Sentences with phrase «important public issues»

The absence of consensus on important public issues means that the power of the churches to influence public policy tends to be proportional to the charisma and prestige of individual church leaders.

The document states, «The Church seeks to assert Christian values in the process of decision - making on the most important public issues both on national and international levels.»

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.

By implication, Greenawalt accepts the crucial modernist assumption that there exists a common secular rationality capable of resolving some important public issues without relying upon controversial and unprovable (i.e., nonrational) assumptions.

Though one of them paints images and the other does not, one might well feel that they have much more in common than either one does with a painter who prefers to work on a grand scale and with reference to important public issues.

And an important public issue — whether the public interest in the underlying issues overshadows privacy interests — could be decided by the judiciary rather than by financial constraints on one of the interested parties.

In days past, this would mean it could not continue defending the suit and an important public issue would be resolved by default, leaving the university unchallenged.

Licensing and regulation of lawyers, long questioned by scholars, is emerging as an important public issue.

It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues.