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«Happiness has been appropriately cited as a goal in political debates on issues from taxation to the social safety net to marriage equality, but the debate is often confused,» says Wallace, whose book topped Amazon's Self - Help Best Seller list.

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When the leaders of the world's major economies convene in Toronto on June 26, their schedule will be laden with big issues, from ending stimulus spending to the European debt crisis to the debate over a global bank tax.

The debate, broadcast live from Las Vegas on MSNBC, was to focus on «Black - Brown issues,» but USHCC promised to wedge its agenda in among many competing agendas.

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 - Congressional Republicans pushed ahead on Monday on a U.S. tax code overhaul as a Senate panel considered the issue, but risks lay ahead with major intraparty disputes unsettled and President Donald Trump returning soon from Asia as the debate heats up.

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They compare bananas to oranges and drive the debate away from the real issue — our unsustainable dependence on fossil fuels and the incredible environmental toll that multinational oil companies are enacting both overseas and in Alberta's oilsands.

Unfortunately, the NDP Government chose to shut down that debate even when hundreds of victims of rural crime from across Alberta came to the Legislature to see a meaningful debate on the issue

Fishon you make sense and I get where you are coming from on this issue — I held your exact same views for at least 10 years... I even debated gay people about it being a «choice».

The imbroglio reached its apex during the second Republican presidential debate, when Carly Fiorina decried the harvesting of a brain from an intact, extracted fetus whose heart had restarted — described on camera by a former tissue procurement technician — as an issue that defines «the character of our nation.»

He does awesome in the debates because he is smart and he learns from his mistakes and the only thing his enemies can attack are his past position changes on social issues.

And then, all the debate is corrupted already from the start by this wrong take on the issue.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

According to Wallis, while he disagrees with Land on most political issues, they were able to have a civil debate - something Wallis hopes politicians can learn from.

This is a seperate issue from the sexual identity debate that is going on.

In speaking to the Bundestag last 22 September Pope Benedict issued an «urgent invitation» to engage in «a public debate» on the cultural influence of positivistic philosophy (see our Road from Regensburg column).

The objective of this approach is not to present the religious view on a particular subject, but to generate public discussion and debate about significant issues of the day from many different religious perspectives and viewpoints.

From her evangelical upbringing to marrying Billy, an undocumented immigrant, Sarah puts a personal face on this highly debated issue.

The central issue in the early debates between Fundamentalists and Modernists was on the question whether the gospel should emphasize as the essence of the gospel, deliverance of the humans from sinfulness or affirmation of the human vocation to creativity and cooperation with God in recreating nature and society according to the purpose of God.

It is considered politically incorrect and illiberal in Britain to question «gay opinion» and there is growing evidence from the Christian Institute and the St Thomas More Legal Centre of the Establishment's intent to censor debate and deny freedom of speech on the issue.

I believe the «Theodicy issue» is where you are coming from if you want to read up on this philosophical debate.

A political debate kicks off on the radio, and words from the Sermon on the Mount drift into your brain, helping you think about the issue from Jesus» perspective.

We understand energy drinks are a popular topic, but to blatantly ban industry from participating defies common sense and flies in the face of open, rigorous and transparent debate on issues» said the Council's CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.

They noted that offers of help from opposition parties «are not always well intended», but insisted their offer was not on a «take it or leave it basis», and said the continued debate about the issue was inevitable and «arguably right in democratic terms».

Each episode focussed on a specific issue relevant to the referendum debate — sovereignty, the economy, immigration, and so on — and featured a cast of experts from across the political spectrum discussing the pros and cons of Brexit.

But the entity was just one of several education - oriented groups that spent heavily on trying to influence legislation as issues ranging from teacher evaluations to charter school expansion stoked debate at the Capitol.

And despite the fact that the vast majority of young people, including those in riot - hit areas, are law abiding citizens, there is no doubt that the unrest we saw in August will shape debates we have from now on on youth provision, youth services and — the issue I'm going to focus on today - youth justice.

