Sentences with phrase «important issue of the day»

How else explain the drive to take decision making power on some of the most important issues of our day and turn it over to unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic boards of «experts?»

Perhaps the most important issue of those days was not the economically doomed ACS, but the question of the compact theory.

Perhaps by doing so we can help bring about some reframing of the public discussion so as to focus on the truly important issues of our day.

I guess it is the most pressing important issue of our day?

But long before the internal debate over Labour's new ideological orientation had been resolved, the Tories had successfully established the deficit as the most important issue of the day — and one for which Miliband's team never managed to craft a decisive message.

«Therefore, in the interest of complete transparency on the single most important issue of the day for most Americans, we ask that you join us for an open discussion so that we can begin to change a process that has not only polarized this Capitol building but this country as well.»

With so few statements backed up by coherent arguments many people in the UK are being exposed to unbalanced accounts of many of the important issues of the day.

So why has this party — without a single seat in parliament — managed to change government and opposition policy on what many voters think to be the most important issue of the day?

Typically though the main factors in voting intention are things like party identification, perceptions of the leaders and the parties's perceived competence on whatever voters see as the important issues of the day.

NYSUT President Richard C. Iannuzzi said, «Citizen participation in government is the foundation of a robust democracy, and a way for all New Yorkers to be heard on the important issues of the day.

«But when we're talking about one of the most important issues of the day, you're going to write Executive (Order) 147,» he continued.

«As the editor - in - chief of Infection and Immunity, I felt that it was an opportunity — maybe even a responsibility — to weigh in on important issues of the day,» he says.

First, Einstein properly identified the three most important issues of the day.

On all the important issues of the day, every one of them is quite prepared to tell you what they think about education, the health service, taxation, industrial relations, rural affairs, European integration, foxhunting, and the Millennium Dome.

Through the internships and other initiatives described below, the institute helps Rice students explore careers in public policy, or simply become better informed about important issues of the day.

Bobby is more about capturing a state of mind about the mood and pulse of the United States on the day of Robert Kennedy's death, using the multi-character ensemble cast as a microcosm of the more important issues of the day.

CQ Researcher provides in - depth coverage of the most important issues of the day.

He came to the conclusion that those with whom he had agreed most of his life (and with whom he had proudly manned the progressive barricades) were wrong on the most important issues of the day.

Silence on what is arguably the single most important issue of our day.

From the Law Commission of Ontario's perspective, the meetings are a useful way to find out what delegates across Canada consider to be the important issues of the day, although these are not necessarily, it seems, the ones their governments consider the most important or the most likely to obtain support across the country.

We try to focus on the most important issues of the day and distill the complex and convoluted into easy to understand blog posts so company executives can get up to speed and move on to what's really important: running their business.

Not exact matches

The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone's long - standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day.

If you're going to spend a good part of your day focused on issues important to him or his company, then he's going to reciprocate by giving his undivided attention to you.

(5) Despite his own unconscious racism, Schweitzer was one of the few important European intellectuals of his day who unhesitatingly directed attention to the unpopular issue of Europe's profound moral guilt in its treatment of the Asian and African colonies.

Tradition has it that a part of every day Mohammed set aside to receive the complaints and suggestions of the citizens of Medina, and by his often simple and homely settlement of the important or unimportant issues brought before him, he set the pattern for ages to come in Moslem jurisprudence.

(To this day I personally find the idea that being gay is ok as long as you remain celibate to be the most disingenuous of all positions as to me it goes completely against the Spirit of the gospel and the challenge of Jesus that brought us to a place where the heart issue is as important as any action one might take.)

She watches, she says, to gain information about important social and political issues of the day.

The watching world is tired of empty answers to important issues, and instead wants us to engage them in real conversations about the pressing questions of our day.

Just a friendly update from California that I have now spent my fifth day working on contacting all of the big free speech legal advocates in Canada and the United States (and those important organizations in Europe as well) about this story and the entire issue of Free Speech (which these public figure pastors in the U.S. who are nationally known want to silence).

The theology of the twenty - first century will take as its starting point the urgent issues of the day, and it will bring to bear upon them multiple traditions, but of these the great tradition of European theology will be one, and a very important one.

