Sentences with phrase «new year debate»

Opening the new year debate at Holyrood, Sturgeon promised that educational reform would be placed at the «front and centre» of the SNP's agenda if they win a third term in May's election.

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Every few years, a new book ignites debate about structural and social impediments to women achieving professional parity.
Gov. Mitt Romney set fact - checkers scrambling during this week's debate when he stated that new business startups were at 30 - year lows.
«There's a necessity for a transition period because it's impossible in one year and a half (years) not only to discuss and to debate and to negotiate a departure but on top of that also a new relationship.
The big profit picture How soon before Warner and DC Entertainment announce a new project is up for debate, but I'm expecting to hear something by next year's San Diego Comic - Con.
Three Years After Michael Brown's Death Ferguson Has New Leadership, Contentious Debates And Hope
This debate isn't particularly new, as internet providers and many conservatives have called for regulation of ISPs to move to the FTC in recent years.
With just three weeks left until the new year, investors are debating where to place their year - end bets.
While I've got a new comment open, though, here's my thoughts on the Roth debate: It's generally good to diversify your funds as much as possible, tax-wise; nobody can say with absolute certainty what the tax system will look like numerous years from now (although the smart money says that it'll probably be even more complex than our current system).
Florida's newest tool to prevent mass shootings — empowering police to seize guns from people deemed to be dangerous — could pose serious legal challenges that are likely to be debated for years to come.
The 12 - country Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), signed in October, is likely to be the subject of much public debate in the new year.
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.
HARTFORD — Old and new collided at the General Assembly's transportation committee Wednesday as traditional automakers and Tesla Motors, for a second year, debated a proposal that would allow electric car companies to sell directly to consumers, instead...
The promise of «no new taxes, no service cuts» has put Alberta's Tories in an unenviable political bind and set the tone for this year's provincial budget debate.
Referring to the pre-crisis experience is important because the catchphrases that have dominated the debate in the last few years (New Normal and Secular Stagnation) suggest that we have entered a new state of the world, where growth and inflation are destined to stagnate for the foreseeable futuNew Normal and Secular Stagnation) suggest that we have entered a new state of the world, where growth and inflation are destined to stagnate for the foreseeable futunew state of the world, where growth and inflation are destined to stagnate for the foreseeable future.
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.
Most observers expect the debate to be lengthy, running at least until Christmas and possibly into the new year.
The «Old Me» from ten years ago debates the «New Me» from today about the traditional doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture.
By no means did this focus lead to smooth sailing during Morrison's first years in his new job; indeed, he was forced by the situation within his own denomination to alter his editorial philosophy — a development that eventually shaped the magazine's identity as a meeting ground and debating platform for controversial and opposing viewpoints.
The debate surrounding the shroud's history continues to exert a fascination on the public and new theories emerge year on year.
Most of the people I've observed who left or were fired from their pastoral post did not enter a new vocation... and it is rare, by the way, for me to meet a pastor who is bi-vocational, though the debate rages that Jesus devoted himself to singular focus those last three years of his life....
Several years ago, a protracted, solemn, and highly technical debate raged through several prominent literary journals about a new edition of Joyce's Ulysses, a debate that reminded one of nothing more than the fundamentalist - modernist debates about the historical authenticity of the Scriptures.
In other words, in 15 to 20 years that I have more identified with the pro-life side and debated, discussed and exchanged views with the other side, I have not heard really anything new.
The debate over resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States was made more complex and distressing by the mass sexual assault of German women by what appears to have been North African and Middle Eastern asylum seekers in Cologne, Germany on New Years Eve.
I'm going to a potluck dinner on New Year's and I've been debating what to make.
Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...
As Manuka honey has risen in popularity over the past few years, a debate has broken out between Australia and New Zealand over the honey's origin.
There should be no debate about corner cutting at the US GP this year as the circuit is installing new kerbs to prevent drivers from going off - track to gain an advantage
The news, speculation and debate surrounding Arsenal and the two star players who will soon be entering the last year of their current contracts has been going on pretty much the whole season and it will go on until they either sign a new deal or transfer away from the club during the summer transfer window.
