Sentences with phrase «of considerable debate in»

Seventh, the question of whether non-purely economic factors (such as fairness, corporate size, and the rights of workers) should be factored into competition analysis is gaining increased traction in a number of jurisdictions, and undoubtedly will be a subject of considerable debate in the years to come.

Not exact matches

«Antidepressants are routinely used worldwide yet there remains considerable debate about their effectiveness and tolerability,» said John Ioannidis of Stanford University, one of the researchers, in a statement.

At the same time the Liberal Party, and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, have made environmentalism a major component of their election platform through a policy initiative known as the Green Shift — an initiative that was the source of considerable discussion and debate in the lead - up to the election.

Finally, this session I spent considerable time debating the changes that the Christy Clark government was making to the legislation on the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.2 million.

In fact, it is still a leading form of debt in the United States as well as a considerable topic of debate in politicIn fact, it is still a leading form of debt in the United States as well as a considerable topic of debate in politicin the United States as well as a considerable topic of debate in politicin politics.

The character of the imperial cult, at least in the eastern empire, is the subject of considerable debate at present, as can be seen by a cursory examination of the two most significant works on the subject: S. R. F. Price's Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor and Steven Friesen's Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family.

There is no doubt that the Second Vatican Council, its proceedings and debates, the differences of opinion that became apparent, the press reports that retailed and exaggerated them, the existence of tendencies and parties thus reveals, the struggle for decisions this way and that the alterations in liturgy and law decided upon — all these experiences caused profound astonishment, disquiet and consternation in many Catholic circles, even to a considerable extent among the clergy.

A subject of considerable debate between Hartshorne and Brightman in the last years of the correspondence is whether Hartshorne is or is not a pantheist.

«All the same, historians in the twenty - first century may give President Clinton and his wife considerable credit for having sparked the first truly national debate on a thorough reform of health care.»

Yet in Britain there are signs on the theological side (especially in Fergus Kerr's Immortal Longings) of realizing that Anglo - American philosophy has moved on since Ayer, and that the more recent debates, especially in America, hold considerable promise for theology.

It is necessary to say something here about the place of metaphysical analysis in the discussion of love because the very possibility of metaphysical knowledge is a matter of considerable debate at the present time.

In the debate over Amoris Laetitia, we are dealing with matters of considerable doctrinal and pastoral importance.

In considering the 61 recommendations of the food labelling review to formulate an agreed, all of government response, Forum members acknowledged the challenge faced by the Review Panel as it considered issues which generated considerable debate during the Review.

Her impressive performance in the debate and her potential role as a decisive partner in any potential coalition government meant she gained a considerable amount of attention.

«When the review into LIBOR is looked at, it will of course include this market [the oil market], and will aim to publish conclusions by the end of September... as a result of this debate, and the arguments from my Hon. Friend [Robert Halfon], I will also write to the FSA about concerns raised today... It is absolutely right that we enhance transparency in the oil and commodity markets... It is clear from the data that there is a considerable time - lag involved [between oil prices and petrol prices].

Over the past legislative session, the issue of divesting state pension funds of fossil fuel investments received considerable debate both in the State House and around Vermont.

Charter schools are often a subject of considerable public debate, since they receive public funding but may be privately operated and staffed by nonunion teachers, in contrast to traditional public schools.

The precise function of alpha - synuclein has been the subject of considerable debate, partly because it is abundant in red blood cells as well as in the brain.

However, all participants in the debate accept that Lucy spent a considerable amount of time on the ground, and that she was predominantly or completely bipedal when on the ground.

The Senate is using the top level assumptions that are in law as part of the Budget Control Act (BCA) enacted last year after considerable debate over raising the debt limit.

Possible Reasons for the Lack of a Protective Effect of Dietary Fiber in Some Trials There is considerable debate and speculation as to why clinical inter - vention trials on the relationship between fiber intake and colon cancer have not shown the expected beneficial effect of fiber.

Whether expelling disruptive students should play a part in keeping schools safe is a subject of considerable debate.

If it were known that all of the states» mandated curricula are well tested by NAEP, it would save considerable money in test development and would quell some intense political debate.

These findings are of considerable significance in the wider education debate about what works best in schools for improving pupil performance - especially in countries that face urgent problems in basic literacy.

Considerable debate continues about the value of vocational education and training (VET) and in particular the value of VET delivered to secondary students.

That debate often overlooks the considerable progress since then: a record - high national high school graduation rate for 2014 - 2015, above 83 percent, and double the number of students performing at grade level in reading and math, compared with 20 years ago.

There is considerable debate among teachers and policy makers about the appropriate role of calculators in primary school maths.

In fact, it is still a leading form of debt in the United States as well as a considerable topic of debate in politicIn fact, it is still a leading form of debt in the United States as well as a considerable topic of debate in politicin the United States as well as a considerable topic of debate in politicin politics.

The original Doom itself provoked considerable debate over the depiction of violence in first - person shooters, with US army colonel David Grossman famously labelling the game a «mass murder simulator» and claiming that this, and similar titles, were teaching children how to kill.

