Sentences with phrase «in political debates around»

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.

Not exact matches

«We'd prefer to just be helping people get from point A to point B, but when the company starts to succeed, in a city, or in a country, or around the world, you start to get brought into more and more of these political debates.»

While the national political debate continues to swirl around the state of the economic recovery, five Republicans with their eyes on the White House spent the evening in a Des Moines suburb pitching themselves to the evangelical Christians who dominate the Hawkeye State's crucial first - in - the - nation caucuses.

The upshot, in Perry's case, is likely yet another nail in his proverbial political coffin — coming after a series of shaky debate performances and some Birther gibberish, this video will help solidify the idea that he's simply not to be taken seriously (plus there's the fact that he might be a little delusional all around if he thinks that this is what The Political Establishment wants in a stump political coffin — coming after a series of shaky debate performances and some Birther gibberish, this video will help solidify the idea that he's simply not to be taken seriously (plus there's the fact that he might be a little delusional all around if he thinks that this is what The Political Establishment wants in a stump Political Establishment wants in a stump speaker).

He got it financed almost exclusively by people in Seattle, went without the perks of his usual TV work and even held political debates around America when the film premiered.

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).

But the consensus around European issues in general tends to reduce the temperature of debate on the Belgian political landscape — and the fact that, for the first time, federal, regional and European elections will be contested on the same day makes the European parliamentary elections less visible to most people.

Cuomo in a debate would run circles around this wan na be political thug.

Hard to disagree with this, Ed Balls should have been effective Shadow Chancellor yet was just ran around circles by George Osborne in setting the political debate around the last Labour Government how it was wasteful, pro-scrounger etc..

While the all - consuming political debate around Brexit rages on, the state of the arts in schools is approaching crisis point.

Driven by globalization, digitization, and by different developments and political contexts around the world, debating what's happening in the book industry makes a valuable contribution to shaping today's cultural agenda.

Tate Modern director Frances Morris noted that her work is regarded for «the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us,» the Guardian reported.

As much as it is a significant challenge, I see artists playing a huge role in shaping dialogue around issues affecting our environment and political processes — and South Florida is at center stage of many of those debates.

Tate Modern's director Frances Morris commented: «Tania Bruguera is well known for the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us.»

Mounting Frustration also examines some of the probing debates undertaken by black artists in the 1960s and»70s about the coherence (both political and aesthetic) of the rubric of «black art» given that artists worked across so many different styles and had divergent relationships to their own identifications around blackness.

In his intriguing series Refuge, Kevin Chin's new paintings are inspired by the global migrant crisis, the resurgence of political parties like One Nation and Reclaim Australia, the US election of Trump, and the continuing debate around nationalism, belonging and alienation.

Frances Morris, the director of Tate Modern, said Bruguera was well known for «the highly original and compelling way in which she addresses major political concerns of our time, not only within debates about art and art history, but also in the hope of effecting real change in the world around us.

In the first weeks of this 10th anniversary year of the September 11th attacks and the subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, with global economic and political policies fueling conflict and prompting revolt, there have been numerous programs, talks, and debates around the city about walls: metaphorical walls created by censorship, physical walls dividing Israeli and Palestinian territories or Mexican borders, but also boundaries that some artists insist are essential to maintaining the integrity of cultural expression and identity.

For GENERATION, Maclean has developed themes first touched on in her recent exhibition I HEART SCOTLAND (2013), which looked at popular markers of Scottish identity and the political debate around independence.

A few weeks ago, roughly around the time around the time that oil started leaking in the gulf, being an incumbent became a major political liability, and Sam Glover was having an epic debate about cloud computing and blog ethics on the Lawyerist, I had an epiphany.

The current debate around the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline centres around political posturing, provincial jurisdiction, investment priorities, climate change, coastal protection and consent by First Nations communities, but when the pipeline was originally being built in 1952, civil defence and the threat of war with the Soviet Union was a going concern.

Just as we've seen in political debates, sentiment around health care was clearly divided along party lines.

The extent to which governments should get involved in the world of business is a long - running political debate in countries around the world.