Sentences with phrase «up for debate over»

The question of how useful surveys can be for eLearning evaluation has been up for debate over the past few years.

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LONDON — Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that Britain needs a «grown - up» debate over whether pay for public sector workers should be increased, arguing that the government must «hold its nerve» on austerity.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

An Ethereum Improvement Proposal editor has given up his role after a nearly two - week long debate over a proposal to set up a process for the recovery of lost funds.

There's no question that the volume has been turned up to 11 on the debate over whether Larry Summers, the controversial former treasury secretary or Fed vice-chair Janet Yellen or another candidate should guide U.S. monetary policy for the next four years.

As President Donald Trump takes the country closer to an economic nationalism that calls for tearing up agreements like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, potentially enacting higher tariffs on imports and obsessing over trade deficits, it is worth reflecting on a similar debate that inflamed the electorate 130 years ago.

Without stronger regulation, which is currently up for debate in the Senate, Wall Street and the big banks will take taxpayers and consumers to the cleaners all over again.

Stock prices for gun manufacturers also tend to rise after mass shootings, likely because the debate over gun control heats up and rekindles fears from gun owners.

Debates over how far to go in restricting abortion will likely extend all the way up to the Republican presidential primary, with likely candidates already working hard for Christian Right support.

The current political climate within the American Church is full of debate over a myriad of national and moral issues, however, protecting the environment should not be up for debate...

I question the source that came up with this for you, but I think there's a higher debate over whether successful people should be automatically branded in a negative, manipulative light.

The consortium describes the Templeton Foundation as having «made up to $ 3 million available for research grants to stimulate and sponsor new research insights directly pertinent to the «great debate» over purpose in the context of the emergence of increasing biological complexity, ranging from the biochemical level to the evolution of life andthe emergence of society and culture.»

CNN: My Take: It's time for evangelicals to speak up about guns Pastor and author Daniel Darling urges evangelicals to participate in the debate over access to guns, and to acknowledge that there is «no clear - cut Christian position on gun control.»

We hope that what happens at Emory over the next few years will stimulate discussion, debate and creative ideas at other graduate schools, leading them to take up these challenges in their own ways and build other educational models for preparing practical theologians.

See also, for example, Fluer Anderson, «Producers in Power Push» (The Australian Financial Review, 20 October 2014, page 5), Fluer Anderson and Katie Walsh, «Cold shoulder for carve - ups» (The Australian Financial Review, 22 October 2014, p 11), Editorial, «Open economy is good for the farm» (Australian Financial Review, 21 October 2014, p 58), Lexi Metherell, «Agriculture green paper to spark debate over water, competition» (ABC Radio, The World Today, 20 October 2014) and Joe Kelly, «Green paper canvasses court orders to break up businesses» (Dynamic Business, 20 October 2014).

There is little doubt that the debate among Arsenal fans over Arsene Wenger being given another contract extension will rumble on, and surely flare up again after the first sign of trouble next season, but for now it has died down to a minimum with Arsenal fans simply hoping that the Arsenal board has made the right decision.

This site was set up in February 2010 by a group of nomadic bloggers who rarely agree over the complexities of how our club should be run, but are united in their attitude towards healthy debate and the need for a forum where we can all air those views without ridicule.

The goalkeeping position is often brought up as a serious debate with Liverpool supporters over a pint in the local, and if Klopp decides that Simon Mignolet should have further competition for the role, then Cologne stopper, Timo Horn is a keeper with immense promise.

Alex Salmond is to call for a loose partnership of countries in the United Kingdom as exists in Scandinavia, as the debate over Scottish devolution heats up.

Alex Salmond will tomorrow call for a loose partnership of countries in the United Kingdom as exists in Scandinavia, as the debate over Scottish devolution heats up.

Under neo-liberalism it's become quite clear that we can drown in proceduralism — there's no problem keeping people busy with paperwork and accountability, or in the case of deliberative democrats for example, we can have important debates about how to redraw and then defend the borders of a democratic country legitimately — but if all those things take up all our time, we'll look up from our papers and our borders one day, and see that there isn't anything left to fight over.

During his summing - up speech in Thursday's debate, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was asked by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne to condemn the behaviour of No 10 officials who were reported as having said that Miliband was «giving succour» to the Assad regime by refusing to back the government over its plan for military action.

The local fight over taxes on the rich is also a warm - up act for an intramural Democratic debate that Hillary Clinton will need to contend with next year.

Leaving aside the debate about just how much influence Britain has within the EU anyway, would a Brexit really result in a diminution of power greater than the end of empire, or that which states like Greece gave up when they joined the Euro, or when Poland chose paralysis as its political system in the eighteenth century, leading to it disappearing from the map altogether for well over a century?

He contended that the debate over the next steps for Labour had to go beyond the Labour leadership contest and he admitted the Labour leadership contest was a «lottery» that could throw up an unbalanced leadership pairing.

Instead, Cuomo framed the debate over the tax abatement, which is expected to pick up when state lawmakers return to Albany next month after an extended break, as a union battle for them to fight over the prevailing wage.

Things lightened up a bit for him when he was able to show off his basketball knowledge when addressed by a Phoenix Suns fan (me neither) and he managed to get a few crafty kicks in the PM's shins, calling on Cameron to stop «ducking and diving» on the TV election debates question and agree to them, something analysed here by George Eaton over at the New Statesman, and mocking the PM for «flouncing out of summits and that kind of thing» when asked about Europe.

