Sentences with phrase «year debate about»

But as we saw in the ten - year debate about the need for the apology to the Stolen Generations, such a debate can be just as vigorous as one that directly engages rights.

For thirty years the debate about school prayer was cast in stone.

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Every few years, a new book ignites debate about structural and social impediments to women achieving professional parity.

Sen. Rubio has discussed immigration during debates, but has not been asked about his participation in the so - called «Gang of 8,» which led a bipartisan push for comprehensive immigration reform just two years ago.

ANALYSIS: CBH has served WA grain growers for more than 80 years, but debate is raging about whether now is the time to kill the co-op.

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.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter concurs, noting that last year analysts were debating whether Ottawa was in position to post a surplus a year earlier — 2014 — something the prime minister bragged about during the 2011 campaign.

Minimum wage levels are set by the provinces, and Ontario's decision to raise its baseline requirement to $ 11 an hour earlier this year sparked significant debate about the economic impact on workers and employers.

Then, of course, there's the company that has long inspired design - envy: Apple — and the raging debate about whether it has lost a step in the years since iconic CEO Steve Jobs passed away (see our feature here).

The 37 - year old, Mayer, who became Yahoo's CEO while 6 - months pregnant and gave birth shortly thereafter, returned to work after a two - week maternity leave, sparking debate about whether she could both lead the embattled internet giant and be a good mother.

Bitcoin has been pushed to the verge of this split by a years - long debate about what's known as block size.

That event, known as a «hard fork,» is viewed as increasingly likely among bitcoin leaders, as a years - long debate about the network's technical limitations and broader vision comes to a head.

Each year, our Top States for Business study sparks plenty of debate and important conversations about what it takes to make a state competitive.

Huffington isn't blaming the startup culture for this, though, referring to the debate that has raged over the past few years about venture capitalists and angel investors being biased against women entrepreneurs.

Nintendo's alarming 70 % and 25 % reductions of its full - year forecast of Wii U and 3DS sales, respectively, have sparked endless debates about the future of the company — should it abandon hardware altogether, start making mobile games, or buy its former rival Sega?

Tesla Energy's former head, Mateo Jaramillo, debated Schroeder about their respective energy storage strategies on stage at US Energy Storage Summit last year.

Wow, what a fun thinking about all these years of debates with fb representatives telling me «consumers don't want privacy rights anymore» and «a startup (sic) like facebook shouldn't be overburdened».

I have never been even remotely an expert either on iron and steel production or on the Australian economy, but recent action in the iron ore markets and a vibrant debate within Australia has, in the past three weeks, set me up for several planned and unplanned meetings with Australians — some old friends, some fund managers and bankers, some government officials — who remembered some of the comments I made a few years ago about Australia and iron ore and who wanted to discuss future prospects.

Last year in one of my blog posts I argued that although I remained very skeptical about the sustainability of the China growth model I nonetheless believed that China bulls could make a plausible argument but were failing to do so largely because they did not address the three questions that were fundamental to the debate on the sustainability of the Chinese growth model.

My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) notes that the substance of CETA merits debate, but its most distinguishing feature during the seven years of negotiations has been the steady stream of unrealistic claims from Canadian officials about how close they are to concluding the deal.

After many years of vague talk by governments about fighting global warming, it is encouraging that the debate has finally begun to tackle specific mechanisms to achieve cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.Â

A 50 - year - old philosophical thought experiment has been central to the debate about autonomous vehicles.

Whether the company will need to raise capital this year has been oft - debated; it became a more critical issue after Tesla revealed that it burned through about $ 1 billion in cash in the first quarter.

It's been a remarkable year for financial markets, highlighted by extreme volatility, severe weakness in commodities and a raging debate about interest rates, among other things.

This ties into the long standing debate that has been occurring over the past year about whether human workers will be needed if technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.

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.

It was largely a debate about timing and if the earth could be only 600 years old.

Much of the debate about slack, the drop in unemployment to 16 - year lows and wage gains goes to the heart of the Phillips Curve — a model developed in 1950s by New Zealand economist William Phillips to determine the inverse relationship between the unemployment rate and inflation.

Fishon you make sense and I get where you are coming from on this issue — I held your exact same views for at least 10 years... I even debated gay people about it being a «choice».

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

I never knew much about this Calvinist vs. Arminianism debate until about a year ago.

It is a book that will spur creative debate about critical familism for years to come.

The «Old Me» from ten years ago debates the «New Me» from today about the traditional doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture.

For example, the church had to argue and debate about the Trinitarian nature of God for close to 300 years before that issue was settled, but it was settled.

Today's young women do want to talk about the realities and tensions that have emerged from the feminist debates of recent years.

The debate about its age by scientists concerns differing opinions on how MANY MILLIONS of years old it is.

Back in the early seventies, at one church I was at, there was a vigerous debate about increasing the budget for soap for the ladies bathrom from $ 5,000 per year to $ 10,000 per year.

During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

At the start of 2014 I wrote that this year would be «the year of the Bible», by which I meant that honest and important debate about the Bible would make its way from scholarly settings to the grass roots.

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.

To get a further sense of the American debate on evolution, this year we surveyed deans at theological seminaries about their schools» approach to the topic.

Also ask yourself, regarding the text that we clearly disagree about, why we should have to rely on very stale, thousands - of - years - old, multiply - translated and re-transcribed old text, that is only reasonably subject to debates over its meaning.

Hey, after we debate what people in the Dark Ages cobbled together in a book about a ranting, apocrophal prophet from the Middle East 2,000 years ago, lets have another really worthile debate about whether Zeus or Apollo was a more powerful god.

Over the past ninety years or so, the American debate about the national interest and the national purpose» the debate about morality and foreign policy» has careened through at least ten cycles, resulting in numerous, and sometimes jarring, shifts in the nation's approach to the world.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

When I asked about Gary Habermas, who told me that he and Flew had been friends for 22 years and exchanged «dozens» of letters, Flew said, «He and I met at a debate, I think.»

Due to the shear number of planets, of course one has to have the perfect conditions to support life, which (over billions of years of EVOLUTION) has perfected all of those systems to the point where we can debate about where it all came from.

For the past few years I've been hearing a lot about gender roles as evangelicals debate the place of women in the home, church, and society.

In the years after Christ, believers openly debated His teachings, while still conscious of His warnings about the dangers of «false teachers.»

Craig, saw your debate vs. Ron Jeremy at JMU about 6 years back!