Sentences with phrase «debate about nation»

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Fox: I've been debating with this fellow [Nigel] Farage, creator of the Brexit and promoter of the Brexit, about the nation - state, about a powerful government that controls borders but also controls individuals.

In an onboard interview with The Tyee, May talked about where Via Rail has abandoned Canadian passengers, about why she's running in one of the most staunchly Tory ridings in the nation, and about how she might go after Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the upcoming leadership debates.

American Outdoor Brands, the parent company of the Smith & Wesson gun brand, replied to BlackRock in a public letter earlier this month, saying that it respects the national debate about gun safety and shares «the nation's grief» over the Parkland killings and «the desire to make our communities safer.»

Its up to the people asking question to have a meaningful debate or just another bunch of irrelevant talk about nothing important to the future of our nation.

Since, even now, when debates about the fact of global warming is largely over, no nation is considering taking the really drastic actions that might significantly reduce the catastrophes that lie ahead, it seems that we are all too likely to experience judgment for our collective sins.

That debate does not pit «realists» against «idealists,» but is, rather, a debate about the hard reality of religion in defining, more and more, the lines of conflict in politics among nations.

The problems of Babel are reflected in modern America in our ongoing debates about history, identity, the future, and how we can live together as a nation.

In 2012, I was attending a black church when the murder of Trayvon Martin swept the nation into a sea of controversy and debate about Stand Your Ground.

Over the past ninety years or so, the American debate about the national interest and the national purpose» the debate about morality and foreign policy» has careened through at least ten cycles, resulting in numerous, and sometimes jarring, shifts in the nation's approach to the world.

The Supreme Court ruling recognized that our nation is already engaged in an intense debate about the morality, legality and practicality of PAS, and it encouraged the debate to continue.

I find it quite interesting in the current debate about waterboarding and «enhanced interrogation techniques» that many of the same people who are condemning the practice of waterboarding as a means to learn information about what our nation's enemies are planning, are the same people who, after 9 - 11, demanded to know why our nation's intelligence did not know that the 9 - 11 terrorist attack was coming.

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

The debate over Scotland's future has, especially recently, served up the incongruous (and unromantic) image of a nation of «bean - counters» basing its decision about independence on the expected profitability of either outcome, yet calculating this expectation (on either side) off the back of political and economic assumptions that resemble nothing so much as declarations of blind fear or faith.

Today is all about demonstrating that we're actually doing that, that while we have a debate across our nation about Europe, we're also getting on with delivering what we were elected on a year ago - a manifesto committed to improving life chances to those from deprived backgrounds.»

The result was a nation - wide debate about what kind of country Scotland might be.

Brown said he enjoyed being able to discuss his impressions about the debate with a man he deemed one of the «most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement in this nation.»

In a follow - up to the debate, Gotham Gazette asked Stringer's office about his apparent openness to some home ownership among NYCHA tenants and what that might mean for a privatization of the nation's largest public housing system.

Amidst a nationwide debate about a policy on immigration, President Donald Trump's recently blocked travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim nations has captured the interest of top elected officials in Westchester.

Scottish and Welsh nationalism have been increasing in popularity, and since the Scottish independence referendum, 2014 there has been a wider debate about the UK adopting a federal system with each of the four home nations having its own, equal devolved legislatures and law - making powers.

But, much more importantly, let's use it as an opportunity to have a broader debate about who we are as a nation, what we want from our politics.

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

The United Nations today adjourns a meeting in Geneva where governments of about 130 nations have been debating a mercury reduction Nations today adjourns a meeting in Geneva where governments of about 130 nations have been debating a mercury reduction nations have been debating a mercury reduction treaty.

But in September, labs working with the United Nations used faster and more sophisticated analytic techniques to show that Syrian civilians were killed by the chemical weapon sarin on Aug. 21 — evidence crucial to debates about whether the global community should intervene.

