Sentences with phrase «debate over the 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.

The debate over war's origins is vitally important.

«The experience of working in Parliament changed my life and those debates over the War Measures Act confirmed my interest in criminal law.»

Not exact matches

At last week's debate, he threatened to war with Ottawa over the equalization formula, in a way that would have no net effect on the amount Alberta receives (zero) but limit the transfers to seven «have - not» provinces.

We can debate the number or percentage of violent passages that were given by God to his people in the Torah (Bible — Old Testament)(More than 800) or in the Qur» an (a little over 300) during times of War.

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.

The details of law and the vital debates over the personhood of the fetus mattered far less than the success of a continuing ideological war to liberate women from male domination, orthodox religion, and oppressive notions of traditional sexual morality.

I would include World Wars I & II and a hige list of other conflicts, but there would be difficulty separating out which side killed how many (and for what reasons; e.g. the debate over Hitler's «beliefs»).

Then there is the way in which Americans determine their own national interest» from manifest destiny, to Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy, to the delegitimation of America's war in Vietnam, to the debate over just war and the Gulf Wwar in Vietnam, to the debate over just war and the Gulf Wwar and the Gulf WarWar.

Mudslinging debate over what caused each war is a never - ending argument, but religions including yours have played a big part even in many of the recent ones, WWII and the ongoing conflicts in the ME included

For in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generations.

Arthur Paul Boers focuses on pastoral leadership; Lillian Daniel offers a moving reflection on liturgy, a congregation's division over a war - resolution debate, and a surprising instance of local church triumphalism; and Eugene McCarraher argues that the church is the political community within which Christians must debate war and peace.

Joining the continuing debate over whether pacifism and just war doctrine share a prima facie «presumption against war» are Helmut David Baer of the University of Texas and Joseph Capizzi of the Catholic University of America.

The debate over the Civil War and Lincoln's part in precipitating, pursuing, and concluding it will continue as long as the American republic.

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism By Wendy Steiner University of Chicago Press, 232 pages, $ 24.95 It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars»» the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied....

By claiming, for example, that Arkes has incorrectly interpreted the reasons for the Civil War and the debate over abortion, and has neglected to provide a fuller picture of the Founders and their beliefs, Prof. Smolin is presupposing a moral notion that is logically prior to his analysis: historical texts and events should be interpreted accurately.

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.

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.»

In this case, the Chief Politician of the land has implicitly challenged the churches to a public debate over the application of Christian principles to the war he has launched.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

Our debates over pacifism often obscure the fact that both the supporter of war who kills and the conscientious objector who risks allowing defenseless people to be killed both share the same fundamental moral dilemma in spite of their different ways of solving it.

And then, on the hopeful assumption that everyone slept through the night, or at least until dawn, next would come breakfast, six - way debates over what to eat for breakfast, a belated but grandly sung Latin grace (the girls went to Gregorian - chant camp in the summer), and then backpack - packing, hair brushing that featured much wailing and gnashing of small teeth, and finally back to the elevator - button wars before a race - walk over to the convention center.

the Holocaust, fascism, the horrors of World War II, the rapidly rising threat of international communism, and the danger of the bomb, American and British cultural leaders were engaged in intense debates over the future of Western civilization.

The surge of disposable capital in post-World War II consumerism gave impetus for the debate over modern society.

There are, of course, legitimate debates over the matters of war, the economy, anti-poverty efforts, etc., on which several contributors to that symposium offered left - leaning perspectives.

The phrase lent an august tone to this fiscal tug - of - war, as if Socrates and Saint Augustine had been in a secret location debating the acquisition of knowledge (the Greek favors inquiry, Saint Augustine faith; no word on salary caps) instead of owners and players arguing over which economic system should define a $ 2 billion business.

The American journalist Bob Woodward has been given unique access to President George W Bush and his latest book The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006 - 2008 (Simon Schuster, # 18.99), uses interviews with Bush and leading members of the administration to examine the debates over the Iraq War from 2006 to the summer of 2008.

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.

The debate over parliamentary consent and security council authorisation reflect the extent to which the shadow of the Iraq war still looms large over British defence decision - making.

And as the Chilcot report hangs heavily over some in the party, Corbyn's principled opposition to the Iraq war may feature in foreign policy debates.

She also urged a public debate over the possible linkage between issues such as the American Guantanamo Bay detention facility and the Iraq war, and the 7/7 bombings: «Although the government may not accept that these were the causes for 7 July, to go into denial mode is not the way forward.»

Gillibrand will take Rosen's place on MtP, debating Rep. Michelle Bachmann over whether the «war on women» actually exists.

The debate will focus on foreign affairs, with the Lib Dems expected to highlight their opposition to the war in Iraq - the party is likely to come under attack from both the other parties over their pledge to scrap Trident without a «like for like» replacement.

[56] Attlee and Greenwood played a vital role in supporting Churchill during a series of War Cabinet debates over whether or not to negotiate peace terms with Hitler following the Fall of France in May 1940, both supported Churchill and gave him the majority he needed in the War Cabinet to continue Britain's resistance.

British Humanist Association accuses attorney general of trying to turn debate over faith into «war of words about religion»

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.

A war of words over realism versus idealism erupted during the debate between the two Democratic contenders

These events — even more than the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II — launched an ongoing public debate over whether the risks of radiation exposure outweigh the benefits of nuclear technology.

The question of whether modern humans made love or war with our ancestors has swung back and forth over decades of often acrimonious debate.

This lighthearted comedy pokes fun at the culture wars, and the debate over same - sex parenting.

The move follows a political debate in India over Sri Lanka's bloody civil war.

These guys are too busy making due with inferior supplies and surviving the confusion of orders and expectations from ill - prepared officers to debate the war, unlike the earlier, short lived Iraq series «Over There.»

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.

Without the Congressional approval given World War II or the public debate over the Vietnam War, the Korean War has often received only cursory attention from the media, educators, and the public.

The controversy over the film, which was mandated by a state law, reflects the continuing debate between Armenian and Turkish Americans, and scholars, over the extent and responsibility for the mass deaths of Armenians during and after World War I.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Inspired by last weekend's race - fueled violence in Charlottesville, a local official proposed renaming the school, extending the debate over Confederate monuments to institutions whose names honor the leaders of the pro-slavery Southern states in the U.S. Civil War.

The debate over whether e-version intellectual property should have the same price tag as «hard copy» intellectual property wars on, but the fact is that eBooks have been downpriced since their inception, and significantly so.

After the ritual fourth cup of wine, the conversation returned to the long, dull debate over whether or not a war was imminent, which Jacob pretended to follow so as to avoid Emma's vacant, childish eyes.