Sentences with phrase «common debating point»

I'm not sure if these ideas have any traction in the Labour party, but they're gaining increasingly widespread acceptance in the Lib Dems (at least amongst the opinion - forming bloggers, for whom LVT is a common debating point).

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My impression is that stocks will not see a durable intermediate - term low until the point where a recession in progress is taken as common knowledge, without the debate that persists even now.

At that point we began to have regular debates disagreements, and found our common ground as well.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

This diversity is different from other epochs - for example, the time when a Princeton scholasticism dominated the 19th - century Protestant landscape, or even the recent period when neo-orthodoxy was at the least the common reference point for theological debate.

Evans concludes his call to find common ground with what he considers an obvious point: «We can all agree that an effective debate about RGTs would be healthy for the human future.»

Education was a sticking point for the Legislature, which spent hours debating funding for statewide full - day pre-kindergarten, charter schools and the flawed rollout of the Common Core, a new testing standard.

She adds, «I still hope we can at some point very soon stop this very destructive debate and work toward what I see as our common goal: To ensure a safe and healthy work environment for IPAs and to ensure good recruitment to IPA positions so the best funding decisions can be made within the foundation.»

While the theory doesn't completely resolve the origin - of - life debate, it provides a common source of energy for both sides and could be a useful starting point for a compromise, the authors report in the June issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution.

For example, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) made a splash in February with an innovative study of how the Common Core debate is playing out on Twitter; scholars found, among other things, that proponents tend to make policy points while opponents use «political language» in their tweets.

It sparked an important debate about what every American should know, but Hirsch's main point was lost: Language proficiency rests on a common body of knowledge.

What's generally not understood is that these flash points of resistance are driven by common grievances — a grass - roots «common core» if you will — that is shaping the rapidly evolving education debate.

As debates heat up over Common Core standards, the renewal of the No Child Left Behind Act and state testing policies, we often hear people citing research to buttress their point of view.

Baas also pointed to lawmakers» debate over the Common Core standards and the Smarter Balanced test, which resulted in discussions that included misconceptions about the standards and that «the ultimate outcome was that people lost a little bit of faith in the validity and the credibility in that piece of our assessment package.»

Whether or not you need Signature North Point renters insurance is not in debate — your lease requires it, as does good common sense and propriety.

Beyond a certain point, and I think that point has been passed in this discussion, there needs to be some common understanding of the motivations of actors and if that common understanding is missing the debate simply circles.

I really hope you can look beyond this label to the rest of the paper, where we were trying to find points of common ground for those who both accept and doubt anthropogenic climate change, that hopefully would help promote policies that would produce outcomes that both sides of the debate could accept.

Thomas Kuhn pointed out 50 years ago that talking past is common in scientific debates.

Kuhn pointed out fifty years ago that talking past like this is a common feature of scientific debates.

(But scientists being as argumentative as they are, the debate may not be over: see the featured comment — and others chauvinistically boosterish about Indians, Arabs, Chinese, etc. etc.) There's a brief description of the method in the Economist piece, and associated with the article in Science a list of words whose cognates in other languages point to a common ancestor and to a location for that ancestor.

Whether or not you need Signature North Point renters insurance is not in debate — your lease requires it, as does good common sense and propriety.