Debates center on what the intended cap on warming will be (while 2 ° C has been the target in previous discussions, activist and representatives from small island nations have been arguing strenuously for 1.5 ° C); the extent and mechanism of financial assistance to developing countries from developed countries; and whether or not nations will be required to update their emission reductions targets over time.
While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of
the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.
The debate centers on the principle of net neutrality, which requires that Internet service providers move traffic in a non-discriminatory manner based on the desires of Internet users.
While Western evangelicals have grown familiar with the C1 — C6 debate over «insider movements» among Muslims [see «The Hidden History of Insider Movements,» CT January 2013], in India the contextualization
debate centers on «Christward movements.»
There's also a famous story of a critic getting the best of Lewis during
a debate centering on one of the chapters in his book Miracles, and the distress it caused.
The 45 - minute
debate centered on Corcoran's $ 1.4 million television ad that portraying immigrants who entered the country illegally as a danger to Floridians and HB 9, a proposal that threatens local officials who do not fully comply with federal immigration authorities with removal from office and fines.
Much of
the debate centered on two key parts of the comptroller's job: managing the massive pension system and monitoring the city's budget and financial health.
All four Republican primary candidates participated in
a debate centering on taxes and revenue on July 31, hosted by the Casa Grande Dispatch.
In the United States, the school - choice
debate centers on whether parents should have the right to send their children to the public school of their choice rather...
Brill's book has generated
debate centering on whether he over-emphasizes the power of excellent teaching as a tool to advance student learning.
One common
debate centers on the question of whether there is an «intergenerational transmission of divorce,» which will be discussed in this paper.
The debate centers on what these results mean and how they can be extrapolated to the bigger picture.
That debate centers on the fact that video games specifically violent video games, lead to violent acts such as school shootings.
A useful political
debate centered on science would center on just how much of the taxpayers dollar should go to NASA, the NIH, our state universities, Fermilab, corporate research, and of course, our military.
One issue, for me, is that an environment - focused
debate centered on kilowatt - hours and greenhouse gas emissions misses the priceless societal value of wider access to cleaner, brighter lighting.
For example, much of the climate
debate centers on the validity of observations and data.
My interest in
this debate centers on this relationship — or competition — between the law blog and the law review article.
The continued
debate centering on the lack of pay for our educators, especially those working in early education, has many voices.
Not exact matches
Mahan says he had anticipated Brigade's role this year would lie largely in down - ballot races, with conversation
centering on issues - based
debates as it had in the app's earlier days.
The
debate is
centered on the agency's director, Richard Cordray, who is serving a five - year term that ends in 2018.
Edward Snowden, the contractor at the
center of the NSA controversy, deserves credit for starting a
debate, Eric Schmidt told CNBC
on Friday.
«But the fact that the national
debate still
centers on whether pro-slavery monuments should be taken down, not
on how many anti-racist monuments should be built, speaks volumes.»
The chief
debates over regulation
center on the philosophical and ideological differences over government's responsibilities versus free market rights.
Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of
centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get
on with having some notion of civilization.
However, whereas past
debates previously
centered on interception's potential feasibility and desirability, it now focuses
on the actual effectiveness and efficiency.
The party's influence
on the political
debate will probably encourage establishment parties to court NF voters by adopting some of its proposals, including
on immigration — for the
center - right — and opposition to fiscal rigor — for the Socialists.
They talked about Bitcoin and Bitcoin Money,
centering on the age - old «
on - chain vs off - chain»
debate.
In addition to outlining key findings and their importance, our team also offers insights
on how the bitcoin futures curve should be calculated, a
debate that has consistently been at the
center of cryptocurrency trading circles.
Much of the recent, heated
debate surrounding Zimbabwe's coming elections
centers on the nation's largest foreign investor, China — and analysts say...
Yet most of the
debate on the difference between the Budget / Public Accounts and Estimates has been
centered on the treatment of capital.
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.
Uhlmann of the Ethics and Public Policy
Center in Washington, D.C., has put together a remarkable range of information and arguments bearing
on continuing
debates about the end, and ending, of life.
The result is a very subtle interplay of theological norms and sources that Wesley understood to be guided and directed by the Scriptures.Much of the
debate about the Wesleyan Quadrilateral has
centered on the theological pluralism that it necessarily leads to.
But the solar winds are changing in some corners of academia, and the Harvard - Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics recently held a
debate on Pluto's planetary status.
Given my rather public skepticism of the thesis that humans are causing any significant climate change, my friend Bob Benne, who is the director of the ethics
center at Roanoke College, invited me down to Roanoke to
debate Mr. Cizik
on these matters.
Thus the most heated
debates in recent General Councils of the Assemblies of God have
centered on efforts to qualify local sovereignty in favor of district and national councils.
Most of the really nasty ecclesial
debates in the U.S. these days —
on the role of women, homosexuality, evolution and so
on —
center explicitly or implicitly
on how we interpret the Bible.
Much modern intellectual
debate, particularly within the popular arena,
centers on disputes between religion and science over such seminal issues as creationism versus evolutionary theory, or theological explanations of the origin of the universe versus the «big - bang theory» of the new cosmology.
Thus the issues which are being
debated anew in the theological turmoil today
center in the meaning of Christian love as it points
on the one side to the possibilities of human existence, and as it points
on the other side to a fulfillment of this life in an ultimate good which transcends the possibilities of this world.
As the sisters
debate and pray
on how to respond, they realize they are in the
center of a broader global power struggle.
And then,
on the hopeful assumption that everyone slept through the night, or at least until dawn, next would come breakfast, six - way
debates over what to eat for breakfast, a belated but grandly sung Latin grace (the girls went to Gregorian - chant camp in the summer), and then backpack - packing, hair brushing that featured much wailing and gnashing of small teeth, and finally back to the elevator - button wars before a race - walk over to the convention
center.
On the other side of the social justice
debate are those who argue that social justice issues are at the
center of the Gospel, and that as we look at the life and ministry of Jesus, we see Him engaged in social justice actions at every turn.
The awareness of the predicament (
on the part of both the politicians at the microphones and the voters in the streets) conceivably could lead to a reconstitution of the American idea, but the finding of the phoenix in the ashes presupposes a
debate rising from an intellectual structure a good deal sturdier than the one lost in the wreckage of the World Trade
Center.
The past year has marked a shift in religious liberty
debates, one that previously
centered on hiring rights but became focused
on health care requirements.
The later
debates about his orthodoxy
centered on his use of Stoicism and his more speculative cosmology.
Even though many of the theologians with these concerns have public political commitments (the most forthright tend to be
on the political left or
center - left, such as Elaine Graham, Timothy Gorringe, Kenneth Leech, Michael Northcott and Denys Turner), the main
debates have not usually been about current political issues.
The author examines the
debate in the church over the growth of paid - time religious programs which has
centered on several major issues, including the nature of the church, its mission, evangelism, pastoral care and counseling, and the social and political impact, and also the communication aspects: one way versus interactive communication.
The
debate in the church over the growth of paid - time religious programs has
centered on several major issues.
With all the furor and dishonesty over the Supreme Court's decisions
on contraception and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, it's a good moment to think about what kinds of structural weaknesses the
center - right has in public
debate and what can be done to address some of those weaknesses.
Approach someone in the audience subset who might tune in just to watch Tiger Woods — a demographic golf is trying to desperately hold
on to — and tell them the dominant pre-tournament coverage topic
centered on these cool new «native sandy reas» and the
debate over where they begin and a sand trap ends.