Sentences with phrase «issues than political ones»

Andrew Marr, the former political editor of the BBC, is on record arguing that the BBC has a liberal bias, but this is more in terms of social and cultural issues than political ones.

Not exact matches

If you've got all this increased productivity, you need to make sure that's distributed fairly but I think that's more of a political issue than a technical one.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

«Over a number of decades we were political opponents and held very different views on many, many issues but the one thing we were absolutely united on was the principle that our people were better able to govern themselves than any British government.

Now that the issue is much more prominent than with the Bruin player, I would love to see another front - page piece from the hockey editor reinforcing the seemingly obvious ideals that the office is bigger than the person who currently holds it, and that if one really wishes to see a decline in political divisiveness and overheated rhetoric, one has an obligation to make personal contributions to those ends.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

The fact that there were around three times more male journalists shaping election coverage than female ones demonstrates that the dearth of women is not just an issue for political parties, but that national media outlets also need to consider why it is that national political journalism in the UK continues to be a domain where men write about other men.

Through 38 Degrees, Change.org, and Avaaz it has become possible to support single issue campaigns, rather than expressing political beliefs by dedicating our wholesale support to one party which encompasses a broad range of causes.

We also have political parties which are involved in more than one issue such as the Conservative and Working Families Parties.

But one reason that has not happened is because too many politicians — and not only in Washington — would rather play the issue for cheap and immediate political gain than do the tough work we need to fix a broken system to make it easier for honest people of talent and ability.

More political independents lean Democratic than lean Republican, but the views of independents on educational issues appear closer to those ones articulated by Republicans than those traditionally espoused by Democrats.

For political reasons rather than constitutional ones, the political question doctrine is likely to remain a troubling issue while constitutional language will not.

One teacher said that their «neighbors looked to [teachers] as authorities on the issues involved in the ballot question, and greeted them warmly when approached to discuss» the anti-charter campaign [3]-- a starkly different reaction than most political canvassers receive.

Beck said while he does not advocate taking dogs from current and caring owners, he does feel that it has become more of a social and political issue for people than a health one.

«One suspects that there was awareness that the public, but not the elites, has long seen the climate issue as almost entirely political rather than an environmental or even a scientific issue.

That is an entirely different direction of causality than saying that this one issue defines political belief.

The core of the issue that I worry most about, as do others, is that arguments for action on climate change that evoke only one particular vision of the future will reflect only the priorities and values of certain parties, rather than a broad, pragmatic set of choices designed to both effectively manage the problem of climate change and align a diversity of political interests in support of policy action.

While I hope this is not the case (for the sake of climatology going forward beyond the current cult of global warming) you are to be lauded as one of the few voices with the courage to treat this a scientific issue rather than a political one.

Last year, we took a look at the gestation of the statement issued by one of those professional bodies — the American Geophysical Union — and argued that these statements should be seen as political attempts to put science centre - stage of climate debates rather than objective appraisals of the state of knowledge.

Well, according to Charles Taber and Milton Lodge of Stony Brook, one insidious aspect of motivated reasoning is that political sophisticates are prone to be more biased than those who know less about the issues.

I would note that because the issue of politics is a large one on the topic, a great deal of scientists (addressed with the drama effect discussion a little) might studiously avoid quantification, or even mentioning «global warming» or «global climate change» so as not to get dragged into defending their paper on a political, rather than scientific basis.

What I find particularly insidious in the largely manufactured debates over hockey sticks, Climategate, and similar red herrings, is the attempt to portray the real scientific issues as merely matters of opinion, as though choosing to believe Wegman vs. Mann, or Hansen vs. Lindzen, has no more objective validity than one's choice of favorite sports teams (I was going to use political parties, but that's another argument).

Kristen agrees that shopping and political activism should not be seen as one and the same thing, but takes issue with my stance that the latter has more potential for lasting change than the former.

«The more than one million organizations and the one hundred million individuals who actively work towards ecological sustainability, economic justice, human rights, and political accountability work on issues that are systemically interconnected and intertwined.

EU's lack of a political and fiscal union would have been issues at the forefront of UK's involvement but with Brexit, one view is the benefit to the UK is they are now negotiating business deals for themselves rather than having to consider the impact to the other EU 27 countries.

He said the issue of election interference is bigger than any one platform and that's why Facebook supports the Honest Ads Act to help raise the bar for all political advertising online.