary art to East Kent, exploring Turner's complex and much debated legacy, and contributing to Margate's long overdue regeneration.

The nude woman crawling and trailing a long, brown tail that resembles excrement became a lighting rod when it was shown at the Whitney in 1999 at the same time that the much debated, despised and defended Sensation exhibit was in the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

The debate about the size of the emissions budget is like a debate about how much cake we have left, and how long we can keep eating cake before it's gone.

Much of the debate in Lima centered on what countries should include in their INDCs; how long should the commitments be for; should the commitments include financing and adaptation goals; and that old chestnut: how should the commitments of developed and developing countries be differentiated.

Instead, knowledge of a consensus over how much we already know or a rough estimate of how long it will take to learn a greed deal more could very well lead to public and political reactions quite different from those created by a noisy, angry, and dichotomized debate.

As long as we disagree so much on the core issues, there is ENOUGH to debate withot dragging proxies in.

I doubt that anyone in the future examining the prescience or foolishness of these hearings will find much worth in such trivial detail of a long decided case mixed into what purported to be a debate on the data of a varying climate.

The debate over climate change has a much longer history than most people realize, CRC has assembled a collection of scientific predictions of climate disasters — both hot and cold — from the last 122 years.