Sentences with phrase «major debate point»

Not exact matches

Insistence on the importance of that point for theological education is one of the major contributions of the Mud Flower Collective to the agenda of the debate about what makes theological education theological.

Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.

Indeed in a rational world populated with rational beings, those who believe Mr Wenger is a major cause of what they see as the club's failings, would now debate the issue from the point of view of their final objectives.

The debate regarding the battle for supremacy between Romelu Lukaku and Harry Kane is set to be a major talking point for years to come.

Designers have once again gravitated toward the top for Fall 2016, but it became a major talking point when Melania Trump wore a pussy - bow blouse by Gucci to the second presidential debate in the wake of her husband's — ahem — controversial comments.

In most major American debates, the candidates get a fixed amount of time to make their points.

Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming Labour leadership debate (as I have already pointed out on this site) as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates need to answer?).

Student funding has the potential to re-emerge as a major point of contention in 2009 — but the battle lines of debate are already being drawn.

Firstly, while the debate has been driven by young peoples» access to sexual content, the report pointed out that the home filtering systems of the four major ISPs in the UK (BT, Sky, Talk Talk and Virgin) actually provide content filtering for a range of different topics, these being:

The candidates for Queens borough president faced off in their first major televised debate earlier tonight on NY1, discussing the future of Willets Point, stop - and - frisk and the lasting controversy over term limits.

As ethics reform became a topic of debates, Walsh's relationship with major city real estate developers was scrutinized by opponents in one of the mayoral race's few points of contention.

Education took center stage this budget season in Albany, with teacher evaluations, testing, and tenure the major points of debate as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature worked on the details of the spending plan, which passed this week.

And in debates he has made a point of highlighting the issue of high property taxes, an issue with limited relevance to the attorney general's office but major importance to suburban and rural voters.

Scientists have long debated the causes of this event and Earth's four other major extinctions, usually pointing to various volcanoes or asteroids.

A major point of debate remains whether the Gulf Stream, or Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), will just decline or could «switch off» entirely with substantial implications for Northwest Europe's climate.

«Parents who opted their children out of state exams in recent years became the focal point of major education debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa.

A major point within the debate was whether to keep the language general or to specify Broad as the originator of the plan that has roiled the district since it was introduced last summer.

Digital royalties have been one of the major sticking points in the debate over traditional vs. self - publishing, with many people (even from the traditional publishing world) arguing that big publishers should raise digital royalties on ebooks to at least 50 percent.

Finding funding to dedicate towards these goals will also be a major point of debate between developed and developing nations.

The use of different data temperature sets, whether it is global surface temperatures or satellite measurements, is one of the major points of contention in the climate debate.

For the sake of brevity, I took the «official» values of the CO2 radiative forcing and of the Planck parameter as correct, and pointed out to the audience that the major debate between the skeptics and the believers centers on the overall feedback gain factor, which — in the IPCC's implicit central estimate — is 2.81, almost tripling the warming that a CO2 doubling causes before feedbacks are taken into account.