Sentences with phrase «debate society at»

The University of Ghana will be represented by two students from the University of Ghana Debate Society at the World University Debate Championship in Mexico from Wednesday, 27th December, 2017, to Thursday, 4th January, 2018.

Some moan that the session resembles a public school or Oxbridge debating society at its worst.

Not exact matches

It's bigger than the Industrial Revolution,» Draper said at Intelligence Squared U.S. debate presented in partnership with Manhattan Institute's Adam Smith Society on Saturday.

It was aimed at critics of the deal known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, including left - leaning politicians in Europe as well as the clamouring anti-trade civil society movement, as an «unambiguous statement» to assuage concerns over «provisions that have been the object of public debate and concerns.»

During a debate at Stanford University last month, he described Silicon Valley as «a one - party state» and said, «That's when you get in trouble politically in our society, when you're all in one side.»

In June 2017, the Americas Society awarded Flatt a Gold Medal at its 37th annual fundraising event — an organization dedicated to education, debate and dialogue on the Americas.

Applied to the question at hand, the debate thus proceeds on the unquestioned assumption that either human beings definitely are naturally religious, and so religion will always persist in human societies, or they are not naturally religious, and so modernity will inevitably secularize people and society as we shed the accidents of our cultural past.

I found Mgr Burke's article on justice to be a very relevant and thought - provoking topic of debate and discussion for our society at the moment.

Thanks to invitations from Blackstone Fellows and Federalist Society chapters, I've debated marriage at a couple dozen colleges and law schools.

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

In Canada, the debate in society at large is over, and great strides have been made in the US and elsewhere.

Alternative media like art, or TV shows, or comedy, have long been vehicles to examine society and religion and all sorts of things in a more effective way that head - on debate can provide — look at Stephen Colbert for one example — any, any restraint on those media is a direct assault on freedom itself.

It is very simple and no need to get into a religious debate; greed leads to corruption, and corruption, at its worst, destroys a society by either mass exodus e.g. Mexico or by revolution e.g. the Russian revolution and the Arab Spring.

Except it was a non-discussion, or at least a non-starter, for until recently, the religion - and - society debate in Israel meant ultra-orthodox Jews vs. thoroughly secularized Jews, which didn't leave a whole lot of room for serious conversation.

Others question why anyone would want to be an at - home parent and debate a SAHM's significance and contributions to society as a whole.

On a related note, it's nice to actually have a political debate with you, Sunder, because I recall that when I was interning for you at the Fabian society as an ickle 20 year old, before I was famous - on - the - internet, you wouldn't give me the time of day.

At Left Foot Forward, the Fabian Society's Sunder Katwala offers a very interesting analysis of the debate over the government's deficit reduction and spending cuts programme.

Instead of developing policies aimed at making immigration work for the country as a whole, however, the response of the Westminster political class over recent years has been to debate caps on immigration and give credence to the philosophical position that immigrants are a drain on society instead of net contributors.

The first debating society, the Rota Club, met at Miles's.

The motion at the debate held at Royal Geographical Society in Kensington was: Britain's in decline: pity Cameron is a Heath not a Thatcher.

The Fabian Society produced one of the first studies on this - a collection on «The English Question» in 2000, and it has often been discussed at our events, on political reform and Britishnes, for example in this panel debate.

The debate was fairly bitter by Senate standards, and as the hour grew later — many lawmakers were anxious to leave for receptions hosted by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and American Irish Legislators Society — they began openly sniping at Krueger as she gave a final critique.

Finally, Nick Hurd, the Cabinet Office MInister, spoke for the Government at the end of the debate: I really believe that we have barely scratched the surface of what can be achieved in this country if we strike a more effective and balanced partnership between government, business and civil society, including active citizens in our communities who want to get more involved.

The Fortune Society's Reentry Debate Team was joined by members of the New York State Legislature, The City Council, and the Mayor's Office, for a parliamentary debate held on Dec. 19 at the Ford Foundation on ending pretrial detention and the cash bail system in New York Debate Team was joined by members of the New York State Legislature, The City Council, and the Mayor's Office, for a parliamentary debate held on Dec. 19 at the Ford Foundation on ending pretrial detention and the cash bail system in New York debate held on Dec. 19 at the Ford Foundation on ending pretrial detention and the cash bail system in New York state.

But at the same time, the incumbent governor has been critical of government when it becomes a «debating society» as opposed to a vehicle for accomplishments.

A shadow minister has resigned his membership of the Oxford Union debating society in protest at it providing a platform for Nick Griffin and David Irving.

Mount Vernon — The Fleetwood Citizen's Society hosted the only scheduled City Council Candidate debate of the 2015 Mount Vernon primary on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at The Riverside Memorial Chapel, located at 21 Broad Street.

The debate came as the centre - left thinktank the Fabian Society released research which showed that Britain could see a near doubling of the number of black and Asian MPs at the next election, taking the total from 15 to at least 25.

