Sentences with phrase «influence over the debate»

His note is likely to have little influence over the debate, and it appears that Bitcoin won't be solving this problem anytime soon.

Not exact matches

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

The larger issue is that it's now possible to hold a serious, legitimate debate on whether these two sites wield excessive influence over hundreds of millions — or perhaps billions — of people worldwide.

Meanwhile, the episode provides more fodder for the debate over how the influence Google (googl) and Facebook (fb) have over news and information, and the role of social media in creating so - called «filter bubbles» that lead people to shut out divergent opinions.

Despite their numbers, their steady presence in the news, their unmistakable influence on the national debate over guns, some of them were trying to be teenagers again.

And despite fathering four children, three with wife Laurene Powell Jobs and another from an earlier relationship (whom he acknowledged only after a court - ordered paternity test), Jobs seemingly never used his influence to change the debate over work - life balance.

Watson also explains the debate over the influence of rhetorical training on Paul, arguing that his letters must be understood in light of their persuasive purposes.

The conservative press isn't the whole (or even the dominant portion) of the conservative media, but I think that, in the medium - term, they will influence the debate over what qualities a conservative presidential candidate should have.

The smog generated by the debate over «religion and politics» obscured the fundamental anxiety that lay beneath all the sniping, posturing and manipulating: anxiety over patriarchal power's waning influence in our national life, whether as U.S. hegemony abroad, or as family «headship» and male entitlement in our domestic institutions.

This historical analysis uses internal sugar industry documents to describe how the industry sought to influence the scientific debate over the dietary causes of coronary heart disease in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the bedsharing debate, there is little concern over the definition of bedsharing (though there is concern about reporting which I will touch on below), but how some of the confounding factors are defined and measured can greatly influence how much of a role they are deemed to play.

Bush has warned that August will be a bloody month for U.S. forces in Iraq as militants try to influence the debate over the war in Washington, where Democrats in Congress want troops pulled out within months.

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?

Despite the lackluster total, Allon said he was pleased with the influence he has begun to have over the debate over issues, as well as his growing social media following, which now includes close to 2,000 Twitter followers.

Mr. Cuomo, 52, appears poised to succeed the most pro-gay rights governor the state has ever had, at a pivotal moment in the debate over same - sex marriage, and with gay men and lesbians exercising increasing influence within the state Democratic Party.

His roles in Europe mean that he is likely to play a role in influencing the domestic debate over the EU referendum and the lack of a viable alternative candidate at this crucial time leaves the party with little other choice.

POUGHKEEPSIE >> Democratic state Sen. Terry Gipson and Republican challenger Sue Serino sparred over issues including the SAFE Act, funding for education and the influence of New York City lawmakers on the Hudson Valley during a debate Tuesday before the Dutchess County Association of Realtors.

Debate rages over what aspects are affected and what importance to attribute to genetic influences, the effect of good teaching, the tools used, the family environment, and so on.

Their findings also fanned the flames of a decade - old debate over the influence of fire, particularly cooking, on the evolution of our species's relatively capacious brains.

THE power of social media to influence politics is one of the narratives of our time — Obama's US presidential win in 2008 was hailed as the Facebook election and the debate over how much social media jump - started the Arab Spring still goes on.

Over one - third of them reported facing influence to teach «both sides» of a climate change debate.

Zinke acknowledged climate is changing and humans have had an influence, but claimed there is a lot of «debate» over how much of a role humans have played and what can or should be done to combat climate change.

The researchers began their work in January 2015, well before the most recent debates over fake news and its influence on the presidential election.

Genetics, environmental factors, and possibly even hormonal influences in early life could play a role, although the debate over how and why rages in intellectual circles.

January 17, 2017 • Rep. Ryan Zinke testified that humans influence climate, although there is a debate over how much.

It didn't occur to me'til it was over just how evasive they all are: I think they refer to the onscreen action, like, a half - dozen times (it's mostly used to spark debate, as in a lengthy tangent about the corrupting influence of Bill Clinton), which is probably in everyone's best interest.

We have witnessed debates over its positive and negative influence on teaching results,...

But both groups acted with the same purpose: to inform and highlight the debate over education in the 2008 presidential campaign and to influence the future of the No Child Left Behind Act and other policies of the next president.

Michael Feuer, dean of The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, suggested the dip in confidence among PDK / Gallup poll respondents might reflect the influence of recent public debates over whether college is worth the money.

His research helps inform and influence national debates over a range of education policies.

I think it is safe to say that Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the founders of KIPP, have had more influence on the school reform debate than any academic or policy wonk over the past 15 years.

Their goal is to help influence the debate now taking place in New Jersey over efforts by Republican Gov. Chris Christie to change the way teachers are evaluated and to overhaul the tenure system.

We acknowledge that in Chile, like in the United States, the debate over what counts as data, how data is interpreted, and the measures that are used to indicate educational achievement and improvement is ongoing and often influenced by broader political and economic ideologies and goals.

So, why has this all - important finding not influenced the debate over the Common Core agenda?

For a very long time, the psychologists have been debating the influence of nature versus nurture over human characteristics.

After hours of often - heated debate, we finally agreed on a group of artworks from around the world that reflect something important about the time in which they were made, whose influence has grown over the years and which still feel urgent, fresh and relevant today.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

One of the toughest realities attending debates over what to do, or not do, about the growing human influence on the climate system is that more science does not necessarily clarify society's, or individual's, responses.

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).

In fact, the debate in this country over land use has become emblematic of American democracy: a struggle between competing special interest groups to influence common laws and policies through elections.

The debate over spending and influence and climate legislation, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

More simply: religion has the potential to influence the public debate over geoengineering in complex and subtle ways.

Given that spending trillions of dollars to prevent something that we have no influence over is just as wrong as failing to do something that we could have done, vigorous debate is required.

«Differences over extent of any human influence is the essence of the climate debate.

Even more moreover, positing that one putative side of a debate lacks the necessary faculty to make rational choices forgets the influence of ideology over the counter-position.

When outlets such as The New York Times finally weighed in, their stories tended to confuse climate politics (the debate over what to do about GW) and climate science (that debate over what we know about the Earth and our influence upon it).

While that might simply involve over confidence in an outcome that appears could just as well come down on those making the complaints and comments, I think even more worrisome is to believe that this event will have any major influence on the whole AGW debate or outcome.

October 23, 2010 at 11:24 am Over and above what may have been won and lost specifically in the climate debate, an important development is surely the critical influence of the blogosphere on the idea of elite scientific «consensus».

Here is their description of the work: The influence of solar variability on Earth's climate over centennial to millennial time scales is the subject of considerable debate.

Special Issue Call for Papers Environmental Debates Over Nuclear Energy: Media, Communication, and the Public In recent decades, nuclear energy has evolved into a global controversy in which supporters and critics of the technology employ a variety of communication strategies to shape public opinion and influence societal decisions.