Sentences with phrase «in a political debate what»

In a political debate what you need is allies, because in numbers there is power.

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In the eight months since Benghazi, the debate about what happened in Benghazi has become deeply political, as Republicans continue to challenge the White House's actions during and after the attacks, which left four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, deaIn the eight months since Benghazi, the debate about what happened in Benghazi has become deeply political, as Republicans continue to challenge the White House's actions during and after the attacks, which left four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, deain Benghazi has become deeply political, as Republicans continue to challenge the White House's actions during and after the attacks, which left four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.

As environmental issues and concerns become a center issue in political debates around the world, it's becoming apparent that 2017 is the year that green initiatives will have the opportunity to become more than what crunchy granola hippies talk about and become fully mainstream.

Many people think political debate and what goes on in the legislature is only about politics and political wrangling.

What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

In his chapter on democracy, Sen argues that a democratic polity is important first because freedom is an inherent good, second because it contributes to economic well «being, and third because societies need free political debate to choose what economic «needs» to value.

Whether and to what extent we should accept it is a matter that we may discuss and debate in our political forums.

He said: «We're going to need to change by virtue a humanised political debate over exactly what we want to see in our country, that means changing the law, it is also changing the culture so people view abortion as what it is, destruction of an unborn child.»

The raging public debate, largely ill - informed, is not premised on what is in Ghana's national interest, but what will give the largest boost to the political fortunes of the NDC & NPP in the run up to November's Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

The upshot, in Perry's case, is likely yet another nail in his proverbial political coffin — coming after a series of shaky debate performances and some Birther gibberish, this video will help solidify the idea that he's simply not to be taken seriously (plus there's the fact that he might be a little delusional all around if he thinks that this is what The Political Establishment wants in a stump political coffin — coming after a series of shaky debate performances and some Birther gibberish, this video will help solidify the idea that he's simply not to be taken seriously (plus there's the fact that he might be a little delusional all around if he thinks that this is what The Political Establishment wants in a stump Political Establishment wants in a stump speaker).

Many people have made good points both for and against the stable futures of Pakistan and India, but increasingly the comments have moved away from political analysis and towards what could be considered to be xenophobia, which is a form of debate that Politics In Spires can not support.

What this means is that there is important political slippage between the tax policy debate in Washington and the way it is heard by many Americans.

If the Tories do rear their «true» head & claim that the cuts will (& should) be permanent, then the debate will be between amputation vs cure in how to deal with the deficit, breaking what patina of consensus still remains between political parties over the necessity of the welfare state.

What both the nationalist and anti-capitalist visions have in common, however, is their framing of the political debate in terms of «us» versus «them».

So, what lessons might one learn from Repeal — particularly lessons that shed light on contemporary debates in politics and political economy?

He added that Nigerian politicians had generally failed to understand what democracy entails, stressing that arguments, debates and disagreements should be encouraged in the kind of political system that obtains in Nigeria.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

What arguments can be mode in favour of financial barriers for the participation of political candidates in elections or electoral debates?

Nick Spencer Hodder & Stoughton, # 16.99 Not once, during recent debates in Parliament, did I hear any MP accuse another of retiring «into what may be called his political cave of Adullam».

«I think the landscape has shifted in regards to people being more in tune, being more aware and just being more conscious of what's going on in our political debate,» he said.

«I think if you look at the debate last night, there is just a gulf between what David Cameron stands for and what I stand for — in terms of values, in terms of internationalism, in terms of fairness, in terms of progressive tax reform, in terms of political reform, in terms of simply living in denial, as does Labour, about a major problem of their creation in the immigration system.»

We're doing well with the economy we've got a good set of messages but they're all about your head and what people are worried about here [in Thurrock, where Doyle - Price is MP], you'll hear people talking about immigration, they say to us we've not done enough about immigration, we've not done enough about welfare, actually we've done a lot, but what we need to do is talk in a narrative that people understand and can engage with because too often our political debate looks managerial and bland and that's why people here don't think that politicians speak for them.

In a passionate debate about the future of the political party on Friday morning the Labour MP fielded questions from some disillusioned campaigners on what direction the party would take if it voted for him.»

