Sentences with phrase «current national debate»

Much of the current national debate regarding the recent inflow of unaccompanied minors from Central America has focused on questions of shelter and removal.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» Delta's statement said.

«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» the company said in a statement.

Not exact matches

As many debate whether the euro will exist in its current form in the future, one thing is clear: The Swiss National Bank is doing everything in its power to keep the peg.

The current political climate within the American Church is full of debate over a myriad of national and moral issues, however, protecting the environment should not be up for debate...

As part of his LCA address, ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, addressed the recurring issue of national champions, claiming the current debate confuses the distinction between industrial and merger policy.

Michael Croft, President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) will argue at a St James Ethic Centre debate on 4 March 2014 that foreign investment in agricultural land and infrastructure works against Australia's national and best interests unless the regulatory system and current model are changed.

An hour of current affairs background and debate from Australia and the world every Monday to Friday, 12:05 pm, ABC Local Radio and Radio National.

Under the current Labour system, the National Policy Forum receives delegates from constituency party associations and has a debate with the shadow Cabinet and affiliates about policy positions.

Aside from current national issues, the candidates also debated over crime, vacant property and city finances, as well as a light - hearted «lightning round.»

Alluding to the current debate over national health care policy, Clegg's press release said the couple's newborn daughter «nearly died at birth and required multiple operations and long - term medical care.

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Starting from the same kernel of scientific truth as did The Day After Tomorrow — that global warming could disrupt ocean currents in the North Atlantic — a study commissioned by the Pentagon, of all organizations, concluded that the «risk of abrupt climate change... should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern.»

Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

The study was released along with previously available national data that, when taken together, have important implications for current policy debates over welfare reform.

Content: The homepage of the National Federation of State High School Associations offers content on everything from policy changes to current events in the world of high school athletics, marching bands, debate teams, theater departments, coaches and officials.

WASHINGTON — Citing the potential abuses and misuses of tests, the Congress's research arm last week raised caution flags in the current debate over creating a new national system of student assessments.

A major newspaper expose demonstrating the U.S. school testing industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest).

The authors looked to national surveys of charter and private schools and interviews with leading charter and private school networks for their answers to major questions that animate the current debates over teacher pay in public schools.

While the book is designed to entertain, it also explores the very real issues in the current debate over vaccine safety in the mandatory U.S. National Immunization Program.

The Plain Dealer's Steven Litt sees the current national mood and fraught political landscape in MOCA's Winter / Spring season: «It's clear that at least some of the artists whose works are on view are tapping into the same feelings emerging in the presidential debates.

Mar 24: «Debate Night (争论夜晚2010)-- Motion: Given its current state of development, China has taken sufficient steps to mitigate climate change» with Mark Levine, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs & Debbie Seligsohn, World Resources Insitute vs. Even Rogers Pay, Energy Foundation & Huang He, Sino - Danish Programme on Renewable Energy.

The Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, with their similar missions to promote the use of science to benefit society and to inform critical policy debates, offer this new publication as a key reference document for decision makers, policy makers, educators, and other individuals seeking authoritative answers about the current state of climate change science.

Another area of current debate where unrestricted delegated powers are at issue is in the proposal to constitute a national securities regulator in Canada.

The National Magazine article cites Whatcott but I'm not sure if this case is within the same context as the current situation being debated.

In recent days, the National Post has brought forward two sides of the current debate on Bill C - 560, An Act to amend the Divorce Act (equal parenting), set for second reading in the House of Commons today.

Unless a more comprehensive and inclusive economic development strategy is development, the inadequacy of historical government actions to include Indigenous Australians in the share of the bounty from national development, and of existing government programs and services to deliver better outcomes, Indigenous Australians will continue to be eclipsed by the current debate about land tenure.