Sentences with phrase «debate points»

It involves debating a point of law, often in a courtroom setting, using a fictional scenario.

And I wasn't debating your point, but more the implication.

Scientists, engineers and economists have debated the point for years, on the assumption that emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will decline when less oil is burned.

This is a commonly debated point at the moment.

Still, I think your analysis was interesting to read and would love for you to debate these points further.

One is never entirely certain whether both authors agree on everything, having debated each point until exhausted.

We welcome your ideas on this matter so feel free to add to or debate these points at anytime.

By contrast, Campbell uses them to score debating points in a film that reduces politics to an elitist pseudo-philosophical rant.

Perhaps the refusal of any political party in the country to weigh in on this controversy, even if only to score debating points with a rival, has little to do with some absurd fear of alienating voters.

However, it is perfectly obvious I have little to lean here as the discussion starts with an assumption that nuclear is evil, and the objective is to fire off as many debating points as possible, no matter how ill thought out and unsubstantiated.

-- which I consider essential reading in navigating heated debating points on the perils and merits of modern life:

I thought that was a major debate point for the existence of God.

Would it kill you lot to behave like civilized people debating a point rather than a bunch of baboons hurling feces and invectives at one another?

That's a great debating point.)

There is a way of knowing these things and treating them as mere debating points or bits of information to add to our theological arsenal but Jeremy, I need these truths so so much in my daily life.

But debating this point gets us nowhere.

Interesting how Dems can only debate a point when they can slander and use offensive adjectives to attack whom they disagree with.

My take: Costello performed reasonably well, as you'd expect from a sharp lawyer and Parliamentary debater, and he made some good debating points.

Portfolio politics — Beltway debate points - Democrats view government dysfunction in 2017 as a much bigger threat (45 percent) to their personal wealth than Republicans (21 percent).

His statements could make a privacy advocate's heart swoon: «Encryption is foundational to the future,» he said, adding that no one should expend a breath debating the point.

Does anyone else see the humor in the creationists debating their point of view over the Internet (invented by science), filmed on cameras (based on science) in a hall lit by electricity (harnessed by science).

You can «posit» anything you want, so in an official debate your point is easily defeated.

one of the best philosophical debate points I heard today..

We've all put our two pence in, and angrily debated our points.

I'm not sure if these ideas have any traction in the Labour party, but they're gaining increasingly widespread acceptance in the Lib Dems (at least amongst the opinion - forming bloggers, for whom LVT is a common debating point).

Before the gubernatorial candidates started volleying debate points, citizens were volleying protest slogans.

Gordon Brown was present in the Commons for the Speaker's statement, but left as MPs debated points of order.

Catalinotto and Turco briefly debated the point.

Senior government figures on both sides of the EU referendum debate pointed to David Lidington, the justice secretary and former Europe minister, as the «ultimate safe pair of hands» who could do the job without upsetting Remainers or Brexiters.

The main debating point centered not on whether we are capable of gestating machines smarter than us but whether those machines will do our bidding or destroy us instead.

Later we will have title cards introducing important figures, sunlight slanting through dusty air, John Williams» reliably intrusive music telling us how to feel, and many — far too many — scenes of men in chin whiskers sitting around debating points of law.

One of the more effective debating points scored against voucher plans, for example, is the charge that «Klan schools,» «witchcraft schools,» and «fundamentalist madrasas» will qualify for public subsidy while imparting malign values to their pupils.

There are huge changes afoot within the UK's education landscape — the introduction of performance related pay for teachers being just one of the major debating points over recent months.

Over time, political debating points have pigeonholed urban charter schools, especially those run by for - profits and charter management organizations, as an industrialized sector bent on homogenization.

When you can't intelligently debate a point, you resort to insulting a proper journalist.

The Lion and the Unicorn is a short film in which three archetypal characters debate points of view on nationalism, trade and finance, natural resources and politics.

Journalists and campaigners succumbing to «single - study syndrome» in search of a hot front - page headline or debating point threaten to alienate readers seeking some sense of reality.

I'd love to see a flatter playing field for that discussion, in which politicians consider the issue without the blinders created by campaign contributions and the like and the public has the sources and skills to get beyond oversimplified debating points.