«We usually argue over what was influential without any hope of resolving the debates,» says William Thompson, a political scientist at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Kuntz entered the public debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in France after observing what he calls a growing tendency by French public authorities to distort scientific findings for political ends and after reading an alarmist article in his local newspaper, he says.

A debate rages on whether President Reagan did or didn't have Alzheimer's disease during his time in office.With what we have learned in the last decade about the disease, the question is relatively meaningless, except perhaps to score political points.The simple answer: of course he did.The newest technology — consisting of imaging and spinal taps — shows that the disease process begins its relentless course as many as 15 years before a firm diagnosis.

The film has also jumped into the current of black political thought and action, prompting challenging think pieces about how T'Challa and Killmonger's rift is representative of familiar ideological debates in the black community, and what the film's politics represent about the state of black America.

Everything else is like we're in a political or racial debate when it's like, I am who I am and I'm proud of where I come from and what I'm about.

What they got in those brief minutes at the end of each program was less debate than verbal sparring matches between two erudite intellectuals attacking the political philosophy and public record of the other and they were out for blood.

Unfortunately, this is also an election year, which means that political spin is likely to drown out reasoned debate about what policies are most likely to work in inner - city classrooms.

What the Supreme Court says in Zelman could have a marked effect in structuring the terms of the political debate - not just in determining who wins the legal argument, but in explaining its broader implications in a way that only the Supreme Court can.

Numerous articles weigh in on the political and academic debates about funding universal pre-K, but the more interesting and basic question at hand is what we're asking of pre-K.

Rather, I think the reluctance to contribute [to a debate in support of Common Core] is due to hubris, impatience to focus on implementation, political naivete, and disdain for what they see as mean - spirited carping....

We acknowledge that in Chile, like in the United States, the debate over what counts as data, how data is interpreted, and the measures that are used to indicate educational achievement and improvement is ongoing and often influenced by broader political and economic ideologies and goals.

Forcefully examining what it means to be a civilian teaching literature at a military academy, Samet also considers the role of women in the army, the dangerous tides of religious and political zeal roiling the country, the uses of the call to patriotism, and the cult of sacrifice she believes is currently paralyzing national debate.

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.

Driven by globalization, digitization, and by different developments and political contexts around the world, debating what's happening in the book industry makes a valuable contribution to shaping today's cultural agenda.

This second exhibition delves into the artist's notion of being an «immigrant,» how he or she responds to the present immigration debate as it is carried out in personal, public, and political spaces, and what approaches the artist takes, from the subtle and conceptual, to the blatantly political.

There are lots more reasons a debate could be problematic, including just by putting science in an inherently divisive political context — exactly what scientists usually say they want to avoid.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

Every political group uses spin to try to persuade the public, but some of the groups that represent conservatives and industry use what can be called extreme tactics in the climate change science debate.

What is at issue is not an interest in the public's understanding of the science, but their attachment to sides in the political «debate».

But his contributions to climate debates demonstrate perfectly the discrepancy between the shrill cries for action, such as those of Stewart, and what actually emerges from the scientific process, when those scientists aren't engaged in political activism.

What's scary is that the side of this debate that is wrong, and that is wrong in a way that will very probably lead to worldwide disaster in a few generations, is taken seriously because it is the side taken by one of America's two dominant political parties.

What he finds may surprise you and raise questions about the role of science in political debates.

This is not to say of course that co2 may not act in the way they prescribe - though i find that increasingly unlikely at present, but more to try to highlight the political aspects of this debate for what they are.

But how he chooses to differentiate what he wants to respond to is different than saying that there is a vast asymmetry in the influence of tribalism or political orientation in the climate debate writ large, or in the sausage making of related policies.

There is some real interest in this approach, mainly from academics, and there is also what I would characterize as «strategic interest,» principally from those who recognize that once the focus is on carbon taxes rather than other instruments, political debates will inevitably result in less ambitious targets or, in fact, no policy at all.

But we're in some sense responsible for the former, though not the latter, which is why speculation — as to what Obama's environment czarina will do next month, or whether democracy is finished — is a legitimate part of all political debate.

You say «What sickens me is the hypocrisy of people who claim to be in favour of speech, claim to believe in empiricism, claim to be sceptics yet refuse to accept room for an honest, open debate on one of the most important political issues of our time.»