Sentences with phrase «debates over other issues»

It's worthwhile trying to understand how they work, not least because some of the same tactics are now being used in debates over other issues, like Social Security.

Not exact matches

Otherwise, you will debate whether you should do it now or there were too many issues with doing it, or there are other more pleasurable and exciting things to do over this boring task.

For all of the region's protests of the president, tech companies must engage both parties in equal measure if they have any hope of shaping the government's debates over tax and immigration reforms — or the myriad other issues that matter to the tech industry's bottom lines.

There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.

Stetzer said Christians should participate in the debates over vetting refugees and other issues.

The head of a controversial assisted - suicide group in Switzerland says he will seek legal permission to help a Canadian woman and other healthy people like her kill themselves, raising startling new issues in the emotional debate over euthanasia.

Debate over this issue remains prominent among process theologians to this day and will be discussed more fully in the second part of this paper, but it should be remarked here that Hartshorne has consistently attempted to envision God, in this and in some other respects, after the model of the human person.

The conversation and debate over the Evans case encapsulated a number of issues: socialized medicine, government intervention, right to die, moral indifference to death and others.

But what I detect in it is the work of someone who was never all that interested in investigating the arguments on either side of the same - sex marriage debate; whose scant interest in it has now been fully exhausted, both intellectually and morally; and whose present conclusions hover in mid-air without anything to support them other than a wistful regret that he has lost a hoedown partner in a gay man who has come fairly unglued over the issue.

I've had many a debate over the last 3 - 4 years here and in many other forums where the «In God We Trust» issue was brought up not only to «promote» but to also, make a false logical leap to... «There «is» a God»... and it is the christian god.

I've read over and over again (not on this blog but on other message boards debating the same issue) that these allergy kids need to understand that they are not the centre of the universe and that they will grow up feeling entitled if everyone changes things to protect them.

On Oct. 28, Grimm and Recchia faced each other in their final debate before Election Day, fighting over issues such as immigration, the minimum wage and transportation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled today that the contentious issue of mayoral control over New York City public schools — along with several other major policy debates — will «more likely» be decided during the regular legislative session, after the state budget deadline of April 1.

Over the course of an hour - long debate at the Woodstock Playhouse Monday, October 24, Congressional candidates Democrat Zephyr Teachout and Republican John Faso answered moderators» questions on trade, executive authority, the battle against ISIS and other issues, all while circling back to core campaign themes.

As the issue of the NHS comes up during an election debate, party leaders clash amid accusations, resorting to shouting over each other.

During debate over the gun control legislation approved in the State senate and Assembly, the issue of mentally ill people using guns to kill others came up a number of times, particularly among legislators who are opposed to restricting access to assault weapons and other guns.

Other issues on Carranza's agenda will be what to do about dozens of failing schools in New York City, the debate over testing, the question of how to attract the best teachers and what teachers are lacking in their current contracts.

In the statement, he said that he thought that lawmakers were «inside the ten yard line» on finding solutions to immigration and other issues involved in the debate over the spending bill.

In the true essence of Albany, politicians in this nearly 400 - year - old city bargained and bickered over a host of seemingly unconnected issues as gay couples and other states watched closely for indications about which way the national debate is evolving over using the word «marriage» to describe the union between people of the same sex.

On other issues, Clegg found an ally in then Foreign Secretary William Hague during «behind - the - scenes debates about Israel and Palestine or the Middle East or China, where [Clegg] would customarily push for a harder line than the narrow realpolitik espoused by Osborne» (202), a poorly drafted sentence that makes it unclear whether Clegg's dispute with Osborne ranged over all these issues or solely China.

I think it even sparks the debate over the «gifted» label again, since there so many more concerning issues at play other than just the «gift» of high intelligence.

But that came after hours of finger - pointing and debate over other education issues, including teacher pay.

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.

Eva Ruiz, president of the Fresno teachers union, said her 10 - member executive board had a «very heated debate» over teacher evaluations and other issues before voting to support the grant proposal.

The debate over «selling out» distracts from other issues, says Napier, who continues to create publicly accessible work, such as NetFlag.

It would be far too facile to blame the failure of the Copenhagen talks or American carbon - capping legislation on these revelations, given how the unraveling of the economy and other issues were dominating debate over climate.

Moral indignation and trash - talking the other side is the opposite of engaging in discussion and debate over what is claimed to be an essential issue of our times.

The author starts off by talking about humanitarian issues and makes the specific point about addressing all other angles «other than a debate over whether global warming contributed to the floods» and then promptly spends a whole page quoting those who have done just that.

But with little appetite among members of Congress to open debate over changes to the MID and other tax provisions affecting real estate, the issue should remain quiet through 2006 at least, NAR analysts say.