But the true battle consuming leaders from 198 governments at a U.N. global warming conference that concluded yesterday after two weeks of negotiations and 32 hours of overtime debating was really about just one thing: balancing responsibilities between poor, rich and richer nations.

One month ago today, our country was once again devastated by a senseless act of gun violence that has left the entire nation grieving the loss of innocent lives and thrown us into heated debates about constitutional rights, arming teachers, and mental illness and violence.

During the years of debate about WIPP that started in the 1970s, many New Mexicans expressed concerns that if WIPP ever opened as the nation's only repository, there would be significant likelihood it would attract proposals for additional wastes.

At the end of last year, the world's eyes were on Lima as 196 nations debated what to do about climate change at the United Nations Climate Chnations debated what to do about climate change at the United Nations Climate ChNations Climate Change...

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

As debate rages on about Common Core and its implementation across the nation, students are sitting in classrooms waiting for things to change.

Spurred by concerns about international competition, economic troubles, and a perceived stagnation or regression in student performance outlined by the now famous 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, the standards debate gained new life as politicians looked for ways to clarify goals, measure progress, and hold schools accountable.

Debate still lingers about how «A Nation at Risk» addresses equity.

The report strengthens the positions of teachers in Chicago should they vote to strike, should be considered in deliberations over the Friedrichs case, and must help shape ongoing debates about the importance of unions in the nation's public education system.

It has caught the attention of all sides in the nation's debate about school reform.

Amid the intense debates about how much progress the nation has made in raising student achievement and whether federal investments in education have produced results, one important trend tends to be overlooked — namely, the notable gains made by African American and Latino students in reading and math achievement since 1971.

Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, said the country should end divisive debates about policies and adopt methods that are working in top - scoring nations.

«Given that billions of dollars are being disbursed,» says Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutions.»

I never dreamed I'd live to witness such raucous and juicy debates about how to improve our nation's lowest - performing public schools.

Achievement First Inc. one of the nation's larger charter school management companies with 20 schools in New York and Connecticut, is rapidly expanding in Connecticut, despite the fact that the 2012 education reform debate is supposed to include a discussion about whether the state should make greater use of the charter school model.

Sticking points included teacher evaluations and job security, provisions at the core of a debate about the future of public education across the nation.»

There is a hot debate raging in New York City and across the nation about how to effectively bring about urban school reform.

Facts and anecdotes examine the historic, scientific, economic, political, cultural, and literary aspects of coal, as well as the current debates about energy consumption, developing nations, and global warming.

In congressional debates in 1790 about the possible abolition of slavery, Georgia representative James Jackson attacked the abolitionist Quakers as «outright lunatics» [p. 97] and went on to say, «If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny, the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question» [p. 98].

Given the sluggish nature of the American economic recovering, the ongoing and contentious debate in the nation about escalating healthcare costs, and continued high unemployment, many young people are making the decision to skip college altogether.

In short, he was very much attuned to the mid-19th century world, to its economic and technological development, to its concerns with the lessons of history and the nation's future prospects, to its debates about the contribution of art to civil society and to reflections on the nature of painting.

Today is World Environment Day, initiated by the United Nations to stimulate debate about environmental issues around the world.

Fierce policy debates about responsibility for climate mitigation and adaptation have long focused on the «common but differentiated responsibilities» of nations, the framework used for the Paris climate negotiations.

«The environment has been more of an afterthought in the debate about food security» says Prof Joe Alcamo, Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme — which has produced the report together with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Bank, the World Food Programme and Washington's World Resources Institute.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, «I think the great thing about the Commonwealth conference is that we could find nations that were rich and poor, nations that were facing directly now climate change and nations who were debating it but hadn't felt the full impact of it, all coming together to agree something that, you know, if a third of the world can agree at the Commonwealth conference, then perhaps the whole of the world can agree at Copenhagen.»

This is a call for researchers in different nations to investigate how national debates about climate change policies have expressly considered or not ethics and justice issues in formulating climate policies.

At the very least, our nation's political and business leaders deserve to have a debate about her future that is grounded in reality.