Sentences with phrase «several years a debate»

For several years a debate has been played out in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) and higher courts as to when an employer can avoid paying an employee who is allowed to sleep on the premises.

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Since its launch in 2011, Affdex has helped measure audience sentiments for several high - profile events, including the 2012 U.S. presidential debates and this year's Super Bowl.

Ever since the Republican debates, Trump has stated that several years of his returns are under an IRS audit, and that he won't release them until the audit is completed.

In fact, many of the issues currently debated on both sides of the Atlantic have been highlighted in EU policy statements on China dating back several years.

I have never been even remotely an expert either on iron and steel production or on the Australian economy, but recent action in the iron ore markets and a vibrant debate within Australia has, in the past three weeks, set me up for several planned and unplanned meetings with Australians — some old friends, some fund managers and bankers, some government officials — who remembered some of the comments I made a few years ago about Australia and iron ore and who wanted to discuss future prospects.

The difference between the Budget / Public Accounts and the Estimates has been debated for several years.

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

I recently listened to a debate from several years ago between Bob Wilkin and James White.

During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

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 ScriSeveral 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 Scriseveral 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.

Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.

Several years ago, a friend of mine was debating switching to a different church.

The 58 - year - old is always good for sparking debate with his selections, but ultimately he's picked out several star performers who were key in their side's successful results.

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 season.

The debate about the safety of baby walkers and baby bouncers has raged for several years.

The anti-smoking debate has been heated in several Chicago suburbs in recent years, with Evanston, Skokie, Wilmette and Highland Park among more than 1,900 municipalities nationwide that have some type of restrictions on smoking.

For several years, disposables won out in the cloth diapers vs disposable diapers debate.

When, for example, he attracts criticism for saying he admires Vladimir Putin in a magazine interview, Alastair Campbell is blamed for having «trapped» him into saying it; when he loses the first TV debate it's because he allowed himself «to be persuaded to act out of character»; and when it comes to the declining value of Brent crude Salmond writes breezily that «no - one really knows what the price of oil is going to be in the short term», despite having spent several years arguing precisely the contrary.

Interest in this year's European Parliamentary elections has been growing steadily: citizens» groups and political organisations started organising election panels and public debates by January — several...

And starting next year, he'll go through several politically thorny issues such as a possible veto of newly drawn state and federal district boundaries as well as the debate over hydrofracking.

NY1 will be sponsoring and broadcasting several major debates in this year's races for Mayor, Comptroller, and Public Advocate.

After the debate, we asked her several questions, including: how she viewed her debate performance, what she expects the remaining three weeks of the campaign to focus on, for a more detailed discussion of her unexpected answer that she doesn't see herself as prepared to be mayor and for more about her statement that she's thought about running for Public Advocate for the past 20 years.

We believe that this will go a long way in preventing the illegitimate shutting down of debate and activities on campus which has affected many universities in recent years, including several Humanist Students societies.

And as he did last year in the debate over the renewal of mayoral school control, Felder is using as leverage several items that are important to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, including design - build authority for the rehabilitation of the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and the authorization of more speed cameras near schools.

The Cortland County Legislature has been debating a new jail for several years.

«You wouldn't believe the negotiations that go on beforehand,» said McCarthy, who has served on several debate panels through the years.

The West River Connector Trail project, which had languished for several years as the Grand Island Town Board and residents debated various options, is moving forward, according to Mark W. Thomas, the director of the western district for New York State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation.

After several years of debate, the common names committee of the American entomologists» organization voted it was time to switch to the new view of termites.

Though he came into office as a centrist who sometimes referred to climate change as a debate, he has spent the last several years tacking to the left on a number of issues and has increasingly made environmental issues a priority.

The long - running debate about why just one of several canine distemper virus (CDV) outbreaks in the Serengeti in Tanzania during the past 25 years was fatal for lions and spotted hyenas has been resolved.

Last month, the advocate - general of the European Court of Justice gave his opinion on a long - running legal debate about a patent filed several years ago in Germany.

The relationship between attitude, outlook, mood, and breast cancer is up for debate, but a recent Israeli study of women under the age of 45 found that exposure to several stressful life events, such as the divorce or death of parents before 20 years of age, was associated with breast cancer.

This has been hotly debated but well documented in the past several years.

For the last several years, there's been a very heated debate on a very controversial topic.

Rates have already been low for several years, and there's much debate about the benefits and costs of the Fed's policies — including the message it sends that the economy's recovery is slower than expected.

2015 has blessed the film watcher with several contributions to this debate, as it seems to be the Year of the Robot.

Over several years of teaching and coaching debate, I have witnessed students shift their views on a host of topics as a result of their debate experience.

As many of you know, several years ago in the United States we had a fierce debate about the federal role in education.

Last year, for instance, several of my introverted American history students worked diligently on an academic debate in which they passionately defended President Truman's decision to use atomic warfare to end World War II.

School discipline reform has been a topic for debate at PIE Network convenings for the past several years, and should remain so in the future.

Whether deciding school policy for an upcoming year or debating the consequences for an individual student arising from a single incident of misbehavior, educators juggle several factors: striking a balance between an orderly campus and a welcoming climate conducive to learning; protecting the safety of all students while recognizing the rights of individuals; treating students equitably but, when warranted, considering individual circumstances that influence behavior; and, in concert with every school's educative mission, convincing students who are behaving badly to correct their behavior while also standing ready to banish anyone who interferes with the learning of others.

The firestorm over standardized testing in the K - 12 accountability system that has been building in Texas for over two years is coming to a major showdown, and the primary context of the debate is now House Bill 5, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 145 - 2 and, after several amendments, was passed by the Senate unanimously.

As charter schools have dominated public discussion on education in the past several years, the debate at times has appeared to be between charter schools for the whole country or no charter schools at all.

For example, one provision in Title II allows states to create charter - like «academies» for preparing teachers and principals for high - need schools — an idea that has been debated for several years and widely opposed by education organizations.

Over the past several years we have seen much debate over them.

For the past year, the board passed several resolutions all heading in the same direction, some creating long philosophical debates.

Although the national debate over public education has become polarized during the past several years, with bitter divisions inside and between political parties, the PDK / Gallup poll showed a surprising level of agreement in the public at large.

The airbag is a standard feature since several years, but in the early days both the technology and its reliability created intense debate.

Publishing industry events have been debating the ins and outs of reaching readers directly for several years, and companies have been exhibiting at these events for that same amount of time, promising both publishers and authors they could reach out to book audiences and seamlessly sell content, wiping out the need to pay fees or argue over how much a book should cost.

I've seen versions of this debate raging around the internet for several years.