Sentences with phrase «years arguing over»

A veto doesn't produce reform and we will be back here in ten years arguing over the same issue as we have been for past 45 years.

Investors, advisors, and regulators have spent years arguing over who should be classified as a fiduciary, but few ask what that fiduciary status means.

City, state and industry officials, who spent much of the past year arguing over how and when to rebuild the site, stood side by side Tuesday and praised a recent agreement between the Port Authority and Silverstein Properties that will allow work at the site to move forward.

All of this goes to show that no matter how heated legal disputes between companies get — and Microsoft and B&N spent a good part of last year arguing over Android - related patents — business reasons can bring them into partnership just as quickly as they can drag them into court rooms.

Not exact matches

And, he argues, «they will add up to a very bold change for the brand and the business... If we execute the plan over the next few years, you will say, «Boy, Target made a huge transformation.»»

While Republican leaders argued it would, every major independent analysis of the bill, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, showed that it would grow the federal debt over the next 10 years even when accounting for that increased growth.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Sir John A. Macdonald, who would have turned 200 this year, advocated a single central government for Canada, without the bother of provincial legislatures: «one government and one parliament... for the whole of these peoples,» he argued during debates over Confederation.

He'll argue that insufficient funding for the NHS over recent years was one of the reasons 52 % of British people voted for Brexit last year.

«I argued that active investment management by professionals - in aggregate - would over a period of years under - perform the returns achieved by rank amateurs who simply sat still.

Delta, which has also been an important Boeing customer over the years, argued that Boeing no longer produces a similar product to the Bombardier jets.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.»

In the tight three - way race of this year's federal election, the focus has shifted from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the polls in the most reliable fashion.

He argued that the Fed's inflation record over the past 15 to 20 years has been as good as or better than central banks in Europe that have only a single price - stability mandate.

Representatives with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Microsoft, Facebook, Dropbox, AOL, Airbnb, IAC, Netflix, Qualcomm, Yahoo and Google, among others, have all argued over the years for creating an entrepreneur visa.

Shiller has argued that the CAPE is remarkably good at predicting returns over the period of several years.

Critics might argue that performance over recent years reveals the least compelling aspects of managed futures, but the critics always seem to forget that upwards of 70 % to 100 % of investors» allocations are already in traditional investments.

With R&D expense recognized immediately and capital expenditures being amortized over multiple years, I would argue that today's companies demand higher PE ratios vs the industrial high CapEx companies of 100 years ago.

You can't argue against an 86-fold increase in shareholder returns over 20 years!

In a debate that lasted more than eight hours, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras argued that the commission is a requirement from the people who expect answers, and a way to eliminate any «revanchist» intentions for the «many question marks» that have arisen over the last five years.

In GMOs most recent letter, Jeremy Grantham leads off the piece with, «At GMO these days we argue over three very different pathways to a similar dismal 20 - year outlook for pension fund returns... A problem for investors following GMO's writing is which of these three alternatives to choose»

Two years ago, Asness and an AQR colleague raised hackles with a research paper that argued that the global temperature trends over the last 125 years do not, on their own, support an alarmist view of global warming.

How else could she argue, as she did in 2016, that Alberta would not support the federal government's pan-Canadian carbon price of $ 50 per tonne (in the year 2022) unless the federal government first approved an oil sands pipeline to tidewater, while also arguing that British Columbia's proposed oil spill safety measures contravene the federal government's clear jurisdiction over interprovincial pipelines?

Spotify Technology (NYSE: SPOT) has been arguing for years that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) undermines competition with its App Store, and the 30 % cut that third - party developers must fork over to sell through the platform makes it hard for rivals to compete on a level playing field.

Consumers who currently shell out over $ 2,400 a year in interest and fees to payday lenders lack access to a traditional bank could tap the benefits of banking at the post office, argues this 2014 white paper from the Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service.

You're arguing over the race of a cartoonish character which was mostly created by Coca Cola advertising and a wandering Jewish preacher from 2,000 years ago in the Middle East.

Arguing in a vacuum over what Jesus would do in 2012 using a 2000 - year - old text is an academic waste of time and an outrage to those who are actually sick and dying right now, even if it is not completely irrelevant.

For over a hundred years the Church argued against them.

You sound like a couple of 8 year - olds arguing over who has the strongest Transformer.

When Jesus said in Mark 14:7 «The poor you will always have with you,» He probably was referring to the fact that 2000 years later we'd still be arguing over how, what, when, where, etc. to do with the poor, just as all of the above comments bear out.

It is argued then, that the crushing, heart - wrenching pain of watching a child die, and the sense of deep loss that lingers afterwards for days, months, and even years in the hearts of parents, is the pain that God experiences for an eternity over the death of His Son.

One could also argue that the cohesion of the family of humankind at the level of international relations has been equally problematic over the last hundred years.

David Blankenhorn, executive director of the Institute for American Values, argues for this kind of pro-family tax reform: Such a family tax credit would boost real income by about $ 750 per child for precisely the families who have suffered an economic squeeze over the past 15 years.»

For 2000 years theologians have argued over various interpretations and theologies and yet the misseo Dei remains the same.

One can argue that it didn't happen at the same time, but that over millions of years these mutations developed independently and fell into place on their own... but I see no evolutionary advantage of having wiring without sensors or processing, or sensors without wiring or processing, or processing without sensors and wiring.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

Indeed, in historical perspective the figures for membership and attendance could easily be used to argue that the so - called conservative churches have been growing less spectacularly over the past 20 years than in the period from 1920 to 1965.

He argues that the decline of Islamic civilization over the past 600 years resulted from defeats at the hands of the West — in trade, technology, science, philosophy, political development, modernization, diplomacy and war.

Wasn't it you who was arguing an unchanging scripture over the last 2000 years?

In articles published in a variety of forums over the past two years, Farley has argued that the current organization of the theological curriculum corresponds to an ecclesial reality that no longer exists.

The American Association of Retired Persons argues that one in five people over the age of 55 years have had to reduce their telephone usage».

World - system theory, for example, has argued that economic cycles, called Kondrotieff waves, lasting approximately fifty years each, can be identified over and above whatever secular economic trends may be at work.

In many books and articles over the years, I have argued that Whiteheadian societies, while not possessing agency in and of themselves, nevertheless possess an objective ontological unity from moment to moment in virtue of the collective agency of their constituent actual occasions2 The unity thus achieved is in my view the unity of an ongoing structured field of activity for successive generations of actual occasions undergoing concrescence within the field.

Somewhere out there, there's a young Augustine with pear - stained hands, a young John Newton with receipts for what he paid to own human beings, a young C. S. Lewis arguing against the existence of God, a young Chuck Colson with metaphorical tire - tracks over his metaphorical grandmother in service to some politician, a young fifteen - year - old whose name we'll never know wondering if he's lost in the cosmos.

Some argue, and I would not disagree, that they run more than 1,300 years into the past, and that what confronts us today is the contemporary expression of a civilizational contest that has ebbed and flowed for well over a millennium.

Mr Franich argued the assignment of the lease to a third party would result in Woolworths losing control over any future tenants for the remaining term of the lease, which is almost 77 years.

We would have so much fun standing around the kitchen arguing over which treat was the best and what we could make the next year.

However the company argued that at a comparable operating level (ie without the effect of the volatile exchange rate) operating profit was up 15 % to # 851,000, but it was non-operating exchange losses on long term loans and new hedging contracts taken out shortly before the end year that had hit this figures, after resulting in charges of over # 450k.

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