Sentences with phrase «through years of debate»

Such agreements had been hammered out through years of debate, and were designed to account for the environmental value that a cluster of trees delivers while taking into account regional differences and the limitations of carbon accounting.

Not exact matches

The price of bitcoin surged through $ 10,000 on Wednesday, adding to its ten-fold jump in value this year and fueling a debate as to whether the virtual currency is gaining mainstream acceptance or is merely a bubble waiting to burst.

A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

This is a subject that's been hotly debated over the years, but the most recent data seems to suggest that organic click - through rates (the percentage of people who see your entry in SERPs and click through to your site) does have a direct and significant bearing on the ranking of your site.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

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 Scriptures.

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

Approximately 2000 years after the kingdom of God was modeled for us through Jesus, and we still debate over what this and that means.

It's a tired debate, but yet another home run explosion — an average of 2.6 per game had been hit through Sunday; last year's record total (5,528 homers) was achieved at a pace of 2.3 — again has fueled talk that the ball is juiced.

Why it matters: Goodell's current contract runs through 2018, and while he's been the subject of controversy throughout his tenure, he was expected to ink a five - year extension with little debate.

Now there is a question which opens a massive debate about how OUR club is run but the answer has got to be yes, I miss Highbury and to say I loved the clock end as a child through to leaving there for the grove as an adult is an understament, although the stadium has been a financial burden obviously it is still a wonderful place to watch football in, but football and especially Arsenal has changed so much in the last thirty years, I really am concerned about how much our supporters are charged either season tickets or match day sales including food / drink, we have removed a vast core of our traditional support and young because of these prices.

As significant welfare reform and housing bills make their way through parliament this legislative year, debates on cutting housing benefit for 18 - 21 year olds, and the security and affordability of the private rented sector will all come to play — with potentially dire consequences for people at the cusp of becoming homeless.

As the government seeks to move the political realm further into the religious sphere through the current Equality Bill, this is likely to be a major area of debate in the coming years.

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.

I based my views on a Telegraph article last year by Greg Rosen, which extracted from the 6 day Commons debate in October 1971, and the nature of sovereignty at stake clearly comes through as a topic of debate, with speeches by Waddington, Enoch Powell, Heath etc, all focused on that issue.

An overhaul of federal education law moving through Congress — the biggest legislative change in 14 years — holds the prospect of a major shift in New York's contentious debate over the linkage of student test scores to teachers» job evaluations.

Within minutes of her remark, her staff sent out a memo highlighting de Blasio's comments during a 2005 council speaker debate where he said, «I think after extensive public discussion, after extensive hearings, I think we should move forward with an additional four - year term through the legislative process.»

'' Through bills, the budget and countless hours of debate, there will be plenty of communication with the legislature regarding this year's priorities.

And the yes voters, 73 % of whom are apparently in the market for a second referendum within five years, might well reflect that all the commissions thus far — from the constitutional convention which delivered devolution through Labour's Calman commission updating the Scotland Act, to the latest Smith proposals, share one arresting component: all appear to have a built - in obsolescence — as the independence debate stubbornly refuses to shut down.

Those thresholds were changed late last year through legislation passed by the City Council — sponsored by Council Member Ben Kallos, chair of the governmental operations committee — and signed by de Blasio that increased the debate standards to the current 2.5 percent of the expenditure limit, as well as disqualifying loans or outstanding liabilities as counting towards that expenditure.

While not a new trend (the debate over whether grouping your texts by color is reading sacrilege has raged on for a few years now) color coding seems to be going through a resurgence of sorts.

We bought a mini donut pan a couple years ago and went through a phase of making some healthy donuts but haven't in awhile and I have been debating on bringing it back out.

By Jonathan Lee With over five decades of video game history to dig through, the debate over the best games of all time has been hotly discussed for years and years.

Tracing ESEA from its earliest days through its various reauthorizations over the years (of which NCLB is the most recent) reveals a rich history of debate around education issues that continues to capture headlines.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

The fifth Music & Drama Education Expo will be bigger than ever this year, featuring the return of peer - to - peer learning through TeachMeets and Sharing Labs, insights and approaches from some of the UK's and the world's top music educators, a stimulating programme of debates, interviews and performances.

