Sentences with phrase «debate staged by»

Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Alan Johnson and Andrea Leadsom in lively and raucous debate staged by the Guardian at the London Palladium

These moving, and ostensibly sincere, words were pronounced by Richard Dawkins at the «Atheism is the new fundamentalism» debate staged by the U.K. - based organization Intelligence Squared in November 2009.

Not exact matches

This debate, as old as Plato's Phaedrus, is kept alive by Page Meets Stage, a New York arts event where two poets from the two traditions square off against each other.

The stage is set, and what follows is Eco at his best — arcane debates on the medieval problem of universals or the poverty of Christ interspersed with monks thrown off balconies and poisoned by secret books.

It has not taken long for Dolan's role as spokesman for the Catholic Church on the national stage to draw him into a prominent debate that was occasioned by a controversial action of President Obama regardingthe definition of marriage.

Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)- The staging ground for Monday night's Republican presidential debate - the first of 2012 presidential cycle in the critical early voting state of New Hampshire - is connected to a history so deep that it predates American politics by a millennium.

The draft text will now be discussed in the second reading and, if passed, will go to Committee stage for line by line scrutiny before returning to Parliament for the third reading to approve it to go to the House of Lords for debate and approval there.

gives MPs an opportunity, on the floor of the House, to consider further amendments (proposals for change) to a Bill which has been examined in committee... Report stage is normally followed immediately by debate on the Bill's third reading.

My understanding is that the report stage is when legislation passed by the Commons goes to the Lords for debate and a vote.

Mixing bold face type and all caps, Graham said he would «get right to the point... Under current debate rules supported by the RNC, Brad Pitt would have a better shot of being on the debate stage than real candidates for president,» the email states.

The obsession with the political centre which has so reduced debate in this country since 1997 was noticeably shaken by the financial crisis, and one might hope that the stage is set for a new generation of politicians to emerge who occupy a political spectrum without the baggage of the seventies and eighties, even if those were the times that formed them.

In Germany, meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel saw a small UAV flown by protesters crash - land in front of her at a political event, and a group of protesters staged a protest during a German parliamentary debate on the procurement of armed drones for the Bundeswehr.

He did so by raising the minimum of $ 174,000 needed to qualify for matching funds from the city Campaign Finance Board, and running a campaign debate sponsors deemed visible enough to merit time on the debate stage.

Jindal and Huckabee took the debate stage at 7 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday for the undercard portion of the fourth Republican primary debate, hosted by Fox Business Network and the Wall Street Journal.

Both Labour's Chris Bryant and the SNP's Pete Wishart are protesting the decision by Cameron to only stage a one day debate, despite over 150 MPs wanting to speak.

Debate still rages over the extent to which British school children are tested, despite the decision by children's secretary Ed Balls to scrap the Key Stage 3 tests and replace them with school - based assessments by teachers.

Or rather, Theo Bertram, a number 10 staffer who was playing the role of Clegg in one of many dress rehearsals staged by the Labour party in the build - up to the general election — the first British general election to feature live TV debates.

One was that Labour's decision to allow Gordon Brown to take part in Britain's first televised election debates was — by that stage in the drama — calculated primarily as a means of damaging David Cameron's chances of an unimpeded advance into Downing Street.

An emergency three - hour commons debate was staged by MPs, as much in response to the one - sided treaty as the government's apparent unwillingness to discuss the issue.

The debate program is administered by the Campaign Finance Board, which also sets the criteria to qualify for the stage.

In the run - up to the 2015 general election constitutional affairs were centre - stage, the debate dominated by issues including Scotland's relationship with Westminster and Britain's place in Europe.

The approval was done by only Majority Members of Parliament because the Minority staged a walkout during the debate on the Floor of the House.

Again in 2010 Back - Bench MPs for the first time secured the right to set up debates of their own choosing on the floor of the House, rather than being dependent on Government's willingness to stage such debates (which in most cases they refused to do), but this still needs to be supplemented by a House Business Committee so that all the business taken in the Chamber has to be negotiated between the Executive and the Legislature.

all three candidates agree that «Party Conference has now become a stage - managed US - style political rally organised by the centre rather than a forum for proper debate among party members»

By most accounts, the first general election mayoral debate was at best minimally helpful in providing voters a substantive exchange of ideas among the three candidates on stage, each competing to lead the city of 8.5 million people and an $ 85 billion budget for the next four years.

The House yesterday debated the proposal, originally put forward by Parliament First (the All - Party Parliamentary Group on reform of parliamentary procedure which I chair), that all amendments tabled at the committee and report stages of bills should have to be accompanied by an explanation of their purpose in no more than 50 words.

The House yesterday debated the proposal, originally put forward by Parliament First (the All - Party Parliamentary Group on reform of parliamentary procedure which I chair), that all amendments tabled at the committee and report stages of -LSB-...]

