Sentences with phrase «in debates about»

«But just looking pretty doesn't get you terribly far in debates about spending public money on parks,» she said.

The metaphor helps intuitively explain a statistical approach that is central in debates about the underlying nature of temperament (intelligence (e.g., «g»), personality (e.g., big 5), and attitudes (e.g., ABC model).

In debates about whether an «X» on a page amounts to «consent» to removal and therefore invalidates a person's claim to being forcibly removed.

The fact that those are the things coming up in debates about the series» future — not squabbles as to whether a proposed tweak only favors the teams who are already winning, or a full - steam - ahead plow right into something that would kill off the competitiveness of smaller teams — is promising.

In debates about racial discrimination, the strict scrutiny test is applied to ensure that a government law or policy does not infringe on the rights of an individual.

But prof. Waldron's tweet points at a complexity that is often missed in debates about democracy and judicial review — including, unfortunately, in his own work on this subject.

We think that we have a duty to actively engage in the debates about how our society progresses, to lay bare the mistakes and failings of our governments and to express our well - developed opinions in matters where we have the right expertise.

«He says the state's ethics rules are designed to provide disclosure and encourage lawmakers to participate in areas where they are knowledgeable, so that a farmer can participate in debates about agriculture and a doctor on health care issues, for example.»

«Too often in debates about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only global warming in excess of 2 °C represents a threat to humanity,» says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, College Park.

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change has been, ever since, cited in debates about climate policy, the world over, and Nick Stern has become the climate alarmist's chief guru.

People who persist in denying solid science simply marginilize themselves out of relevance in debates about the latter.

Clearly, though, the participation of climate change deniers in debates about Israel's energy future surely does not help shift the conversation.

Richard Tol, a professor at the University of Sussex, warned that «[t] his claim, frequently repeated in debates about climate policy, does not stand.

The consensus without an object is the thing that is wielded in debates about the climate, but which the wielder needs no knowledge of.

Without the IPCC report, a cacophony of national assessments would compete for relevance in debates about climate change, said Victor, an editor on next year's IPCC climate change mitigation and adaptation report.

Overlooked in the debates about former Vice-President Al Gore's global warming films, An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017), is the fact that truth is not possible in science.

My interest is in debates about the environment, and the political ideas which underpin those debates.

«The Role of «Complex» Empiricism in the Debates About Satellite Data and Climate Models.»

There is insufficient reflection in debates about the climate about the scientisation of politics.

It is also widely stated by people (like Lawson) expecting to have credibility in debates about global warming policy.

Instead of a helpful biography, the opening text gives us: «Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) was a key figure in debates about British art's relationship to international modernism.»

Conceived as an experimental platform for free - form critical discussions, the Forums are designed to engage in debates about the perspectives and scope of contemporary photography with leading artists, curators, and theorists in the field.

This idea has often been invoked in debates about psychological determinism and free will.

It has often appeared in debates about photography's status as index or trace, in exhibitions about abstraction and the use of impoverished materials, and even in discussions of landscape imagery.

Digital watermarking has been batted around in debates about DRM for years, but Pottermore brought it back into the forefront.

The word has become a potent weapon in debates about the continuing customization of public education.

These questions surface in debates about the adequacy of teacher preparation, alternative certification, and state definitions of licensure.

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

Using multi-layered topics like children's rights, leadership, restorative justice, and homelessness as jumping off points, my students have participated in simulations, collaborated with students in other countries, and participated in debates about complex issues.

«You can get lost in debates about whether you should have a crucifix on the wall or not,» says John Horan.

It's a compelling discussion that avoids two of the more frustrating positions in debates about these issues: testing is all that matters or there are not actually serious problems in American education.

It feels like almost everything of note gets lost in debates about whether «school choice works» and amidst hoary claims of «privatization.»

Yet we know very little about these local leaders, and we seldom hear their voices in debates about the role that their organizations do and should play in public education and school reform.

Faculty members do have choices to make, but the conversations at the AACTE are about «dispositional knowledge» and how to engage prospective teachers in the debates about liberalism and education.

The opening date has loomed large in debates about the settling of the Americas.

«Beyond partisanship: Engaging in debates about science, society.»

In debates about the primary mission of colleges and universities — is it teaching or is it research?

«Too often in debates about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only global warming in excess of 2 °C represents a threat to humanity,» says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, College Park.

When compared to other religious groups, Evangelicals have often been more wary of science as evidenced in debates about evolution, stem cell research, and climate change.

It also called on Labour members to «resist the use of Hitler, Nazi and Holocaust metaphors, distortions and comparisons in debates about Israel - Palestine in particular».

Look at some of the questions Ron Paul has faced in debates about less than ideal campaign contributors.

This has been reflected in our consistently providing platforms for Labour - LibDem dialogue, seeking to foster engagement between party politics and civic pressure, and in co-hosting the left and liberty session at the Convention for Modern Liberty, and in being significantly engaged in debates about the pluralist reform of party politics, the broader political settlement and the new «movement politics» of a pluralist left.

Regardless, it was clear from our panel of undecided voters that contrary to expectations, the public are interested in the EU debate and they are eager to participate in debates about complex issues.

@Trilarion Lack of free market competition is an often used argument in debates about net neutrality.

In this post, I review the research on sleep deprivation in babies and their parents, because I think this topic often gets lost in the debates about how our babies should sleep.

30 years old of course causes a bit of concern when it comes to Arsenal because as we have seen in the debates about Jamie Vardy, players who approach 30 or are in their 30's will soon start to lose their form and as a defender in the current game, you need to keep up with the pace.

Barth uses the language of predestination not to rethink the relation of matter to spirit but to intervene in debates about Calvinism.

You will hear more about the term in debates about our pluralism — for instance, in discussing military chaplaincies.

Here I am advocating a canonical approach on a practical basis: if we want a «level playing field» in debates about the Bible and war and peace, we need to start with a common definition of what constitutes the Bible, what can be quoted in the argument.

Its categories — such as «Christ against culture» and «Christ of culture» — have ever since been familiar reference points in the field of Christian ethics and in debates about how Christians and the church should engage matters of politics, society and culture.