Sentences with phrase «for debate on the issues»

One only has to look on YouTube for the debate on this issue with Stephen Fry to see that we are not in the ascendency in this debate.

People all over the world, both in positions of power and not, seem to believe that there is room for debate on the issues of climate change, humanity's involvement and the need to transition to a low - carbon future.

On Thursday, October 27, candidates for Erie County District Attorney will meet at the WNED WBFO studios for a debate on issues facing county voters.

However, Sir George's move will add momentum for Mr Lyon's proposals, though the backbench business committee will have to make time for a debate on the issue.

Nonetheless, with the passage of time, Pope Francis has seemed to take an ever more decided stance behind the notion of manmade global warming, while sending signals that there was not much room for debate on the issue.

Not exact matches

In this age of never - ending news, Twitter arguments, and viral sound - bites, op - ed pages are among the few remaining places for serious, detailed, and articulate debates on important public issues.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that prior to Equifax's data breach disclosure on Thursday, a congressional panel was debating a proposed bill that would lower the fines credit - monitoring companies receive when they issue flawed credit reports for their customers.

A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

THE impact of technology on the economy is one of the most - debated issues of the moment, whether it is the potential for automation to cause...

For those who have remained on the sidelines, bitcoin's «block size debate» largely rests on two issues, one technological, the other social.

Every episode we'll pick Professor Hudson's brain for 10 or 15 minutes on an economic issue that is either being ignored — or hotly debated — that week in the press.

Mapleleafweb provides Discussion Forums and Weblogs for Mapleleafweb users to debate and exchange information on issues in Canadian politics.

On the minimum wage debate, «we're staying neutral on the issue,» said Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for Wal - Mart, America's largest private employeOn the minimum wage debate, «we're staying neutral on the issue,» said Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for Wal - Mart, America's largest private employeon the issue,» said Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for Wal - Mart, America's largest private employer.

But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases... One issue of debate among researchers is whether, despite the prospect of diminishing returns, to continue with the genomewide studies, which cost many millions of dollars apiece, or switch to a new approach like decoding the entire genomes of individual patients.The unexpected impasse also affects companies that offer personal genomic information and that had assumed they could inform customers of their genetic risk for common diseases, based on researchers» discoveries...

I'm not trying to sound like everything is relative, but I am saying these are issues that have been debated for thousands of years, and the arguments on both sides of the coin are really strong.

The debate on the final statement concerning the war — which took nearly all the time allotted for discussion of public issues — saw the Assembly initially adopt a repudiation of the Christian moral tradition that justifies the use of force in «last resort» circumstances in favor of a pacifist approach.

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».

After vigorous debate, participants issued statements condemning the Gulf war, passed on others to the WCC Central Committee calling for sweeping changes in South Africa, the Baltic states, and other hot spots, and embraced the WCC's own «new world order» scheme.

It is precisely such a perspective that is needed in current debates on homosexuality and the issue of civil unions for homosexual persons.

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.

«I find that extraordinarily ironic for a discipline that prides itself on spirited debate about fundamental issues,» Jones said.

I'm not looking for a I'm right you're wrong debate, I just honestly want to hear the thought of someone else on the issue.

Starting backwards with Coll's fourth point, that it is what deacons and deaconesses are rather than what they do that is significant for the Church, Coll explains that on the issue of ordination generally, the «ontological» versus «functional» debate continues (p207).

Though Calvin and Servetus had debated these issues by letter for many years, they had never met in person, yet when Servetus stopped in Geneva on his way to Italy, he was recognized and arrested.

In general, based on the 2003 interview, it doesn't look like Santorum knows how to talk or think about this issue very well; he doesn't, for example, appear to know how to distinguish the three levels of the right to privacy debate: a) the natural rights level, b) the Constitutional level, and c) the plain - old law level, state and federal.

But, as they both believed, the issues for which they contended were issues in which men's souls were at stake; and they would have agreed on this at least, that the urbanities of modern theological debate betokened a failure to appreciate how serious the issues were.

