Sentences with phrase «change debate without»

It's often hard to have a discussion about the climate change debate without recourse to language about «sides».

Not exact matches

This is a government that is fond of putting everything but the kitchen sink in omnibus bills, limiting debate on them, and then passing them without a comma changed.

A perfunctory patching - up of the institution of the Church began without any debate about the need to adapt to the changed conditions.

The recent news that the promise of stem cell research can be pursued without using human embryos has permanently and dramatically changed the stem cell debate.

Now, as time passes without any change and support simmers down to being a less active part of people's lives, the debate gets swept under the rug until the next shooting occurs.

It's like debating gun control or climate change, there is no way to win an abstract debate without the force of power because these ideas aren't rooted in a self evident righteousness.

But this change did not occur without much discussion, debate, and research.

When parents at other schools in the district asked for the same change without going through the debate stage, milk consumption fell so drastically that the food service provider insisted on restoring the chocolate.

Statutory instruments mean you can quickly get a change to the law through parliament without the usual standards of debate and scrutiny.

How have the senate rules been changed to allow for a filibuster without continued debate?

It is considered by some parties as illegitimate, posing a serious danger to Japan's democracy since the Prime Minister circumvented the constitutional amendment procedure, dictating a radical change to the meaning of fundamental principles in the Constitution by way of Cabinet fiat without Diet debate, vote, or public approval.

EU law was turned into British law usually using statutory instruments, little mechanisms which allow you to change the law without a debate and legislation in parliament.

Without recourse to any serious debate, the Ohene Djan Stadium was changed after agitations by a group of activists of the National Democratic Congress and the Ga lobby.

He suggested that fundamental change was being passed without sufficient debate, but Downing Street responded by insisting that the government has a clear mandate «to tackle Britain's deep - rooted problems».

Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now in Parliament to give the Secretary of State power to amend copyright law by statutory instrument, effectively allowing he and his successors to do anything, without parliamentary approval or debate, provided it is done in the name of protecting copyright.

Even if Britain accepted all the requirements of the Norway or the Canadian model without any debate at all, it would still require many legal and technical changes and an extensive ratification process, probably involving every EU member state and some regional parliaments.

But it rejected Lib Dem calls for a Commons debate and stressed that there would be no changes without reform of the House of Lords and a referendum.

Councilman Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island) said it was «difficult» to support any expansion of the living wage without hearings, testimony, public debate or investigations into potential impacts of the change.

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

In polarised and divisive policy debates, as we have seen with climate change, it is all the more important that scientifically accurate and rigorous advice is given freely and without fear or favour.

Without debate, the Utah Senate on Monday gave early approval to a school grading change that would raise the bar on school performance each year.

«Without a debate, nothing changes.»

Part of the reason that elements of the climate change debate take on religious proportions — by the activists for and against policy — is that folks have so dug in around almost every aspect of the debate that it is hard to raise a question about some uncritically accepted element of the religious canon without folks first attacking you as an untrained heathen.

Even without disputing Jenkins on climate change (I can't see how he advances the debate with ad hominem attacks — and am pleased to see he has subsequently apologised for this in a letter in The Australian), there is a clear case for exploring alternative energy now, and doing so aggressively.

Hopefully, the lawsuit will also spark public debate and real media attention to address the challenge of climate change in a responsible manner and without further delay.

Science without an object dominates debates about climate science and the impacts of climate change.

Without the IPCC report, a cacophony of national assessments would compete for relevance in debates about climate change, said Victor, an editor on next year's IPCC climate change mitigation and adaptation report.

The real debate should be, how do we change our energy systems without wrecking our economy — not whether or not global warming is happening.

Taken together, the planet levers laid out here give us many opportunities to get serious about climate change without getting bogged down by the distraction of old climate debates or standing by and waiting for politicians.

