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Tsipras said that Greece «has proved that democracy can not be blackmailed; Greece has made a brave choice and one which will change the debate in Europe.

«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.

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.»

California Governor Jerry Brown downplayed President Trump's influence on the climate change debate in the U.S. at a Vatican symposium Saturday, saying that his impact is «very small.»

«There has never been a climate change debate in Australia.

«This is starting to become a bigger part of the climate change debate in relation to forests.»

Speaking of that hockey stick, there is a fabulous essay by Professor of Economics Ross McKitrick that breaks the hockey stick apart, and leaves it in splinters, as well as an illuminating piece by James Delingpole about what qualifies as an «expert» in the climate change debate in a world where credentials are appealed to rather than actual arguments.

The heat that's now being generated by the climate change debate in Australia seems truly amazing to an outsider.

Within some (small) circles of debate this may be true (or is this pointing to the aberrant expression of the minority climate change debate in the USA?)

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.

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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.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

Wheeler's change of heart on net neutrality follows a protracted public comment period, in one of the most intensely debated policy moves of the FCC's history.

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 statement on Thursday comes amid a growing debate over the use of powerful new gene editing tools in human eggs, sperm and embryos, which have the power to change the DNA of unborn children.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

Any attempted changes to the laws are likely to result in more vocal debate.

The changes forced the debate to stretch for hours, as Republicans released a final version of their bill with adjustments scribbled in the margins of the text.

David Ader, chief Treasury strategist at CRT Capital, said the Fed did nothing to change the market debate on timing, though he expects the first hike in September.

In addition to suing over Clean Power Plan regulations, Pruitt has argued that climate activists should be prosecuted, and that debate over whether climate change is human - made should be encouraged in classrooms and Congress — despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the debate is settleIn addition to suing over Clean Power Plan regulations, Pruitt has argued that climate activists should be prosecuted, and that debate over whether climate change is human - made should be encouraged in classrooms and Congress — despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the debate is settlein classrooms and Congress — despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the debate is settled.

ong - term sustainability projections on the impact of the demographic changes on the federal government's finances would have provided valuable background to Parliamentarians and Canadians in the debate on the changes to elderly benefits.

Leading Ethereum developers are currently debating whether to hard fork the blockchain in order to implement a change aimed at undercutting the effectiveness of expensive, tailor - made mining equipment.

The gun control debate has intensified in the wake of the Parkland shooting in February, and while some steps have been taken to tighten laws and regulations, not much has changed.

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

In my months covering the health care debate on Capitol Hill, Sen. Ted Cruz (R - TX) was one of the few Republicans to mount an intellectually honest defense of how he wanted to change American health care.

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.

They inform the Institute's research and policy agenda and contribute their knowledge and analysis to further the Institute's efforts to impact public debate in support of progressive change.

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.

On Tuesday night, the state legislature refused to debate an outright ban on assault weapons as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas watched and cried, but the teenagers» push for change is still expected to bring Florida's first limit on gun access in over a decade, according to CNN.

Mortgage rates are so low, in fact, that the «Should I buy or should I rent» debate has changed for many U.S. consumers.

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.

Finally, this session I spent considerable time debating the changes that the Christy Clark government was making to the legislation on the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.2 million.

The concept of divesting became mainstream in the United States during the climate change debate.

Has the Parkland shooting, and the remarkable activism undertaken by Parkland high schoolers in its aftermath, meaningfully and permanently changed the debate on gun control?

As the quality of life between East and West slowly merges due to advances in technology, continued urbanization and changing demographics, opportunities across numerous industries will arise which we aim to point out and debate.

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

After vigorous debate, participants issued statements condemning the Gulf war, passed on others to the WCC Central Committee calling for sweeping changes in South Africa, the Baltic states, and other hot spots, and embraced the WCC's own «new world order» scheme.

As I stated before, I feel these debates are useless and they almost never result in the changing of anyoneâ $ ™ s mind.

Compare that to the dogmatic stance of religion — a phony belief system that starts and end with unproven manmade tribal myths, not open to true debate, and that only changes in order to maintain power over the gullible.

He does awesome in the debates because he is smart and he learns from his mistakes and the only thing his enemies can attack are his past position changes on social issues.

If those in the church who are in favor of changing long - held attitudes and ordinances relating to homosexuals were merely cultural relativists with no regard for the Bible or tradition, the debate would be easier.

One might look, for example, at From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate, by neoliberal Protestants Don Browning, Bonnie Miller - McLemore, Pamela Couture, Bernie Lyon and Robert Franklin; Gender and Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World, by evangelical Protestant Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen; and Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics, by Catholic Lisa Sowle Cahill.

In fact, I wonder if an appreciation of the nuances in the debate, and of abortion's connection to traditionally «progressive» issues like poverty and healthcare, may actually make those of us who are «stuck in the middle» especially effective agents of changIn fact, I wonder if an appreciation of the nuances in the debate, and of abortion's connection to traditionally «progressive» issues like poverty and healthcare, may actually make those of us who are «stuck in the middle» especially effective agents of changin the debate, and of abortion's connection to traditionally «progressive» issues like poverty and healthcare, may actually make those of us who are «stuck in the middle» especially effective agents of changin the middle» especially effective agents of change.

From the decision at the Jerusalem Council to free new converts from Jewish Law, to the debates of the third of fourth century that led to the biblical cannon the Apostle's Creed, to the Protestant Reformation which resulted in increased availability of Scripture, to the Galilean controversy which opened and changed minds, the story of the Church is a story of constant adaptation and change.

But the solar winds are changing in some corners of academia, and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently held a debate on Pluto's planetary status.

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.

You need to find a forum where people debate in order to try to change people's minds into theirs.

People all over the world, both in positions of power and not, seem to believe that there is room for debate on the issues of climate change, humanity's involvement and the need to transition to a low - carbon future.

After nearly two years of debate, the R.E. Lee Episcopal Church in Lexington, Virginia, will officially change its name.