Sentences with phrase «great debating point»

Makes a great debating point and I realise that you never intended it to be other than that.

That's a great debating point.)

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The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

It is a sad day when ministers, priests, and people of good conscious actually have to debate whether or not to speak of the great inequalities in America, and justifiably point to the systems that promote it.

That's a great debate to have, and I personally believe that if you lay out Christian theology point by point and let each side objectively prove their «truth», the atheist ends up with the larger stack of chips, but that's not germane to the argument.

Per the Book of Galatians, the question of «sin or not» is a valid point to debate in Elementary School; but we can graduate from elementary debates of the Law, and enter into the great dialog about «how» to live the Law of Christ and «how» to experience the Unity of All Believers.

One of the greatest Catholic apologists of all time, G.K. Chesterton, debated the agnostic George Bernard Shaw up and down England, and their arguments were often pointed and aggressive; but after the debates, the two friends could be seen drinking and laughing together.

Certainly it would be the contention of many religious readers of Dawkins's book, The God Delusion, that Ecklund's point has great validity in the current debate.

Of course, as I have stated so many times before, I am under no delusion that fishon, and now you, or anyone who seems to take great pleasure in pointing out the «error» in the beliefs of others, cares at all how much impact their attitude plays in the debate.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

Stanley Fish's great accomplishment in Surprised by Sin was to find value in both points of view while moving the debate away from a sterile either / or alternative by showing how both sides could be right but in ways neither side could suspect from within its own narrow framework.

2 Another great point about this «environmental equals» when looking at the diapering debate that Mindy Pennybacker and Aisha Ikramuddin make in their book, Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet.

The House has very few great orators today and, save for fixed - points such as the Budget, consideration of committing troops to war and those very rare debates, unwhipped, when matters of great moral importance are discussed, the game has moved away from the Chamber.

This is a great point and one that has been ignored in the public debate around fracking in New York.

Clegg's star rises in great TV showdown The Daily Telegraph - Robert Winnett and Andrew Porter Nick Clegg was last night emerging as the early winner of the first televised leaders» debate, exploiting his equal billing to score points off both Gordon Brown and David Cameron.

It's a great debate, and honestly I see valid points on both sides.

It is an early (that is before the more celebrated Lincoln - Douglas debates of 1858), devastating critique of Stephen A. Douglas's defense of slavery and, among other points, presented his understanding that the founding generation tolerated slavery only by «necessity,» because it already existed and went to great lengths to limit it with the goal of ending it.

(Manhattan Beach, CA - May, 13, 2011)-- First introduced at the 2011 London Book Fair by The Publishing Point, the «The Great Debate» will make its North American debut at the 27th Annual IBPA Publishing University at the Javits Center in New York on May 22.

The Samsung Chromebook Series 5 went on sale June 15th and there has been great debate over the success of this product largely due to its very high prices point.

Whatever your interest — be it music, sports, literature or great debate — there's a gathering that will appeal to you at some point during the year.

A couple of characters you think you're familiar with, who I treat differently are going to be there... and that will definitely be a point of great debate, I'm sure.

«At a time when there is a great deal of public debate about migrants, we should be in the forefront of those pointing out the huge contribution they have made to this country.

[Response: Gil, I think we agree on one point: by debating every symptom and every piece of evidence in great detail (important as this is to science), we risk losing sight of the «big picture».

That illustrates my point, which is that present changes in surface temperature is not a good indicator of what we should expect in the future, and as such, it is not a great idea to make the debate about the observed ocean temperature.

I've had a great time learning from, and sometimes debating with, two smart people with very different areas of expertise and vantage points: the blogging meteorologist Eric Holthaus and Jacquelyn Gill, who studies past climates in the context of ecological change.

The point is that sceptics have been doing a great job of framing the debate on their terms.

For a great overview of both sides of the argument (framed around the biofuels industry), I recommend you look at two Green Inc. posts framing the debate, one today on the industry point of view that intensified agriculture can cut land use, and one from last week on the opposing view.

In outlets like The New Republic and Yale Environment 360, Pielke has articulated a more nuanced point of view, often arguing for greater distinctions between debates about scientific integrity and those about public policy.

While Peter Theil makes a valid point about warmists refusing to debate, you can tell he's not paying a great deal of attention to the subject when he says:» The hockey stick that Al Gore predicted in the early 2000s on the climate has not happened.»

One questioner had obviously imbibed this point of view at The Great Climategate Debate at MIT on 10 Dec..

It's a peculiarity of our system in the US that we consider and sometimes provide protection for only one type of rivet at a time, each new type debated at great length, although we understand that the ongoing loss of a few rivet here, a few rivets there, ends up — eventually, unpredictably — in a crash; the point of protection is to preserve the integrity of the whole, not the individually charismatic pieces.

At what point do you categorize a storm appears to be of great debate.

The 30 - minute debate was brisk, with questions posed by Mr. Morgan (he compared himself at one point to the actor Denzel Washington, who played a debate coach in «The Great Debaters») and responses and rebuttals limited to a minute apiece.