Sentences with phrase «more urgent questions»

It invites educators to fight for a position (the idea that children's individual needs should be met) that nobody opposes, when they ought to be focusing on more urgent questions: Assuming that we all want instruction to be more responsive to students, what should we do with the adults who work in schools?

But he has not tackled many of the more urgent questions and issues (such as electoral reform).

This has happened more so since May 2010, when the Speaker allowed far more Urgent Questions, and since direct elections for membership of the select committees have given those committees a greater democratic mandate.

Chesterton, Lewis, and many capable, contemporary apologists seem to address more urgent questions for the faithful in the modern world.

A more urgent question is this: Will U.S. citizens recognize in time to save themselves and others that low - intensity - conflict strategy is far more compatible with fascism than democracy?

My point was, and my point remains, that the very structure of the conference reinforces the stereotype that the Catholic social - justice agenda and the Catholic pro-life agenda need to be reconciled, when, in fact, there is no more urgent question of social justice and moral progress than the protection of innocent human life at every point of development and dependency.

Perhaps the more urgent question is - how fast can China slow down its CO2 emissions, before they cause the mercury to blow on the global thermometer?

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As Twitter's growth has sputtered and stalled in recent months, one question has become increasingly urgent: How can the social media platform become more accessible to new users without alienating hardcore fans?

Whether he likes it or not, Bernanke just pledged what will likely amount to a trillion dollars of taxpayer money to Obama's reelection, thereby impacting not only the economy, but potentially immigration policy, the next Supreme Court nominee, education, and even more urgent determinations, like questions of war and peace.

This question becomes urgent as cultural elites grow more hostile, and orthodox Christian beliefs (shared by most other traditional faiths and by many with no faith) about sex and marriage are redefined as hatred and bigotry.

Still, if one brackets the nonetheless important question as to where, if anywhere, Heidegger's substitute divinity resides in the registers of historical religion, there remains the perhaps more urgent query about the relation of his system to those ethical decisions that his - and our - time demands.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.

More urgent today is the whole question of imaginative vehicles, of symbolization, in religion.

As the years go on, and the Church continues to flounder in the West and to be split over fundamental questions of morality, Fr Holloway can be seen as a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle with atheism completely.

Then the question becomes all the more urgent: How does it stand with the sinner?

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the question of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.32

His birth just made all of these questions that much more urgent and personal.

Some of the shine was taken off that choreography, however, when pesky Jeremy Corbyn — and even more pesky John Bercow — agreed while the PM was on his way to Wiltshire that the Labour leader should be allowed to ask an urgent question in the Commons.

It came at the culmination of a deeply unusual final day of the parliament in which Bercow fought back against Hague's manoeuvring by granting three urgent questions - buying him some more time for Labour MPs to rush back to the Commons to attempt to save him.

Among the changes is a rehabilitation of the «urgent question», a piece of procedure which allows MPs to raise topical issues more quickly.

More of them get called at prime minister's questions than before, or have urgent questions accepted.

The urgent question is still going on, and more Tory Brexit MPs have been complaining about Cameron's rules relating to what ministers can and can not see.

The case is becoming ever - more urgent as our economy contracts and, potentially, heads into a depression as our public spending spirals out of control; there are not enough jobs to go around as it is, and Jacqui Smith's plan to let in thousands of Zimbabwean refugees begs the question: where the hell are we supposed to put them?

To answer such urgent questions, scientists need exponentially more data than they have collected so far.

One answer to an urgent question Many of these regions also face diminishing water resources in the face of more severe droughts caused by climate change.

The question is urgent, because more than two million people die every year from Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, and understanding its origins might one day lend clues to its complex biology.

Genetically engineered babies raise a host of disturbing, science fiction - worthy ethical questions, but we have a more mundane and much more urgent issue to consider: safety.

For additional questions the site provides site generated e-mail support and a phone number for more urgent cases.

These questions would be more urgent if Lanthimos's adults and children interacted more like people and less like programmed lab rats.

Knowing that teachers will turn to their professional networks for advice, an urgent question for the field is: Are there ways to enrich those networks with more systematic evidence on the quality and impact of digital tools?

I hope that as the Carnegie Foundation continues to wrestle with this work, it invests time in tackling a far more interesting and urgent question on the horizon: how should we measure time within emerging competency - based systems?

And Neil Carmichael, chairman of Parliament's education select committee, who raised the issue in an urgent Commons question, asked why more delay was necessary.

Windham Federation of Teachers President Randall Prose said: «We're concerned about much more than test scores, but these latest numbers provide an urgent opportunity to ask some tough questions.

As time marches forward, questions about the future of the classic car hobby become not just more varied, but also more urgent.

Authors Anne and Frances Moore posed the question in Mother Earth News: «Why honor environmental activism in an era when war, terrorism and nuclear proliferation are even more urgent problems?»

These differing approaches kept coming to mind as I read Ron Childress» And West is West, a novel that addresses some serious, even urgent, social questions but which seems at times more interested in scoring quick points for being socially conscious than really exploring the issues it raises in a thoughtful and thorough way.

As ebooks continue to take market share away from printed books, a process that is slow but inevitable, these questions will become more urgent.

To my mind the question has become more urgent in the past year, since the presidential election, with the 20 + % rise in the US equity market.

The ever - more - urgent question for a company like Cave has been, in a nutshell, «How does one create an arcade - style shooter that can appeal to less - experienced players without alienating the veterans that got us here?»

The dichotomies his work began to pry open in the early 70s are still out there; through its seductive veil of ornament, patterns and pastel tones, the questions it asks are more urgent than ever.

While world leaders debate the erection of walls or the deportation of refugees, and as our political rhetoric grows increasingly divisive, die level of critical and ethical engagement that the exhibition performs — with questions of nation and migration, community and cosmopolitanism, and the aftermath of colonial violence — is more urgent now than ever.

The question of who possesses what data, how these are processed, and how this changes the economic power structure and social concepts of the private sphere, knowledge, and responsibility is becoming more and more urgent.

Their works fuse traditional cultural knowledge with contemporary art forms, pose urgent political questions, and push the boundaries of how we think about art, history and culture more broadly.

Which is making one question, in particular, feel more and more urgent: Will some of America's most accomplished female artists live long enough to get the U.S. retrospectives they deserve?

However, the implicit question in the show's title is more urgent and confrontational in the current social context.

Drawing on the ideas of Brazilian theoretician and pedagogue Paulo Freire, the exhibition poses questions rendered urgent by increasingly divisive politics around the globe: can the state of being in - between borders, which is becoming a reality for more and more people, become a powerful position of resistance?

Although his comment suggested such, I doubt that he really believes that individual commenters here were responding because something had been «deemed urgent» by some unspecified «deemers,» and, (2) it seems to me that you might be drawing conclusions from Lewandowsky's research that (assuming you find his research methodology to be valid — which some seem to question) are not supported by the evidence he offered: Evidence that informs the question of whether conspiracy ideation is relatively more prevalent on the «skeptical» side than the «realist» side.

In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences — especially our religious and ideological differences.

This is a question which is in urgent need of further and more robust empirical research, which will require considerable effort and funding in its own right, but which is surely a price worth paying.

The story would have continued with a more frequent and enthusiastic use of the device under Dickson's leadership, with almost a dozen solid examples that included some of the must urgent and controversial issues of the day as the language question continued to heat up and the Charter jurisprudence began to take shape.