Sentences with phrase «debate on bombing»

During today's debate on bombing Syria, Cameron also defended his controversial claim that there were 70,000 moderate opposition fighters in Syria, saying this was the estimate of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

Not exact matches

Would David Cameron and Philip Hammond have ever succeeded in convincing the House of Commons to extend bombing into Syria in that crucial debate on 2nd December 2015 if both had not used the key parts of their opening and closing speeches respectively to remind the house that the purpose of the mission was to cut off «the head of the snake in Raqqa?»

We heard an answer to that in December 2015 when Hilary Benn gave his barnstorming speech at the end of an epic debate on whether to bomb Syria.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong anti-war campaigner, opposes bombing but has allowed his MPs a free vote in the debate on Wednesday.

Not only that, but he ignores the analysis of the legality of bombing made by the Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs only a few days before the Commons debate.

The prime minister had announced that MPs would be given just one day's debate on going to war this Wednesday, with British bombs set to rain down on Syrian towns before the end of the week.

«Chris Collins should be applauded for moving the debate forward on both of these ticking time bombs before they explode.»

The writer seems only dimly aware how this half - hearted message will set off a bomb in the world where Jenny McCarthy lives — that she will turn on that wicked grin and brandish this study to launch another 40 years of vicious debate over whether autism is caused by environmental factors, namely vaccines, and thus can be cured by brave and dedicated parents like her, or whether it's just a condition people are born with.

Scientists debate whether hunting, farming, smallpox or the nuclear bomb define the start of irreversible human impacts on our planet

Once again there are lots of ideas on the boil, this time mostly to do with community action and leadership, but an endless flow of bullets, bombs and bat business drowns out most debate.

Consider that he ran for the presidency against Ronald Reagan (and Jimmy Carter), but also aggressively debated other activist - scientists whose views on population and development strayed from his — most notably Paul Ehrlich of «Population Bomb» fame.

«You can have a society with free speech where I call you names, and you do rude drawings of me, and I say you're a hater, and we hatey - hatey - hate each other,» said Steyn on my TV special, «Censorship in America,» but «the alternative is the Muslim world where there's no open debate, and so there's nothing left to do but kill and bomb and shoot.»

The «bomb cyclone,» a winter storm that descended on much of the eastern U.S. from December 27, 2017, to January 8, 2018, renewed the raging debate about resiliency and prompted flashbacks of the «polar vortex,» a similar deep freeze that transpired in January 2014 and was compounded by the loss of 82 GW nationwide for various reasons.

On the eve of the climate summit, Annie Leonard — the creator of the Internet phenomenon «The Story of Stuff» — threw a stink bomb into the debate over how best to address runaway greenhouse gas emissions.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, arrested last Christmas for trying to explode a bomb on a plane arriving in Detroit, has begun talking again to authorities, officials said Tuesday, a development that only ratcheted up the debate over whether he should be tried in federal court or before a military tribunal...» My understanding is that he is cooperating,» she said, «that they have gotten useful information out of him.

Finally, Birmingham MP Richard Burden has a debate (4.30 - 5.30 pm) on legal aid for families of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings.