Sentences with phrase «debate over forced»

Not exact matches

The debate over TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline has forced Americans to confront their complicity in the development of Canada's oilsands.

I have had mixed feelings over the last eight years as the American political debate over the economy has become more focused on the institutional and external forces holding workers back.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

I am not in contact w / any of them, have no clue about what they are thinking, but I know if it were me I wouldn't want to force or participate in an online debate with a group of virtual strangers over the intimate details of a personal divorce.

We can choose to just agree to disagree, or debate one religion's merits / believability over another, but attempting to force certain believers to stop practicing their own religion is not OK.

Of course there were others at the same time making similar claims, just as President Carter made them a decade later in the context of another debate over the justness of the United States» use of force against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

In the debates over humanitarian intervention in the 1990s some moralists made a distinction between «war,» which they understood as having to do with state uses of armed force for their own interests, and intervention by military force for humanitarian purposes, which they regarded as altruistic and not «war.»

But though Article 2 of the Charter sought to outlaw any use of armed force between or among states except in defense against aggression, it did not clearly define what counted as aggression — a matter that remains unsettled, as the recent debate over what counts as legitimate preemption testifies.

When southern Baptists from Alabama and Georgia petitioned to have slaveholders appointed as convention missionaries in 1844, the convention refused to consider them, arguing that doing so would force them to take a side in the debate over slavery.

Also, I prefer debate over violence, but if l meet violence, I'll meet it with as much force that I can muster.

CNN: Despite fights about its merits, idea of American exceptionalism a powerful force through history It's safe to say the first European arrivals to New England wouldn't recognize today's debate over whether America is exceptional.

The conventional wisdom, then, has it backwards: cultural affinities constitute the long - term basis of electoral alignments, introducing fundamental values into politics and structuring the debate over them, while economic forces generate temporary disruptions of these culturally defined alignments.

I am no Scholar but, I believe God has the power to change prophecy the way that he did with Hezekiah, his intentions for a perfect people in the beginning changed due to disobedience so who's to say our men or intended leadership has overall been disobedient, and many women have been forced to lead and in that leading women have been more obedient.We all need each other if my husband was a pastor and I'm his help mate if he for some reason can't teach or preach who else other than myself would be the closest to him.I don't believe GOD changes he's always the same but, he does have the power to make changes and he does not need our permission to do so, instead of debating back and forth over our version of the Bible we should be sure we have the Holy Spirit and real relationship with GOD because he will reveal to us his truths but, please know he's not the author of confusion

Michael Emenalo's departure from Chelsea caught everyone by surprise, and there is still some debate over whether it was voluntary or whether the Nigerian was forced out by a power play within the Byzantine structures of the Chelsea hierarchy.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces took over Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in early 2014, the interim Ukrainian government was debating whether or not to fight back against the «little green men» Russia had deployed.

The post-Cold War «out of area» debate is entirely anachronistic given the range of military operations in which NATO forces are engaged outside the territories of its members over the past twenty years.

That problem is ever so evident here in the good old US where we waste valuable time in our legislature debating sexual issues because the extremist fringe has taken over the Repugnican party and forces us to deal with non-issues that distract us from real problems like poverty, health and war.

Bush has warned that August will be a bloody month for U.S. forces in Iraq as militants try to influence the debate over the war in Washington, where Democrats in Congress want troops pulled out within months.

Injecting Dolan back into the debate over the tax credit comes as both forces for the measure as well as those in favor of the DREAM Act are making a last - minute push to have them included in the budget talks.

The State Senate began debate over the $ 152 billion spending plan late Tuesday night after lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo resolved a stalemate that forced them to blow past a Saturday budget deadline.

The health secretary has been forced to take Commons questions on his healthcare reforms today, as debate over the issue reaches a climax.

Gordon Brown reportedly reclassified cannabis as a Class B narcotic in a bid to win favour with Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre and the reaction of tabloids has been a dominant force in the minds of politicians when they refrain from having the debate over drug policy.

Opening the Queen's speech debate on foreign affairs, Ms Beckett told MPs that with the transfer of Najaf in December and Maysan, where some UK troops are based, in January, the process of handing over control to the Iraqi forces was «well underway».

11:17 - There's some debate in the office over whether the sombre atmosphere resulting from the deaths of these soldiers might force Miliband to step away from his relentless attacks against David Cameron over the health and social care bill.

But the figures, from 32 police forces out of 43 in England and Wales, have sparked a debate over whether the age of criminal responsibility should be lowered.

THOSE SCANDALS FORCED INTERNAL DEBATES over the effectiveness of the Assembly's sexual harassment policy, and in 2013, amid the scandals, Silver convened a task force to reexamine the guidelines.

For the past couple years, there has been some debate over religious entities being forced to pay for contraception coverage.

As the debate over Europe rages on, the Labour leader opted to put it to one side — and instead attacked David Cameron over Tory plans to force all state schools in England to become academies.

Over its first couple of years, Lib Dem wobbles and the European meltdown forced the coalition's austerity programme front and centre in political debate.

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The announcement comes after months of heated debate over the potential adoption of a new «living wage» bill that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than minimum wage.

A heavyweight political force stepped into the debate over mayoral control of Buffalo schools on Monday.

Labour MPs turned out in force on Wednesday to help defeat a parliamentary motion calling for Tony Blair to be held to account for allegedly misleading parliament over the Iraq war by 439 votes to 70, after a sometimes angry debate.

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

Yet at this forum, an on - campus debate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over whether the university should divest the fossil fuel holdings within its $ 11 billion endowment, might not have happened if market forces properly priced the economic and environmental costs of climate change, a theme that Anthony Cortese, the event moderator, alluded to at the outset.

For months leading up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, one of the many questions fans of the franchise debated over was who Billie Lourd, actress and daughter of Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher, would play in the film.

Debate forced them into polarized positions, and the focus of my previously collegial and congenial eleventh graders turned into a competition over who would win.

San Antonio — In what appeared to be a major development in the debate over the quality of the teaching force, officials of the largest association of teacher educators expressed support this month for the idea of shifting teacher training from the undergraduate to the graduate level.

To seize the high ground in the debate over charter schools, pro-charter forces lay claim to the South Bronx.

The head teachers» union also plans to debate issues such as forced academisation, assessment and British values in schools, over the weekend.

That question muttered by many a frustrated student over the years has become a vigorous debate among American educators, sparked by a provocative new book that argues required algebra has become an unnecessary stumbling block that forces millions to drop out of high school or college.

on The «Tenure» Debate: Attracting and retaining good teachers or a political maneuver to win over the anti-teacher forces?.

The debate over charter schools continues as the state forces school districts to share more tax dollars in capital money.

Lowell said the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in south Florida forced high school students to think more seriously about gun violence and to add their voices to the national debate over gun laws and school safety.

In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini called for Salman Rushdie's death for his «blasphemous» novel The Satanic Verses, a move which not only forced Rushdie into hiding for over a decade, but also stirred vigorous debate over the unconditional right of free speech.

PETA's letter highlights a longstanding policy debate over the effectiveness and ethics of TNR, whose proponents say is a better alternative to packing feral cats into animal shelters that would be forced to euthanize unadopted animals.

Forcing breaks in the game has pros and cons (see: the debate over Christine Love's Hate Plus, which forces play over three real - time days, and also enough time to bake a cake)

In the UK, it's a debate that has reached the government, when they were forced to respond to the question following a petition from the UK public that received over 15,000 signatures.

Surely we could settle all of the debate over the controversial crossguard lightsaber seen in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser if we only had a physical replica.

So what do we agree on related to the range of voices out there in the debate over how to respond to the reality of human - forced climate change?