Sentences with phrase «great political debate»

We do not ourselves recall a great political debate in the UK about the creation of this specific right.

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There's a huge amount of misinformation, dishonesty, and political agendas attached to the Great Scaling Debate.

«I think political debate is great.

I think (having) political differences is great... but I think that the best way to deal with that is through intelligent, thoughtful, respectful dialogue and debate.

The great political genius of Federalist polemics in the ratification debate was the manner in which they appropriated this concept to deflect claims to state sovereignty, discount Anti-Federalist charges that they were undemocratic, and render the Constitution an expression of popular will.

«Post the Scottish Referendum, the panel felt that Stephen Crabb had revitalised the political debate in Wales, opening up opportunities for both greater powers for the Assembly and greater accountability to the electorate,» they said.

It was solely because of his religious conversion that he joined the political wars and made available the great Christian theological tradition to the American political debate.

With access to the strategists and opinion - makers on both sides of the political divide, The Battle for Britain goes straight to the heart of the great debate, providing an incisive, authoritative and occasionally trenchant guide to the most dramatic constitutional question of our times.

The referendum has produced the greatest political storm in British politics for many decades, and the notion of the National Interest lies at the heart of the debate.

Leaving aside the debate about just how much influence Britain has within the EU anyway, would a Brexit really result in a diminution of power greater than the end of empire, or that which states like Greece gave up when they joined the Euro, or when Poland chose paralysis as its political system in the eighteenth century, leading to it disappearing from the map altogether for well over a century?

«Despite this choice being of great political, legal and democratic importance it has barely been debated,» said Open Europe research director Stephen Booth.

During last night's debate, Hillary Clinton — a veteran political brawler — flashed genuine anger and disbelief that Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders is casting doubt on her authenticity as a warrior in the left's great battles against Republicans.

The government's flagship Free Schools are under greater scrutiny than most because their very existence is part of a huge political debate about the direction of education policy.

As evidenced by the Lewes MP Norman Baker's performance at yesterday's Guardian debate, too many Lib Dems» take on our great ongoing political wobble amounts to a mixed - up mess of incremental changes, flimsy novelty, and shallow anti-politics, with PR well down the list, and no sharp lines on why its time might have finally come.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

Amidst all of the political back and forth about charter schools, no one seems to be discussing the most important people in the debate — our students with the greatest needs.

Education has been at the center of political debate for Los Angeles after the Los Angeles Times obtained a confidential draft of the Great Public Schools Now Initiative.

And the other great moral and political questions of the great debate on salt and iron — the need for profits, the rights and obligations of nobility, aid to the poor, the importance of a balanced budget, the appropriate tax burden, the risk of anarchy, and the dividing line between rule of law and tyranny — have all remained unresolved issues.

The fracas eventually culminated in the creation of the ad - hoc organization Action Against Racism in the Arts (AARA) and ushered in an era of lively public debates about institutional racism in the art world.1 As a result of this sort of multicultural activism and affirmative action policies, elite art schools like Yale came under greater political pressure to accept students of color.

A great irony is that the Scientizers have different political views but share the expectation that science is the appropriate battleground for this debate, and have together thus far successfully kept the focus of attention on the climate science rather than policy and politics.

A three - year preparatory process culminates in one week of sessions, debates and cultural activities, where all stakeholders with an interest in water issues come together to push for strong political commitment for a greater priority to be given to appropriate water management strategies.

It is something of an irony that Monbiot — who, as we have seen, has barely more than an idiot's grasp of the terms of the debate — complains about the misconception of «The great political conflict of our age».

For example, as he wrote with Dan Sarewitz in a 2013 article in The Atlantic magazine, the «greatest promise of carbon capture [technology] is how it could transform the political debate.

For instance, if the the US not only has economic interests in the climate change policies in political debate but also obligations and duties to poor vulnerable nations to not cause them great harm from US ghg emissions, the United States may not justify failure to act to reduce its ghg emissions on the basis of economic cost to the US.

Wouldn't science be better off if those who had never come near making it to the debate team, but who had gotten science grades good enough to get them into a good or even great school, were allowed to continue what they find themselves good or great at, and let those good or great at political debate focus their talents on the climate debate?

Our argument is that there is disparity between the political argument and the scientific claims, and a great deal more nuance than the polarised account of the climate debate suggests.