Sentences with phrase «wide debate over»

Many users of Facebook voiced opinions against the changes to the Facebook Terms of Use, leading to an Internet - wide debate over the ownership of content.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

Second, there is a wider debate over what to do, or not do, about climate change, with peoples» preferences (a carbon tax, a technology push, building dikes or parasols in space) not so much a function of science as values.

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The debate sparked a wide discussion over government interference in a technology company's data.

A culture of bullying has taken over in this area, and the idea of academic freedom, wide enquiry, and genuine debate and analysis is no longer seen as essential in university life.

While debate over the understanding of Biblical interpretation lies at the heart of current evangelical discussions concerning women, differences in theological tradition lie at the center of discussions over social ethics, and disagreement over one's approach toward the wider secular culture is surfacing as the focus of controversy regarding homosexuality.

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.

Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.

New York voters by a wide margin back leaving Confederate statues and monuments in place, amid a national debate over their place in history.

We will host a discussion around economic policy over on our new blog dedicated to social liberal economics, PlanC.socialliberal.net, and there will of course be a full an open debate on ownership, democracy and power, at the SLF Conference in Manchester on July 13th — here, we will focus on the wider politics of social liberalism.

Paul and Christie tangled in a passionate debate over government surveillance that highlighted the wide gulf in the Republican Party between libertarian - leaning Republicans like the Kentucky senator and national security hawks like the New Jersey governor.

Schwartz now wants to do a Yellowstone - wide hair study to help pin down grizzly population trends — information that could prove pivotal in the hot debate over whether the animals are prospering enough to be removed from the U.S. endangered species list (Science, 23 April 1999, p. 568).

In news that will surely fan the flames of the heated debate over genetically modified crops, scientists have found evidence that genes from GM plants can spread far and wide to native ones.

Data from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit since 2004, may help resolve a decades - long debate over the age of Saturn's rings, wide belts of shiny ice chunks orbiting the planet.

Recently we have branched out into research — we did a survey of over 3000 single Christians, which is being used to reach out to Christian leaders and open a wider debate about Christian singleness.

Presumably these choices are agonized over and debated at length behind the scenes since they're always so carefully representative of a wide range of celebrities appealing to all kinds of mainstream moviegoers from kids to grandparents to sophisticated cultural mavens to soccer moms.

The chasm between the research on value - added models for teachers and the public debate over them is wide and growing.

The school discipline discussion has paralleled the wider debate in urban America over «broken windows» or «quality of life» policing, which entails aggressive enforcement of low - level crimes if they threaten to disrupt the social order — vandalism, turnstile jumping, public drinking, and the like.

In the indie book world, the debate still rages over ebook distribution: should I go wide or go exclusive with KU?

The wide variety of mark - making and scale changes in Tight Shot amount to Pleasant's two - cents in the historical debate over the «what» and the «how» — in other words, form and content — in evoking an emotional response from the viewer.

And given the inherent wide range of people's feelings of risk, I also don't expect the evolving science to eliminate debate over how fast to push and how much to spend.

But the debate over the economics of global warming is more wide - ranging than Lomborg would have it.

President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide - ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming.

I was asked by Andrew Revkin, based on this paper, to discuss the likely impact for An Inconvenient Truth on wider audiences and also the possible effects on public opinion from the type of elite debate (especially online) that was escalating over the columns by Will at the Washington Post, a debate consistent with more general patterns of polarizing and reinforcing elite driven controversy that I had addressed in the paper.

Despite the wide - ranging debates among researchers nanotechnology has sparked, there has been surprisingly little discussion among policy makers over its perceived advantages and faults.

Fortunately, this lonely set of voices «demanding» non-sensical debate over the realities of climate change are being more than drowned out by a very wide and diverse group of people standing up to make a difference in a positive way.

The wide canvas of democratic elections, means that it embraces normative enquiries into meanings and modes of representation as well as policy debates over campaign finance, corruption and criminalization of politics.

According to the World Wide Web Foundation, which is headed up by web inventor Tim Berners - Lee, the British government's assertion that the bill needs to be rushed through as emergency legislation «seems at best incompetent, and at worst manipulative,» as the law could easily have been debated over recent months.

For over a year, members of the bitcoin development community, users and business interests have engaged in a wide and often bitter debate about the block size.