Neither does the fact that Cruz used the term «New York values» to belittle voters at a debate earlier this year.
The reasons were debated years ago and all we can do is build new rivalries.
Bruce Edgar, at bat for New Zealand, now faced not only Botham but also an almost palpable wave of emotion from the crowd, and cricket buffs will debate for years the effect that had on him.
At the end of it the debate will boil down to DO WE HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN THE EPL OR THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE??? first let's start with what went wrong the other season nothing we finished 12 pts behind the league leaders chelsea and 5 pts behind city... mmmh injuries (no longer news and infact we're already in it), lack of a proper dm till the new year (le coq emergence who desperately needed a back up), lack of a lethal striker (giroud's 3mnth injury noted though obviously not good enough and the sole reason wenger himself was reportedly looking for an «exceptional striker») and finally the obvious lack of depth in key positions (DM, CBs and yes a CF).
He may be 31 years old but new international sensation Rickie Lambert may well find himself the centre of a heated transfer debate before the September deadline passes after...
The debate over whether helmets should be mandated in girl's lacrosse, which has been raging for several years, reached a new level of ferocity recently with the publication of a blistering piece in the New York Times reporting on the backlash generated by the controversial decision by the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to mandate a soft form of headgear for everyone in a girls» lacrosse game beginning this spring seasnew level of ferocity recently with the publication of a blistering piece in the New York Times reporting on the backlash generated by the controversial decision by the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to mandate a soft form of headgear for everyone in a girls» lacrosse game beginning this spring seasNew York Times reporting on the backlash generated by the controversial decision by the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to mandate a soft form of headgear for everyone in a girls» lacrosse game beginning this spring season.
Whenever there are articles in major publications about how more people are choosing to be childfree, from Time's 2013 cover story dedicated to exploring the childfree life to last year's New York Times» article about the childfree, there's a flurry of commentary debating whose choice is more selfish.
On Sept. 20, it will sponsor a live debate at NYU's Skirball Center in New York with ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams and journalist Hanna Rosin (you may know her from her controversial Atlantic article last year, The End of Men), who will argue for the idea, while feminist scholar Christina Hoff Sommers and Men's Health magazine editor - in - chief David Zinczenko arguing against it.
As students get back to work in classrooms, Congress is rolling up its sleeves to debate new rules involving the Child Nutrition Act, which sets standards for 30 million school lunches a day and is scheduled to expire later this year.
Today, Kate introduces the piece of legislation that she wrote and that was debated during this year's session of the New Hampshire Legislature.
At the end of the committee stage of the Article 50 Bill in the Commons, it felt as if the debates on the hundreds of amendments and new clauses had been going on for 40 years.
«I have always lived my life with dignity, integrity and honesty; and I can say without hesitation that I brought those same characteristics everyday when I proposed bills, passed legislation, debated public policy, and fought tooth and nail to protect western New York on the floor of the New York State Senate for the past 38 years
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However, one policy debate that I have been very close to over the last few years, and one that illustrates how digital technology has changed our society and also how it creates new social contexts related to rights based issues, is that of access to pornography and sexual content online.
On Tuesday, the New York Senate Finance Committee voted to send the S - 3898 online poker bill introduced earlier this year by Sen. John Bonacic to the Senate floor for debate and a possible vote.
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett used her New Year message to warn against a «dangerous, toxic» debate on immigration and urged David CAmeron to admit Syrian refugees.
The forum was the first in a new series called the Campbell Debates, where panelists are asked to argue for or against asking rich people to pay more — a question deeply rooted in this year's presidential election, Occupy Wall Street protests and the tea party's dissatisfaction with traditional political parties.
The June 24 vote came down to four Republican senators from upstate New York who voted in support of the measure, but the debate had been fought in Queens for years.
While the controversial gas drilling practice has been the subject of fierce debate in New York for years it has drawn little attention in Massachusetts.
ALBANY — John DeFrancisco might have failed in his attempt to win the title of president pro tempore of the New York State Senate this year, but he did succeed in eliciting more laughs in floor debates than any other legislator in 2015.
The changes to the teacher evaluation system that the New York state legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo enacted received much attention in this year's budget debate.
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