Sentences with phrase «at stake in the debate»

In his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debate:

Archbishop Dolan concluded his statement with a matter - of - fact declaration of what is at stake in the debate over DOMA: «The Administration's currentposition is not only a grave threat to marriage, but to religious liberty and the integrity of our democracy as well.»

Few works I have read have more clearly stated what's at stake in the debate.

Presumably many of these families don't have the option of engaging in a boycott, even if they have more at stake in the debate than anyone.

«This is a critical time for health care, and women have much at stake in the debate,» said PPFA Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy Laurie Rubiner.

Not exact matches

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump obviously have a lot at stake in the first presidential debate on Monday night, but it's clear so does Lester Holt.

At that point, it was about masturbation only (no one had made a comparison to homosexuality), so, without much personal stake in the debate, I thought to myself «See, this is why people don't like the answers, not (always) because it doesn't let them do what they want, but because the answers are sometimes very poor indeed.»

With all the important issues at stake in the presidential and vice presidential debates, it takes a small and pettifogging disposition to be concerned with a matter of fairness.

But, as they both believed, the issues for which they contended were issues in which men's souls were at stake; and they would have agreed on this at least, that the urbanities of modern theological debate betokened a failure to appreciate how serious the issues were.

As the Children's Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of committee stage amendments, there is a great deal at stake for home schoolers in particular and liberty in general.

But it seems to me that we harm the cause of public debate and reason if we do not attend to what's at stake in Christian theology itself as we do so.

Of course in the past the church has followed this up not with debate but by burning the heretic at the stake.

Ring fails to give readers any sense of what's at stake in this important debate between intentionalism and textualism.

The ensuing debate — which has prompted opponents to find their own candidates for two open Park District Board seats also at stake April 3 — is the latest soul - searching about the role of historic preservation in one of McHenry County's booming cities.

I based my views on a Telegraph article last year by Greg Rosen, which extracted from the 6 day Commons debate in October 1971, and the nature of sovereignty at stake clearly comes through as a topic of debate, with speeches by Waddington, Enoch Powell, Heath etc, all focused on that issue.

For a start, much has been «left off the table» in this debate, with both campaigns still defending essentially the same positions they staked out at their respective launches.

«I believe that the NYCHA residents, the long - term residents should have an equity stake in NYCHA right now,» Faulkner said at the debate.

What's at stake is the classroom experience and outcomes for over 40 million kids, as states and local school districts find themselves caught in the middle of this debate and continue to face troubles transitioning to a complex new system.

But remember, at earlier stages of a deal you're usually just debating an increase in your stake based on still (somewhat) uncertain facts..

It is also a call - to - arms: at stake in the artist's work is the possibility to speak or be called out, to confront and intervene, and for solidarity and friendship to exist in tandem with participation and debate: in short, for the possibility of a «confrontation between the self and the other», as Piper described in A. ~ A (1974), her parameters for the work Just Gossip.

When one examines the troubling contradictions — astonishing cruelty, environmental and health risks, economic imbalances — involved with the business behind and mass consumption of meat, vegetarianism takes on the urgency of much larger debates in which the survival of the human race is at stake.

Although the arguments marshalled in the Meet the Press debate were structurally similar to those used at the Creation Museum, the stakes differed considerably.

I know your tongue is planted firmly in cheek, but I did some research on the matter, and found that the fossil fuel industry, automobile industry, and wal - mart - like fossil - fuel - based mega-scale consumer goods distribution industry have many thousands of times more money at stake (~ $ 10 trillion annually) on the outcome of this debate than do the scientists in question.

There's a great deal more at stake in the climate debate — and more specifically in the «post 2012 debate» — than can be accounted for with the categories of old - school environmentalism.

One thing that could go a long way in awakening voters to the true stakes surrounding climate change this election would be to ask about it at a debate.

So, pupils are probably quite familiar with the main issues at stake in the global warming debate such as where the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere comes from, what might be done to reduce emissions, and that the climatic consequences for Earth could be devastating.

Bitseed co-founder John Light recently published a post on the Let's Talk Bitcoin blog about what's at stake in the Bitcoin block size debate.

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