Much of today's political debate is taking place behind closed doors, but chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander underlined all three parties» commitment to Lords reform before the 2010 general election at the Electoral Reform Society's annual conference.

Notes to Editors The report, «How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», by Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani Hessari, Cécile Knai and Elisabete Weiderpass, will be published online in Drug and Alcohol Review at 22:00 6 September 2017 The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote and informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

Shadow security minister Baroness Neville - Jones said: «At the heart of the debate is one central question: what type of society are we trying to create, protect and secure?

The debate was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), with support from the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD - Ghana), Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and Coalition for Domestic Elections Observers (CODEO), and its partner organizations towards next month's general election at Hwidiem in the Asutifi South Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region.

Mount Vernon — The Fleetwood Citizens Society hosted another debate for the 2015 Mount Vernon Mayoral Race, Tuesday night, between the three candidates still left standing, Councilman and Democratic Mayoral Nominee Richard Thomas (Democrat, Independence Party & Republican Party lines), Councilwoman Deborah Reynolds (Conservative Party) and Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson (Working Families Party) at Riverside Memorial Chapel (21 Broad Street).

Hoylman, a 46 - year - old Village resident and father of a 21 - month - old, said at a debate in August that his 15 - year track record with CB2, the Community Service Society and the Village Independent Democrats distinguished him from his opponents.

The election debates gave the Liberal Democrats by - election status, and disrupted an already disjointed Tory campaign The Conservatives stopped losing on the economy but they didn't develop a strong or consistent economic message The Big Society agenda is an exciting governing philosophy but it should never have been put at the heart of the Tory election campaign No party ran a campaign responsive to the seismic impact of the expenses scandal - and to the prevailing mood of disillusion with Westminster politics

He is pictured in an undated image speaking at the Oxford Union debating society

That question was debated this week at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting, Neuroscience 2011, in Washington, D.C. Speakers — most of them scientists in secure careers — addressed large crowds of early - career scientists eager to learn how successful neuroscientists found their jobs and to hear their advice for those just starting out.

I admire Steven Newton's commitment to open debate with young - Earth creationists in his comment on their attendance at Geological Society...

Prof. Gordon Pipa, a senior author of the study, says that since it now seems to be possible that machines can be programmed to make human like moral decisions it is crucial that society engages in an urgent and serious debate, «we need to ask whether autonomous systems should adopt moral judgements, if yes, should they imitate moral behavior by imitating human decisions, should they behave along ethical theories and if so, which ones and critically, if things go wrong who or what is at fault?»

But at the same time he'd like to put «more onus on society» and says that we «need better feedback mechanisms» so that the public can engage in the debate.

These beliefs play a key role in shaping people's opinions, and ultimately, their support for scientific advances, according to the study «Understanding Public Opinion in Debates Over Biomedical Research: Looking Beyond Partisanship to Focus on Beliefs about Science and Society,» by American University professor Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D., and Ezra Markowitz, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University.

Breaking News: A public debate on the merits of NASA's plan for a cislunar space station will be held at the 2017 International Mars Society Convention this September at the University of California Irvine.

While we were at the Amsterdam Film Festival last week Franny took part in a debate with some climate sceptics, which was hijacked by a medieval protestor from the Flat Earth society who wanted to shake hands with them as he had been all alone for 400 years with no friends.

Students in Cornell University's course, The GMO Debate: Science and Society, visited a genetic engineering laboratory at Boyce Thompson Institute, courtesy of Assistant Professor Joyce Van Eck and postdoctoral researcher Alex Amaro, Stern Lab.

My public talk / debate with the Eades at ASBP (American Society of Bariatric Physicians) in 2006 that is posted on my site — Protein: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and several others, where I introduced the science of mTOR and the relationship between protein, cancer, and aging changed a lot of minds about high protein including apparently Jeff Volek and Steve Phinney who are now embracing the lower protein and higher fat diet in their books.

So far every debate they have organised, at the Royal Geographical Society, has sold out in advance.

Film Comment Digital Producer Violet Lucca discusses and debates the selection with a panel of FC contributors, including Eric Hynes, associate curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image; Aliza Ma, head of programming at Metrograph; Adam Nayman, Cinema Scope contributor; Nick Pinkerton, member of the New York Film Critics Circle; and Michael Koresky, Director of Editorial and Creative Strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

For all the dead - on jabs at society, bystanders debating the political theories of intervention as two people beat each other's brains out, or the sang - froid meeting in the penthouse debating how best to dispose of the rebellion's wild - eyed ringleader (Luke Evans), there are tantalizing riffs whose interpretation is as much about our own pre-conceived notions as anything else.

Each is defined and then, at the bottom of the handout, is a breakdown of the debate as to whether these celebrations offered a safety valve for society.

Launched by law students at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Chicago in 1982, the Federalist Society built networks and created forums to air conservative arguments, emphasizing discussion and debate rather than decreeing set positions.