Sentences with phrase «debate on the issue in»

The government has been accused of trying to rush through plans to merge police forces in England and Wales after a debate on the issue in parliament was cancelled.

Shadow education secretary Andy Burnham insisted it was «a huge change in tone» following a debate on the issue in Parliament on Tuesday evening, in which the plans were repeatedly attacked by Labour MPs.

The backbench business committee is expected to grant a debate on the issue in April which will take place after the coroner's report is published.

This is the context for Graham Allen's debate on the issue in Westminster Hall yesterday.

A new report on carbon market reform has kicked off debate on the issue in the European Parliament.

Over the course of 2 1/2 days, 150 participants from over 40 countries listened and debated on issues in renewables, ranging from fossil fuel subsidies, to the impact of the media and public relations, and vision for the next decade of renewables.

«Because there's no real policy debate on the issue in Washington, most people are holding their cards close to the table.»

Not exact matches

Mahan says he had anticipated Brigade's role this year would lie largely in down - ballot races, with conversation centering on issues - based debates as it had in the app's earlier days.

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Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

When the leaders of the world's major economies convene in Toronto on June 26, their schedule will be laden with big issues, from ending stimulus spending to the European debt crisis to the debate over a global bank tax.

To overcome this, the commission said there was a debate on whether to strip EU countries of their veto rights on tax issues, based on an article in the EU treaties that allows such exceptional action in the event of market distortions.

In this age of never - ending news, Twitter arguments, and viral sound - bites, op - ed pages are among the few remaining places for serious, detailed, and articulate debates on important public issues.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

The debate, broadcast live from Las Vegas on MSNBC, was to focus on «Black - Brown issues,» but USHCC promised to wedge its agenda in among many competing agendas.

BlackRock will continue to contribute to the debate on these and other important issues, but we will do so in ways that are consistent with our culture and values.

The issue of Dodd - Frank's impact on small banks is part of a broader debate at play about whether small banks have what it takes to compete in today's financial markets.

But the debate in Nevada speaks to a larger issue with the Republican party's grip on the issues the electorate cares about.

The new venture probably won't affect the polarized healthcare debate in Washington, but could alter the dynamics of the issue down the line if the companies come up with some innovative ideas, said Neil Trautwein, a vice president at the National Retail Federation trade group who lobbies Congress on healthcare issues.

In fact, many of the issues currently debated on both sides of the Atlantic have been highlighted in EU policy statements on China dating back several yearIn fact, many of the issues currently debated on both sides of the Atlantic have been highlighted in EU policy statements on China dating back several yearin EU policy statements on China dating back several years.

We will touch on themes such as labour migration, diversity accommodation, family reunification, refugee issues, and other issues pertinent to ongoing debates on immigration in each case country.

April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

Every episode we'll pick Professor Hudson's brain for 10 or 15 minutes on an economic issue that is either being ignored — or hotly debated — that week in the press.

The focus on Canadian gas was natural given the location of the Summit, the first to be held outside Asia, but it also reflected the lively debate going on in Canada over industry developments, environmental issues, and potential economic impacts.

Diversity has been a hotly debated issue in Silicon Valley in recent years, with activists focusing on a dearth of minority and female engineers and executives in many of the biggest tech companies and hottest startups.

The most important labor debate in the country right now isn't the minimum wage issue that President Obama spent so much time on in his SOTU speech this week.

Mapleleafweb provides Discussion Forums and Weblogs for Mapleleafweb users to debate and exchange information on issues in Canadian politics.

They compare bananas to oranges and drive the debate away from the real issue — our unsustainable dependence on fossil fuels and the incredible environmental toll that multinational oil companies are enacting both overseas and in Alberta's oilsands.

The national debate over whether to raise minimum wages has stirred interest in where American companies stand on the issue.

But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases... One issue of debate among researchers is whether, despite the prospect of diminishing returns, to continue with the genomewide studies, which cost many millions of dollars apiece, or switch to a new approach like decoding the entire genomes of individual patients.The unexpected impasse also affects companies that offer personal genomic information and that had assumed they could inform customers of their genetic risk for common diseases, based on researchers» discoveries...

This seems to be one of those issues, increasingly prevalent in our society, about which debate is not possible: The answer depends on one's overarching worldview.

She would not last long in a debate on the issue.

The debate on the final statement concerning the war — which took nearly all the time allotted for discussion of public issues — saw the Assembly initially adopt a repudiation of the Christian moral tradition that justifies the use of force in «last resort» circumstances in favor of a pacifist approach.

After vigorous debate, participants issued statements condemning the Gulf war, passed on others to the WCC Central Committee calling for sweeping changes in South Africa, the Baltic states, and other hot spots, and embraced the WCC's own «new world order» scheme.

This issue was tackled head - on by Paige Patterson and Al Mohler, two Southern Baptist educators, in a public debate at this year's convention.

He does awesome in the debates because he is smart and he learns from his mistakes and the only thing his enemies can attack are his past position changes on social issues.

But on a side note HeavenSent, I hold a Masters Degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies, so I have no issue going toe - to - toe in a religious debate.

On the third episode of The Faith Angle podcast, hosts Kirsten and Jonathan talk with activist, historian and hip - hop artist Propaganda to get his views on the gun debate in America, including the ways that gun issues are also race issueOn the third episode of The Faith Angle podcast, hosts Kirsten and Jonathan talk with activist, historian and hip - hop artist Propaganda to get his views on the gun debate in America, including the ways that gun issues are also race issueon the gun debate in America, including the ways that gun issues are also race issues.

podcast, hosts Kirsten and Jonathan talk with activist, historian and hip - hop artist Propaganda to get his views on the gun debate in America, including the ways that gun issues are also race issues.

It is precisely such a perspective that is needed in current debates on homosexuality and the issue of civil unions for homosexual persons.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Let me know what's on your mind and maybe we could have a guest blogger or two assist in a little online debate about the issues you want to talk about.

Trying to «win» a debate online is a very ineffective way to deal with whatever issues are really going on in your life, whether it's crippling fear, a sense of inadequacy, guilt, shame, or whatever.

John Cobb, on the other hand, denies that «Whitehead without God» has coherency, at least as presented by Sherburne, and the two Whiteheadians carry out their debate in issues of this journal (PS 1:91 - 113, 2:277 - 95, 3:27 - 40).

If she didn't get her granny - panites in a bunch on live TV, we wouldn't be debating the issue.

To be fair, both sides of the gender debate have been guilty of sliding down a slippery slope, which in my view is unnecessary, given the wealth of excellent resources available to help us accurately interpret Scripture on issues related to gender, sexuality, and faith.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

One only has to look on YouTube for the debate on this issue with Stephen Fry to see that we are not in the ascendency in this debate.

Though Calvin and Servetus had debated these issues by letter for many years, they had never met in person, yet when Servetus stopped in Geneva on his way to Italy, he was recognized and arrested.

The CNN debate opened with discussions on economic issues, but later veered toward faith - based matters like the role of religion in candidates» decision making, abortion, gay marriage — and how the United States ought to treat Muslims living within its borders.