Sentences with phrase «in political debate about»

And in case anyone is in doubt that the whole «2500 scientists of the IPCC» thing isn't common currency in political debate about the state of the planet...

Since leaving Tyndall — and as we found out in a telephone interview — he has come out of the climate change closet as an outspoken critic of such sacred cows as the UN's IPCC, the «consensus», the over-emphasis on scientific evidence in political debates about climate change, and to defend the rights of so - called «deniers» to contribute to those debates...

Not exact matches

«In recent months, there have been complaints about the political sensibilities of speakers invited to address a corporate audience; debates over the appropriate length of paternity leave or work - life balances,» Moritz wrote.

In the eight months since Benghazi, the debate about what happened in Benghazi has become deeply political, as Republicans continue to challenge the White House's actions during and after the attacks, which left four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, deaIn the eight months since Benghazi, the debate about what happened in Benghazi has become deeply political, as Republicans continue to challenge the White House's actions during and after the attacks, which left four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, deain Benghazi has become deeply political, as Republicans continue to challenge the White House's actions during and after the attacks, which left four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.

As environmental issues and concerns become a center issue in political debates around the world, it's becoming apparent that 2017 is the year that green initiatives will have the opportunity to become more than what crunchy granola hippies talk about and become fully mainstream.

Despite the fact that Trump was widely viewed as having lost the recent debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the election itself is just over a month away, the candidate chose to tweet not about the political issues in the campaign but about his dislike of former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado.

But Trump's suggestions for keeping these high prices in check through a bidding process for Medicare could re-invigorate the nastiest political debates about «care rationing» that surrounded the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

Trump, known for his use of Twitter to drive political debate, tweeted about an Indiana air conditioner maker he featured in his election campaign as an emblem of trade deals he said were unfavorable to American workers.

Many people think political debate and what goes on in the legislature is only about politics and political wrangling.

Forty - nine percent said they think churches should have a say in public debates about political and social questions.

Research into how se - xual orientation in males may be determined by genetic or other prenatal factors plays a role in political and social debates about ho - mose - xuality, and also raises concerns about genetic profiling and prenatal testing.»

But because of political circumstances and the way Gingrich parried a question about the accusation during Thursday's CNN debate, the episode may cause relatively little fallout among evangelical voters, who are expected to make up about 60 % of the vote in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

This book breaks new ground both in Jewish thought and in larger debates about the philosophical and religious grounding of political theory.

The upshot is the suppression of political debate about the common good, which is why thorough - going libertarians are such a destructive force in our political culture, perhaps as much so as contemporary liberals whose main vice is the serene smugness that assumes that all we have left is administration because everybody worth talking to already agrees with them about first principles.

But he did not say anything specific about current political debates, either here or in Europe.

I also think it appropriate for them to cite those reasons in public discussions and debates about those political issues.

It is significant that the terms of the debate about faith in the world are deemed to have been set by people like Richards Dawkins, just as it is significant that the debate is seen as a «political and secular», rather than a religious, one.

As I thought about how to apply these teachings practically, a lot of strategies came to mind — putting the needs of others before my own, buying less and giving more, humbling myself when engaged in political or theological debates, embracing rather than complaining about those «one - way relationships,» praying for others more sincerely, saying «yes» a little more often, working on that ubiquitous sense of entitlement and pride that keeps me from going the extra mile.

Read the full story about the fight in the US Senate over Christmas on the CNN Political Ticker Editor's Note: A number of religious groups are joining in on the debate too.

The present political situation in Latin America has generated so much heated debate about the Church, the «sects,» and religious freedom that it has become necessary to take a closer look at the existing religious scene, including Pentecostalism, if we are to build a coherent theological overview of the region capable of generating serious ecumenical dialogue.

Now, more than ever, we need you to stay loud, as political debate about live export intensifies in the lead up to the election.

The confusion and frustration we're seeing isn't about people's inability to process risk and interpret structures, it's that the way political debate is conducted in this country has become so patronising and misleading that it's hard to shake the impression you're being lied to.

This had the effect of defusing the European issue in the domestic arena and of closing down debate about Britain's place in the EU and creating the space for Eurosceptic sentiments and referendum demands to flourish in British political discourse.

By the time of the Civil war, the political divide is about how much power should be given to various levels of government in a federal system (a debate which still rages).

That means legislation, which will need cross-party backing, and a national debate about whether we really want political parties to go in that direction.

With a few honourable exceptions, MPs on the Finance Bill Public Bill Committee take little part in proceedings; such debate as there is, can often be characterised by political knock - about rather than diligent technical scrutiny.

The current proposals are bound to meet a largely partisan reception, and will be depicted by some as a politically motivated attempt to create difficulties for a future Labour administration (though it should be noted that Labour's catastrophic performance in Scotland in the general election alters the territorial political dynamic that underpinned debates about EVEL quite considerably), and by others as an attempt to diminish the role of Scottish MPs.

Two best political books I read this were «Nixonland» by Rich Perlstein (which covers the eclipse of American liberalism and rise of conservatism between 1964 - 1972) and «The Persistence of Poverty» by Charles Karelis, which is short, witty and will change the way that you think about the whole debate around welfare and poverty issues (get»em on Amazon if they aren't in the shops).

