Sentences with phrase «election debate over»

In the summer of 2000, perfectly timed to shape the election debate over education reform, came a new RAND study that claimed to contradict the conventional research wisdom on the connection between school expenditures and class size on the one hand and student achievement on the other.

The general election debate over the NHS has already become an exchange of insults, doubtful assertions and unreliable statistics of the kind that voters find so edifying.

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The debate over high drug prices has been a red hot topic here and inspired a lot of anger and legislative threats, especially in the midst of the 2016 election cycle.

Despite the fact that Trump was widely viewed as having lost the recent debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the election itself is just over a month away, the candidate chose to tweet not about the political issues in the campaign but about his dislike of former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado.

The debate over migrants has polarized society right across Italy, ahead of its election this weekend.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

Furthermore, nearly four million people watched the English - language leaders» debate, a roughly 26 % increase over the 2008 election.

Much of the election debate will be over who can devise the best plan to use the projected surpluses to help Canadians and support economic growth.

The debate over the role of Congress will be further complicated by the impending U.S. midterm elections as well as constitutional litigation over the respective roles of the White House and Congress regarding abrogation of trade agreements.

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

One night, over dinner with Hsieh and his friends at Carson Kitchen, a new high - end restaurant in what was once the rundown John E. Carson hotel for men, I lost track of the conversation, reached for a pork slider, considered sipping my Fernet shot, and suddenly realized they were fiercely debating how to explain to me a Holacracy concept called «circle elections.»

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.

Now that the Republican and Democratic Conventions are over with, we can move on to the actual debate portion of the election, which means that your Facebook feed is about to get stormed by a barrage of thoughtful, reasonable, measured political opinions that will never be inflammatory hyperbole packed to the brim with dubious facts.

Now that the Republican and Democratic Conventions are over with, we can move on to the actual debate portion of the election, which means that your Facebook feed is about...

The composition of the Court thus was a major factor in the election's outcome, and religious voters seemed to emphasize it in debates over whether or not to support Trump.

The debate over election would be over if those who adopt this «election to service» approach regarding Israel and certain individuals in the Old Testament would apply the exact same approach to election throughout the rest of Scripture.

(UPDATED) First - ever Sunday election causes «moral and spiritual dilemma» for Christians; meanwhile, ruling party tries to resurrect debate over Christian use of «Allah.»

Quebec dairy farmers thrust their fight over supply management into the election spotlight today, bringing a pair of cows to the site of tonight's federal leaders debate.

With the Presidential election just over a month away and the two candidates about to debate tomorrow night, football has entered into the foray.

With the Presidential election just over a month away and the two candidates about to debate tomorrow night, football has entered into the...

Two years later, Partridge again revealed his political leanings when he hosted the «Partridge Over Britain» debate - and was unable to hide his admiration for Adrian Finch, the Conservative candidate in the West Chalfont by - election.

As the next general election begins to loom over the horizon, the debate over where our electricity comes from is starting to hot up - and nothing seems guaranteed.

The conference speeches and by - elections indicate that debates over migration will only become more heated in the run up to the General Election and with the implementation of further restrictions on migrants» rights to citizenship and services.

A win is a win, but unifying the party is tougher and there will be more debate over its strategic direction towards the 2020 election.

The row comes after a protracted debate over the BBC's interview with actor Russell Brand, who he berated for never voting before himself admitting he did not vote in the 2010 election.

By 2010 Brown had variously been accused of dithering over whether to release the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al - Megrahi, whether to meet the Dalai Lama, whether to expand Heathrow, whether to take part in a TV election debate... and whether to reveal his favourite biscuit.

The bill comes amid a national debate over ads and social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter that had sought to sway the presidential election.

New York City's first mayoral debate ahead of the Nov. 7 election devolved into a circuslike spectacle Tuesday night, with the three leading candidates talking over one another, the audience jeering invectives and Mayor Bill de Blasio's chief bodyguard helping kick one heckler out.

The three candidates battled it out in the final general election debate on Wednesday, with plenty of jabs over policy to go around.

Clinton campaign spokesman Glen Caplin said in a statement: «It is absolutely disgraceful that the Trump campaign is cheering on a release today engineered by Vladimir Putin to interfere in this election, and this comes after Donald Trump encouraged more espionage over the summer and continued to deny the hack even happened at Sunday's debate.»

Some doubt that debates would have much effect on the election, given Cuomo's huge campaign funds advantage over Astorino and the fact that Cuomo leads by more than 30 points in the polls.

Running the numbers, one notices a rise in sports metaphors over the course of these five election - years from a mere 9.7 per debate in 2000, to a staggering 17.13 in 2016, with the most popular sports metaphors being «to run» (average 5.1 times per debate), «race» (2.3), «to beat» (1.2) and «round» (1.1).

Now the election is over, foreign policy must once gain take up a broad position at the heart of the UK policy nexus after some months with a low profile in public debate.

With barely a year since John Dramani Mahama lost the 2016 elections, there has been heated debates from both sides of the political divide over whether or not the defeated president will consider contesting the 2020 presidential race.

Trump, of course, took the lion's share of attention at the New York Republican gala held just over the river from the Democratic debate, saying he expects to win the general election.

This time, leaving aside the row over whether or when TV debates will happen, all the broadcasters - not least Sky News, naturally - are putting a colossal and unprecedented effort into planning not only the election campaign and election night, but also the potential wrangling in the days and weeks after May 7.

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.

There has been much debate over the waning power of newspaper endorsements, and the Times has a mixed track record when it comes to picking candidates who actually win on Election Day.

National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming special election to replace former Rep. Michael Grimm, as the party is poised to nominate Staten Island DA Dan Donovan — a figure who could thrust the contest into the heated debate over race and police tactics.

Nigel Farage's two debating victories over Nick Clegg have put his party on course to win next month's elections to the European Parliament — ... (Comments: 489)

Nobody can prove how different the election would have been without the debates and the Lib Dem surge; but I agree with those Conservatives who feel that they would have enjoyed a bigger lead over Labour and probably won enough seats to govern outright.

The Cambridge academic has become a central figure in the debate over whether the personal information of millions of Facebook users was used in US elections without their consent.

One of the first debates I spoke in after my election just over a year ago was about immigration.

The debate over public financing has begun in the state Senate, with the introduction of new legislation by Senator Eric Adams, which would establish a public financing program, create an independent enforcement counsel in the State Board of Elections, lower contribution limits and improve disclosure of independent political spending.

Welsh political leaders have clashed over the NHS, immigration, and the economy in the first televised all - Wales debate of the election campaign.

Reacting to the plans, Prime Minister David Cameron said: «There are some questions... why are all the debates inside the election campaign rather than spread out over a longer period?

UKIP's Mark Reckless faced groaning and noisy MPs as he challenged the prime minister over taking part in planned TV election leaders» debates.

After a raucous first general election debate where an unruly audience saw an attendee removed from the theater and the candidates shouted over each other, often cutting each other off and going over their time limits, what will happen at this final debate is anyone's guess.

Coalition blues We're going to be going into the next election saying «coalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second election in 2010.

The debate over Uber, which will come amid an election year, will likely be among the marquee policy debates heading into the next legislative session, which formally begins in January.