Sentences with phrase «over the question of»

José Alberto Cabranes, who later went on to become the first Puerto Rican to be appointed to a federal judgeship, published an exhaustive review of the legislative deliberations over the question of Puerto Rico's political fate following America's annexation of the island.

For months, a haze was allowed to settle over the question of Greek debt sustainability.

Earlier this year, he notoriously tussled with U.S. National Security Agency director Michael Rogers over the question of whether law enforcement should have access to peoples» private communications, a debate now raging between Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley.

The poll also showed a split in the province over the question of whether or not Ralph Klein should complete his term of government, should he win the 2004 campaign.

Just as the nation is divided politically over the question of empire, these books expose a moral and theological divide.

One afternoon as they raged over the question of who would sit in the front seat as Mom drove them home on the daily commute, I asked, «Is there anything you two won't fight about?»

By mid-eighteenth century, two religious titans of the Anglo - Saxon world, erstwhile allies, were at loggerheads over the question of just how many people were destined for an eternity in hell.

That is why it is not helpful to quibble over questions of whether a given marriage is «real» or «valid» in the first place.

He writes: «We need only survey the chronic and significant differences of opinion over the systematic grounding of natural law today, as well as the extraordinarily complicated and controversial skirmish lines over questions of moral theology, to see that this is so.»

Unfortunately, he was also unmoved by pleas for unity and broke with many clergy, including John and Charles Wesley, over questions of Calvinism.

We need only survey the chronic and significant differences of opinion over the systematic grounding of natural law today, as well as the extraordinarily complicated and controversial skirmish lines over questions of moral theology, to see that this is so.

Others relate to disagreements over questions of life style (e.g., «voluntary poverty» versus «good stewardship»), triumphalist proposals of the «Let's get organized and run candidates» type, and the proper relationship between activism and scholarship.

And it is about the way religion and television are today acting, interacting, and reacting over the question of who will shape the faith and value system of our culture in the future, and what the shape of that worldview will be.

The social sciences are quite prominent in the curriculum of Nanjing Theological Seminary, a fact that is understandable in light of the significant debates in China over the question of religion's definition.

At first the traumas of the depression afforded a rallying cry for church liberals, but divisions soon developed over the question of class struggle and the use of coercion — divisions that were to deepen as the world situation darkened and war loomed on the horizon.

It is true the liberal ethic split into two camps over the question of the means and strategy of this conquest.

He will not fret over the question of literary unity, whether 1 - 6 and 7 - 12 stem originally from different sources.

There is much that might be said about this; but let us pass over the question of whether we have not undergone some modification, even m our chromosomes, since the era of the pre-Hominids or even that of Cro - magnon man.

Rather than considering the possibility that such narrations reflect genuine conflict over the question of selective abortion, Rapp suggests that these women are unwitting victims of both pro-life propaganda and an atavistic ambivalence about the entry of women into the workplace.

More problematically, it glosses over the question of reasoning biblically with the secular state, an issue much better handled by David Novak and Stanley Hauerwas in Religion and the Death Penalty -

One church member might affirm the objectivity of the presence of the risen Christ as the first fruits of a new creation and still be entirely agnostic over the question of what occurred in the tomb.

It would follow that Jews have far more to fear from a rationalized Christianity than from one in conflict with Judaism over the question of Christianity's Jewishness.

While Christoph Cardinal Schönborn and Professor Stephen Barr were arguing over questions of evolution and teleology in the last few issues of First Things, down in Pennsylvania Judge John E. Jones III was deciding Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

It consists in the fact that what we have here is not consecutive narrative, but simply individual stories — and these are told in the manner of the people — pious people, who marvel at God's doings rather than ponder over questions of purely human detail (§ 3).

On the 9th hole of the 36 - hole final, Nicklaus got into an argument over the question of a free drop.

Im concerned there's hardly any concern over the question of leadership as we go into the next campaign.

The first Lambeth Conference, boycotted by the Archbishop of York and many English Bishops, was over a question of heresy.

We felt this issue to be an important battleground in the debate over the question of the role of the state in delivering public services.

NOTE: That «dead wrong» phrase reminds me of another former governor who took on Bloomberg — at the time it was over the question of whether illegal immigrants should have driver's licenses.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this afternoon he will not appoint a replacement for late Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, leaving the office in the hands of Chief Assistant Eric Gonzalez and temporarily dousing intense political speculation over the question of who will succeed the first - term prosecutor.

As we move towards a General Election it remains the case that the Parliamentary Labour Party is deeply divided over the question of the leadership.

Mr Watson said he wanted further evidence from the News International chairman over the question of whether he was aware that phone - hacking at the News of the World newspaper was widespread.

Orange County Democrats fired a third salvo at state Sen. Bill Larkin on Monday over the question of banning the outside income some state lawmakers earn in the private sector — an issue likely to be taken up in the coming legislative session after the recent corruption convictions of former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

ALBANY — A drive to repeal New York's legal requirement basing teacher job ratings largely on students» state tests scores ignited debate Monday over the question of whether repeal could mean «double testing» for students.

The Tories themselves remain divided over questions of single market membership, and the all important «four freedoms» that go with it.

The debate comes as the presidential campaign and the national debate writ large are convulsing over questions of race and gender in the United States.

I was struck by the families appearing to place emphasis primarily on exoneration as cathartic, and seemed to give that priority over the question of prosecutions.

But Ms Harman said MPs would be able to have their say following her statement next Wednesday, adding: «Do you actually think that it's right that this House should pick over the questions of our allowances when we've already decided to actually make that the responsibility of an independent agency?»

Unsourced briefings to several newspapers over Christmas, attributed to people in Corbyn's camp, claimed that members of the shadow cabinet — including Dugher, as well as the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and the shadow defence secretary, Maria Eagle — could be removed as revenge for siding with the government over the question of whether to extend airstrikes against Isis to Syria.

Perhaps the biggest and most bitter fight within Labour is set to be that over the question of Trade Union influence.

Racism has recently become an issue in the gubernatorial race over the question of exclusionary zoning in Westchester County.

In recent meetings, the pay panel has appeared to be deadlocked over the question of recommending legislative raises.

«The field really is hung up over the question of whether the bulk of eukaryotic cellular complexity arose before, during or after the evolution of mitochondria,» Archibald said.

They've certainly been successful in making their voices heard in recent years — for example, over the question of what to do with the 400,000 frozen human embryos left over from in vitro fertilization with no viable future.

FORESTS AND FLOODS — «A lively war of words has raged of late, in both Europe and America, over the question of the influence of forests upon stream - flow.

His previous effort was the Sundance - premiered, hour - long Frat House (1998), a documentary that HBO opted not to air over questions of its authenticity.

For all the interracial differences that hang over the question of the settlement where Johnny lives, this early scene also exposes intraracial confusion among members of the same race with unfathomable experiences.

Would Shanker have dismissed the charter movement over questions of diversity or teacher voice?

Abstract: Since 1977, the Israeli society has been split over the question of peace versus land.

The New York Times reported earlier this year on efforts to mend some of the fences broken during tussles over questions of teacher compensation, but wide gaps still exist between the two positions.