Sentences with phrase «debate about the middle»

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There is considerable debate in Washington about who would benefit most from the tax cuts, with Republicans asserting they would help the middle class and Democrats insisting that wealthy Americans would be the big winners.

The longer Europe refuses to debate honestly about debt and the euro, and the the longer it suffers from stagnation and unemployment, the more credible the Front National becomes in denouncing centrist parties for sacrificing workers and the middle class to protect the interest of bankers.

A reader of the Comedy unversed in medieval debates and unaware of Dante's idiosyncratic notions about them is easily persuaded that this work indeed represents the late middle ages in nuce.

We need a debate about what we can do about the erosion of middle - class life in America.

Hey, after we debate what people in the Dark Ages cobbled together in a book about a ranting, apocrophal prophet from the Middle East 2,000 years ago, lets have another really worthile debate about whether Zeus or Apollo was a more powerful god.

Ozil's peripheral performances against Manchester City and then Borussia Dortmund have prompted renewed debate both about whether Wenger should reorganise his team to play the German through the middle or even drop him.

«There's a danger of taking something that may be common sense, but fetishising it into a philosophy, leading to heated debates about which is the ideal way to bring up children, when a middle way is almost always the best.»

I think she did suggest these differences: - appeal to bottom vs appeal to middle - attack equality from gvt vs do it from opposition That sounds to me like the «can we talk about inequality or not» debate around 1999 - 2001, not the debate about how to tackle inequality that we want,

Resort to offensive analogies that might just about pass muster at a north London middle - class stand - up comedy gig are not a substitute for serious debate on matters as weighty as the future direction of the Labour Party.

City Council Watch attended a debate in the 6th Council District on Columbus Avenue this week, where we observed about four dozen elderly black and Jewish voters munch on cookies and fruit, and murmur amongst themselves about the slate of candidates who would presume to fill the shoes of the beloved CM Gale Brewer, champion of the liberal middle - class.

The difficulty for David Cameron is how to sneak this past an electorate in the middle of a debate about sovereignty.

On other issues, Clegg found an ally in then Foreign Secretary William Hague during «behind - the - scenes debates about Israel and Palestine or the Middle East or China, where [Clegg] would customarily push for a harder line than the narrow realpolitik espoused by Osborne» (202), a poorly drafted sentence that makes it unclear whether Clegg's dispute with Osborne ranged over all these issues or solely China.

The great and unavoidable debate about top pay, pensions, Fred Goodwin's knighthood and Stephen Hester's bonus - swollen and exacerbated by the biggest squeeze on middle - class incomes in a generation - is being exploited by our partners in government to rescue them from reputational damage, wreak it on us instead, and roll back the clock to the dismal years before the Thatcher tax revolution.

Researchers have been investigating «middle - aged spread» for decades, but there is still debate about why it happens, whether it is a cause or merely an indicator of health risks, and what can be done to avoid it.

As a result, several thousand of Fukushima's 2 million residents have been thrust into the middle of a vigorous scientific debate about the health effects of long - term exposure to low levels of radiation.

Skye found herself in the middle of a debate about whether it's safe for expectant moms to work out while pregnant.

Los Angeles About Blog Heather Wolpert - Gawron is an award - winning middle school teacher and coach of one of the largest middle school Speech & Debate teams in the country.

One could see While We're Young as a lengthy debate about which of two frauds is the worse: the middle - aged man who wants to emulate a younger one to make himself feel better or the younger man who appears to be a nice guy while actually doing everything for his own benefit.

Tucked into the middle of the book, in a chapter about teacher evaluation, is a passage that gets to the crux of the debate on accountability:

At a hearing last month, more than 100 people weighed in on the debate over what middle and high school students should be taught about human sexuality.

First concerns about U.S. students» middling performance on international assessments came to the forefront in the debate over education policy, with specific emphasis placed on the lean, focused standards in place in top - performing countries.

They're debating what to do about middle school over at the New York Times Room for Debate blog.

My best guess is that Congress will move ahead with the first few, will definitely reject the last few, and that the real debate is about the ones in the middle.

While only some of Meredith's students want to join the academy debate team — which Meredith and Cammon principal Tamika Green proudly boast beat out several all - gifted debate teams from the district's more affluent middle schools — all of her students seemed excited about the class's projects.

The Forum developed in 1997 out of a sense of urgency that middle - grades school improvement had stalled, amid a flurry of descending test scores, increasing reports of school violence, and heated debates about the nature and purpose of middle - grades education.

But, it said, about three in 10 middle and high school science teachers «reported telling their students, wrongly, that the causes of recent climate change are the matter of scientific debate.»

The GAO report arrives in the middle of a fiery debate about discipline in schools.

We're currently in the middle of the discussion and debate about what we should be doing, and how to realise that on the Switch.

Loot boxes in video games like Forza Motorsport 7 and Middle - earth: Shadow of War are raising a debate about business models in the gaming community, and some people are now trying to get their governments to do something about it.

Whatever your own personal views are about global warming, pro or con, or just sitting on the fence in the middle of the debate, you should know this: there is not much time left.

I have agreed to chair this debate because I genuinely sit somewhere in the middle and think this panel guarantees a thoughtful, grown up discussion between speakers who care passionately about getting this right.»

I'm kinda surprised that someone who has put great effort in to trying to come across as the great middle ground voice of reason in the climate debate would choose to take sides and jump to assertions about who is right and wrong and who has acted with dignity in this matter.