Sentences with phrase «changed the debate about»

Stern isn't sure what New Horizons will find, and how those discoveries will change the debate about Pluto.

«That's really changed the debate about vouchers.»

Most philosophers regard Kuhn as historian who had pretensions as a philosopher, although some have recognized his claim as philosopher because he changed the debate about scientific realism..

Not exact matches

Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

THE INDUSTRY IS OUTSTANDING AT PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENTS AND DEBATES ABOUT TRENDS AND THE IMPENDING NEED FOR CHANGE.

By the time I joined the Reserve Bank in the early 1970s, there was already an active internal debate about the need for change.

During the debate about tax reform, lots of changes were proposed.

They quickly pointed out that Europe is too large simply to assume that the world can absorb large changes in its capital and trade accounts, and as they debated about the ways global constraints would affect the assumptions about European surpluses most of them quickly decided that either the markets would not permit surpluses of this size, perhaps by bidding up the euro, or the impact of these surpluses would be very negative for the world.

This post about the Suzuki - Pembina report is a case in point: both sides of the debate seemed to think that I was offering aid and succor to the cause of the climate change deniers.

The ongoing debates about Puerto Rican statehood suggest that the island may execute another legislative pirouette and change the face of its future.

The Federal Reserve is welcoming a debate among economists about proposed changes that might improve its response to future economic downturns.

Some critics say the pope should refrain from speaking about scientific matters, while others laud his letter as a major contribution to the climate change debate.

During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

They debated how that change might come about.

I hear the current debate about the 1 % vs the 99 % and everybody giving their fair share, and how to balance the budget, and so on, and I just think that no matter what, nothing will change until people from the top to the bottom become less greedy.

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

Click here to hear a debate between transgender woman, Jenny - Anne Bishop, and former transgender Walt Heyer about the rights and wrongs of gender - change surgery and how Christians should respond on Premier Christian Radio's Unbelievable program

In the current state of debate about these matters, I perhaps ought to expect myself to feel «excluded» as a man from reading Jane Austen's Emma until all female references to the protagonist are edited out, the title changed to M., and the author's name reduced to the discreet neutrality of J. Austen.

Politics» a debate about whether poverty is the greatest evil or about whether the social changes necessary to alleviate it should be endorsed» has no role to play.

As a new generation preparing to tackle the age - old debate about predestination and free will, our positions don't have to change but our attitudes can.

The American Christian debate about just war theory is in a sense nothing other than a debate about America's role in the world, a debate little changed since, say, 1968.

Mike i have been thinking hard on this subject i hope you do nt leave the forum as i think we will get into a good debate / discussion the Lord has shown me alot of insight into this subject that i hadnt even thought about until Jeremy proposed his point of view.The word say iron sharpens iron we need to understand what we believe not just walk away because we feel it is treading on our beliefs because they change as we learn and understand because we have believed something for a long time does nt make it right.Use this opportunity to grow to learn and to understand what the Lord is wanting us to know if we cant do this as brothers how are we supposed to do it with unbelievers.brentnz

The interesting thing about this whole debate is how our ideas of how we interpret what the Bible says about what hell would be like have changed over time.

I have always thought that the global warming, or «climate change» debate, was as much about social psychology as science.

Debates about this will easily generate much more heat than light unless the energy of both sides is focused on the right question, which is: «Given that 200,000 abortions a year is far too many, how can a deliverable change in the law most effectively reduce that number?»

ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims has addressed the RBB Economics Conference in Sydney backing competition reforms proposed by the Harper Review Panel - three points were highlighted: (1) need to make a choice about s 46 - clearly preferencing a change to an SLC approach; (2) need to extend the Act to cover more government activities; (3) need to debate and decide the issues around competition advocacy and market studies.

It comes as debate rages about the potential impact of a change in ownership of some of Australia's most prestigious wine brands to private equity firms.

Debates about how to combat climate change usually revolve around how to cut emissions from smokestacks and vehicle tailpipes.

As part of our comment series from Food Matters Live 2014, Ruth Holroyd, freelance writer, reports from the conference debate about behaviour change that took place on 18 November 2014.

Now there is a question which opens a massive debate about how OUR club is run but the answer has got to be yes, I miss Highbury and to say I loved the clock end as a child through to leaving there for the grove as an adult is an understament, although the stadium has been a financial burden obviously it is still a wonderful place to watch football in, but football and especially Arsenal has changed so much in the last thirty years, I really am concerned about how much our supporters are charged either season tickets or match day sales including food / drink, we have removed a vast core of our traditional support and young because of these prices.

This debate about De Bruyne being better than Bergkamp, it's a different time, rules have changed to accommodate the forwards.

Isn't the whole debate about the pace of the change required.

Until recently the reason given for the change was that there was a debate about the name among the players and they voted to change it.

So while there's no debate as to how fortunate the goal came about, it was one which has the power to change Bolton's season right on the spot.

But despite this new space for a major public debate about fundamental change, serious political challenges to the system — from «Occupy» protestors, community activists, environmentalists and others — have thus far been contained by the continuing sense of a lack of viable alternatives.

The deafening silence around climate change in the US presidential campaign has left leading climate scientists baffled by the absence of debate about the «greatest issue of our time».

Using the example of the current debate surrounding anthropomorphic climate change, Thompson sought to evaluate the argument from authority through a single prism, the way in which science is handled in argumentation about public policy.

What about your home, if someone wandered in and told you they wanted a rational debate about whether you should change it what would you say?

We concluded that the three digital players were beneficial for public debate about climate change, as they had found new ways of covering the «old», sometimes boring, often remote, theme of climate change.

«The widespread belief now in the Labour party that whilst Jeremy is a good man with great Labour values who has done a lot for this party and I think changed the debate in this country about our economy, he's been right about lots of things,» he said.

Two best political books I read this were «Nixonland» by Rich Perlstein (which covers the eclipse of American liberalism and rise of conservatism between 1964 - 1972) and «The Persistence of Poverty» by Charles Karelis, which is short, witty and will change the way that you think about the whole debate around welfare and poverty issues (get»em on Amazon if they aren't in the shops).

In his letter, which was drawn up jointly with Dutch premier Jan Peter Balkenende, Mr Blair notes the importance of energy security but says any debate on the subject must also be about climate change and its links to the European economy.

She's fought on behalf of students and recent graduates suffering from crippling student loan debt, and to change the debate in D.C. from a discussion over whether to cut Social Security into one about how we can grow it.»

Because I reject the fatalism and pessimism that can surround the debate about economic change.

What has changed in the last few months is that for the first time the whole debate is about how we get out of this mess.

«Talking about 10 to 15 years ago doesn't change what we're debating now.»

DeFrancisco said he thinks it's «healthy» for the state GOP to have a debate about making changes in advance of a crucial election year.

«When you are changing examinations, it's important to have a clear view about what you achieve, but it's also important to listen to the teaching profession and let parliament and parents get involved in the debate as well,» Gove told the Today programme.