Sentences with phrase «side of the controversy over»

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama made good Tuesday on a threat to veto a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, bringing the two sides in the long - running controversy to a rare point of agreement: their battle is far from over.

Earlier writers had recognized that Volkmar went too far in his attempted demonstration of Mark's dependence upon Paul — he found evidence of such dependence on almost every page of the Gospel — but his view was such a welcome relief from the one - sided Tübingen theory, according to which Mark was a «neutral» in the great apostolic controversy over Jewish Christianity, that the main thesis of Volkmar was accepted without careful scrutiny of his supporting arguments.

[I'm not convinced that one side or the other has the edge on «bullying,» but I certainly share Caryn's serious concerns over governments threatening to withold building permits from Chick - fil - A, (the same strategy was used here in East Tennessee to try and prevent local Muslims from building a mosque), and her critique of the unfortunate public «outing» this controversy inspired.]

Robin Fox is an English anthropologist who has authored, with the equally delightfully named Lionel Tiger, The Imperial Animal and many other works making the case for the «nature» side of the interminable nature / nurture controversy over how best to understand why human beings do what they do.

ALBANY — Advocates on both sides of a debate over New York's fracking marotorium are turning up pressure on Andrew Cuomo to make a decision, after having stalled long enough to get his re-election out of the way without any major controversy.

Advocates on both sides of a debate over New York's fracking marotorium are turning up pressure on Andrew Cuomo to make a decision, after having stalled long enough to get his re-election out of the way without any major controversy.

Over the course of the year, controversy has flared over Iowa Pacific Railway and its subsidiary the Saratoga North Creek Railroad's storage of rail cars on sidings in the AdirondaOver the course of the year, controversy has flared over Iowa Pacific Railway and its subsidiary the Saratoga North Creek Railroad's storage of rail cars on sidings in the Adirondaover Iowa Pacific Railway and its subsidiary the Saratoga North Creek Railroad's storage of rail cars on sidings in the Adirondacks.

From the viewpoint of Axelrod's representative, it is reported that in almost each instance, where there was controversy, the Republican Commissioner, Louis (Butch) Babcock, appeared to side with the Sparaco faction's petitions over the decision of Kristen Stavinsky, the Democratic Commissioner.

The two representatives refer to a controversy over the use of CT scans to detect lung cancer in which scientists on both sides of a debate about the usefulness of this technology were accused of having conflicts of interest.

A tpical Stanley Kramer's film: Serious (even pompous) and humanist, but essentially middlebrow, courtroom drama that while well - acted is too verbose and fearful of taking sides in the controversy over who's to blame for the Nazi atrocities.

After the controversy over Go Set a Watchman's «dark» version of the formerly morally upstanding Atticus Finch, The New York Times has published an article showing two sides of the debate: can virtuous characters keep readers interested?

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.