Sentences with phrase «debate over policy»

These conclusions generated a highly polarized debate over the policy implications of MBH98, MBH99 for the nature of global climate change, and whether or not anthropogenic actions are the source.»

In a debate over policy where on side is claiming that science is on their side, the last thing you want to do is attack science or call it hot air.

Any discussion of global warming, whether in a news story or debate over policy or Gallup poll question, ideally should start with clarity about what's being discussed.

Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said the debate over the policy and its impact occurred in 2016, when the board adopted the rule imposing the new testing structure.

After Ed Miliband became leader of the Britain's opposition Labour Party in 2010, a debate over its policy began under the term «Blue Labour».

Yet, his intention was certainly not to avoid debate over policy - proposals and between candidates.

And there is plenty of room for debate over policy.

And while nominations aren't brought to the Senate unless there is agreement to confirm them, a few are coming amid an unusual level of turmoil and debates over policies, some of which have angered the Senate's narrow Republican majority.

Often lost in the debate over these policies is a more basic question: do they benefit the students who receive automatic admissions?

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

Still, Edwards and White don't see eye - to - eye on major education issues and were often on the opposite sides of debates over policy when Edwards was in the Louisiana Legislature.

The large gap between perception and reality of scientific agreement reflects the heated nature of political debates over policy on the issue, as well as the impact of efforts to raise skepticism about scientific consensus.

Not exact matches

But what the prime minister must do first is engage the public in the debate over monetary policy.

In a statement, the Strategic and Policy Forum members said they «believe the debate over Forum participation has become a distraction from our well - intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.&Policy Forum members said they «believe the debate over Forum participation has become a distraction from our well - intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.&policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.»

The paper is embarrassing news for the FBI, which set off a big debate over security, civil liberties, and encryption policy in its showdown with Apple.

Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank, said the new version should end debate over whether sick people are protected under Graham - Cassidy.

Over the weekend, Trump helped push Syria back to the forefront of U.S. foreign policy debates.

A Budweiser executive said recently that the ad is «super relevant today,» but he cautioned against interpreting the commercial as a form of political commentary despite the ongoing debate over U.S. immigration policies.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

American workplaces have been buzzing with debate over telecommuting since Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently ended the company's policy of allowing staff to work from home.

«The debate over forum participation has become a distraction from our well - intentioned and sincere desire to aid vital policy discussions on how to improve the lives of everyday Americans.»

On Sept. 5 of this year, the Dow dropped 234 points amid a series of potentially volatile political events, including the debate over raising the debt ceiling, a possible government shutdown, and threats from Trump over trade policy with China.

Much of the debate over Trump's trade policy seems to miss the point that the economic effects of any trade measure depend on how it affects capital.

Such approaches could be designed to be revenue - neutral over the business cycle; they also could avoid past debates over fiscal stimulus by separating decisions on countercyclical policy from longer - run decisions about the appropriate role of the government and tax system.

Despite disappointing job growth last month, the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since early 2008, sharpening the debate within the Federal Reserve over whether to raise interest rates when policy makers meet in two weeks.

The debate prior to this crisis can be (perhaps simplistically) characterised as between those who argued that an inflation - targeting central bank should care about asset prices to the extent that they affected the forecasts of output and inflation over the policy horizon, and those who argued that additional attention needed to be paid to asset prices and the possibility of credit imbalances.

But it also refers to a very real policy debate that is currently roiling the GOP over how to think about trade policy.

There's no question that the volume has been turned up to 11 on the debate over whether Larry Summers, the controversial former treasury secretary or Fed vice-chair Janet Yellen or another candidate should guide U.S. monetary policy for the next four years.

This idea of the Fed switching gears came amid a robust debate over the impasse of fiscal policy.

It is a budget that demonstrates the government's inability, or unwillingness, to engage in public discussion and debate over ideas and policy.

With Hillary Clinton's tax proposals to encourage longer - term investing, the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season.

The fact that Federal Reserve policy statements are pored over by investors was driven home once again when the removal of two words from the prior statement set off an intense debate over the central bank's view of risks to the economy.

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

TALKING THE TALK Aside from their discussion over the stance of monetary policy, officials likely continued to debate fine - tuning their communications strategy by adopting numerical thresholds for economic variables that would guide the central bank's unconventional stimulus.

Those who have followed the debate over same - sex marriage understand very clearly that law and culture ought to work together to promote and preserve families and communities; we should apply the same vigor to strengthening economic policies that make it easier for people not to sin.

One refrain in debates over marriage policy is that laws designating marriage as exclusively the union of male and female are today's equivalent of bans on interracial marriage.

I am not Mom enough to think that the debate over how to feed our youngest children — an important and nuanced conversation about nutrition, and workplace policy, and government responsibility, and gender relationships — can be boiled down to a simplistic, unrepresentative, staged photograph.»

Irving, Texas (CNN)- The polarizing debate over whether Boy Scouts of America should allow gay members could culminate with a vote on a new policy Wednesday.

The same standards should govern the debate over immigration policy.

The phrase «public square» evokes images of the political arena with its partisan games and intense debates over public policy.

Though standing behind the present shifts of mood in the country, it is of much deeper rootage than the new regime or the debates over this or that policy, and it is of much greater consequence for the longer future.

The religious controversies that occupied Rembrandt's Dutch contemporaries were internal debates among Calvinist factions — the conservative Reformed establishment against the more liberal Arminian or Remonstrant sect that favored free will over predestination, and peace — a policy also good for business — over continued war against Catholic Spain.

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.

As for US policy, the bishops deplore the «shrill and shallow» rhetoric that has marked debate over Iraq.

The great debate is not over sentiment but justice, not over personal preference but public policy.

(CNN)- — What was once just a policy review by Vanderbilt University has morphed into a national debate over religious freedom, and now outside Christian groups are not only chiming in on the debate, but also buying television advertisements in Nashville, the school's backyard.

The current debate over immigration policy cuts across the conventional political and ideological divides.

CNN: Twitter blocks content of German neo-Nazi group Twitter will withhold content from a neo-Nazi account at the request of German authorities, the first time it has put into action a policy of local censorship it adopted in January and a step that will probably reignite debate over freedom of expression on the Internet.

People all over the country started to debate farm policy.

Without the cover and pampering by the press, last night's debate clearly showed your faux liberal god for what he truly is... a man clearly in over his head and incapable of distinguishing between talking points, policies, and facts.