Sentences with phrase «longer under debate»

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The main liberation movement, the ANC, long committed to nonviolent resistance under the influence of Gandhi and its Christian roots, had by 1963 decided, after agonizing debate, to engage in an armed struggle.

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.

After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.

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.

We are just under 7 hours from the start of the only US Senate Debate that is schedule between incumbent Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand and Republican challenger Wendy Long.

Monday Questions — Impact of restrictions on leafleting under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005; future of passport personal interview offices; plans for a full fiscal, monetary and banking union of the eurozone; compliance with European Council directive 2010 / 64 / EU on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings Legislation — Justice and security bill Short Debate — Long - term strategy for the arts and cultural sector

Along with 421 - a abatements and corporate tax incentives, de Blasio and Cuomo have been at odds on other real estate issues, too, including a long - debated and under - construction marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side.

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.

During the debate, which was sponsored by the Long Island Association, Mangano touted the fact that he has not raised property taxes while Suozzi said the county's debt has grown under Mangano's watch.

But the Mojave Desert site, with its lava flowers and sand dunes, is also involved in a debate over whether Cadiz Inc. will be able to build a proposed 43 - mile - long pipeline to pump water from an aquifer under land its owns to 100,000 households in Southern California.

The generation - long debate surrounding the dumping of the nation's radioactive nuclear waste under Nevada's Yucca Mountain may finally be drawing to a close.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

Yet this long, tense film is worthwhile and never dull — both a satisfying whodunit and a debate - opener that will get under your skin and stay there.

``... Slavery has a long shadow and the school choice debate was not at all alive under the menacing loom of that shadow at emancipation!

While this premise has long been under debate and is now even more so as college tuition continues to rise, the loans can result in problems even larger than a mountain of debt.

Citizens may not get a look at the documents; a few German politicians have - after a very long debate - been able to get a look at it; but they have had to look at it in the American Embassy, have to read it there under high security standards and may not talk about or duplicate the documents.

The Federal Court of Appeal (the «FCA») has laid to rest the long - standing debate over whether employees could be dismissed without cause under the Canada Labour Code (the «Code»).

In that debate, Republican Sen. Robert Taft Jr. said in support of the proposal, «I feel that our society today has come to recognize, on a far broader basis than ever before, the desirability and necessity of providing adequate legal remedies to all our citizens for wrongs, real or imagined, for the full exercise of rights they have under the law; and I think the bill goes a long way in that direction.»

An active debate on how long a person would be required to have lived in Victoria before they were allowed to access services under the proposed laws is underway, SBS reported.