Because practices vary by country, there were time-consuming debates about the most effective ways to run a business.
It would also allow for the creation of an independent budget office to analyze the state's finances -- helping end the time-consuming debates about revenue forecasts while bringing Albany in line with budgeting practices of Congress and New York City.
Some counterintelligence officials accused the F.B.I. of failing to take the accusations seriously enough, and F.B.I. agents became embroiled in time-consuming debates with the Justice Department over whether they could legally justify wiretapping to collect evidence against Mr. Lee.
Since this is not a full-blown EU-wide treaty it should be possible to adopt it quickly, without time-consuming debates in national parliaments or referendums.
In addition, time-consuming debates over new integration policies threaten to pull Brussels' focus away from actionable Union policies that would benefit the continent and improve its image among Europeans, such as concluding trade deals with Canada and the United States, expanding the single market to cover digital services, and providing funding to youth employment programs.
Human rights advocates are rightfully frustrated with the machinations and secret handshakes in the halls of the Palais des Nations in Geneva that often lead to time-consuming debates on points of order and feckless resolutions like "human rights and international solidarity".
The chairman reiterated his view that toying with the debt ceiling — some Republicans want to use the vote to force the Obama administration to make immediate spending cuts — could be disastrous if it resulted in a time-consuming debate that worried debt markets and forced the Treasury to default.
On a good day, that would to put an end to a time-consuming debate regardig the nature of the host that acquired the mitochondrion: prokaryote or phagotroph, the recent history of which was readably summarized by O'Malley [ 150].
They were more likely to be educated, and well-informed about the differing topical debates, which could result in time consuming conversations that challenged current practices and advice.
Cooking is time consuming".
