Sentences with phrase «held open debates»

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While I certainly hold some very strong personal ideas about religion, and I am open to debate anyone concerning those, I do not criticize others for following the bronze sky daddy, not at all.

He appeared to recognise the truth of what she said and he held the door open to that debate in future, but for the time being sentencing and the size of the prison population were not being debated.

Their second debate, held at St. Luke A.M.E. Church on 153rd Street, featured Rangel's infamous «phone call» opening statement.

But Steele's attendance had been an open question; he declined to participate last month in an RNC debate sponsored by the conservative group FreedomWorks, which was held before he formally announced that he is seeking a second term at the committee.

Delegates to the union's Department for Work and Pensions group conference - to be held on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 May, before PCS's annual conference which opens the following day - will debate an emergency motion to launch a campaign against the closures.

Zephyr Teachout, a progressive populist hoping to take over an open seat in upstate New York currently held by the GOP, has challenged her opponent to a debate.

The House of Lords is holding a debate on two key British Humanist Association (BHA) publications: The Case for Secularism: A Neutral State in an Open Society and Quality and Equality: Human Rights, Public Services and Religious Organisations.

Next year we could hold a wide - ranging and open debate about modernizing and reforming our government structure to meet the needs of the 21st century.

In his opening speech in the opposition day debate, which was peppered with angry heckles from the Labour benches, Salmond said Blair should be held to account for what was «very much a personal campaign, unbeknownst to cabinet and indeed to parliament», citing the memo sent to the then US president, George W Bush, from the prime minister saying: «I will be with you whatever.»

In the letter to appropriators, NAESP and NASSP stated that «school principals, education stakeholders and the public deserve to know how the Committee would fund federal education programs,» and urged the Subcommittee to have an «open debate about deep cuts in education funding by holding a Subcommittee markup.»

Whether it was because the Fusion Hybrid was too good at fighting above its weight class, or the MKZ Hybrid wasn't holding up its rep in its own, is open to debate.

Taking the debate sparked by Dana Schutz's painting, Open Casket, as a starting point, the Whitney is partnering with Claudia Rankine and the Racial Imaginary Institute to hold this free program.

Every year at this time Hong Kong's social life goes into overdrive with a whirlwind of more than 25 gallery openings, charity art auctions, debates and champagne - fueled parties held on warehouse rooftops, at poolsides and parking garages.

The informal high - level event, which takes place in New York City the day before the opening of the U.N. General Assembly's annual General Debate, aims to «facilitate an exchange of views and to galvanize political will» for the Climate Change Conference to be held in Bali in December 2007.

Welch, in an effort to open up a meaningful blawgospheric debate, tried to score press credentials to Star Wars Celebration V, to be held this August in Orlando.

Ten years on that statement holds good in my view, but the jurisprudential basis for the more flexible approach, and its practical consequences in different legal and factual contexts, remain uncertain and open to debate (see de Smith op cit paras 11 - 086ff and the many authorities and academic texts there cited).