Sentences with phrase «matter of political debate»

«Cuts» to Legal Aid continued to be a problem and a matter of political debate and reform.

Not exact matches

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

The nature of the Hamas - Israel conflict is as well a matter of heated political debate.

But in Poland — a country where museums are regular sites of protest, the morality and purpose of art are publicly debated in ongoing culture wars, and an Israeli artist representing the country in Venice could arguably found a political party — this distinction hardly matters.

That is the issue of concern, and it matters little which side wins the debate since our political system is so badly broken.

The ways in which we might drastically reduce such emissions are of course a matter for political debate and decision - making.

If other scientists disagree with his findings then let them detail how and why he is wrong so that the matters can be properly analysed and debated — to simply condemn someone and their work because it does not «conform» to «group think» is just another example of political correctness gone mad — the Australian public is sick to death of it.

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).

The «settled» debate seems to be the political one for Paris where the white papers of the folks that matter are now being (or have already been) drawn up.

In the overall context of European patent harmonization and the creation of a unified European patent judiciary, some of these issues that matter to defendants may spark further political debate in the years ahead.

As Omar notes, political and social conditions in some of these countries are matters of considerable debate, and that debate can continue on the screens of Wikipedia, so the resulting text may not be as reliable as one would like.

Instead, a positive reading of the right could have entailed a duty on the Council's side to facilitate a debate on questions of exceptional political significance, through the provision of highly relevant information that it holds on the matter.

However, many of those adverts carried little political content, instead primarily aiming to inflame the debate by, for instance, linking the Black Lives Matter group to police murders, or promoting counter-protests against the Westboro Baptist church.

Democracy should be the fundamental principle that guides the provision and elaboration of ECEC services not only at the early childhood level by encouraging shared decision - making at local level, but also at community and political levels by making early education a matter of public debate and collective responsibility.