Sentences with phrase «lack of debate on»

Also just read an interesting article at MINDING THE CAMPUS on the lack of debate on Global Warming at University campuses.

Lack of debate on casino issue Why have there been no public hearings on one of the most important legislative

He said the last time there was a lack of foreign policy discussed in a national campaign was 12 years ago, right before the Sept. 11 attacks (and to be sure, I don't think King was trying to draw a direct correlation between Sept. 11 and a lack of debate on security).

Not exact matches

The effectiveness of these policies is debated, however, partly due to the lack of data on who's doing the innovating in America, according to Chetty.

On the outsourcing debate, Cook has previously said Apple would not be able to shift much of its manufacturing back to the United States because of a lack of workers with the proper skills.

The current impasse between the Parliamentary Budget Officer and the Government is the result of a clash between the Government's business model, based on a lack of transparency, and accountability; non-evidenced based decision - making; and hostility to public debate and discussion; and, a Parliamentary Budget Officer business model with the exact opposite principles.

The last Scaling Bitcoin conference drove down the price of bitcoin as the trading community saw a lack of progress in reaching consensus on the block size debate.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)-- As Congress debates how to help Puerto Rico with its $ 70 billion debt, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is trying to prod lawmakers into action with stories of crumbling infrastructure on the island and a lack of basic...

The only actual debates are on certain time frames and locations where we have severe lack of fossils, or figuring out where a partial fragment belongs.

I can only imagine the number of death threats and hate Emails this guy must be getting from the conservative types who, at one of the first GOP Presidential debates, cheered at the prospect of an uninsured person dying on the road for lack of treatment.

nakedpastor said, on December 10th, 2009 at 2:36 pm Eric: Please don't confuse unity and tolerance with the lack of argument, debate, heated discussion, or even bad language.

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

I respectfully ask you to stfu on this beautiful Friday night and in lack of any drinking, please refer to your bedside and pray a little instead of this blatant waste of time u call debate.

Even if one regrets the neglect or absence of a comprehensive agenda and the pursuit, instead, of single - issue and single - candidate concerns, and regrets even more the lack of a governing political philosophy, the times and issues are such that open debate must be welcomed on as broad a platform as possible.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's big chance to make a substantial contribution to the debate on the Bill's second reading: an extempore intervention (that it was unprepared is indicated by the barely coherent assertion that «any lack of clarity in this area seems fatally compromising and ambiguous») of 124 words.

We would have debated as to whether the problem with the Cavaliers was Irving's lack of leadership, or whether the problem with Irving was that he was stuck on a hopeless team.

The reasons for the latest failure by Arsenal have been and will continue to be the subject of heavy debate but one thing I think we can all agree on is that the lack of goals compared to the amount of possession and chances was a major factor.

In turn, as debate continues to rage on over Mane's red and subsequent three - match ban after his high boot on Man City goalkeeper Ederson, the lack of consistency if anything has certainly riled Liverpool fans who can't understand why their man was the only one to be punished significantly.

Speaking ahead of an attempt to introduce the Bill into the Commons for further debate, the SNP MP said there are issues around the content and testing of formula products — with trading standards and councils lacking the resources to fully keep tabs on them.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

When pressed by reporters about the lack of public debate on the issue, Silver fired back, suggesting there has been more pulic debate over the millionaire's tax than ever before.

Laurie Penny pits here finger on a live issue the hierachy and class nature of the way Labour is run.I would add the total lack of internal Labour Party debate Labours record in Govt was apalling Privatisation and privatisation of the NHS backed by Labours ministers as well as War etc mean I do nt consider you a party of the Left.

MPs are due to debate the second reading of the EU amendment bill, in which Mr Davidson planned to insert an amendment calling for the bill to be thrown out on the grounds of lack of public consent.

What we lack is an honest public debate that acknowledges the connections, and the difficulties of reconciling public - service commitment with the rule book on one side and the claimed allocative efficiency of public - sector markets on the other.

He disclosed that this has had a toll on the quality of debates on the floor of the house because most of them are not well trained to have been elected to the house because they lack the quality as required to make meaningful impacts in terms of contributions.

Later, during a question and answer session with former Port Authority Executive Director George Marlin, Paladino said «there's a complete lack of transparency» in Albany, and said Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb was «brave» after Cuomo leaned on him and the conference during the tax code debate.

