Sentences with phrase «as political leaders debate»

As political leaders debate how best to fix Social Security, many policymakers are focusing on the wrong issue.

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That is the main conclusion of the Greek media, but at the same time many see the recent debate as much more alive than the one held last week between all political leaders.

The American Values Network, a group of political activists and pastors, sparked a debate when it recently released a video challenging some conservative and Republican leaders» professed admiration for Rand, an atheist who saw selfishness as a virtue and celebrated unfettered capitalism.

Building on her role as de facto leader of the out - of - work and out - of - luck on James Turner Street, Dee has emerged as something of a spokesman for the many people whose voice is rarely heard in the national political debate.

They are now set to launch a concerted campaign to brand Cameron as a «recognisably rightwing» leader in a move that will inevitably inflame political debate.

As Congress debates the reauthorization of ESEA, those arguing for keeping NCLB - style mandates claim that reform - minded leaders in the states require «political cover» from Washington.

Carlson gives us a journalist's - eye - view of what brought Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in the first place, depicting Vice President Richard Nixon as an awkward emissary who visited Moscow to further his own political career and made a spectacle at the American National Exhibition by debating the merits of kitchen appliances with the leader of the Soviet Union.

While world leaders debate the erection of walls or the deportation of refugees, and as our political rhetoric grows increasingly divisive, die level of critical and ethical engagement that the exhibition performs — with questions of nation and migration, community and cosmopolitanism, and the aftermath of colonial violence — is more urgent now than ever.

He said that while evangelical churches typically don't have endowments, he has been watching the divestment campaign with interest and expects church leaders across the country to grow more vocal as global warming resurfaces in political debate.

The event, endorsed by the COP23 Presidency and presided by World Water Council Honorary President Loïc Fauchon and H.E. Charafat Afilal, Secretary of State for Water and Environment of Morocco, brought high level participants, such as international experts and political leaders at the forefront of the debate on climate change and water, as well as several environmental ministers, including, Istiaque Ahmad, Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forests of Bangladesh and Sindra Sharma - Khushal, from the UNFCCC COP23 Presidency Team for Fiji.

This was seen by many as the most controversial aspect of Heartland's attempt to «influence» the debate on climate change, because it is one thing to confuse political leaders (they almost seem to enjoy it), but quite another to spread misinformation to students.

A climate researcher for decades, he had long been in the midst of political and scientific debates over global warming, tirelessly urging political leaders and the public to take action now to avoid disasters such as rising sea levels in the future.

Obfuscation has always been their weapon of choice, Gavin handled him best when he was here, there is no debating a leader of a political movement who understands science as much as his role in the house of Lords.

The Green Party of Canada is a political party within the meaning of 149.1 (6.1)(c) of the ITA, and it should be afforded the same opportunity to participate in the Debate as is being given to the political parties whose leaders are allowed to participate.

Most Indigenous leaders, however, criticised the debate's focus on the communal and inalienable tenure of Indigenous land for obscuring the real factors in Indigenous poverty in remote areas such as illiteracy, poor health, inadequate housing and basic infrastructure like sewerage, roads and communications as well for elevating the economic value of the land at the expense of its spiritual and political importance to Indigenous people.