Sentences with phrase «under debate at»

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Peruse some of the message boards where frequent fliers hang out, and debate rages over whose status luggage tags look best and whether it's cooler to attach all your status tags to one bag, or keep them at home and fly «under the radar.»

Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank, said the new version should end debate over whether sick people are protected under Graham - Cassidy.

But whether Bitcoin can actually replace gold (let alone traditional government - backed currency) has been a matter of fervent debate — quite literally, as evidenced by an event last week entitled «Gold Versus Bitcoin,» held at a New York comedy club, in which well - known gold proponent (Jim Rickards debated James Altucher, a self - help author now peddling Bitcoin investment advice under the moniker «crypto - genius.»

That's the question at the heart of a debate over whether consumers deserve access to free loaner vehicles when their own vehicles are under recall for a safety defec

What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

(A decision for same - sex marriage by a state could as in the case of Massachusetts, preempts the debate in that state, but it is less far - reaching because it leaves other states to arrive at a different conclusion — unless, as some same - sex - marriage proponents have claimed, other states are required to recognize such marriages under the Constitution's requirement of giving «full faith and credit» to other states» proceedings.)

One interesting initiative that has emerged following the debate is at www.catholicvoices.org.uk, headed by Lord Brennan, Austin Ivereigh, Jack Valero and Kathleen Griffin, under the banner of the Catholic Union.

Of course, as I have stated so many times before, I am under no delusion that fishon, and now you, or anyone who seems to take great pleasure in pointing out the «error» in the beliefs of others, cares at all how much impact their attitude plays in the debate.

In a twist on the hotly contested national debate on church - state matters, the Supreme Court will decide whether a teacher at a religious school can sue under a federal law against workplace discrimination.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

If the appointment of former Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay at Wigan Athletic, whilst the Scot is still under an FA investigation over alleged racist, sexist and antisemitic text messages sent to Iain Moody, had brought controversy to the club, new comments from owner Dave Whelan, reported by the Guardian, are set to blow the debate wide open.

Johnson's future has been a topic for debate for months with the England Under - 21 international's contract at the Riverside Stadium due to expire at the end of the season.

Although at first I thought it was rather strange that breastfeeding came under his brief, I am now sure that it is simply the case that the issue is so important to the Government, and crosses so many departmental boundaries, that they settled on him, and it was not just a case of Ministers perhaps playing «pass the parcel» with this important debate.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

Maybe it is just the current label that is attached to «the migrant» that is suffering under the gloomiest siege of EU - UK relations and a migration debate that has reached, at times, new toxic levels.

The councilwoman was caught being fed an answer on stop - and - frisk by the head of the police union, Pat Lynch, and came under fire after she was caught repeatedly staring at her cell phone during a debate in May.

Along with 421 - a abatements and corporate tax incentives, de Blasio and Cuomo have been at odds on other real estate issues, too, including a long - debated and under - construction marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side.

There was a period in 2014 when disillusionment with austerity, the possibility of Scottish independence, and a firmer push against nuclearism by the Liberal Democrats in coalition and Labour under Ed Miliband could have aligned to shift the debate, but that moment has passed — at least for now.

It also would have pitted her against the leading Democratic presidential candidates at a time when she is already under fire over the debate schedule; former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia is the only one opposing the Iran deal.

Bloomberg needs nine of them onboard in order to win the vote that's now scheduled for Thursday at 1:30 p.m. And if the City Council thought they were under pressure during last spring's debate over congestion pricing, they're about to learn what serious arm - twisting feels like.

Let me say once and for all to the Under - Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry), who has been conducting a running commentary since she sat down on the Front Bench at the start of the debate, «Stop it.»

Debate Over Rezoning of Brooklyn Schools: The Department of Education came under fire on Wednesday at a hearing on the rezoning of two Brooklyn schools.

The debate was hosted by NY1 and CNN, but for the most part, reporters were sequestered in a separate warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where, under flood lights, they drank free, fair trade - certified Brooklyn Roasting Co. coffee and ate grilled cheese sandwiches from food trucks outside.

