Sentences with phrase «more of a political debate»

«We'd prefer to just be helping people get from point A to point B, but when the company starts to succeed, in a city, or in a country, or around the world, you start to get brought into more and more of these political debates.»

Finally, since this is becoming more of a political debate than anything else, if you want to respond I would request you move the discussion to chat.

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While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.

That is the main conclusion of the Greek media, but at the same time many see the recent debate as much more alive than the one held last week between all political leaders.

After more than seven hours of emotional debate that hit the sensitive political subjects of gun control, education and race, the House voted 67 - 50 in favor of the bill, sending it to Gov. Rick Scott.

But the mass shooting version of the theory naturally has more legs since it intersects with a longstanding partisan political debate.

Now, after Ronald Reagan rewrote the rules of political debate, it's backwards: the Democrats find themselves promising to follow Republican market initiatives, only with more heart and less human cost.

At present, the rediscovery of culture in the social sciences, at the debate over methods of studying culture empirically, promises to shift studies of religion and politics more in the direction of looking at religious and political culture.

Even scholars of Christian history often conclude that political and social conflicts really have been more important than doctrinal debates.

While there has already been gallons of ink devoted to the political debate regarding gun control (and there will likely be gallons more to come) the broader issue for believers is how exactly Christians should talk about the issue of gun control.

As I thought about how to apply these teachings practically, a lot of strategies came to mind — putting the needs of others before my own, buying less and giving more, humbling myself when engaged in political or theological debates, embracing rather than complaining about those «one - way relationships,» praying for others more sincerely, saying «yes» a little more often, working on that ubiquitous sense of entitlement and pride that keeps me from going the extra mile.

Even if one regrets the neglect or absence of a comprehensive agenda and the pursuit, instead, of single - issue and single - candidate concerns, and regrets even more the lack of a governing political philosophy, the times and issues are such that open debate must be welcomed on as broad a platform as possible.

As the divine right monarchy came increasingly in the eighteenth century to defend its positions on the grounds of administrative reason and enlightened reform, the discourse of those resisting its rule also relied less on traditional religious appeals and more on secular ones, but the religious roots of all sides of the political and social debate were only obscured, never severed.

The result is that more decisions have to be made in the public arena of political debate.

After more than a decade of community and political debate, the NSW government is planning to introduce a container deposit scheme, in which a refundable deposit, probably 10 cents, would be added to the cost of every drink bottle and can.

And I completely agree that while the mean - spirited aspects of the debate were disheartening, the * education * and political consciousness - raising were fantastic — and probably more likely to succeed in effecting political - social change than the other forms of debate seen yesterday (and today).

He used a parliamentary debate to call for a shake - up of the way party political broadcasts are regulated, in order to give the parties more flexibility.

But I hope that it will also provoke the media to think how it can promote a more open and considered way of encouraging genuine political debate in a way which transcends the tribalism that marks much of modern politics.

Forget attacks about cynical blogs, the positive contribution of internet debate outside formal political institutions needs to be celebrated more.

Martin Kettle of The Guardian who was a respondent to Gary said that he had not yet read the PES manifesto, but that the discussion would make him to do so, and that he certainly favoured a more political debate in Europe.

With competition growing for airtime on TV news, more and more elected officials and political candidates will be broadcasting speeches, events, debates and examples of advocacy via mobile device apps and social media networks to reach their constituents and supporters directly.

The Politics in Spires blog series «A Separate or United Kingdom» has attempted to contribute to an expanded discussion of the independence debate with voices from across the social sciences, including law, economics, sociology, psychology, human geography, political philosophy, and more.

In general terms he wants to influence the political balance of debate, but more specifically with this move he has got his hands on the data bank and resource the PHI survey represents.

She offered a much more powerful and exciting sense of the possibilities of political life than I was getting, even from the communitarians in the liberal - communitarian debate, and certainly more so than the liberals, who are less committed to the public side of politics.

«The political debate erupting about prospective nominees to fill the vacancy is unseemly, let us take the time to honor his life before the inevitable debate erupts,» said Kirk, who is considered one of the more socially moderate Republican senators, one of only four who supports same - sex marriage.

