Sentences with phrase «central point of debate»

A central point of debate in climate negotiations has been the extent to which established industrialized powers are obliged to act given their outsize contribution to the atmosphere's buildup of greenhouse gases so far.

But I remain unconvinced by your article, because it sought first to uncharitably discredit the CutTaxTo10p.com campaign, with a linguistic sleight of hand, and then somewhat ducked the central point of this debate, which Nigel Lawson understood in the 1980s.

A central point of debate is whether an ethics reform bill should severely restrict the amount of money lobbyists can spend wining, dining, and escorting members of Congress around the globe, or whether these expenditures and outright gifts should continue to be allowed as long as they are fully disclosed.

Not exact matches

The Central Bank of Brazil points out that digital currencies and payment systems have been a subject of international debate for a while, but no concrete conclusions have been reached so far.

It's not minutia or peripheral — it's the CENTRAL, DEFINING point of the debate.

I made a point of asking about this at the conference, and theologian Peter Enns offered a brief response, noting that central to this debate is Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 in which Paul draws his famous parallel between Jesus and Adam.

Because the subject has never been discussed, debated, or mourned, it still stands as a central point in the critique of China's government around the world.

Her essay points to the particular climate of the late 1960s and early 1970s in which artists grappled with central issues of civil rights, gender politics, and anti-war movements — battles that are still questioned and debated today.

For the sake of brevity, I took the «official» values of the CO2 radiative forcing and of the Planck parameter as correct, and pointed out to the audience that the major debate between the skeptics and the believers centers on the overall feedback gain factor, which — in the IPCC's implicit central estimate — is 2.81, almost tripling the warming that a CO2 doubling causes before feedbacks are taken into account.

I have pointed out flaws that I see in certain aspects of the debate, but the central tenant of global warming I have not really written much on.

Not to put too fine a point on it, when it comes to this central issue of the climate debate, there is no real middle ground.

I keep writing more, and then erasing it, because I've realized that your debating consists of countering a few tangential points, which gives you the appearance of countering my argument, while ignoring the central point.