Sentences with phrase «years the debate over»

Whether it is the current math debate in California, the 30 year debate over school prayer, or the long running debate over phonics vs. whole language — this unhealthy habit of thinking in dogmatic ways does our children little good.

For years the debate over fuel economy has been about making cars smaller and lighter, changes that could put people at greater risk of dying or being injured in crashes.

Not exact matches

Their willingness to aggressively push that position highlights a sharp shift for a party that 10 years ago ducked debates over guns.

Canada Post's decision to phase out home mail delivery over the next five years reverberated through headlines Wednesday morning and spurred a lively debate in Parliament this afternoon.

Last year, the city saw quite a bit of political debate over it.

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.

That debate developed over a few years, he says, and when it started to heat up, his attention was elsewhere — trying to launch Alpha's listings business and then dealing with the TMX acquisition.

There is widespread opposition across the euro zone against Jens Weidmann, the current head of the German Bundesbank, as the debate grows over who's going to replace ECB President Mario Draghi next year.

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.

Throughout his career, including his 16 - year tenure as president of Burger King, Clayton found himself embroiled in annual debates over merit raises.

Furthermore, over the last year a debate has raged in the U.S. over rises to the minimum wage.

Canada Post's decision to phase out home mail delivery over the next five years reverberated through headlines Wednesday morning and spurred a lively debate in

The value and fate of cryptocurrencies has been fiercely debated over the past year.

There still is some debate over what to call the affliction that Canada suffered last year.

The company denied the accusations at the time, and over the past year Laurence Sellyn, Gildan's chief financial officer, has made concerted efforts to get on the right side of the debate.

But the debate should be informed by fact — and the fact is that government's share of economic output has shrunk over the last 20 years.»

A debate has lingered for years over whether the Fed ought to use economic benchmarks as triggers for interest rate hikes and other actions.

The arguments are similar to those made in the United Kingdom a few years ago in the debate over whether or not ISPs should be made to block sites featuring pornography.

The Federal Communications Commission has done what no one, including apparently chairman Tom Wheeler, once thought possible when the debate over net neutrality erupted early last year.

When that trajectory ran its course, the company had years of debate over whether to acquire or be acquired.

More than four years since Snowden's leaks, the debate over the government's spying authority rages on.

Though these numbers are simply used to demonstrate the loophole, this helps explain why, in the debate over this year's Congressional Budget, both Republicans and Democrats agreed that the loophole needed to be closed.

Earlier this year, he notoriously tussled with U.S. National Security Agency director Michael Rogers over the question of whether law enforcement should have access to peoples» private communications, a debate now raging between Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley.

I have had mixed feelings over the last eight years as the American political debate over the economy has become more focused on the institutional and external forces holding workers back.

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.

On Sept. 5 of this year, the Dow dropped 234 points amid a series of potentially volatile political events, including the debate over raising the debt ceiling, a possible government shutdown, and threats from Trump over trade policy with China.

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.

Ahead of the letter, many expected Buffett to weigh in on the «active vs. passive» debate that has been heating up over the last couple years in the investing world.

This is a subject that's been hotly debated over the years, but the most recent data seems to suggest that organic click - through rates (the percentage of people who see your entry in SERPs and click through to your site) does have a direct and significant bearing on the ranking of your site.

This is a debate that will unfold as raising equity online evolves over the next five years.

Feb 7, 2014 - More than five years since the beginning of the global financial crisis, policymakers across the world continue to debate its root causes while economists pour over charts and data hoping to find clues as to what...

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.

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 the debate Prentice indicated all will be well in Alberta in 2 years as if to say the crisis will be over.

WeWork's valuation has long been a topic of debate, with industry experts expressing concerns over the sustainability of its business model, particularly for a company just 8 years old.

In key respects, the debate over fiduciary duties ended last year with the DOL Conflict of Interest Rule win.

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.

The debate over aluminum's future in the United States comes after 20 years of China flooding the global market with the natural resource, depressing prices to a level where few U.S. companies can compete.

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.

In a similar case, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a born - again Christian, was jailed briefly last year after she refused to allow her office to issue marriage licenses, igniting a national debate over religious freedom and civil rights.

To take just one example, five hundred years ago, during the Reformation, there was a debate over just how broken human nature truly is.

It's a topic that Jim Belcher recently explored in Deep Church, and it's a topic that has led to some theological hair - splitting over the past few years, as NT Wright and John Piper debate the meaning justification.

I must admit, as a 21 year old, I'm still learning when to «give up» debating over issues that aren't essential doctrines (namely, salvation in Jesus alone).

It is interesting to note that National Statistics, reported by The Daily Telegraph, not long after the debate indicated that homosexual persons make up 1.5 \ % of the United Kingdom population; a figure consistent with Academic research over twenty five years.

Journalist Peter Seewald became famous for his books written in collaboration with Joseph Ratzinger, later Benedict XVI: what began as one interview for a major German newspaper developed into a series of books over a number of years, exploring deep theological issues and the complex debates of our time.

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.

And further, ask yourself why we should have to rely on very stale, thousands - of - years - old, many - versioned old text, that is only reasonably subject to debates over its meaning.

It was perhaps a year or so after the terror attacks of 9/11, during the debates over the Patriot Act.

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.

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.