Sentences with phrase «debate centers not»

As the legislature's redistricting task force begins work the key debate centers not on where the lines will be drawn but on who will draw them.

Not exact matches

«But the fact that the national debate still centers on whether pro-slavery monuments should be taken down, not on how many anti-racist monuments should be built, speaks volumes.»

Not long after the Teenie Beanie Babies craze, McDonald's found itself at the center of a growing debate.

It was not that long ago (early to mid-September) when the market debate was centered around the strengthening US economy and the pace that we would see the Federal Reserve (Fed) start to shift gears and tighten monetary policy in response to a very strong economy.

Part of that problem would be that the center - right wasn't confident enough of Romney's performance in the debate.

During the debate over Galileo, some theologians appealed to verses of Scripture to «prove» that Galileo's sun - centered model of the solar system could not be correct.

It was not many decades ago that serious discussion (and heated debate) still commonly centered in the question of the literal truth of these tales, including, of course, the creation stories.

Even though many of the theologians with these concerns have public political commitments (the most forthright tend to be on the political left or center - left, such as Elaine Graham, Timothy Gorringe, Kenneth Leech, Michael Northcott and Denys Turner), the main debates have not usually been about current political issues.

While the public vote has been the focus of much debate about the planned Islamic center and mosque, the commission can not prevent the developers from building such a community center.

Howard's still the best center in the league, and it's not even a close debate no matter how well Marc Gasol is playing.

Two hotly debated «pass the pool» referendum measures were sunk in 1997 by voters who did not want higher property taxes to pay for a proposed multimillion - dollar family aquatic center on Park District land at Hunt Club Park on Hunt Club Road.

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

As Congress debated amendments Thursday, Western New York Democrat Brian Higgins urged his colleagues not to roll back safety standards passed in response to the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in Clarence Center.

«A year ago, income inequality was not at the center of the national debate.

Incumbent Democrat Ted O'Brien and Republican challenger Rich Funke didn't have anything positive to say about each other during the half - hour long debate at the Joseph Floreano Riverside Convention Center.

After the debate finished, nearly every national and international newspaper website I looked at had his «won't say if he'll accept it» statement as the front - and - center headline.

Catsimatidis — who debated developer Billy Macklowe at The Real Deal's Lincoln Center forum in November — said that while he is not prepared to spend as much money as Bloomberg on a campaign, «I don't have any problem spending 10 or 15 or 20» million dollars.

The 45 - minute debate centered on Corcoran's $ 1.4 million television ad that portraying immigrants who entered the country illegally as a danger to Floridians and HB 9, a proposal that threatens local officials who do not fully comply with federal immigration authorities with removal from office and fines.

Another year goes by where the national debate is centered on government overspending; not here in Oneida County.

At the center of the debate is whether the deficit is really $ 62 million or $ 80 million, except in Meyers» case, as he believes the deficit to actually be more than $ 80 million, and voted against the bond because he does not think his colleagues are serious about balancing the budget.

GPS does not use infrared cameras, however, and satellites are not at the center the current privacy debate brewing in Washington — factors that could make Harvey's designs all the more fashionable.

The new study wasn't designed to settle such debates, but to better inform them, says Wayne Walker, a scientist at Woods Hole Research Center and the study's lead author.

There's little to fear from the existing Do - It - Yourself Biology (DIYbio) movement, concludes a report released today by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. «There's been a lot of debate in the biosecurity community about what DIYers may or may not be doing, from making narcotics to pandemics to viruses that kill heads of state (I'm not joking),» writes Wilson fellow and report co-author Daniel Grushkin in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

Though not always confined to preschool education, this debate is usually centered on the problem of constructing a discovery learning program in which learning can be observed and assessed.

2/4/2008 Researchers Use New Method to Probe Recollections in Memory - Impaired Patients Neuroscientists continue to debate whether or not long - term memory always depends on a region of the brain called the medial temporal lobe, which contains the brain's memory - processing center, the hippocampus.

Kareem IliyaIts not often that a middle - aged former sitcom star is at the center of an important health debate.