At the same time, though, diplomacy is getting weaker because of austerity, because of Iraq and Afghanistan, because of a sort of inward - ness in Europe — look at the Brexit debate — and there's a retreat generally from world leadership on lots of issues by the leading power.

Eventually those patents were sold to an affiliate of Liberty Media for a hefty sum, allowing Samuels to use his windfall to run for office, flirt with running for office, and help shape the debate from the left by speaking out on issues and challenging candidates to adopt policies he advocates for.

Although timetabled for discussion, on the day of the debate this composite was mysteriously dropped from the agenda, in an effort to prevent a vote and even the mere broadcasting of the issue to delegates at the conference and to the wider media.

Your debate on whether banning drugs really works (TP November), and the resignation of Prof David Nutt from the Home Office drugs advisory council, made me think about the issue.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders squared off in a fiery Brooklyn debate sponsored by CNN and Time Warner Cable News, sparring on issues ranging from Wall Street to Israel.

There is no word yet from the Astorino campaign, which has been hounding Cuomo on the debate issue.

The Commons» European scrutiny committee's chair, arch Tory eurosceptic Bill Cash, said: «The prime minister needs to be aware, as he discusses these matters in the European Council, that the debate has moved on from specific concerns about individual issues to fundamental questions which involve our democracy.»

I based my views on a Telegraph article last year by Greg Rosen, which extracted from the 6 day Commons debate in October 1971, and the nature of sovereignty at stake clearly comes through as a topic of debate, with speeches by Waddington, Enoch Powell, Heath etc, all focused on that issue.

On 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and announced his resignation as an MP, in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil libertieOn 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and announced his resignation as an MP, in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil libertieon the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil liberties.

So much so, that after that debate Mr Burley reportedly faced a «barrage» of four - lettered abuse from those who disagreed with his take on the issue.

The BHA contributes to debate on a wide range of ethical issues from stem cell research to sex education.

But the debate over public financing is a complex one for the Senate, with Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein facing pressure from liberal advocacy groups to deliver on the issue.

On September 5, U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, from the District of Columbia district, issued an 18 - page decision about debates.

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There is much debate about whether the Conservative pledge to hold an in / out referendum on the EU will win votes from UKIP, or whether UKIP supporters are more concerned with other issues such as immigration.

NYSUT and Cuomo have been at odds on a variety of issues ranging from the tax cap, to the state's education spending formula and the ongoing debate over the state's teacher performance evaluation law.

We can quibble over policy and strategic details: the way in which the debate on immigration is following the welfare debate is becoming divorced from fact; the persistent failure of banking «reform» to get to the fundamental issues; and the possibility that the government's dearth of competence may be a weaker spot than their closeness to fat cat Britain.

Representatives from other government watchdog organizations — including New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG), Reinvent Albany, Common Cause, and Citizens Budget Commission — told Gotham Gazette that they have not taken a position on the ballot question, but that the issue is being debated vigorously internally.

Charles Kennedy, as President of the European Movement, will campaign on European issues and will contribute to major European debates from the front bench.

Laura Curran and Republican Jack Martins, the two major party candidates for Nassau County executive, debated environmental and transportation issues Sunday, agreeing on the need to remove nitrogen from South Shore waterways, expand offshore wind sources and improve the county's water quality.

The Government want a time limited debate to ensure the issue does not drag on whilst opponents of the bill claim that democratising parliament is the wrong thing to do in a time of Austerity as it is a distraction from debating the economy or watching video's of Chloe Smith on Newsnight.

The BHA contributes to debate on a wide range of ethical issues from stem cell research to sex education, and acts as a unique watchdog and lobbying organisation.

Democratic Legislator Laura Curran and Republican Jack Martins, the two major party candidates for Nassau County executive, debated environmental and transportation issues yesterday, agreeing on the need to remove nitrogen from South Shore waterways, expand offshore wind sources and improve the county's water quality.