Sentences with phrase «civil discussions concerning»

For crying out loud, if the ADULTS can't get it together enough to have civil discussions concerning a controversial topic, how does one expect American kids to do the same?

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I find civil religion motifs in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,» in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts, in his belief in America's unique moral role in world affairs — and in his concern for injecting morality into public - policy discussions.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

That desire — to create a safe space for civil discussion — is a common concern for educators in a period dominated by social media echo chambers, protests over policing, and growing distrust of government among both young people and adults.

Many teachers I have encountered express profound concerns about providing leadership for the study and discussion of events in history such as the Holocaust, slavery, the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and «60s, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

They should be nowhere near important discussions or decisions concerning science - based social or civil policies.