As your own post reflects, there are plenty more aspects of David Laws» actions in the political sphere that are far more worthy of comment, debate and disagreement than this.

Whilst the economic circumstances might make it more difficult to actually implement the New Labour mantra of increased investment in public services funded by a growing economy, there's little to suggest that the terms of debate in the political centre ground have undergone a paradigm shift such as the one experienced in the post-Thatcherite era.

The less obvious but potentially equally devastating factor is that voters may look to the terms of political debate in countries such as France and conclude that austerity is more of a lifestyle choice than an economic imperative.

This debate took in not just political questions but issues of economic organization and public policy more broadly.

The YouTube debate may not have revolutionized politics, but it sure as hell was more of a pleasure to watch than your average political event.

«Too often debates about AV are less like political arguments, and more like scientific discussions, where people get lost in a language of proportionality and preferences, probabilities and possibilities.

Cross-posted on techPresident The YouTube debate may not have revolutionized politics, but it sure as hell was more of a pleasure to watch than your average political event.

Another question for debate - supported by some opinion polling and qualitative studies - is whether the demand in England is more focused on cultural space for expressions of English identity than it is on political institutions.

Cults, then, tend to close down more detailed or complex discussion, reducing political debate to content free slogans and faith in the qualities, real or imagined, of leading individuals.

The reason of course that administrative measures are given priority over political debate is that the «irreconcilables» are even more split amongst themselves and the political discourse would expose this.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

That is a very different sort of smear, of a type that New Labour has in my view tended to favour over the years and one that has become, I think, more common on all sides as political debate has become less and less philosophically agonistic and more and more about branding.

That is if you're more interested in political debate than a bun fight, of course.

By fixating on the hidden meanings in one picture (ironic for a newspaper that prints a deeply disturbing picture of a half - naked 20 year old every day) it is guilty of trivialising political debate and directly ensuring more politicians will be too terrified to engage with controversial issues.

It is particularly an issue for those of us who would like to see more young women involved in political activity and debate in the wider society.»

«I think the landscape has shifted in regards to people being more in tune, being more aware and just being more conscious of what's going on in our political debate,» he said.

A two - year - old political feud between Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney and county comptroller Bob Antonacci simmered beneath the surface of a more than two hour budget debate Tuesday.

«Providing more live coverage of the key political debates and discussions has meant that during 2015, a dramatic year in politics, we've seen a surge in people using BBC Parliament to follow proceedings.

While the separation of powers may a phrase more commonly found in legal and political textbooks than the mainstream press, it is fundamental part of the debate in America.

According to Momentum, the festival will feature more than 160 hours of workshops, debates, live music, art exhibitions, children's activities, plays, and parties, including a «political games corner», interactive art exhibitions, pop up think tanks run by various groups including «Mums for Corbyn», a four day Hackathon tasked with building the tools needed to win the next election, workshops on how to make a viral video, a play telling the stories of striking miners and live streams of the Labour Party Conference.

Mr. Henry said Mr. Sanders has changed the terms of political debate for the better, but urged Democrats to vote for Ms. Clinton because he believes she would get more done than her primary opponent would and that he's afraid Mr. Sanders hurts Ms. Clinton's general election chances.

His political brand was built on compromising with Republicans to get results, a government of action rather than a «debating society,» appealing to moderate voters who rated him more highly than liberals.

Just under half (49 %) of Britons think that election debates involving seven political parties will make for a more interesting debate, a poll has found.

«This is roughly double of the carbon prices discussed in the current political debate, and substantially more than cost estimates for afforestation which are at 24 Euros per ton of CO2 removed.

The political has rarely seemed more personal than in Jonah Markowitz and Tracy Wares» talky - in - a-very-good-way portrait of four lesbian politicians — Sheila Kuehl, Jackie Goldberg, Carole Migden and Christine Kehoe — who were fighting for their LGBT constituents long before the marriage - equality debate came to the fore.