Appointed in 1986, Scalia has been on the Court long enough to have tackled virtually every important legal issue of our day: abortion, religious liberty, race and gender equality, gay rights, and separation of powers, among others.

Leaving aside the evidence that arrives each day from Eastern Europe which seems to show that the opposite is the case, that socialism there has in some sense «frozen» traditional ways of life, there is a more important issue: one wonders if tradition, when purchased and consumed like a commodity, can really play the role which some conservatives believe it must in any healthy society.

I p. 70) Apparently, latter day admirers of Adam Smith who put forward the argument that what is important in the development process is that national income must grow, irrespective of what happens to the conditions of the majority of the people are unaware of the position that Smith took on this crucial issue.

«Having one designated meat free day a week is actually a meaningful change that everyone can make, that goes to the heart of several important political, environmental and ethical issues all at once.

The Brewbound Session, a full - day business conference for serious brewery professionals, will gather more than 200 attendees to discuss important industry issues and exchange ideas while learning strategies for success in the most competitive sector of the alcohol beverage category.

Got a little help some friends but at the end of the day the streak has been snapped and they can now focus on more important issues — like climbing out of the Bottom 4 in the Standings during the final 5 - weeks of the Regular Season.

I'm sorry but some of us bloggers are missing a very important issue here; our manager promised he'll be very active till the last minute of the last day of the transfer window, yeah right!

Great and beautiful win, kudos to all d players for their energy and passion and will to win but don't forget d real issues............ Now mertesacker is a great defender even with is faint hearted block to Costa's goal, even with the way ospina conceded d goal was enough reason why cech would av been better any day anytime and still wenger chose ospina at the most important match, and because Ramsey equalised after we conceded under pressure when we were one man up, look at d replays, only Ramsey was not a pussy, d rest were scared of not conceding more by staying close to our goal, Ramsey ran forward and was d only player apart from Sanchez and ground looking for d winner.

Flexible work hours (a different, but related issue) can allow people to work at the time of day when they are most productive, to avoid sitting in traffic at peak hours, to be at important events in their families lives, and more.

(Yet when it comes to the Stanford test, which has no bearing on these issues but which is important to parents because it plays a role in middle school acceptance, we get, like, two days of casual review.)

IBFAN PRESS RELEASE 10 May 2002 The recent death of a 5 - day old boy from meningitis in Belgium raises important questions about the labelling and promotion of breastmilk substitutes and the adequacy of commercial surveillance systems, issues currently being discussed...

As for importance of tummy time, I know that its important, I know the developmental issues that can happen if you don't do it... but geez it's hard to torture your baby several times a day when the consequences of not doing it aren't apparent or immediate or even there at all.

The Imagination Movers» songs address important issues (moving, sibling rivalry, the first day of school, sleeping alone, taking medicine) without condescending to kids.

Sometimes companies listen to our concerns and sometimes they don't, but even a «loss» is a win when individuals like 100 Days of Real Food and the Food Babe can get the national media to shine a spotlight on important food issues many consumers know nothing about.

This isn't a big issue if you're using the supply daily, but for moms who store several days worth of breast milk, this is really important.

Although there are always parents on the playground who brag they trained their child in a day, the study — published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Urology — found timing was more important than technique.

Based on numerous conversations around the Capitol the last few days, here is part of the problem: Some of the rank and file members of the Democratic Assembly wanted to hold up the budget in exchange for a better deal on Raise the Age — an issue that is deeply important to them.

So I don't see how PR offers the whole solution to issues of participation and engagement in politics, though it is important to make more votes count for something on general election day.

«In some ways it's a more comfortable spot because the partisanship has been turned down, certainly in our lives, which allows us to focus on substantive issues that we think are important, whether we are in the mix, or whether we are on the sidelines advocating,» Savino, an Astoria - born Democrat representing northern Staten Island and parts of South Brooklyn, told me a few days later.

«There have always been short and long - term issues to consider, and it was wrong for some to pit the promise of something new against incredibly important repairs that exist every day in the lives of real people and real taxpayers,» he said.