[60] In April 2012, in the midst of a debate about the nature of political party funding, Miliband called on David Cameron to institute a # 5,000 cap on donations from individuals and organisations to political parties, after it had been suggested that the government favoured a cap of # 50,00In April 2012, in the midst of a debate about the nature of political party funding, Miliband called on David Cameron to institute a # 5,000 cap on donations from individuals and organisations to political parties, after it had been suggested that the government favoured a cap of # 50,00in the midst of a debate about the nature of political party funding, Miliband called on David Cameron to institute a # 5,000 cap on donations from individuals and organisations to political parties, after it had been suggested that the government favoured a cap of # 50,000.

In a statement, Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner, one of the most prominent voices in the debate about online political advertising, said the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook spat was indicative of a market that's «essentially the Wild West» of advertisinIn a statement, Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner, one of the most prominent voices in the debate about online political advertising, said the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook spat was indicative of a market that's «essentially the Wild West» of advertisinin the debate about online political advertising, said the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook spat was indicative of a market that's «essentially the Wild West» of advertising.

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.

In this clip, dated May 10, Caputo is getting a haircut and engaging in a heated conversation with his barber, Jack, (whose hobby appears to be enaging his customers in political debates while cutting their hair) about the current budget battle in AlbanIn this clip, dated May 10, Caputo is getting a haircut and engaging in a heated conversation with his barber, Jack, (whose hobby appears to be enaging his customers in political debates while cutting their hair) about the current budget battle in Albanin a heated conversation with his barber, Jack, (whose hobby appears to be enaging his customers in political debates while cutting their hair) about the current budget battle in Albanin political debates while cutting their hair) about the current budget battle in Albanin Albany.

In the lively debate that concluded the conference, there was little disagreement between young delegates and senior dignitaries about the urgent need for re-charting Pakistan's political course so as to realise the long - cherished aspirations of its people.

The way in which the manifesto is able to exploit much of the racist rhetoric about «bogus» refugees used by government and mainstream party political spokespeople during the debates on the Asylum and Immigration Act illustrates the impact of such debate in legitimising the views of fascist and far right groups.

Biviano called the initial exclusion from the debate «censorship,» and claims that he is «the only candidate talking about people dying at LICH Hospital because it was closed, the tearing down of our libraries, condos in the Park and the political deception and lobbyists behind these issues.»

«It's a time for everyone to put aside political debates, put aside protests, put aside all of the things that we will talk about in all due time.»

«Too often debates about AV are less like political arguments, and more like scientific discussions, where people get lost in a language of proportionality and preferences, probabilities and possibilities.

Leaving aside the debate about just how much influence Britain has within the EU anyway, would a Brexit really result in a diminution of power greater than the end of empire, or that which states like Greece gave up when they joined the Euro, or when Poland chose paralysis as its political system in the eighteenth century, leading to it disappearing from the map altogether for well over a century?

There is a political debate going on this fall about government's role in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation.

It however has been high on the political agenda in recent decades, with continuing debates about when the technology should be phased out.

In a debate full of tough questioners, NY1 political reporter Grace Rauh may have been the toughest, in this case asking Dietl about his history of unpaid taxeIn a debate full of tough questioners, NY1 political reporter Grace Rauh may have been the toughest, in this case asking Dietl about his history of unpaid taxein this case asking Dietl about his history of unpaid taxes.

That is a very different sort of smear, of a type that New Labour has in my view tended to favour over the years and one that has become, I think, more common on all sides as political debate has become less and less philosophically agonistic and more and more about branding.

The debate about whether we should have positions reserved for religious figures in the House of Lords is for another day but for now the fact remains, until we have women bishops, women in the UK do not have full political emancipation.

The CIOT urged Holyrood to keep these processes under review as the new tax powers take effect from next month, citing earlier calls for the introduction of an annual Scottish Finance Bill as a means of strengthening effective scrutiny of Scottish tax proposals and joining up the political and technical debates about tax in Scotland2.

The debate about electoral reform should include firstly attitudes to political parties (in general terms, not the particular parties) and secondly the importance of the individual candidates (again in general terms) and their significance in our democratic system.

In the very last exchange of the live - broadcast, 30 - minute debate, I asked him why it was that he, when he was chair of the NYS Assembly's committee on the environment, did nothing about the 1990 environmental dumping incident at Stewart ANG Base (which was in Hinchey's political back yardIn the very last exchange of the live - broadcast, 30 - minute debate, I asked him why it was that he, when he was chair of the NYS Assembly's committee on the environment, did nothing about the 1990 environmental dumping incident at Stewart ANG Base (which was in Hinchey's political back yardin Hinchey's political back yard).

«I think if you look at the debate last night, there is just a gulf between what David Cameron stands for and what I stand for — in terms of values, in terms of internationalism, in terms of fairness, in terms of progressive tax reform, in terms of political reform, in terms of simply living in denial, as does Labour, about a major problem of their creation in the immigration system.»

In a further sign of the febrile atmosphere, the main broadcasters, including the BBC, have contacted the political parties to ask about their views on holding another televised leader debate.

A somber de Blasio told the audience at a Police Athletic League event in Midtown that it was time to «put aside political debates, put aside protests, put aside all of the things we will talk about in due time.»

Given the recent debate about the lack of diversity in politics (and political reporting) I decided to ask the would - be leader about this.