In a debate with an advocate for abortion, one occasionally comes up against an informed opponent who seeks to undermine the Church's position on the issue by pointing out that the Universal Doctor of the Church, St Thomas Aquinas, held to the doctrine of delayed animation or hominisation.

@tallulah13 The Greek gods were made in the image of men by men, some, Hercules for example was a man.The living God made man in His image.You choose, but if you continue to avoid honest debate I'll quit replying to you.There are many examples of proven Bible truths, the Greek b.s you brought up just confuses the real issue and adds nothing to the conversation.You know it, I know it, so does any thinking person.Focus on the topic at hand or go elsewhere.

The essay will no doubt become an important guide in the public debate on Israel and its critics, for it outlines the complexity of an issue that touches upon politics, human rights and religion.

Harrison also unfolds Augustine's insightful contribution to the science — religion debate, drawing out a number of valuable principles — not least, recommending restraint where issues are not clear, and avoiding bringing Christianity into contempt by arguing for false scientific opinions on the supposed grounds of scriptural warrant.

On Jan. 22, the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Sojourners president Jim Wallis issued a statement calling for a change in the debate over abortion.

Issues current in the debates on Genesis interpretation are raised and answered in non-technical jargon for the non-academic but informed reader.

Thanks again for your willingness to engage in civilised debate on these important issues.

So anyway, maybe it is just normal in theological debate for everyone on all sides of an issue to think that the opponents «simply don't understand» (After all, if they understood, they would agree!).

The recall of Patties Foods products has prompted renewed debates on Country - of - Origin Labelling (CoOL) on foods in Australia, with Chief Executive of Australian Made, Ian Harrison, saying «This issue exemplifies the differences in health and safety standards for the production of food around the world.»

One of the major criticism leveled at Arsenal and Arsene Wenger's transfer policy on Monday night by Gary Neville was the same issue that a vast majority of us fans have been left frustrated by for many years, namely the Defensive Midfield debate.

You can stop jumping on that bandwagon and debate issues within AFC instead of the man, less attractive for the media as it doesn't get the controversy.

The debate has never truly been had on the MMA forums because when it comes to the most divisive issues such as racism, politics or whatever they may be, people can not for some reason be rational and objective.

-LCB- And while it's totally a personal decision, and I have NO interest in «debating» the issue, I do want to pass on an informative little note about breastfeeding and alcohol for those of you who have shared with me your concern. -RCB-

There were also issues around responsibility — we have had debates around whether young fathers are taking on enough responsibility and how much they are culpable for the fact that they don't get the same access to services as mums do.»

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

I once again thank the hon. Member for Glasgow Central for securing this important debate and for all she has said and done on this issue in the short time she has been in this House.

WOODSTOCK — Less than 15 minutes after voting to hold an April referendum on a $ 3.9 million bond issue for recreation, the Woodstock city council debated a proposal to reorganize the parks and recreation department as an independent park district.

«Saturday afternoon, Landry presented a seminar at City Market on the benefits of cloth diapers compared with disposable diapers, and while the issue is still open for debate over what is best for children and the environment, Landry's position was compelling for those in attendance.»

Speaking ahead of an attempt to introduce the Bill into the Commons for further debate, the SNP MP said there are issues around the content and testing of formula products — with trading standards and councils lacking the resources to fully keep tabs on them.

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that it is too early for the National Democratic (NDC) to be engrossed in a debate on the issue of who leads the party into 2020 general elections.

With 10,000 signatures the Government is obliged to respond formally and take a stance on the issue; with 100,000 signatures the issue would be considered for a formal parliamentary debate.

A political silence on issues like payday lending has led to a desperate need for other voices in the public debate - and it's religious ones who are, increasingly, filling the gap.

«I have told my compatriots that we don't run on the health of our opponents and so we don't make that an issue but it has come up for public debate,» he said on Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV Tuesday night.