If this blog — now starting its NINTH year — has done nothing else, it has asked the likes of Greenpeace activists for debate about «the risks a changing climate poses to the poor and vulnerable and how to tackle that without undermining the economic livelihoods of those same people».

d.) Two landmark papers [2,3] in 1946 abruptly changing the nature of «nuclear fires» in the cores of stars were adopted worldwide without debate or discussion [4].

The UK's silent consensus to talk about climate — at some later date — simply means those choices will be made without debate, as though huge changes to our infrastructure, buildings, equipment, behaviours and food system can be delivered by a few technocrats working under the radar.

He would know that the debate is not binary, does not divide neatly into two camps, but that at the very least, the excesses of climate alarmists within and without the IPCC, which are further from the «consensus» and greater in consequence than anything uttered by climate change «deniers».

All the journalist needs to do, now, to write a piece about climate change, is ring up any of these organisations, ask for the officially - sanctioned and hygienic comment, without ever having had to go to the trouble of understanding the debate they are reporting on.

Well, (and this is a forlorn hope) it would be helpful to report on the ongoing debate over science and policy without treating climate change like a rancorous «he said, she said» political debate.»»

The consequence of the consensus without an object is that the debate is presented as one between «scientists» and «deniers», attached to the claims «climate change is happening» and «climate change is not happening» respectively.

Given the major environmental, jobs and energy security questions that have been raised about Keystone XL, and the fact that President Obama can take a stand for the environment on this issue without the usual (and fully tedious) Congressional debate, if he does in fact approve it, it certainly calls into question his entire environmental platform — if how he handled the climate change debate in 2009 didn't already.

So I decided the right way to drive change in the climate debate is not to rant about it but instead to continue to model what I consider good behavior — fact - based discussion and a recognition that reasonable people can disagree without that disagreement implying one or the other has evil intentions or is mean - spirited.

I think that casting climate change debate (though not the scientific basis for the existence of a serious manmade change to the world we live in) as Left versus Right has some legitimacy; the ideologies of the Right (which are, IMHO, just as flawed and ethically challenged as the Left's), are failing to find how to incorporate the requirement to deal with the serious manmade changes being wrought upon the world without international government intervention and regulation.

However you feel about climate change, I think we can all agree there should be a vigorous debate on the issue, what to do about it, and without criminalizing people who may have a different opinion.

He authored a pamphlet in which he debated climate change with other great minds such as Jefferson, and translated the Bible because he thought it was dirty and felt that «a woman couldn't read it without blushing.»

While Canadian courts have repeatedly expressed reluctance to embrace Sullivan - style changes regarding actual malice, 175 three matters must be stressed: first, this proposal is markedly different from Sullivan and does not conflict with the reasons for which the SCC disparaged Sullivan; second, the public figure concept itself predates the Sullivan decision as a defence applicable in infringement of privacy cases and so can be relied on without being dragged into the vortex of debate over the advisability of Sullivan and its progeny; and third, Canadian defamation law already recognizes that certain plaintiffs require different treatment vis - à - vis the remedies available to them, 176 which can be construed as a latent foundation for acceptance of the public figure concept.

While lawyers in Canada were debating whether licensed paralegals should have a limited role in family law, and before that contemplating entity - based regulation, alternative business structures, and the articling crisis, change was already happening without them.

Law schools, like many law firms, are debating the need for change without taking the action needed.

Even without this anomaly, it appears prudent to have a more substantial debate about these potentially fundamental changes in our legal system than that which has been generated so far by these relatively ad hoc plans and proposals.

The usefulness of law in the process of reform and especially radical change is currently a much debated issue, both within and without the legal profession...

A debate that has raged on since 2015, proving that Bitcoin is a democracy and an incredible store of value which can not be taken lightly — no change can be forced on the community without agreement no matter...

A debate that has raged on since 2015, proving that Bitcoin is a democracy and an incredible store of value which can not be taken lightly — no change can be forced on the community without agreement no...

After only four days of debate, the House Ways and Means committee passed through a winning vote (24 to 16) on the Republican bill, but not without changes.