State Sen. Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach) and City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R - Ozone Park) sparred over their records and qualifications for Senate at a spirited debate last Thursday at Our Lady of Hope School in Middle Village, with Addabbo portraying himself as a leader who stands up for workers and families during tough fiscal times and Ulrich arguing the effort has not been enough to change New York's economy.

And so, four months after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the legislation that allowed the city to sell new taxi licenses that could respond to the street hails, and just over a week after the TLC adopted the rules that would regulate the new fleet of «Boro Taxis,» what remained up for debate was what to make of the new color.

State Sen. Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach) and City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R - Ozone Park) sparred over their records and qualifications for Senate at a spirited debate last Thursday at Our Lady of Hope School in Middle Village, with Addabbo portraying himself as a leader who stands up for workers and families during tough fiscal times and -LSB-...]

Up for debate is the Community Safety Act, which would create a new NYPD inspector general charged with monitoring the department and providing independent oversight, following growing complaints over racial and ethnic profiling.

Gerson Borrero and Curtis Sliwa weigh in on Gov. Cuomo's trip to Puerto Rico, the debate over whether the city should open up supervised sites for drug users, and some of the other top headlines on the weekly Political Rundown.

Funnilly enough Oberon Im currently in a public debate with a Labour Councillor locally about a list of 25 «good» things that Labour are responsible for... I came up with over 50 bad things Labour are responsible for.

Debate over giving up seats for expectant mothers after Equalities Minister left standing for Prime Minister's Questions.

(CNN)-- After three days of debate in the Senate over health care reform, Senate Democrats accused Republicans Wednesday of slow - walking the legislation and searched for parliamentary procedures to speed up the discussion.

Now, with Brexit likely to be triggered imminently, those controls — along with others carefully enacted over decades — are back up for debate.

As the editors write in this month's Scientific American, the ruling failed to define what «unreasonable» discrimination of Internet content is, leaving too much up for debate — «the only certainty it gives is of the tens of thousands of billable hours to be spent arguing over the meaning of «unreasonable» in federal court.»

Such conflicting opinions are part of the debate over how to rank graduate research programs, a debate that has sharpened in recent months as the NRC gears up for its third attempt since 1982 to plumb the world's best academic research system.

Now, in an echo of the recent wrangling over Pluto's status as a planet, a pair of astrophysicists from Australia and Germany want to start a debate on the issue — and they have even set up a Web site for people to cast their votes.

But this is the second time that his group has published such a claim in just over a year, opening up a philosophical debate about where the finish line really is, and if Danishefsky has met the lofty goal that he — and the scientific community — have set for themselves.

But the issues thrown up are still arousing passions today, as witnessed by further arguments in favour of using tidal power in the Severn and debate over the UK government's recent go - ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset.

Robyn Lawley, the first plus - size model to be featured in Sports Illustrated (though the whole «plus - size» part has been debated), is standing up for all women's autonomy over their bodies.

Whilst researchers and dietitians were debating over whether Paleo was good for us a new plan popped up called intermittent fasting, which like paleo claims to be taking us back to our caveman or primal roots.

Dr. Joel Kahn's website The Whole Heart Solution (Joel's book) GreenSpace Cafe John Robbins — Diet For A New America (book) Dr. Dean Ornish Forks Over Knives (documentary) Dr. Scott Stoll The Plantrician Project Dr. Kim A. Williams (The New York Times) Dr. Michael Greger — The Saturated Fat Studies: Buttering Up the Public (YouTube) Kris Carr Ann Wigmore Dr. Brian Clement Mark Bittman The Forks Over Knives Plan (book) United States * / Canada * Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine (PCRM) Plant - Based Diet For Dummies (Marni's book) One Green Planet Ancel Keys Dr. John McDougall The DASH Diet Eating Plan Sugar, Gluten, Paleo, Vegan: 3 Doctors Debate The Best Way To Eat Alessio Fasano Dr. William Davis — Wheat Belly (book) Dr. David Perlmutter — Grain Brain (book) PlantPositive (website) f.lux (free software) SleepShield Definity Digital — lightbulbs that block blue light Rich Roll

I honestly debated over picking up a lipstick or this Cremesheen Glass for about an hour before I made a decision.

I guess it was just a coincidence that I added two Saint Laurent pieces to my wardrobe over the past two weeks, lace up patent boots (that I have been going back and fourth on for a year now, can't believe I ever debated this because they're already getting re-heeled because I've worn them every day), and the new Nico Satchel.

From the alleged debate over the film's final cut between star Edward Norton and the studio, to the recent announcement that Norton would be snubbed a writing credit for his polish of Zak Penn's script, the movie was gearing up to be a publicity - fueled disaster.

Distaff representation in Cannes is always a point of contention, reliably churning up debate over the festival's mandate to lead the way for broader representation, but also to reflect the industry's makeup (not unlike the diversity woes that have engulfed the Academy Awards in recent years).

A film that is at times laughable yet at the same time, over 15 years after its release, its premise is still up for debate and discussion.

For months leading up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, one of the many questions fans of the franchise debated over was who Billie Lourd, actress and daughter of Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher, would play in the film.