But on the morning of the second leaders» debate (on Sky News and Radio 4 at 8 pm tonight) it would appear that Fleet Street is now moving to burst the Clegg bubble and bring him back down to earth, not only by putting Lib Dem policy under serious scrutiny for the first time, but also by delving into Clegg's personal record:

The role of Speaker at one level is confined to chairing debates in the Commons, but in the current crisis caused by the expenses row, there is a consensus that the position is more public and will require driving a reform agenda that sees the executive brought under control.

A palace first thought to date to Solomon and then dated to the ninth century B.C., under the Omride kings of the north, is at the heart of the debate over what falls under Solomonic rule.

«There are adequate, if not overwhelming, reasons to be concerned that the two repositories that are under debate right now are not the only places in the world where live smallpox virus still exists,» says Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and head of the US delegation to the Geneva meeting.

Looking at both pro- and con - arguments of an ongoing corridor debate, they present criteria under which corridors may and may not be effective.

Under reconciliation restrictions Senate debate on a bill is capped at 20 hours, and debate on any compromise between the two chambers is limited to 10 hours — ensuring relatively swift action.

The first large U.S. study aimed at resolving an ongoing debate about the best way to treat an early sign of breast cancer will launch later this year under the direction of a Duke Cancer Institute investigator.

A group of public health researchers announced at a workshop held here last week that the virus's DNA sequence shows conclusively that it is the West Nile virus — an identification that was under debate until recently.

One of the topics under international debate is the weaning age, i.e., the age at which kittens are separated from their mother and siblings and brought to a new home.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

However, it should be noted that the significance of magnetopause reconnection at Saturn is under debate (Masters et al. 2012).

digressions and circumlocutions; the hand - gestures, head - shakes, eye - blinks; the splintered syntax and mispronunciations - under - pressure when he gets flustered... At least you can tell (unlike certain modern politicians one could name) that he's actually thinking as he talks, sifting through evidence and debate tactics and talking points in his head, not just going blank and letting his lips flap.

Add a convoluted, existential plot that is still under debate to this day, and you can begin to see the mind of Kojima at work.

Such competing views will shape much of the debate as the National Education Association decides whether to merge with the American Federation of Teachers at the NEA's annual meeting, which gets under way next week.

Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.

(Calif.) Middle and high schools will be prohibited from starting the regular school day before 8:30 a.m. under a bill at the center of a heated debate Wednesday during a Senate Education Committee hearing.

This debate has raged for at least half a century, and today we're going to put both sides under a microscope.

``... Slavery has a long shadow and the school choice debate was not at all alive under the menacing loom of that shadow at emancipation!

Panelists debated whether the best way to fix persistently underperforming schools was simply to replace the administrators and teachers at the school, or whether reopening under new charter management was the only effective option.

If you're even a little bit involved in the publishing world — and unless you've been, you know, living under a rock — chances are you've heard at least some of the talk about the e-book revolution and the debate raging about the benefits of indie versus big six publishing.

In a vacuum and in theory I get that you can't go on past performance at the end of the day as a main factor for future performance, but then that would be the end of all debate and discussion regarding mutual funds and everything else under the sun for point # 1.

These most recent examples come at a time where the student loan debt is under scrutiny and debate, which makes it likely that people seeking student loan bankruptcy are finding a sympathetic court.

I debated keeping the Debt / Equity requirement at under.1 but decided to expand it to.4 for more results:

The sensational debate between Sidney Hook's pro-war position and Meyer Schapiro's defense of classical Marxism (Schapiro was writing under a pseudonym, David Meriam, to protect his job at Columbia, a university known for having dismissed dissident faculty during WWI).

WASHINGTON — After a brief but lively internal debate, the Obama administration has decided not to seek an immediate phase - out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC's), a potent group of climate - warming gases, under a treaty aimed at protecting the ozone layer.

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

There's a great discussion under way at the Room for Debate blog examining whether the Endangered Species Act is the right tool for the job in limiting losses from human - driven climate change.