Sentences with phrase «cultural debate over»

There is an ongoing cultural debate over Biblical references to the human power over nature.

In fact, the continuing cultural debate over training methodology has been long closed in scientific circles.

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But if the emotional debate over America's newest arrivals often hints at cultural resentments — they speak another language; they have a different skin color — none of that rancor was present in our conversation.

For in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generations.

In a Guardian article on November 3rd the prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote concerning the «debate between faith and reason, and over the virtues of rationalism»: «The Pope's remarks at Regensburg have opened up new areas of inquiry that must be explored and exploited in a positive way, with a view to building bridges and, working hand in hand, to seeking a common response to the social, cultural and economic challenges of our day.»

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

The conventional wisdom, then, has it backwards: cultural affinities constitute the long - term basis of electoral alignments, introducing fundamental values into politics and structuring the debate over them, while economic forces generate temporary disruptions of these culturally defined alignments.

the Holocaust, fascism, the horrors of World War II, the rapidly rising threat of international communism, and the danger of the bomb, American and British cultural leaders were engaged in intense debates over the future of Western civilization.

Its welcoming calm and nondenominational culture are in stark contrast to the emotional debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where planes flown by al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,700 people.

What Sehat misses is that what he calls the moral establishment, which roughly corresponds to the mainline Protestant cultural hegemony that existed through the early 1960s, was common to all sides of the debate and made the conversation over religious liberty possible in the first place.

The film explores the social debate over breastfeeding among those who want to breastfeed, those who can't breastfeed and the cultural impact of breastfeeding choices.

Van Bramer, who chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, where the debate over library funding has largely been heard, reminded of the Council's budget priorities as final negotiations take place between the 51 - member legislative body and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Van Bramer, who chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, where the debate over library funding has largely been

Almost every year, the county executive, legislators and the public engage in a debate over whether the county's longstanding investments in cultural groups are paying off.

The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries of life (e.g. abortion, euthanasia), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources (e.g. organ donation, health care rationing) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.

Engle explores the debate among anthropologists, ever since the AAAS submitted its Statement on Human Rights to the United Nations in 1947, over the tensions between the limits of tolerance and cultural relativism with the pursuit of more universal norms of social justice.

Presumably these choices are agonized over and debated at length behind the scenes since they're always so carefully representative of a wide range of celebrities appealing to all kinds of mainstream moviegoers from kids to grandparents to sophisticated cultural mavens to soccer moms.

While criticisms against Anderson are often levelled against his upper middle - class bias and his man - child protagonists, his ninth feature Isle of Dogs has awakened a familiar debate over the responsibility of representation and cultural appropriation which has engulfed discussions of the film since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.

Cultural critics were busying themselves with lily - livered debates over the moral quandaries of Violence as Stylish Accessory in the wake of Pulp Fiction, fretting that good American audiences couldn't take a little gun - brandishing.

A PowerPoint presentation with over 100 ethical and legal debates for AQA Computer Science 9 - 1 (8520) Investigate and discuss Computer Science technologies while considering: ethical issues legal issues cultural issues environmental issues.

Jon and Destiny debated for over two hours, mostly about race and immigration, and Jon made several unpopular comments, including the claim that mass Mexican migration to the United States was a form of «reconquista,» a retaking of American cultural values.

As it happens, the Drawing Center may yet find a home, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council may yet find a vision, but the debate over memorials at Ground Zero drags on, and so do plans for Governors Island.

To introduce «False Flags» — and our accompanying series of commissioned essays, interviews, reviews, and artist projects — Simblist shares some of the ideas addressed in the show and connects the artworks on view at X with New Orleans» own debates over contested lands and cultural ownership.

Based on a Columbia University conference organized by the National Arts Journalism Program, The New Gatekeepers explores the reconfigured ranks of those who decide what the public gets to see, hear and read, from struggles over intellectual property and copyright, to continuing debates about acceptable and offensive content in the cultural marketplace, to the less visible biases of the arts funding system.

She and many others have pointed out that black suffering is not a material that white artists can just make use of, like oil paint or videotape — an argument made in many debates over cultural appropriation.

In this state of relative non-recognition within the discourse and debate around art and culture in general, the subject of the «reductive» as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80's and 90's.

Having explored the Anthropocene idea over the past eight years in my book, the large cultural - scientific «Anthropocene Project» at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and an ongoing special exhibition at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, I find it laudable that the recently published «Ecomodernist Manifesto» of the Breakthrough Institute attempts to encourage a debate about this question.

I agree that cultural cognition — the idea that we shape our views so they agree with those in the groups with which we most closely identify, in the name of acceptance by our group and thus of safety — powerfully explains the polarized passions over whether climate change is «real,» the «debate» that gets most of the attention about public opinion.

It is a case, writes Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog, that «pits familiar gladiators debating broad cultural questions over whether and how to make Big Tobacco pay.»

Soutphommasane blamed growing reported incidents of racism and discrimination on a «deteriorating public debate» around asylum seekers that has a spill - over for all other cultural communities, including Aboriginal people, who experience significantly higher rates of racial abuse in everyday life than other Australians.

The significance of the distinction between differential treatment which can be characterised as a special measure and differential treatment that arises from the unique cultural identity of a distinct cultural group was illustrated during the parliamentary and public debates over the amendments to the NTA and in particular over the amendments which sought to remove the right to negotiate from the Act.