«In the final stage of this referendum, as we get closer to what is expected by many to be a very tight vote, it does not help the debate over such a serious issue if the hype and histrionic claims continue or worse intensify.»

Question: Do you agree that Party Conference has now become a stage - managed US - style political rally organised by the centre rather than a forum for proper debate among party members?

The debate, co-sponsored by NY1 and CNN and staged at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was held five days before Democrats vote in the crucial New York primary on April 19.

The government's decision to shelve the Strathclyde Review, while admitting their unhappiness with the current powers of the Lords, demonstrates the continuation of what has proved a prolonged and immobile debate, one initiated by Tony Blair's failure to deliver his promised «stage two» of Lords reform.

The approval was done by only Majority members because the Minority members staged a walkout during the debate on the floor of Parliament.

After the debate, I feel the only fully credible candidate on that stage was the Libertarian candidate, Warren Redlich, whose comments were thoughtful, courteous and intelligent, followed by the Green Party candidate, Howie Hawkins whose platform on green growth and development I'm fully in accord with.

To help clarifying this debate, researchers at the University of Helsinki compared skull shape and size, by including more than 300 species of lizards and snakes at both embryonic and adult stages.

No, by that stage I'd taken up college debating, which was the first time I'd ever done any public speaking.

But the bill was defeated by 336 to 176 during a committee stage debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.

Candidates take the stage before the Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox Business News in Milwaukee on Tuesday.

She was debating up until the moment she got on stage, when she looked down at the crowd and got intimidated by a certain stony - faced Oscar winner.

Indianapolis — A group of educators, meeting here to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision outlawing organized prayer and Bible readings in public schools, concluded that the debate over religion in public schools has entered a complex stage requiring greater caution and sensitivity than ever by schools.

18th Street Arts Center throws its highly - anticipated Summer ArtNight featuring the opening receptions for Jerri Allyn's and Inez S. Bush's Debating Through the Arts: Exhibition & Performance 3 project and York Chang's second life project; accompanied by a guest performance from the Tijuana - based visual / audio arts collective, Los Roor, on 18th Street's outdoor stage.

Debate Stage Water Bottles, an exhibition of new drawings by Deb Sokolow, features hand - written texts, some of which are fictional while others are loosely based on presidential candidacies.

1639 18th Street, off of Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica, CA - On Saturday, June 18th, from 6 pm to 10 pm, 18th Street Arts Center throws its highly - anticipated Summer ArtNight featuring the opening receptions for Jerri Allyn's and Inez S. Bush's Debating Through the Arts: Exhibition & Performance 3 project and York Chang's second life project; accompanied by a guest performance from the Tijuana - based visual / audio arts collective, Los Roor, on 18th Street's outdoor stage.

Together with the invigorating lectures and debates, there was a lively stage interview conducted by the Director of De Appel Art Centre, Ann Demeester and the provocative Belgian curator Jan Hoet.

Standouts include Carrie Mae Weems» holographic narrative about race, sex, and politics portrayed by ghostly characters on a burlesque stage; The Propeller Group's video that draws parallels between funeral practices in Vietnam and New Orleans, along with the collective's sculptures of tricked - out musical instruments, which were also photographed with members of Louisiana marching bands; Glenn Kaino's installation of water tanks that turn military machines into coral reefs; Jean - Michel Basquiat's paintings and works on paper that reference the cultural legacy of the Mississippi Delta and the South; Camille Henrot's video exploration of the universe by way of the storage rooms of the Smithsonian Institution; Tavares Strachan's 100 - foot long neon sign declaring «You belong here» from a barge on the Mississippi River; and Andrea Fraser's monologue, in which she recreated a heated debate by New Orleans city council members during a 1991 vote to racially integrate the Mardi Gras krewes — changing her voice and expression as she dynamically alternated between speakers, both black and white.

Candidates take the stage before the Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox Business News in Milwaukee on Tuesday.

This staged deportation was broadly covered by the media and evoked lively public debates.

In the intellectual equivalent of a pro-wrestling «smackdown,» two teams of combatants enter a plush, packed auditorium on the Upper East Side for a debate titled «Global Warming Is Not a Crisis,» staged by a group called Intelligence Squared U.S..

The role of SEPP is to act as chairman of NIPCC, the otherwise informal network of scientists under whose name the Climate Change Reconsidered series appears; coordinate efforts by the Center to identify and recruit scientists as lead authors, contributors, and reviewers; convene NIPCC meetings during the research and review stages to share research and debate areas of disagreement; and participate with Heartland in the release of the report as a spokesperson for the effort.

Berlin (AFP)-- Dismissed a decade ago as far - fetched and dangerous, schemes to tame global warming by engineering the climate have migrated from the margins of policy debate towards centre stage.

First, intelligent laymen must take back the debate, by pushing currently out - of - bounds science back onto center stage.