Sentences with phrase «debate over our nation»

With supporters in all fifty states and around the world, Stand With Science continues its efforts to ensure that those on the front lines of research and at the heart of the research funding debate have a chance to be heard in the ongoing debate over our nation's commitment to research.

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Following the shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, the nation has been engulfed in a debate over gun control.

[246] On August 2, 2011, after a lengthy congressional debate over whether to raise the nation's debt limit, Obama signed the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011.

American Outdoor Brands, the parent company of the Smith & Wesson gun brand, replied to BlackRock in a public letter earlier this month, saying that it respects the national debate about gun safety and shares «the nation's grief» over the Parkland killings and «the desire to make our communities safer.»

The debate over what Congress and the president should do in response to mass shootings is once again confronting Washington after Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at his former high school Wednesday, with authorities charging that he aimed his AR - 15 assault - style rifle and fired round after round into classroom after classroom in one of the nation's worst school shootings.

While everyone is debating over someones hurt feelings, the entire economy is in meltdown, soldiers are spilling blood on foreign soil in a war that no one can remember why we are there, we now have a government that is destroying practically everything this once great nation stood for.

Where debate on the subject of religion versus secularism is concerned, it's always easy to find voices shrieking over the banishment of religion and Christianity from American life, and claims the nation is morally bankrupt because of the success progressives have had with marginalizing or outlawing religious practices.

Since, even now, when debates about the fact of global warming is largely over, no nation is considering taking the really drastic actions that might significantly reduce the catastrophes that lie ahead, it seems that we are all too likely to experience judgment for our collective sins.

She deftly summarizes the emergence of New York as the nation's economic capital, the history of debates over slavery, the emergence of the women's suffrage movement, and countless other currents, all of which shaped the 19th - century U.S. and the course of Beecher's life.

Over the past ninety years or so, the American debate about the national interest and the national purpose» the debate about morality and foreign policy» has careened through at least ten cycles, resulting in numerous, and sometimes jarring, shifts in the nation's approach to the world.

It continues to divide the nation black and white, liberal and conservative, as post-1960s debates over mandatory integration, diversity, and racial preferences remind us.

One of the main reasons for United States withdrawal of financial support from the United Nations was the concern of U.S. news and publishing interests over the growing momentum of the new information proposals, although there was scarcely any coverage of the information order debate in U.S. newspapers themselves.

In some European nations, it was the debate over women wearing the veil that set off the attacks.

In the never - ending debate over whether the United States is a Christian nation, recent events support the nay - sayers.

He insists on the need for honest debate as we struggle toward «new foundations and new rules» in the face of the institutional changes and the uncertainties that have swept our nation over the past generation.

(CNN)- One of the nation's most prominent evangelicals has entered the debate over whether Anthony Weiner will benefit from therapy, encouraging the embattled Jewish New York congressman to try Jesus instead.

The debate over Scotland's future has, especially recently, served up the incongruous (and unromantic) image of a nation of «bean - counters» basing its decision about independence on the expected profitability of either outcome, yet calculating this expectation (on either side) off the back of political and economic assumptions that resemble nothing so much as declarations of blind fear or faith.

Two of the nation's leading gun sellers, Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods, took steps to limit their sales of firearms, thrusting themselves into the middle of the polarizing national debate over gun control.

With this email, Cuomo gently reiterated his support for the state's new immigrants at a time when debate continues to rage over whether to keep the nation's borders open — particularly to Syrian refugees — in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and California.

He was followed by actor Tony Lo Bianco, the evening's master of ceremonies who, before introducing Trump, articulated his own vision for Republicans, saying the country «must close the borders, and not with a fence that you can climb, over, or under,» and that while the nation debates the status of illegal immigrants, «droves more are coming in and taking whatever jobs there are.»

A number of the Arab leaders will be arriving in New York at the United Nations and there will be continuing debate at the UN over the next couple of days.

As the nation observes Martin Luther King Jr. day, President Trump's recent remarks where he allegedly compared certain countries to outdoor latrines is sparking debate over race relations and whether the President is racist.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)- When lawmakers return to Washington on Monday, the debate over raising the nation's debt ceiling will kick into hyperdrive.