Thanks to Max Weintraub for his considerate and considerable series of posts on Sally Mann, Roxy Paine, Salvador Dali, and the Pictures Generation (don't miss the lengthy debate that ensued in the comments on this one).

In this state of relative non-recognition within the discourse and debate around art and culture in general, the subject of the «reductive» as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80's and 90'In this state of relative non-recognition within the discourse and debate around art and culture in general, the subject of the «reductive» as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80's and 90'in general, the subject of the «reductive» as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80's and 90's.

All these studies taken together show at least two things: 1) there's a considerable infusion of scientific energy into studying this topic, which is one very positive by - product of the sometimes nasty (but also extremely high profile) debate that followed the publication of the Emanuel and Webster group papers in 2005; 2) many of the precise details of how hurricanes will change in a warmer world (or have changed already) remain contested.

Climate change may have already contributed to the extinction of a small number of species, such as frogs and toads in Central America, but the role of climate change in these recent extinctions is the subject of considerable debate.

As a result, there has been considerable debate and disagreement over exactly how many tropical cyclones we missed in the earlier parts of the records, e.g., compare Landsea, 2007 (Abstract; Google Scholar access); Mann et al., 2007 (Abstract; Google Scholar access); Holland, 2007 (Abstract; Google Scholar access); Vecchi & Knutson, 2008 (Open access); and Landsea et al., 2010 (Open access).

Deciding which infrared cooling model to include in the climate models has been the subject of considerable debate over the years.

In recent years, the extent to which this «desertification» trend is caused by anthropogenic forcing versus natural variability has been the subject of considerable debate.

Whether probabilities can be applied to describe future social choice, in particular uncertainties in future greenhouse gas emissions, has also been the subject of considerable scientific debate (e.g., Allen et al., 2001; Grubler and Nakićenović, 2001; Lempert and Schlesinger, 2001; Pittock et al., 2001; Reilly et al., 2001; Schneider, 2001, 2002).

In a last roll of the die before the UN climate negotiations conclude in December 2015 in Paris, the Venezuelan Government has gone to considerable trouble to pull off Chavez's vision of shifting the debate around climate change by gathering several hundred members of social movements and civil society organisations here in Las Margaritas for the social preCOIn a last roll of the die before the UN climate negotiations conclude in December 2015 in Paris, the Venezuelan Government has gone to considerable trouble to pull off Chavez's vision of shifting the debate around climate change by gathering several hundred members of social movements and civil society organisations here in Las Margaritas for the social preCOin December 2015 in Paris, the Venezuelan Government has gone to considerable trouble to pull off Chavez's vision of shifting the debate around climate change by gathering several hundred members of social movements and civil society organisations here in Las Margaritas for the social preCOin Paris, the Venezuelan Government has gone to considerable trouble to pull off Chavez's vision of shifting the debate around climate change by gathering several hundred members of social movements and civil society organisations here in Las Margaritas for the social preCOin Las Margaritas for the social preCOP.

There has been considerable debate in the scientific community over the comparative health benefits of organic versus conventional crops, and various studies have come to conflicting conclusions.

The deal has seen many twists and turns during the past 12 months, with the complex cross-border nature of the Pacific Andes group providing considerable challenges, particularly with regards to the ongoing forum shopping of the debtor group, which has been the subject of much debate in each of the primary jurisdictions of New York, Singapore and offshore.

With up to 70 % of civil litigants and 40 % or more of family litigants unrepresented in our courts *, there are many, many individuals (the «non-clients») who have a considerable stake in the future of the legal profession but who would not be included in a lawyers» debate about what clients want.

Of course when the offence was first mooted by government and later considered during the Act's legislative passage, this element and the rationale for its inclusion in the new offence attracted considerable attention and debate.

As Omar notes, political and social conditions in some of these countries are matters of considerable debate, and that debate can continue on the screens of Wikipedia, so the resulting text may not be as reliable as one would like.

1] published an interesting proposal arguing for the creation of loose leaf law reports, which, at the time, generated considerable debate concerning the merits of ditching bound volumes in favor of publishing cases as single - issue slip opinions to be filed away in drawers.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

The amendment, if it survives the House of Commons, is of considerable importance and may mark a turning point in the debate with the current Lord Chancellor in his dash to introduce commercial service organisations to the market through the promotion of ABSs.

We haven't talked much about the killing of Osama bin Ladin here on Slaw, and there is considerable debate in international law over it.

There has been considerable debate as to how loot boxes should be handled by publishers in the wake of EA's controversial mechanism in its game «Star Wars Battlefront II» — using loot boxes as a way to achieve power - ups early on in the game than intended.

The work of epidemiologists Wilkinson and Pickett (2009) has illuminated the impact of this rise in inequality bringing an array of evidence in their book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Always do Better, to reach conclusions that have been the subject of considerable debate and critique (for a good review see Rowlingson, 2011).

Considerable political support was also expressed in the debates on civil partnership by politicians across political parties for further progress to address gaps in legal recognition of children being parented by same - sex couples.