Sentences with phrase «members of the political debate»

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Members from all political parties gathered in the House of Commons earlier this week to debate harassment in public life.

Members of the public are used to respond to political elites rather than contribute to policy debates.

However, the end of transitional controls on January 1st next year, so that those from the two most recent EU members have the same rights as citizens of the other western and east European member states, has created a heated political debate about immigration from the two countries, which is likely to run on into next year's European elections.

I gave the example of the late Lord Biffen and the current example of my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks, but there have been many other people who gained an appetite for engaging in democracy and debate through the political process, without coming to visit Parliament and without having to sit on the green Benches.»

There are too many members and retirees from the state and its political subdivisions that want the debate to be about the duties of the Comptoller to have it become about hot button political issues.

So now, every member has a duty to engage with the Corbyn - led debate about the future of the left and his rethink of our political method.

The group's journal, Crossbow, published three times a year, and the group's programme of meetings during the parliamentary year also provide its members and guest speakers and writers with a forum for political debate.

One party insider said there has been a fierce debate within the Miliband circle between those who believe that the reforms are a key test of his leadership and that a failure to introduce radical change would substantially damage his credibility - and those who feel he risks putting the party's financial viability at risk by allowing union members to opt out of their so - called political levy contributions to the party.

The EPA's findings immediately triggered what is sure to become a heated political debate as members of Congress consider afresh proposals to regulate fracking.

But Michela Kuan, a biologist and a member of the animal rights group Lega Anti Vivisezione in Rome, says Italy's problems weren't caused by animal rights activists or the political debate, but by the animal research lobby.

«I will not engage in political debate with board members... My duty, my sole concern, is for the academic and career success of our Hartford school children and youth.»

I see your position but it's carried too far if we pretend the consensus, of which you are member, doesn't have a political leaning and that it doesn't influence the posture of the debate.

The pursuit of «Veritas» which undergirds our intellectual life demands not only that each member of our community be able to debate politics freely, but also that we attend to the multitude of political views that exist in our nation.

The recruitment of social psychologists into the debate, to patch up the inadequacies of climate science and of course, the highest ranking members of scientific academies, reveals a darker political aspect to the argument.

Editor's note: Once upon a time, political arguments over the content of science education focused on a single topic: evolution.While it would be wonderful to think that such debates ended with the Scopes Monkey Trial, I live in Missouri... where some members of our legislature still think our science classrooms are the proper places for ideological debates.

If he had read the debate, he would understand that the problem he is now speaking to is not sceptics pouncing on «uncertainty», but institutional science's failure to check its own members» over-estimation of risk, and its own and their own political preferences being smuggled into «science».

«Political philosophy has a legitimate role in policy debates, but not in the underlying climate science,» a group of scientists, including seven members of the National Academy of Sciences, has written to all members of the U.S. Congress at the start... Continue reading →