Engle explores the debate among anthropologists, ever since the AAAS submitted its Statement on Human Rights to the United Nations in 1947, over the tensions between the limits of tolerance and cultural relativism with the pursuit of more universal norms of social justice.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

In the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the nation is engaged in a fierce debate over how to reduce firearms deaths without infringing on the rights of citizens to bear arms.

Whether it would quell the debate over global cooling - fueled in part by the East Coast's hard winter and the revelation of errors in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesis report - is less certain.

A mistake that may have exposed several lab workers in Oakland, California, to live anthrax is inflaming an already heated debate over the safety of the nation's rapidly burgeoning biodefense program.

There, negotiations are expected to include debates over whether nations like China and Saudi Arabia, which have enjoyed a special status in prior negotiations, should shoulder more of the burden to cut their emissions, which the IPCC report shows are rising steadily.

Now, with the debate over whether to open the refuge to more drilling, the nation is focused on its greatest wilderness and whether to keep it that way, so the arguments seem even more relevant than they were at the time of the trip.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will court voters on opposite sides of the gun debate over the next two days in events that will highlight the nation's deep divide on the topic.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

President Barack Obama, balancing his blueprint to recalibrate the nation's economy against a looming confrontation with Republicans over federal spending, will use the issue of education to help frame the budget debate.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has rejuvenated the school choice movement and, to a surprising degree, reinvigorated the debate over how best to improve the education of all the nation's schoolchildren.

This is doubly true in an era rife with debates over citizenship, religious tolerance, the size of government, and the role of our nation in the world.

The debates over bilingual education, multicultural curricula, and textbook accounts of American history are evidence of a nation's struggle to define itself in the face of a shifting population.

The debate quietly raging over the future role of the nation's telephone companies in cable broadcasting holds important implications for the schools, educators and telephone - company and cable - industry officials say.

Because of the Obama administration's seven - year education overreach, the Right has correctly emphasized the first of those principles during the current debate over reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the nation's main K — 12 law.

The report strengthens the positions of teachers in Chicago should they vote to strike, should be considered in deliberations over the Friedrichs case, and must help shape ongoing debates about the importance of unions in the nation's public education system.

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, I examine the debate between congressional Democrats, President Barack Obama and centrist Democrat school reformers over the edujobs bill.

Wisconsin has some of the worst racial achievement disparities in the nation, and Madison has seen plenty of debate over the best ways to narrow the gap.

This short term vs. long term dichotomy is playing out in the debate over how to best address the nation's literacy gap.

Along with turning up the heat in the national debate over gun laws, the horrific attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on Feb. 14 has introduced the nation to a new generation of articulate, passionate teenagers.

The debate in Nashville echoes themes the nation has heard from New York City and Los Angeles where students, teachers and parents have engaged in prolonged battles over decisions to co-locate charter schools in public school buildings.

When his body was found in a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, and the coroner ruled it a suicide, Mr. Ruelas's death became a flash point, drawing the city's largest newspaper into the middle of the debate over reforming the nation's second - largest school district.

But school choice advocates across the nation saw the decision as a game changer in the divisive debate over publicly funded vouchers for private religious schools.

Five years after California enacted the nation's first parent empowerment law — and the first to be dubbed a «parent trigger» — the policy debate rages on over whether the controversial mechanism is an effective way to improve schools.

Churches, campuses, and newspapers convulsed with debate over the proper role of government in regulating Americans» behavior, this country's place among nations, and, most explosively, the question of God's existence.

The Amazon / Hachette debate over e-book sales prices has finally sucked in some of the nation's best - selling authors, and they're taking the side of their publisher.

Debates center on what the intended cap on warming will be (while 2 ° C has been the target in previous discussions, activist and representatives from small island nations have been arguing strenuously for 1.5 ° C); the extent and mechanism of financial assistance to developing countries from developed countries; and whether or not nations will be required to update their emission reductions targets over time.