Sentences with phrase «year of fierce debate»

After a year of fierce debate on the move Cameron gave in and proposed restrictions on potential benefits claims for new migrants coming to the UK.

After 200 years of ambiguity, years of fierce debate and a record number of formal comments on the proposed name, a commission has declared gigantea the one true species term for the Aldabra giant tortoises.

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He faces a minimum 15 - year sentence in a case that has prompted a fierce debate in a country beset by high levels of violent crime.

While the controversial gas drilling practice has been the subject of fierce debate in New York for years it has drawn little attention in Massachusetts.

Tolbert and Howard waged the fiercest of this year's three countywide contests, despite little or no direct confrontation after the incumbent shunned most invitations for debates or candidate forums.

Just how long Neandertals hung on after the arrival of Homo sapiens about 45,000 years ago has been a matter of fierce debate among researchers, some of whom argue that they hardly overlapped at all.

Over the years, the legitimacy of some of his achievements has been questioned by the modern skeptics (such as his 1.200 pound squat that inspires fierce debates to this very day), but the numbers below come from official competitions:

As many of you know, several years ago in the United States we had a fierce debate about the federal role in education.

But three years ago, it became the focus of a fierce community debate that is still simmering.

While she's a fierce opponent of «breed bans» like the proposed outlawing of pit bulls that San Francisco debated two years ago, she believes it's undeniable that some breeds are predisposed to violence.

There is no political necessity to let your fiercest critics frame the terms of debate so that they get what they have unsuccessfully sought for the past ten years — a Kyoto - type energy rationing system.

The owl first entered the spotlight 15 years ago, in fierce debate over clear - cutting of ancient Pacific forests.

Nevada's solar market has grown quickly in recent years, setting off a fierce debate between the state's major utility NV Energy and solar advocates as the rapid expansion of solar installations maxed out the state's 235 MW net metering cap earlier this summer.

He thinks the law practice program approved late last year, after fierce debate, by the Law Society of Upper Canada could be «monumentally important» and a model for the rest of the country.