Sentences with phrase «centre of the debate»

Through the long dead centre of the debate Brown reduced successive subjects - on homes, on welfare fraud, on immigration - to statistic - laden tirades,» it claimed.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's economic record since taking office in 2006 is at the centre of debate in the current federal election campaign.

Clearly the first phase of post-war German theology was the rise of the Buitmannian position to the centre of debate.

There are people who defend certain systems which are as ambiguous as those they attack and I think that this issue should also be at the centre of our debates.

Nationalization, once the centre of debate, has now virtually disappeared from the agenda of developing countries.

A new union agreement for the manufacturer's employees at its Tasmanian and regional New South Wales manufacturing plants will help reset wage expectations in a sector which has been at the centre of the debate over government assistance.

The game will be debated for years to come, and one man has firmly installed himself in the centre of that debate.

He pressed the Speaker, John Bercow, to give an indication that he would recall the House for a single day, «given that we want parliament at the centre of this debate».

The leader of the opposition quoted the renowned europhile, Michael Heseltine, on the matter: «To commit to a referendum about a negotiation that hasn't begun, on a timescale you can not predict, on an outcome that's unknown, where Britain's appeal as an inward investment market would be the centre of the debate, seems to me like an unnecessary gamble.»

They have found themselves at the centre of the debate more by accident than design.

PETER HAIN: I don't think so because I have advocated policies that are right in the centre of the debate in the Labour Party, but policies, for example, to tackle the gap between rich and poor, to tackle the problem of inequality.

The literature industry's fear of technology is what really sits at the centre of this debate.

Drawing on multiple artistic languages and media, these works repositioned the black female presence from the margins to the centre of debates about representation and art making.

Through the development of a series of complementary contributions, the exhibition draws a distance from a simple reflection about history and offers a more complex overview regarding the topicality of the conflict, which is still today at the centre of debate.

In this special Cabot Institute lecture, in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Professor Michael E Mann will discuss the science, politics, and ethical dimensions of global warming in the context of his own ongoing experiences as a figure in the centre of the debate over human - caused climate change.

Securities lawyer Joe Groia found himself at the centre of a debate about the limits on vigorous advocacy in the courtroom when the Law Society of Upper Canada slammed him with a whopping fine of nearly a quarter - million dollars for «uncivil» behaviour.

2017 brought US immigration law back to the centre of debate on a number of topics but the way the debate is framed has become a false dichotomy: an imagined conflict between the rule of law and creating humane policies to keep families together, but there is room for both.

«It is right at the centre of these debates about our democracy, the impact of social media on our lives and the need for these companies to step up and take their responsibilities seriously.»