Sentences with phrase «like race debates»

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Party leaders even debated holding the vote to decide on their standard bearer on the very first day they gather at the Sheraton in Manhattan — June 1 — with down - ballot races like AG and state comptroller bumped to the second or even third day.

As the race enters a final phase that will include a series of candidate debates (Editor's note: This story went to press before Wednesday night's debate; we'll have a full report on it in next week's Kingston Times...) and a relentless schedule of public events and fundraisers across a sprawling 11 - county district, both campaigns would like to make the contest a referendum on Gibson's two - year record in Congress.

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Occurring just one day after a slew of horrific terror left Paris reeling, the 2016 Democratic debate Saturday night took on an unprecedented level of seriousness as the three candidates in the race debated who was best qualified to combat bloodthirsty jihadist groups like ISIS.

As primary day quickly approaches, it looks like there will not be a debate in the 22nd Congressional District race between Republican opponents Rep. Richard Hanna and Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

(CNN)- In a new ad, New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino accused Democratic candidate and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of excluding «the only African - American candidate, the only woman candidate and the Green Party candidate,» from the gubernatorial race and challenged Cuomo to «come out and debate like a man.»

The real voice of reason in this race comes instead from left field, from Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who has waged a consistently serious race and who on Wednesday issued a call for his fellow candidates to stop arguing about sports teams and debate issues like jobs, health care and climate change.

Today's lead editorial in the Times Union lambasted Cuomo & Astorino for failing to run serious campaigns and praised Howie Hawkins, writing «The real voice of reason in this race comes instead from left field, from Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who has waged a consistently serious race and who on Wednesday issued a call for his fellow candidates to stop arguing about sports teams and debate issues like jobs, health care and climate change.»

As the race enters a final phase that will include a series of candidate debates, and a relentless schedule of public events and fundraisers across a sprawling 11 - county district, both campaigns are would like to make the contest a referendum on Gibson's two - year record in Congress.

Long - standing records like these have caused racing experts to debate whether horse speeds have reached a plateau, and many previous studies have supported the hypothesis.

Earlier titles or spinoffs like Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker dealt with the ethics of nuclear deterrence — or more specifically, whether nuclear deterrence could work without a human element to guide it (the debate being that, a human could always make the decision not to retaliate to a nuclear strike, out of fear of completely wiping out the human race, as opposed to an A.I., that would retaliate regardless).

Instead, as the various seminars and lectures on subjects as diverse as Walden and rocket science, it's a film of ideas, darting effortlessly between debates on society, race, class, politics and much, much more, while adding up to something that feels like a coherent piece of work.

Whether that shift is a promising one is just the sort of thing that deserves an energetic public debate (like the one unfolding today), and that was scarcely evident when states were rushing to sign off on the Common Core in the heat of the Race to the Top steeplechase.

At a time when race and identity became major issues in music, sport and literature, brought to public attention by iconic figures like Aretha Franklin, Muhammad Ali and Toni Morrison, «Black Art» was being defined and debated across the country in vibrant paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.

Based on the complexity of activities and spending that I carefully detail and discuss throughout the chapter, Joe Romm in several blog posts has taken this complexity and created a misleading, horse - race style debate over spending in specific areas like lobbying or advertising.