Sentences with phrase «leader debates as»

Miliband has come across in the first two leader debates as a competent, articulate and capable individual and, in that sense, he has done himself some good.

Not exact matches

The low threshold for success means she is free to play offense — as she did Thursday in the Maclean's leaders debate.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that he intends to hold a debate over immigration measures, such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, before Feb. 8 — but only if the government reopens.

Republican leaders hope to move the legislation to the House floor for debate as early as Thursday.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

That event, known as a «hard fork,» is viewed as increasingly likely among bitcoin leaders, as a years - long debate about the network's technical limitations and broader vision comes to a head.

Early in Friday's debate, Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe slipped up as he name dropped.

The teenage survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, have emerged as the next leaders in the gun control debate.

The PSOE's party elders did not choose him for this role, but if Pedro Sánchez takes the lead, in Europe as much as in Spain, and reopens the debate about the euro, acknowledging that the current structure does not work and defining with the help of hindsight what vulnerabilities must be addressed in a reformed European Union, the party's new leader can halt the decline of the PSOE at home and reverse the ugly nationalism spreading through Europe.

By skipping a recent leaders» debate, Doug Ford learned nothing and that means the Black community is as endangered as before because the absent politician is poised to become the one with the most authority to impact their lives, Royson James writes.

The Conservative leader skipped a recent leaders debate organized by the Black community, Royson James writes, even as Premier Kathleen Wynne and others attended.

That is the main conclusion of the Greek media, but at the same time many see the recent debate as much more alive than the one held last week between all political leaders.

Our Next Generation programme gives younger family members the opportunity to explore and debate their future roles as family leaders.

At the same time the Liberal Party, and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, have made environmentalism a major component of their election platform through a policy initiative known as the Green Shift — an initiative that was the source of considerable discussion and debate in the lead - up to the election.

As businesses require direction, it's essential that aspiring leaders learn from a multidimensional and diverse curriculum that provokes debate, discussion and most importantly, ideas.

During the 2004 election, as the Alberta Alliance leader, Mr. Thorsteinson was not invited to join the televised Leaders; debate, despite his party having an MLA in the Assembly.

Americans need answers to these questions as we debate electing a Mormon CULT LEADER to be our president.

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

To continue to draw up — as many of our denominational leaders do — battle lines with humanists on one side and theists on the other is specious and still reflects the popular, but otiose, approach to the whole debate.

Smith's marital history had been the subject of frequent historical debate, but until recently Mormon leaders had taken pains to present its founding prophet as happily married to one woman.

As the leaders leaned into that debate, their resounding yes sent the good news spilling into far corners of the world.

Washington (CNN)-- As the Supreme Court considers two major same - sex marriage cases that could change marriage in the United States, religious leaders on both sides of the debate believe they are on God's side of the contentious issue.

The American Values Network, a group of political activists and pastors, sparked a debate when it recently released a video challenging some conservative and Republican leaders» professed admiration for Rand, an atheist who saw selfishness as a virtue and celebrated unfettered capitalism.

Indeed, judging by the reporting on the presidential campaign, it seems that in the absence of any substantive public debate on morality among religious leaders, media representatives have emerged as the new priesthood in our culture: they demand confessions of misconduct from public figures and then determine the seriousness of the sin and the degree of penance required for the sin to be forgiven.

Video of apparent affair surfaces as Christian higher education leaders are debating sexual ethics standards.

Speaking to Premier as the other party leaders prepared for Wednesday night's TV debate ahead of next week's vote, Theresa May once again outlined the role her Christian faith plays in her life, saying it is the same today as it was growing up in the vicarage where her father served.

As I studied, I got to wondering about what Jesus had to say about all of this, and the passage that suddenly jumped into my mind was the passage in which the religious leaders try to best Jesus in a theological debate by asking him about the post-resurrection marital status of a (hypothetical) woman who had been married seven times.

Arsenal have never replaced Patrick Vieira adequately, they say, and particularly the way he led his teammates, but the man himself has added his voice to the debate, as reported by The Mirror, and it will probably surprise you to hear our former captain claim that Arsenal do have plenty of leaders in the dressing room.

It's why, though they might have been impressed by Clegg in the leaders» debates, their decision about where to place their own vote wasn't as dominated by the big picture.

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.

Hopes that the Labour leader's radical moves to end his party's reliance on the trade unions might pave the way for a deal were dashed as the debate descended into bitter exchanges in the Commons chamber.

It's a real shame because even if he was not to make it as party leader, his presence would really shake up the debate and make the others think, if not answer things they may otherwise not be so comfortable in adderessing.

This places the vote on the Senate Calendar but that doesn't mean it will come up for vote as the Senate Majority Leader is ultimately responsible for scheduling the debates and votes and may simply not schedule them.

When this new alliance - the European Conservatives and Reformists - was created after the 2009 Euro - election with «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers» (as Nick Clegg later described them in a TV leaders debate) I objected and was expelled from the Conservative Party.

The partial concession to calls for conscience votes comes as religious leaders are warned not to inflame or distort the debate surrounding the use of hybrid embryos and other updates to fertility and embryology legislation.

Until now, even the most eager, and unemployed, floating voter is unlikely to have seen even one of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders up close and personal, let alone, as they will be in the debates, not speechifying but tested and challenged live by their fiercest rivals.

Firstly, debates will inevitably scrutinise policy, as leaders lay out their own ideas and pick holes in each other's.

It also marked a triumph for broadcast media, who got to showcase the leaders» debates and capture the gaffes such as bigot-gate.

But the wage debate opened fissures within the conference that were first exposed last year, Dean Skelos stepped down as majority leader and was replaced by a fellow Long Island lawmaker, John Flanagan.

The internet is challenging the dominance of traditional media as a campaign tool, despite the public's renewed attachment to TV through the 2010 general election leaders» debates.

Scottish Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson made a series of passionate calls for Britain to remain in the European Union as she took centre stage in the BBC's referendum debate.

What promises to be a lengthy and sleep - inducing Senate debate over legal status for «Dreamers» got off to a rocky start, as Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer clashed with his Republican counterpart over the unrelated topic of sanctuary cities.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed frustration with his fellow Democrats on the national level for what he characterized as inaction on gun control, two which U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer replied: «The national Democrats are seriously debating it, so for him to say we won't do it is incorrect.

An open letter (also released to the press) sent on 2 February to Harriet Harman as Leader of the House, emphasising the urgent need to find Parliamentary time to debate and vote on the reforms.

Conducted after the first Scottish leaders» debate on STV on Tuesday, but with much of the interviewing completed before the second instalment on BBC on Wednesday, the poll must have come as a bitter disappointment to the Labour party.

[375] UKIP leader Nigel Farage also challenged Salmond to debate, but Farage was dismissed by an SNP spokeswoman as «an irrelevance in Scotland».

In Harriet Harman, we have an excellent caretaker leader in place — this affords us the time to have a proper debate, so as many people as possible should throw their hats into the ring.

After the uproar from the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville two weeks ago, New York City leaders are debating removing monuments to Confederate leaders like Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as well as other racist or otherwise problematic figures.

As the three candidates vying to replace Angus Robertson as Scottish National party deputy leader appear at crowded hustings events across the country, one question is dominating the debate: when should the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, call another independence referenduAs the three candidates vying to replace Angus Robertson as Scottish National party deputy leader appear at crowded hustings events across the country, one question is dominating the debate: when should the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, call another independence referenduas Scottish National party deputy leader appear at crowded hustings events across the country, one question is dominating the debate: when should the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, call another independence referendum?

The party needs to have a debate about its orientation and policies before it considers who it wants as leader.