Sentences with phrase «like other controversial issues»

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But the company doesn't take a strong stand on other controversial issues, like abortion or tax policies.

The head of a controversial assisted - suicide group in Switzerland says he will seek legal permission to help a Canadian woman and other healthy people like her kill themselves, raising startling new issues in the emotional debate over euthanasia.

It was only after I started to look into how controversial issues like abortion and divorce were handled in other liberal democracies that I realized how my dean's slogan has been used not only to silence religiously grounded views, but to silence all opposition to abortion.

I would like to write one column, in this space, that responds to all the other columns and answers all of the outstanding questions that have been posed, in one forum or another, since this lovely issue first reared its ugly and controversial head.

I must say in Wenger's defence that the media do seem to go to him whenever their's a controversial issue but in certain circumstances like other teams problems he should just put them straight and tell them it's not he's business

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R — Syracuse) complained that Cuomo — like other governors before him — stuffed the spending plan with controversial policy issues that held up completion of the negotiations.

In the meantime, Tolson is also wrestling with other controversial issues closer to home, like his involvement in an organization promoting the unionization and integration of black and white laborers.

Public schools are an ideal place to undo the big sort because controversial issues fit naturally into school subjects like social studies and because schools often feature more religious, social, and ideological diversity than other settings.

If you're like me, when you finish an online article about some controversial topic, you zip to the comments section to see what other readers think about the issue at hand.

In other words, it feels to me like there's some sort of distorted feedback loop, wherein candidates don't raise environmental issues because they think they may be controversial and divisive (though, as McCain or my dad's generation of Republicans show, the planet obviously crosses party lines), and the public doesn't raise climate issues enough because it apparently isn't on the political menu, like religion at dinner parties, but that doesn't mean we don't believe (in climate change or the need for our change).

But still, broadcasters have been subject to rules aimed at ensuring people have access to the political information needed in order to vote and engage in political life, like the fairness doctrine, which required that broadcasters devote some programming to controversial political issues and that when a broadcaster endorsed a candidate, the news outlet still had to give airtime to the other candidates in the election.