Sentences with phrase «meaningful debate on»

Moreover, confirmation of IMSI Catcher use is integral to meaningful debate on a matter of public interest in Canada while being equally essential to the proper exercise of Canadian privacy rights.»

There are lots of signs of ferment and meaningful debate on paths forward, ranging from this meeting to the recent session in Washington on energy innovation involving institutions and individuals ranging from liberals to libertarians.

Unfortunately, the NDP Government chose to shut down that debate even when hundreds of victims of rural crime from across Alberta came to the Legislature to see a meaningful debate on the issue

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Whatever one's viewpoint on such policies is (and there's been much debate about whether these were promises or merely aspirations on Corbyn's part), one can not deny they were a vote winner — they were relevant, meaningful and appealing.

Jamie is calling on us all to join a global Food Revolution in order to provoke debate and inspire real, meaningful, positive change in the way -LSB-...]

He disclosed that this has had a toll on the quality of debates on the floor of the house because most of them are not well trained to have been elected to the house because they lack the quality as required to make meaningful impacts in terms of contributions.

«That is why I am calling on Senate Republicans to get serious on reforming the SAFE Act and allow these meaningful proposals to be debated and addressed by the end of this session,» Panepinto added.

Today, a few corridors down from the Commons fight on «Amendment 7» — that «meaningful vote» motion — we will attempt to input the public's voice into the debate, by launching the findings of the Citizens» Assembly.

Cuomo has also said de Blasio's trip to Albany to push for his platform on Wednesday came too late in the legislative session for any meaningful debate.

The House of Lords will start debating the Article 50 bill on Monday with amendments tabled to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, for greater scrutiny on the process and for a «meaningful vote» at the end of Brexit negotiations.

«Labour has repeatedly said that parliament must have a meaningful vote on any final Brexit deal, that means MPs are able to vote on the final deal before it is concluded, that the Commons has a debate and vote before the European parliament does, and that the vote will cover withdrawal from the EU as well as our future relationship with the EU.»

Introduction [1] By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to Colorado Public Radio (CPR) produces and curates in - depth and meaningful news and music, establishing thoughtful connections to Colorado for listeners

Researchers need to consider ways to measure other outcomes that are meaningful in the debate, such as by designing studies with long follow - up periods to enable future research on high school graduation, college - going, and labor - market outcomes.

Her research has investigated the roots of the political debates over race - conscious policies that profoundly affect meaningful opportunities for higher education, with a focus on the nature of persistent moral disagreement over affirmative action.

Behind closed doors, insiders may or may not have exchanged their opinions on value - added evaluations, but since the evidence required for a meaningful debate over the real world effects of those evaluations did not exist, I wonder if the lack of research on the policy implications of value - added was considered.

This segues to the debate on testing, and it is difficult to cut through the rhetoric and paranoia on this subject, except to say that every meaningful pursuit in life involves an assessment of achievement related to a standard.

I hope in the weeks to come that a set of meaningful indicators of educational quality and opportunity come out of the legislative debate on ESEA reauthorization.

While American politics has degenerated into campaigns of limited value, based on little more than meanness, hate and hyperbole, elections should be about meaningful discussion and debate between candidates who recognize the importance of providing voters with the information they need to make informed decisions.

Looking at the replies he left down here this guy obviously isn't an author or trying to provoke (on purpose) or to create a meaningful debate but an hateful loudmouth idiot.

The essay «Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this country.

Going down this path, you'll quickly find yourself in a debate on discounting and the time value of action / resources, which will take you deep into discussions of subjects such as environmental ethics, future / present generations, the foundational assumtions of the discipline of economics, etc. — all very important and interesting subjects, but ones on which there is unlikely to be forged a new consensus on meaningful time scales related to climate change.

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).

-- Obama has also failed to challenge fossilized foes of meaningful action on energy and climate change, from Senator James Inhofe to the many conservative columnists — along with some liberals — who've distorted the American discourse on climate into an either - or debate over beliefs little different than that on abortion or gun rights.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Is it unreasonable to ask whether there is any meaningful real data left in these multiply adjusted datasets — or are the protagonists just like so many medieval monks debating how many angels can dance on a pin?

In an interview with Time Magazine last week, Pruitt said he planned to model his red - team, blue - team debate on Cold War - era discussions of the Soviet nuclear threat and suggested that he believed his agency did not «engage in a robust, meaningful discussion» about the threat posed by carbon dioxide before adopting the endangerment finding.

Very few politicians supporting any meaningful legislation on climate change, limited discussion in the Press and political debates, projections for increasing fossil fuel use as far out as the eye can see, etc..»

Although some debate has focused on when a validation statistic, such as CE or RE, is significant, a more meaningful approach may be to concentrate on the implied prediction intervals for a given reconstruction.

The PRIME conference on 25 November is designed to provoke honest debate that results in meaningful initiatives and affects real change.