Sentences with phrase «much debated by»

A question much debated by others who have posted comments at the ABA Journal site and elsewhere is whether Ellen and her oft - mentioned boyfriend are real people and actual lawyers.

This has been much debated by academics, therapists and others.

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The entire affair has exploded into a much larger debate that Pence's team has essentially summed up in two very familiar words by now: «Fake news.»

As Vancouver's house prices lift off into lotus land, the debate over just how much local real estate activity is fuelled by wealthy Asian investors is getting more heated.

The federal government's recent decision to block the takeover of Potash Corp. by Australian mining company BHP Billiton has sparked much debate about which types of Canadian industries should be protected from foreign buyers.

After much debate, Buterin and his team proposed that Ethereum deal with the DAO theft by conducting the so - called hard fork.

We've debated the ethics of 3D - printing guns before, so this isn't really a new subject, especially for the «maker» community, which has generally addressed the gun - printing issue by distancing itself as much as possible from the hardcore, gun - printing evangelists like DEFCAD.

The problem of how much to pay CEOs from this point of view, and what combination of kinds of payment to offer (cash, stock options, etc.), is hotly debated by top business scholars and economists.

Whether Vice will eventually do an IPO has been the subject of much debate, fuelled in part by comments from Vice CEO Shane Smith on the topic.

Described by conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer as, perhaps, «the most annotated suicide note in history,» for its thoroughness and 37 footnotes, it pretty much guarantees a debate over two visions for the role of government in America.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

Of course it matters to anyone who wants to understand the economic cost of the adjustment, but arguments about whether the reported data are overstated, and by how much, have become part of the bull vs bear debate about whether Chinese growth is merely slowing temporarily, and not as part of a major economic reversal of the growth model.

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.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The maker of the much - debated painkiller Zohydro is seeking approval of a harder - to - abuse version of the drug which, if approved, could replace the currently marketed version of the pill by next spring.

«Too Much Noise: The Debate on Foreign Exchange Rate Variability and Policies to Control It,» C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 72, by Mark Chandler and David Laidler (October).

The Corporate Mapping Project report by earth scientist David Hughes may attempt to cast some illumination on the facts underlying this debate, but it is not likely in the current overheated circumstances to get much attention except as the work of «enemies» of the oilpatch who «want to destroy» Alberta jobs.

And the province can do much more to clean up provincial election laws, something that a new all - party committee will be tasked to do soon (and they should consider adopting some of the amendments made by Wildrose MLAs during recent debates in the Legislature).

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

Much of the debate about slack, the drop in unemployment to 16 - year lows and wage gains goes to the heart of the Phillips Curve — a model developed in 1950s by New Zealand economist William Phillips to determine the inverse relationship between the unemployment rate and inflation.

The question of whether the Christian effort to reconquer the Holy Land after it had been conquered by Muslims was sinful is, to say the least, debatable and much debated.

To return to the earlier parable, ideas do not much matter if they are held or being debated by men whose investment in them is as remote as that of the man high on the cliff who idly speculates about the options available to men threatened with drowning.

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

The much - debated Exodus 21 passage gave instruction to ancient Israel about how to handle the accidental killing of a fetus when a pregnant woman is injured by fighting men.

Much of the literature generated by and about postliberal theology has debated these questions.

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.

Some of our friends and acquaintances put a great deal of effort into holding creatively themed birthdays and getting their kids into the right dance classes and sport programs, identifying peanut allergies and purchasing BPA - free water bottles, and having endless conversations about the negative effects of too much technology in the home, frequently interrupted by pinging phones and debates about which phone plan is best.

To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theology.

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 United Church of Canada, one third of it Presbyterian at its inauguration in 1925, at its 32nd General Council in l988, after much study and years of hot debate, made the kind of decision in the face of this issue that ought at least to be considered by other ecclesial communities facing it.

It is often tacitly assumed without much debate that Whitehead's metaphysics constitutes a species of process philosophy compatible in the main with older varieties of process metaphysics inspired by various evolutionist theories.

Much of the book, in fact, is taken up by a close look at the eighteenth - century debates over the adoption of the Bill of Rights and at the nineteenth - century debates over the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Within the real academic world untainted by the pollution of religion in their brain, there exists much debate as to whether Jesus ever existed.

The Capitals getting knocked out in the second round by the eventual Stanley Cup - champion Penguins didn't lead to much debate.

Time will tell if Liverpool do live to regret that choice, but as sensibly argued by Jamie Carragher in the same segment of the Debate Show, he maintains that Sturridge isn't the same player he used to be and so in isolation, the move won't make much of a difference to Liverpool.

so it always messes my brain to see so much decision making and match making getting affected by ppvs, or the fans «debating» so much about that... it is really a US thing were people are just balls deep into these things... like social level capitalistic mentality..

Liverpool were out to spoil the party and after Puuzzo had cancelled out a much - debated opening goal by Phil Neal — with the Roma players complaining that the goalkeeper had been fouled in the build - up to the goal - the match went to penalties.

The Portugal international's future has been the subject of much debate this summer, with reports early in the transfer window suggesting that he wanted to leave the European champions after being accused of tax fraud by the Spanish authorities.

Sometimes that debate gets a little spiky but if it ever developed into abuse I'd make sure we never crossed paths again (or at least I'd try to — Twitter has a habit of making even the blocked appear on one's timeline — no matter how much I try to exclude anything written by Barton or Morgan, the two wastes of oxygen still invade).

What would that mean for people like Kate Bolick, whose new book Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own — presumably a celebration of unmarried women by choice — has been the subject of much debate?

By Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute: From Stephen Hawking to Spike Jonze, the existential threat posed by the onset of the «conscious web» is fuelling much debate — but should we be afraiBy Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute: From Stephen Hawking to Spike Jonze, the existential threat posed by the onset of the «conscious web» is fuelling much debate — but should we be afraiby the onset of the «conscious web» is fuelling much debate — but should we be afraid?

But as the debate over well water and lake water escalates, it's become difficult to tell just how much support there is for the Citizens proposal — and how much of a role a Chicago public relations firm hired by Citizens is playing in the promotional effort.

The exact mechanisms by which bacteria reach the mammary gland have been the subject of much debate over the years.

Over and over and over, we debate the intricacies of the best way to raise our children without ever addressing the fact that much of the early - life care they receive is given by paid help, whether in day care or by a nanny.

Two important amendments proposed by the Socialists and Greens, calling for EU legislation to specifically state that Member States are free to go further and ban the advertising of follow formula and baby foods, provoked the most debate with much support from the majority of speakers.

Much debate has been sparked by the ingredient Borax which, technically, is a sodium product but can be an irritant.

They say they want to push the debate back on to how much TfL (and by implication Goldsmith's) plans to raise fares above inflation would cost Londoners.

The decision didn't receive much press, since it was vastly overshadowed by the high - profile debt debate.

It's not just something I treasure − it's a book I return to when I feel boxed in by the narrowness and lack of vision that characterises so much of the modern political debate.

By the time of the Civil war, the political divide is about how much power should be given to various levels of government in a federal system (a debate which still rages).

They preserve the status quo, and if a sufficient number of members of General Synod decide that it is better to permit same - sex marriage, then their proposal will undoubtedly be ratified by the House of Commons without much debate.