As the debate over the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) makes its murky way through the political swamp, one thing has become crystal clear: Though NCLB requires that virtually all children become proficient by the year 2014, states disagree on the level of accomplishment in math and reading a proficient child should possess.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

The Jacobson offspring have begun to suspect that Julian is hastening their mother Roz's demise, and years of resentment reach a climax as the siblings debate whether they will go through with the real reason for their reunion: an ill - considered plot to murder their father and end his iron rule once and for all.

Lots of debate has been circulating through the U.S. in recent years when it comes to college affordability.

Club Carlson is offering a decent bonus for those of us still holding a Club Carlson Visa card (I'm still debating whether I should keep mine) and it runs through the end of the year.

It's been fiercely debated (read: argued via deafening screaming matches) ever since Ocarina of Time was released; fuel was only added to the fire when the OoT manga, while non-canon, chose to support the side of Zelda actually transforming into a boy for the seven years Link slept through.

So, sit back, relax and listen to Pause Resume take you through our full Game Of The Year 2017 debate.

Last week I wandered through the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts's American art galleries with two art - world debates in the back of my mind — one a local one about the dearth of work by Houston artists in Houston museums» permanent - collection galleries, the other about the startling lack of diversity at this year's Whitney Biennial.

Celebrating its 250th year, the RA is an independent institution led by eminent artists and architects; its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.

«Behjat Sadr: Trace through the Black» explores the artistic and intellectual heritage of the Iranian artist Behjat Sadr, with archival material, and presenting a rare selection of works: from her early debate with «abstraction informelle» in the 50s to her experimentations around organic forms, trace making, and hallucinatory networks of lines throughout the «60s and «70s up until her «collage» years throughout the (inner) exile and the irrepressible return to her world of futuristic nostalgia.

Although many over emphasize the social aspects of such an event, I found the most stimulating conversations I've had in years happening in the auditorium tent where borders — political, spatial, ideological and imagined — were debated and stretched to their limits through heady discussion from artists and the public alike.

We explore these questions through the lens of contemporary arts practice; creating a space for difference, debate and imagination in Ireland's year of national reflection.»

There is good reason why every few years, hundreds of climate scientists from around the world voluntarily and unpaid tackle the big task of sifting through the scientific literature and debating it and summarizing the state of knowledge in the reports of the IPCC.

It achieves this objective primarily through the weekly online publication of CO2 Science, and which over the years has presented more than 5,000 synopses of peer - reviewed scientific journal articles, original research, and other educational materials germane to the debate over carbon dioxide and global change.

The Heartland Institute — the right - wing think tank that, after years of defending big tobacco through the lens of «smokers» rights,» has become a leading proponent of climate change denial — included Manuel on a spreadsheet of 205 scientists and economists submitted to the EPA in May for a planned red team - blue team exercise to debate the threat posed by climate change.

With its challenge to conventional environmentalist, conservative, and progressive thought, and its proposal for a politics of possibility, Break Through will influence the political debate for years to come.

The world's most developed carbon market, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), still bedeviled by massive oversupply of allowances, was the focus of attention throughout the year as legislators debated ways of cutting the surplus, both through the temporary fix of «backloading» and long - term structural measures.

Just a few years south of Rio Declaration's fourth decade, I would argue, is a little bit late to start worrying about merely fixing the relationship between science and policy - making, such that only the best science gets through, untrammelled by alarmism — denial was never admitted to the debate anyway.

It took 13 years of bitter debate among governments, business leaders, scientists and concerned citizens before the world accepted his findings and moved to ban these chemicals through an international treaty, the Montreal Protocol, in 1987.

Last week, I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours digging through old Debates of the Senate so that I could pinpoint references I had made in my current thesis to material I read 30 or 40 years ago.

I'm definitely in the «reflection» category today — thinking back on the eight LTNYs I've attended over the last ten years and tracing the evolution of the show and the industry through each year's hot topics — from form of production (remember the imaging vs native file debate!?)

While there has been much debate over the years on REM regarding the subject of «part - time» REALTOR's, when has a Managing Broker ever stated publicly how they ensure that a part - time REALTOR's business is covered through collaboration with a colleague?