Sentences with phrase «substantial debate about»

Even without this anomaly, it appears prudent to have a more substantial debate about these potentially fundamental changes in our legal system than that which has been generated so far by these relatively ad hoc plans and proposals.

For many years, there was a substantial debate about whether a drunk driver was simply negligent or grossly negligent.

Not exact matches

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admits there's «substantial debate» about the type of air duct to use, but doesn't recommend one over the other.

The Panel first notes that, despite earlier reviews generating debate about the appropriate test to be applied for mergers, the submissions to this review demonstrated «near - universal support» for the substantial lessening of competition test.

She is no longer the bookies» favourite, but she is still a formidable candidate, and today she has made her first substantial contribution to the debate about Labour's future.

Ever since the PM delivered his landmark Bloomberg speech on the EU, there has been substantial interest and debate about what the business community in Britain thinks about the issue.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

You can change the way schools are inspected as many times as you like (and Ofsted does — on average two substantial changes a year to inspections frameworks or guidance since Michael Wilshaw became chief inspector in January 2012) but until you can guarantee the quality of the process (let alone the contentious debate about whether the right aspects of education are being looked at in a methodologically sound way), Ofsted inspections will be flawed.

While many educational leaders give lip service to the concept of decentralization, most principals and superintendents continue to debate about how much of the decision - making process should be shared — despite substantial research that validates the benefits of teacher empowerment for classroom learning (Hannoway and Cannoy 1993).

There have been substantial, sometimes rancorous, debates among polar bear researchers about this predator's prospects in a warming climate with less summer sea ice.

As a lake ecologist (limnologist) my study will not contribute to debates about the causes of climate warming but it will show that the indirect effects of warming on food chains (over the past 30 years) can be very substantial (even dramatic).

However, substantial debate exists about its presumed life cycle environmental benefits.

Although there have been substantial methodological debates about the calculation of trends and their uncertainty, a 95 % confidence interval of around ± 0.1 °C per decade has been obtained consistently for both LT and MT (e.g., Chapter 2; McKitrick et al., 2010).

The IPCC fifth assessment report concluded «Although there have been substantial methodological debates about the calculation of trends and their uncertainty, a 95 % confidence interval of around ± 0.1 °C per decade has been obtained consistently for both LT and MT (e.g., Section 2.4.4; McKitrick et al., 2010).

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.

More broadly, Dunphy wrote that Platnick's suit «had a substantial chilling effect on discussion and debate about the proper use and utility of this type of derivative expert's report» in accident benefits claims.