The insanely likable and talented Mindy Kaling has been at the center of debate lately because of her ELLE magazine cover — or rather, because of what we don't see of her: any part of her body from the chest down.

Rather than end with a classically Hollywood shot of victorious Paz celebrating in the ring, the film ends with an odd interview centered on his debate against the phrase «it's not that easy».

A Sticky Week for College Admissions as Affirmative Action Debate Heats Up (The Christian Science Monitor) Ivy League Schools Brace for Scrutiny of Race in Admissions (The Boston Globe via The Associated Press) Affirmative Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admissions.

As an education governance question, most of the debate has centered around «parent involvement,» a tired phrase that has been all too frequently abused by schools not wanting to shoulder responsibility for educating children: if we just had better parents.

A familiar debate over the origins of life — this time centered on a science - textbook sticker — is playing out in a Georgia courtroom, where parents are challenging their school district's written description of evolution as «a theory, not a fact.»

Washoe County stands as a reminder that Common Core will succeed or fail not based on what happens in statehouse or talk radio debates, but in classrooms, often far away from power centers and the nattering of opinion leaders both for and against the standards.

Socratic Seminar A Socratic Seminar is a student - led discussion centered around a single piece of content (e.g., a poem, a movie, etc.) While both a traditional debate and socratic seminar elicit potentially differing views on a topic, a socratic seminar is not a debate.

The debate in Newark did not center as much on the issues of testing and the Common Core standards that roil many suburban school districts.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) identified some of these obstacles in a November 2012 study of early - adopter states, including restructuring and staffing state education agencies; lack of capacity and the tight fiscal climate; debates concerning local control and the proper role of the state; training administrators who will be conducting new teacher evaluations; and determining how to evaluate teachers who do not teach in tested subjects or grades and therefore lack student achievement data (McGuinn, 2012).

The Riverside Center school space, however, does not resolve a running debate within District 3 about school rezoning plans that has festered for the past year.

You know this when their debates about education reform are centered around teacher rights, and not student rights.

In the digital age, illiteracy is not an option; with a solid track record advocating for individuals with dyslexia, supplying foundational research, codification of the definition of dyslexia, and centering national debate, the IDA is focused on helping shape reading instruction in American classrooms.

As that proposal is debated in the legislature, the Mayor of LA should be front and center representing LA's most disadvantaged neighborhoods to make sure that state funds are not only directed to the students that need them the most, but that they are truly used to support those students.

I digress, as I don't want to turn this into a platform debate, but I did find it interesting that the spot was centered around not what iPads can do better than other tablets specifically, but what tablets can do better than other computers.

You will not have to pay anything extra for the 3G internet access, but the internal debate at the company is centered on what you can do while on 3G access.

But, this debate has been primarily investment centered and has not focused on the risk management component as much.

But that's what healthy debate is — antagonists and protagonists keeping a high priority issue front and center, not allowing it to fade into the woodwork.

Such scenarios aren't limited to cats and wildlife, but as trap - neuter - return (TNR) programs have become more common, community cats have taken center stage in the animals vs. animals debate.

Perhaps too the debate should discuss the importance of competition in video games, where fighting games (like puzzle games) seem to center on fighting an «opponent» who is singular and often human, while adventure games often have you fighting not just enemies in a world but the world itself.

From «social to speculative; technical to theoretical,» the participating teams lead intellectual and architectural practices that not only situate the US as a leading center of critical research at the heart of the debate on citizenship, social conscience, and a just society, but also as a place at the intersection of political action, public policy, and changing notions of nationality.

Whether or not we want to persist in calling the work of younger generations and non-Western artists «postminimalist» (small «p» when not referring to the original movement) is a worthy debate, given that it is now some fifty years since the term was first coined by the art critic Robert Pincus Witten for a generation of artists largely centered in New York.

Why not locate the «center» among the actual debates taking place?

The only thing I ask is that you not try to pick, out of this wide array of different debates and perspectives, a «center» — that only serves to artificially narrow the debate and marginalize some voices that are bringing us important, and poorly heeded, messages.

Isn't this whole debate a bit like someone finding an arithmetic error in Galeleo's first paper and telling us all that we should still believe that the earth is still the center of the universe.