Sentences with phrase «in debates over»

It's worthwhile trying to understand how they work, not least because some of the same tactics are now being used in debates over other issues, like Social Security.

Given how weather events have become politicized in debates over climate change, some find this hard to believe...

I believe we can't possibly get to a better place, in debates over issues like global warming, until we understand why getting facts across turns out to be so difficult.

Do you sense that there has been any shift away from feeling the need to re-engage in debates over whether climate change is real or not, and instead toward addressing questions of what to do about it?

Framing climate - change costs as the equivalent of a hidden rising tax could be useful in debates over a climate response.

At the national level, these days any Washington talk of a rising cost on carbon generally comes up only in debates over why cap - and - trade legislation failed.

But the issue is one that is rarely discussed in climate treaty talks or in debates over United States climate legislation.

In happens in debates over what to build at Ground Zero, as part of yet another intersection of public and private, the city.

That kind of history usually appears, in fact, in debates over yet more conflicting aspirations in the present.

As we have noted, in debates over higher education finance, policymakers often do not consider tax programs such as the student loan interest deduction in tandem with spending programs.

Stephen Robertson, in his article «Age of Consent Laws», states: «Narrowly concerned with sexual violence, and with girls, originally, since the 19th century the age of consent has occupied a central place in debates over the nature of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and been drawn into campaigns against prostitution and child marriage, struggles to achieve gender and sexual equality, and the response to teenage pregnancy.»

In an interview last week, the 32 - year - old Marrocco talked about her path to excellence, a climb marked by a few stepping stones that are often overlooked in debates over teacher evaluation, tenure, and test scores.

The summer break saw no break in the debates over state - appointed Superintendent Cami Anderson's plans to overhaul Newark's public schools.

In debates over how much funding is needed to achieve certain outcomes, it has become increasingly apparent to some state leaders that the issue is mostly about how much money lawmakers are willing to invest in public education.

[1](Some might argue these two interpretations - badges to increase engagement and badges as gamified learning environment - are distinct enough to belong in different frames, given the different roles they play in the debates over badges.)

Third, I assess the effect of charter proximity on historically underperforming students at district schools, a population often referenced in debates over charter expansion.

Students engage in historical inquiry when they ask questions, discover evidence and participate in debates over interpretation.

In debates over certification standards, alternative certification programs have been criticized for high turnover.

Rather than articulating a broad, theoretical case for reforms that have been embraced by policymakers, the books of the «aughts» were more likely to engage in debates over evidence, articulate a strategy that had not been adopted, or do battle against the strategies that policymakers did adopt.

These beliefs play a key role in shaping people's opinions, and ultimately, their support for scientific advances, according to the study «Understanding Public Opinion in Debates Over Biomedical Research: Looking Beyond Partisanship to Focus on Beliefs about Science and Society,» by American University professor Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D., and Ezra Markowitz, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University.

He's also played high - profile roles in debates over national security and immigration as the chair of the House Judiciary Committee.

The role that evaluation possibilities play in intervention design should be brought to the fore in debates over health care improvement.

And yet over the past decade, science has come to occupy an increasingly important role in debates over free speech.

«Given his background,» Cohan adds, «Jason would have been a leading voice on health care and adherence to evidence in debates over climate and energy policy.»

It might be tempting to dismiss this as yet more evidence of the US right divorcing itself from scientific reality, as has happened in debates over evolution and climate change.

While politicians tend to minimize the impact of such donations, tenant advocates and others contend that the money is a prime mover in debates over rent laws and state and city regulations affecting the real estate industry.

College hoops became downright college football - y in its debates over which tourney winner should be considered the actual champ.

What was needed in the debates over music during the 1950s and 1960s was a broader theological vision that could help the Cooke's and Lewis's of the world understand the continuity between the sacred and the profane in terms of the shaping and orientation of human desire.

As we talked with shelter providers, we also became involved in debates over responsibility of the church and of the state for care of the homeless.

Anything with Biblical or Quranic quotes — not interested in debates over superstitious orthodoxy.

First, I would certainly agree that Scripture is typically employed by both sides in debates over dogma and creeds.

In debates over the existence of God and man, the existence of vampires rarely enters the discussion.

In the debates over humanitarian intervention in the 1990s some moralists made a distinction between «war,» which they understood as having to do with state uses of armed force for their own interests, and intervention by military force for humanitarian purposes, which they regarded as altruistic and not «war.»

These activities include, of course, the expression of political views and participation in debates over the issues of the day.

Whatever roles philosophical and theological ideas played in the debates over heliocentrism, biological evolution, and the Big Bang theory, the scientific issues were eventually settled by more and better data and by considerations that were purely «scientific» in the modern sense.

The composition of the Court thus was a major factor in the election's outcome, and religious voters seemed to emphasize it in debates over whether or not to support Trump.

Stetzer said Christians should participate in the debates over vetting refugees and other issues.

Never mind that these words appear nowhere in the Constitution, nor even in the First Amendment («Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof»), nor in the debates over its framing, nor in the documents that were its source and inspiration.

It was that consensus that unraveled in the debates over Vietnam, civil rights, abortion, sexual morality, women's issues, and the limits of tolerance.

One refrain in debates over marriage policy is that laws designating marriage as exclusively the union of male and female are today's equivalent of bans on interracial marriage.

It is a quite natural and healthy thing, he writes, that our society should be involved in debates over what is obscene.

He'll be a primary player in the debates over possible steel and aluminum tariffs and recently hand - delivered reports to the president on the national security findings on both metals.

It aggressively ratcheted up spending to spread its influence in Washington and to have a louder say in the debates over drug prices.

But what the prime minister must do first is engage the public in the debate over monetary policy.

That is a question no - one seems to be asking in the debate over solar - power subsidies, or the bigger question of who pays for the state government's debt binge.

Turns out I'm not the only one to notice that in the debate over the best mechanism to combat global warming, the pols seem to prefer cap - and - trade systems to a carbon tax.

The vested interests in the debate over shopping hours are holding firm to their positions, making compromise difficult.

The arguments are similar to those made in the United Kingdom a few years ago in the debate over whether or not ISPs should be made to block sites featuring pornography.

When Richardson International signed a deal in March to buy $ 900 million worth of grain - handling assets now belonging to Viterra, the company found itself indirectly caught up in the debate over Chinese control of Canadian companies.

Following the shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, the nation has been engulfed in a debate over gun control.