Sentences with phrase «much public debate over»

In the wake of much public debate over the anti-hate provisions of human rights legislation, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission applied to the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal the February 2010 Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decision, William Whatcott v. Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal.

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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.

Since that time, there has been much discussion and conjecture over the future of the Islands; however, in public debate at least, seldom have the views of the Falkland Islanders themselves been sought.

«The only thing I can see is that the reality and the responsibility are sobering,» Paul Gioia, who served as chairman of the state Public Service Commission during much of the debate over Shoreham, told the New York Times in 1989.

Public Advocate James, who brought Brawley to the general election mayoral debate on Tuesday night as her guest, has also recently started calling for a much more ambitious overall program of building new affordable housing, putting forth ideas like building more over rail yards across the five boroughs.

In debates over how much funding is needed to achieve certain outcomes, it has become increasingly apparent to some state leaders that the issue is mostly about how much money lawmakers are willing to invest in public education.

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.

Changed votes by two Board members over the approval of two Aspire charter schools at this week's Board meeting gave the public a glimpse at a much larger debate over whether charter schools based in Los Angeles should be allowed to operate their special education programs through a partnership with a far - off district that costs...

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.

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.