Sentences with phrase «than the debate in»

The only reason the debate in the US seems more caustic than the debate in Europe, is that there is actually a debate in the US.

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Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

«After years in which Republicans were more confident than Democrats in debating gun - control questions, the issue now energizes each side's coalition,» political analyst Ron Brownstein wrote in the National Journal in January.

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

The debate could then take place in Parliament in something closer to real - time, rather than in the pages of magazines after it may already be too late.

Back in 2000, when more than a 100 people died in Ford Explorers, many of them equipped with Firestone tires, there was a national debate over large sport - utility vehicles and whether they were prone to rollover.

It's bigger than the Industrial Revolution,» Draper said at Intelligence Squared U.S. debate presented in partnership with Manhattan Institute's Adam Smith Society on Saturday.

We employ 45 people in three locations and more than 80 percent of them are hourly — which puts me right smack in the middle of the current debate over the minimum wage.

Republicans say their tactics on tax reform are at the very least no worse than the debate over the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, which passed through a Democratic - controlled Congress in 2010.

As environmental issues and concerns become a center issue in political debates around the world, it's becoming apparent that 2017 is the year that green initiatives will have the opportunity to become more than what crunchy granola hippies talk about and become fully mainstream.

Tuesday's Democratic debate did outpace the recent GOP contests in one regard: More people tuned in via the Internet than for the CNN - hosted Republican debate last month.

Cameron's personal involvement in the story has ensured that the debate over the use of tax havens has generated more heat than light, with little distinction being made between the mere use of tax - neutral jurisdictions to manage international investment, which in itself is legitimate, and criminal tax evasion.

They act as if name - calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate, as if anger and intolerance should be our default state rather than the optimism and openness that have always been the engine of our progress... And here in America, we don't give in to our fears.

Ahead of next week's critical New York primary, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders came together for the first time in more than a month to debate issues including corporate influence, gun control, and energy.

«More public engagement in this debate will be better for the quality of the deal than less,» Perriello says.

«This process is likely to take longer than expected, which is likely to delay the upcoming debate over tax reform,» the Goldman economists wrote in the note cited by Bloomberg.

Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill by threatening to force uncooperative lawmakers from office in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.

How the Liberals are navigating the two sides in the debate is laid out in more than 150 pages of documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the access to information law that outline how the issue is complicated by existing human rights decisions, the requirement to accommodate workers whose addictions constitute a disability, workers» privacy rights and actually proving impairment, particularly from cannabis.

Tvert says it's «not really a matter of Republicans versus Democrats» because there are members of either party who are «more progressive» on the legalization debate than others, «but public attitudes are clearly shifting... and it's only a matter of time before that is reflected in laws nationwide.»

Prodding your people to be less conflict adverse can lead to real benefits, according to Thompson who cites recent research that shows, «brainstorming groups that engage in open debate, challenging each other in benevolent ways, perform better than groups that don't have any debate at all.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

If you listen to the latest buzz, House Republicans are now thinking of triggering a crisis over the debt - ceiling debate, likely coming up in late October, rather than the federal budget.

Considering the massive ratings networks saw during the presidential primary debates and the intense media buzz around this year's wild election, some experts are predicting that Monday's event could pull in more than 100 million total viewers.

Four years ago, President Obama and Mitt Romney scored the highest ratings since the Reagan - Carter debate, pulling in more than 67 million for their first debate.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has three decades of experience in politics and a long history of high - profile debates, but she also has more than her fair share of detractors.

With national security driving the debate, Democrats see a more powerful argument than simply advocating the need to curb gun violence in a country of 320 million that has more than 310 million weapons.

I just wish I could believe that the people pushing the «ethical oil» label for my country's oil were doing it to advance the debate, rather than to score points in it.

The exact size and growth of this workforce is debated, but workers employed under precarious work conditions make up a significant portion of the larger workforce, with estimates that 4 out of every 10 workers are now employed in precarious situations.49 These workers typically face higher income volatility than workers in traditional employment relationships because they spend more time unemployed or underemployed and some have low earnings.50

Many of the challenges that urban regions face spill over the boundaries of municipal governments — none more so than in the current Ontario debate over public transit.

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In Miami's Liberty City neighborhood, where the debate over guns is old and fraught, protesting the shooting death of a student proved far more challenging than his classmates expected.

Realtors polled for the monthly survey said they are hearing very few concerns from buyers about rising mortgage rates or the new tax laws, even fewer concerns than in December, when the tax laws were in final debate.

Rather than taking a holistic approach to the economic health of the nation, the debate tends to focus on individual policies in isolation.

In addition, Gupte said the deal's impact on small and mid-market insurers was seen by specialists she consulted as the «crux of the debate, rather than the detrimental impact of restrictions on the retail pharmacy network choices.»

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

The publication of these projections comes at a time when lawmakers in Congress are debating whether tax cuts and some spending increases should be added to the debt rather than paid for.

But it turns out that I may have been wrong to think that an appreciating currency would make the scariest graph in the world nothing more than an opportunity for my students to debate global imbalances.

The former prime minister seemed more comfortable and much more relaxed than in the previous debate, while Meimarakis emphasized his strategy of harmony and sought a broad alliance of government.

In a debate that lasted more than eight hours, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras argued that the commission is a requirement from the people who expect answers, and a way to eliminate any «revanchist» intentions for the «many question marks» that have arisen over the last five years.

It's hard to imagine a more polarizing topic debated in the finance community than the utility of decentralized networks and cryptocurrencies.

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

After more than seven hours of emotional debate that hit the sensitive political subjects of gun control, education and race, the House voted 67 - 50 in favor of the bill, sending it to Gov. Rick Scott.

The concerns over labour and environmental standards that dominated the NAFTA debate are largely irrelevant in the context of the EU, where such standards are generally as high as — if not higher than — those in North America.

A recent debate on strategic voting between Erin Weir and Matthew Bergbusch prompts me to wonder the extent to which liberals are more progressive than conservatives in the federal political arena.

The NDP could have framed this debate as one of protecting Alberta jobs and an Alberta - based company, rather than just about cancelling a contract with a giant Australian company (it was later announced that an appeal panel determined that Alberta Health Services breached its duty of procedural fairness in the RFP process in a substantive manner).

Although there is some debate as to whether the top - down approach is better than the bottom - up approach, many investors have found the top - down approach useful in determining the most promising sectors in a given market.

As everyone debates whether the US stock market is in another secular bull — near an all time high valuation level — there is one developing in Japan right before our eyes at more than reasonable valuations that almost no one believes is possible.

I can't say we're persecuted in any real sense in Utah, but on a very subtle level, it is different than it was in California, and there just isn't spiritual time or energy for the debates that there once was; we're focused on evangelism and getting the truth that we - do - agree on out there.