Among the question topics were what more Governor Cuomo should have done before disbanding the Moreland Commission on public corruption, how Astorino feels about NJ Governor, and chair of the Republican Governors Association, Chris Christie «writing you off», whether they believe Christie and Cuomo have an «arrangement» concerning Christie's lack of support for Astorino, what «assurances» of support Christie gave to Astorino when they met, how this joint press conference came to be, how many debates they hope to have and Astorino's take on Christie campaigning in New Hampshire but not New York.

12:28 - Richard Ottoway, Con, snarly and creaky and oddly wholesome, says there are serious constitutional issues on the lack of debate about euthanasia.

The furore over Vince Cable's leaked letter to No 10 bemoaning the lack of a more coherent industrial policy is yet another instalment in a debate about the right industrial policy in the UK that has been going on for decades.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have hit out at Labour's «lack of ambition» to tackle Wales» housing crisis, ahead of a Welsh Government debate in the Assembly on affordable housing targets.

«This lack of lodging, this lack of an economic driver that really translates into economic success is a chicken and egg debate we haven't quite conquered,» said Hamilton County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Farber, who sat on the task force

Even if having opinions on this issue should be the preserve of women, surely those expressing such a profound lack of knowledge should perhaps take a back seat in the debate?

Part of the reason for the lack of time was the two ministerial statements given by Gordon Brown and Jack Straw, which led to claims from some Tory MPs that the government was deliberately trying to limit debate on the controversial coroners bill.

Christine commented on last summer's NPF meeting and the debates, or rather lack of them, on Trident and re-nationalisation of the railways.

Other issues on Carranza's agenda will be what to do about dozens of failing schools in New York City, the debate over testing, the question of how to attract the best teachers and what teachers are lacking in their current contracts.

People, on both sides of the issue, should be OUTRAGED as to the lack of due - process, public debate, and review.....

The lack of clarity has created a good deal of heated debate across the Conservative family, particularly on ConservativeHome, with some commentators — you know who you are — painting Cameron as the lefty, high - tax, closet liberal cuckoo in the Thatcherite Tory nest.

On the heels of the debate over how to categorize the biggest state land acquisition in a generation, the Adirondack Council pooh - poohed state government over what they perceived as a lack of commitment to expanding Wilderness, protecting forests and wildlife, addressing threats from off - road vehicles and strengthening state agencies.

After reviewing many debates leading to constitutional convention defeats, I concluded that the debate discourse was often ill - informed, partly because of a lack of local experts on whom the press could rely for historical and comparative information about state constitutional conventions.

The researchers found another subtlety in the Amazon's response to rainfall, which has led to new insights on a question under debate: Are seasonal changes in plant growth more limited by lack of sunlight or lack of water?

There was a fair amount of chatter on the internet about the lack of climate change in the first presidential debate, popularized as #climatesilence.

But the new results, which include extra data showing a lack of side effects, could influence the debate in the 15 states, all in central and eastern part of the US, where legislation is still on the table.

Rather, debate is more likely to progress by reaction to events as researchers make news — often with the same lack of information we lived with for the last week of July, based on incomplete media accounts and quotes from disparate experts who lacked access to the details.

I know of your debate with Roger Pielke Sr on the IPCC's lack of consideration of land use changes on the radiational forcings.

The detox debate Opinion may be divided on the benefits of doing a detox diet, however, the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) claims the scientific basis for these kinds of stringent diets is lacking and such severe dietary restrictions of whole food groups may be unnecessary.

This case fuels the debate on the safety or rather the lack of safety of statin drugs in general.

Possible Reasons for the Lack of a Protective Effect of Dietary Fiber in Some Trials There is considerable debate and speculation as to why clinical inter - vention trials on the relationship between fiber intake and colon cancer have not shown the expected beneficial effect of fiber.

The film's resonance extends far beyond the gun control debate (though the parents featured are now all activists on that front) and summons «the exquisite beauty and inherent terror of parenthood — the unconditional love and complete lack of control.»

Behind closed doors, insiders may or may not have exchanged their opinions on value - added evaluations, but since the evidence required for a meaningful debate over the real world effects of those evaluations did not exist, I wonder if the lack of research on the policy implications of value - added was considered.

But now, as we move to the next level of accountability, this reform «miracle» is being called into question by discrepancies leading to allegations of fraud in dropout reporting as well as the preliminary results of the new, more rigorous, Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, which, depending on your perspective, reflect either a lack of true student achievement progress in many areas or a backsliding in progress previously reported.Recently, this debate was sharpened with the release of the results in five major U. S. cities of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, in which Houston participated on a voluntary basis, and the results were mixed at best.