Sentences with phrase «in political debate as»

While the Transition Movement has, so far, been careful to avoid party politics, it seems obvious that as a community - lead response to coming challenges, it has little choice but to engage in political debate as its influence grows.

Although D'Agostino doesn't need to go through the confirmation process again, his office is certain to be a lightning rod in the political debates as the Administration tries to negotiate arms control and non-proliferation treaties while preserving the viability of the country's current stockpile.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, as various pundits and historians across the globe debate if and how Trump's surprising political ascendancy will shift the overall tone of U.S. politics going forward, the candidate himself feels like only a win in November will make a difference.

Recently we've seen a surge in enquiries which, I suspect, is due to the high profile publicity surrounding companies such as Burger King who have already undertaken inversion and the top - level political debate.

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.

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.

And while the coming debate over the guaranteed income will inevitably focus on political and economic viability, in the end the authors believe we will embrace it, as we embraced those others, because it is the right thing to do.

In the upcoming months as the political debate unfolds, any economic policy proposed by any political party, to be financed from the rather small projected surpluses, should be judged, at a minimum, on how it will strengthen economic growth and job creation.

It's much dodgier for conventional news reporters to treat this year's political debate as one between «normal» and «abnormal,» as the Vox editor in chief Ezra Klein put it recently.

Again, religious groups are well advised, as a general rule, to avoid political partisanship — but not because the Constitution prohibits their active engagement in public debate, nor because they might get in trouble with the IRS.

What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

As recent events in New York show, the marriage debate in America takes place amid serious political and legal fault lines.

In its more common contemporary use, it contrasts with political «conservatism,» such that contemporary American political discussion is often largely understood as a debate between the two.

The willingness to classify political views which should be respected, such as leaving or staying in the EU, as «extreme», shows the danger of focusing the extremism debate on beliefs we may find uncomfortable or disagree with, rather than on actions that threaten lives.»

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

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.

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

Childless and independent, with far more interest in the latest political and theological debates than trends in cloth diapering, I, like so many others, dismissed «mommy blogging» as trivial, jejune.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

Hence Nelson rightly pays careful attention to the debates over political principles in the American founding, as well as the innovations those debates produced.

Certainly some evangelical groups — the Signpost Research Centre, for example — have engaged the political debate in South Africa in such a way as advertently or inadvertently to lend support to the morally odious system of apartheid.

This event is usually a rather sedate affair, with scholars debating such recondite subjects as «Bayesian approaches to political research» and «The political?theological problem in Xenophon's thought.»

He said: «We're going to need to change by virtue a humanised political debate over exactly what we want to see in our country, that means changing the law, it is also changing the culture so people view abortion as what it is, destruction of an unborn child.»

Fellow legislator Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine, referred to the ongoing debate over immigration in Congress as «a unique opportunity for us to carry out our moral and ethical responsibilities at the same time as we carry out our legal and political responsibilities.»

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.

As the divine right monarchy came increasingly in the eighteenth century to defend its positions on the grounds of administrative reason and enlightened reform, the discourse of those resisting its rule also relied less on traditional religious appeals and more on secular ones, but the religious roots of all sides of the political and social debate were only obscured, never severed.

... some Catholic liberals who saw John Paul II as overly conservative have suggested that his cause is being fast - tracked in order to score political points in internal Catholic debates.

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

Yes, this is a man who lists «walking» and «listening to political debate» as hobbies — can't see him thumbing through the back pages of the Sun or tuning in to radio 5 Talksport for his entertainment.

Food for thought Mrs. Q's blog benefited from good political timing: School lunches have been in the spotlight as Congress debated reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act.

Building on her role as de facto leader of the out - of - work and out - of - luck on James Turner Street, Dee has emerged as something of a spokesman for the many people whose voice is rarely heard in the national political debate.

Paladino also praised a man he just recently was quoted as calling a «degenerate idiot» — former Gov. George Pataki — saying his fellow Republican «put his own political best interests aside for the public good» by insisting in 2002 that the minor party gubernatorial candidates be included in debates along with his Democratic opponent, then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

As the government seeks to move the political realm further into the religious sphere through the current Equality Bill, this is likely to be a major area of debate in the coming years.

Since 2008 - 9, however, most political debate has focused on restoring the UK economy to «business as usual»: Although the power of government was used to stabilise the financial system through bailouts and nationalisations, in stark contrast to the 1930s New Deal era, there is no apparent enthusiasm for entrusting the state with new powers and responsibilities.

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Over the past couple of weeks, as the referendum campaign reached its climax in Scotland, a concept has suddenly started springing up all over the place in English political debate: the idea of a constitutional convention.

Third, it was not possible to attain a financial model which ended a system regarded as unjust (quantified as between 7 % and 10 % of Catalonia's GDP, figures that led to the use of the term «fiscal despoliation» in political debates), nor respect for the «ordinal principle» once the territorial transfers have been made.

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.

With this scenario in mind, the debates in the EU Parliament have highlighted severe fractures between political groups, as well as between Romanian MEPs.

Unsurprisingly, this leads to no small degree of social and political concern, and the UK is currently engaged in an emotive debate as to how best we might balance individual rights to protection from legal but «harmful» online content against rights to sexual freedom and freedom of information or expression.

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.

McMillan came to national attention as a political novelty for his performance in a 2010 gubernatorial debate, which was subsequently lampooned on Saturday Night Live.

Throughout the campaign for the 7 May elections, Miliband insisted that David Cameron should debate him one on one as part of a televised election broadcast [104] in order to highlight differences in policies between the two major parties, but this was never to happen, with the pair instead being interviewed separately by Jeremy Paxman as part of the first major televised political broadcast of the election involving multiple parties.

As your own post reflects, there are plenty more aspects of David Laws» actions in the political sphere that are far more worthy of comment, debate and disagreement than this.

Whilst the economic circumstances might make it more difficult to actually implement the New Labour mantra of increased investment in public services funded by a growing economy, there's little to suggest that the terms of debate in the political centre ground have undergone a paradigm shift such as the one experienced in the post-Thatcherite era.

As Jessica Kimpell has charted in her earlier article in this debate, this was the period of tension between virtue and commerce, between republican language and political economic language [3].

The less obvious but potentially equally devastating factor is that voters may look to the terms of political debate in countries such as France and conclude that austerity is more of a lifestyle choice than an economic imperative.