Sentences with phrase «most political debates»

Most political debates about decarbonizing our energy sector focus on decarbonizing our electricity system and electrifying transport,» said Hans Korteweg, managing director of COGEN.

Since 2008 - 9, however, most political debate has focused on restoring the UK economy to «business as usual»: Although the power of government was used to stabilise the financial system through bailouts and nationalisations, in stark contrast to the 1930s New Deal era, there is no apparent enthusiasm for entrusting the state with new powers and responsibilities.

Not exact matches

According to Wallis, while he disagrees with Land on most political issues, they were able to have a civil debate - something Wallis hopes politicians can learn from.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

You can take it or leave it, and since most people will leave it (I sure will), Ron Paulism, for all of its relative honesty, isn't likely to dominate the political debate.

First off, let me alert you that we're having a debate between Jay Cost and Sean Trende (the two most prominent and astute of the young and constantly online political analysts) on the current presidential nomination system at Berry next Thursday, December 1 at 5:30 in Krannert.

When George W. Bush was asked which political philosopher had most influenced him in a debate before the 2000 Iowa caucus, he responded «Jesus.»

The debate tournament segment of the class was probably the one that formed me most — it caused me to join Pacilio's debate team for a couple years, and it was the first, and probably last, time that I and my peers were treated to full - throated political discourse in the public school classroom.

Even though many of the theologians with these concerns have public political commitments (the most forthright tend to be on the political left or center - left, such as Elaine Graham, Timothy Gorringe, Kenneth Leech, Michael Northcott and Denys Turner), the main debates have not usually been about current political issues.

The fact that most of these cases were pending and / or unresolved over a long time should have alerted politicians on their complexity, instead current political debate has being focusing obsessively on the date for the completion of the review.

This is where most of the political debate happens currently, whether an estate tax unnecessarily de-incentivizes earning.

With access to the strategists and opinion - makers on both sides of the political divide, The Battle for Britain goes straight to the heart of the great debate, providing an incisive, authoritative and occasionally trenchant guide to the most dramatic constitutional question of our times.

Today, in spite of a leader who has been ambivalent towards European integration for most of his political career (Jeremy Corbyn voted against the Lisbon Treaty), there has been virtually no room allowed for debate within the party over EU membership.

Brexit presents a unique opportunity to expose and debate some of our most pressing problems, and to restore the bonds of trust between voters and the political elite.

One of the most striking aspects in the current debate on devolution in the North of England is that the main actors (local governments, leaders» boards, political parties, business organisations, etc.) seem to work in isolation — each devising their own plans, often irrespective (or wary) of the positions of the others.

In a statement, Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner, one of the most prominent voices in the debate about online political advertising, said the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook spat was indicative of a market that's «essentially the Wild West» of advertising.

Frankly, if Labour won the most seats in 2015, it would at least change the terms of the political debate.

That's why the «odd one out» always wins most applause in political debate.

His activism helped steer the debate of republican politics for the past 40 years and gave strength to one of the most active republican political clubs in Queens.

The debate provided the most contentious moments of a 2017 race for City Hall that, with few established political figures running and only one Republican candidate, has at times struggled to find a pulse.

I agree Europe must be brought into mainstream political debate if we in Britain are to get the most out of its institutions.

Perhaps the most peculiar aspect of current political debates centres on education policy.

But the consensus around European issues in general tends to reduce the temperature of debate on the Belgian political landscape — and the fact that, for the first time, federal, regional and European elections will be contested on the same day makes the European parliamentary elections less visible to most people.

We will clutter political debates with religious arguments which most people find irrelevant and make it harder to reach consensus.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sending communications to influential men was, for many early female voters, the most effective way of influencing political debate in a period where public speaking was frowned upon.

With a tight election on the line, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton will meet in just hours to face off at their first presidential debate, a battle 18 months in the making that is emerging as the most hotly anticipated moment in modern US political history.

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.

The government's flagship Free Schools are under greater scrutiny than most because their very existence is part of a huge political debate about the direction of education policy.

«They rarely succeed in electing a candidate to office, but they broaden political debate and thus test mainstream assumptions... For the most part, they would go on losing in June just as they now lose in November.»

But now, at the point in the political cycle where they have most leeway, the reluctance to debate and resolve differences limits their influence within the Coalition.

The political debate for most of the week has been about housing benefit, which clearly hasn't had any effect on support — not that we would expect it to.

But most of the film takes place in the drawing rooms and debating chambers of Washington, where we watch Lincoln at work as a very pragmatic political animal.

With the sequel, the Blonde team have a notion to give us our cake and make us eat a meal too, with its message against animal testing, as well as its skepticism about a political system that would cut deals and look the other way to a cause most people worthy of debate.

While the commission's obtuseness or naiveté are open to debate, it is true that the commission did not view the political structures of American education as the most blatant problem.

Unfortunately, this is also an election year, which means that political spin is likely to drown out reasoned debate about what policies are most likely to work in inner - city classrooms.

While all three objectives are equally important components of a civic education, it is the third - respect for opinions different from your own, or political tolerance - that may be most relevant to the debate over the civic consequences of attending private schools.

It is sometimes necessary to restate even the most obvious of truisms, if only to prevent them from being overlooked amid the sound and fury of passing political debate.

Amidst all of the political back and forth about charter schools, no one seems to be discussing the most important people in the debate — our students with the greatest needs.

Supporters rushed the standards» adoption, used whatever political channels were most convenient, eschewed public debate and discussion, and in doing so triggered a massive backlash that either caused states to reject the standards outright or led them to water down the initiative to such an extent that there's little left of the original vision, which called for the careful alignment of standards, tests, curricular resources, and teaching strategies, all to be shared across state borders.

Political debates around school funding focus on public versus private, which party is the Gonski champion, and who gets the most money.

Lost in the debate is the fact that most, regardless of political affiliation, want a concrete approach to reducing class sizes in the vital early grades.

«Given that billions of dollars are being disbursed,» says Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutions.»

The Common Core State Standards that most states have adopted have triggered plenty of political debate.

The supercharged debates over America's original sin led to the most creative and most disappointing political deals of the Convention.

Although many over emphasize the social aspects of such an event, I found the most stimulating conversations I've had in years happening in the auditorium tent where borders — political, spatial, ideological and imagined — were debated and stretched to their limits through heady discussion from artists and the public alike.

The fact that an enormous political debate is occurring sans SCIENCE should be enough for most intelligent life forms to go stark raving mad.

In today's political world of binary debates, is there a way to get traction simultaneously on both deployment of today's clean tech where it makes the most sense and on greatly boosting spending on fundamental science related to energy systems?

The Stewart / Wallace debate you link to is IMHO the most rational and honest political debate to come out of the US in well over a decade, kudos to both of them.

We need a lively debate on whether to leave these kinds of climate science efforts behind, and focus instead on socio - political measures to «hit the brakes hard» — whether those be carbon taxes, carbon rationing (probably the most direct and effective means), or whatever.