Sentences with phrase «more civil debate»

The 13 organizations that make up the National Task Force on Seeking Common Ground for the Improvement of Public Education hope their efforts will foster more civil debate and agreement among traditionally antagonistic groups.

Since your initial appeal was for a more civil debate, is it now your contention that any criticism of gay people, no matter how it is phrased, loving as long as the critic claims biblical support?

Not exact matches

My initial essay on civil religion in America opened a debate that has continued to this day.1 Much of that debate has been rather sterile, focusing more on form than content, definition than substance.

Finally, Nick Hurd, the Cabinet Office MInister, spoke for the Government at the end of the debate: I really believe that we have barely scratched the surface of what can be achieved in this country if we strike a more effective and balanced partnership between government, business and civil society, including active citizens in our communities who want to get more involved.

But as well - known civil liberties lawyer and writer Harvey Silvergate has said, «Scrutiny and debate are more effective ways of combating hate speech than censorship.»

To put it more empirically, much of the debate surrounding gun violence in the U.S. — and elsewhere — revolves around rates of civil small arms ownership.

Republican candidate for public advocate J.C.Polanco and Republican candidate for comptroller Michel Faulkner each pledged that their respective debates this week will be far more civil and controlled than last week's mayoral debate.

Public opinion on marriage equality shifted more dramatically than nearly any other civil rights debate in history.

That disagreement frames so much of the current debate in school reform, and we need more blunt, civil, and face - to - face discussion on this score.

At the same time that adolescents have been bombarded with incivility in the political arena, they have been encouraged to engage more often in civil debate in school.

In the same post Dr. Mann once again demonstrated his engaging, open - minded and civil approach to scientific debate with one of the more knowledgeable commentators recently on RC (Martin Lewitt).

Since then, while debate continues between the two camps, it has been much more civil, with researchers on both sides conceding the data is problematic, and that it is probably too uncertain to establish conclusively whether the cyclonic activity of the 1990s and 2000s were unusual or not.

So the debate is not about to be getting more civil any time soon.

The «debate», if you want to call it that — though I suppose it was more civil than, say, the «debate» over health care reform — focused around two things: How much was to be cut from the federal budget, and which «riders» would the GOP be allowed to attach to it?

With up to 70 % of civil litigants and 40 % or more of family litigants unrepresented in our courts *, there are many, many individuals (the «non-clients») who have a considerable stake in the future of the legal profession but who would not be included in a lawyers» debate about what clients want.

I agree about civil debates, Kristian I'm much more of a fan of listening to everyone (non-emotionally) present their sides.