Sentences with phrase «most public debates»

This view, while rarely shared explicitly, affects most public debates, including the one here.

Most public debate concerns ethical issues such as the beginning and the end of life, or the permissibility of certain sexual behaviors.

More recent research is piled toward the top of the pyramid, where most public debate takes place.

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Wheeler's change of heart on net neutrality follows a protracted public comment period, in one of the most intensely debated policy moves of the FCC's history.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

This has been one of the most cited stats in the public debate during the Great Recession.

It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are.

The lack of funding combined with the toxic environment that surrounds the debate over gun rights has made most public - health researchers wary of touching the topic.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Yet most of the debate on the difference between the Budget / Public Accounts and Estimates has been centered on the treatment of capital.

Even so, our most loyal readers are ordinary people deeply invested in the public debates that shape our day.

The speakers include most of the major players in ongoing debates about law and religion in public life, many of them well known to the readers of this journal: Sam Rabinove, Dean Keliey, John M. Swomley, Michael McConnell, Robert Michaelson, William Bentley Ball, Edward Gaffney, Jeffrey Hadden, Robert Destro, Mary Ann Glendon, Sandra Day O'Connor, and your editor.

On most of the questions of public policy we debate today ¯ even many important ones ¯ there is no Catholic position.

And while «deep reasonings» of the three Abrahamic traditions are hardly a secret (most mosques, synagogues and churches admit guests, and most religion scholars publish their work in journals), Adams notes that «the quality of public debate between members of different traditions is dangerously low.

Today, these values shape the public debate and policy of most industrialized countries and have been imposed on many others through the structural adjustment required by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

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).

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

This is undoubtedly the most balanced collection of essays by the leading public intellectuals in our debate over the implications of the coming biotechnological age.

In the most recent form of this debate, the courts have ruled that Creation - Science is not science but the propagation of particular religious beliefs, and as such the mandatory requirement of it being taught in public schools violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Keeping religion OUT of the public debate would be most helpful, keeping religion out of schools, out of government, out of my bedroom, and out of the lives of those who don't fit in the «mold» of what the religious approve of — NOW we can begin to agree on something.

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.

And yet «Here in Australia public discussion and debate often proceed as though most of the population is godless, atheist or agnostic.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

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.

That is why even the most bitterly disappointed losers in the most polarized public - policy debates only very rarely lash out with deadly violence.

The debate over the appropriate role of religion in the public square was the most interesting church - state controversy of the 1980s.

The guilt issue is most pronounced with the formulabreastfeeding debate, where health professionals and public health bodies hesitate to give mothers accurate information about formula risks (with a lot of «support» from formula companies), so they won't feel «guilty» if they decide to formula feed.

I give them kudos for putting some thoughts out there on a subject that has drawn much debate in the public affairs community as of late; however, I found the seven listed «tips to make sure you're reaching bloggers most efficiently» was walking the line between obvious and odd — «odd,» as in, «disturbingly oblivious to what I think most of us would consider standard good public affairs practices».

Third, the publicity afforded to the most recent debate could be viewed as part of a wider effort by the Chinese to indirectly warn North Korea and demonstrate to the outside world, especially the US, that China is open to a more public discussion of policy.

In this lecture he lamented the manner in which science is treated as merely one of the factors to be considered within a debate, weighted equally with other unscientific viewpoints when, given that science gives us our most secure understanding of the physical world, it should really occupy a position of primacy within public debate.

The Commons lags behind public debate on most issues, but in the case of the drug debate it can barely be seen in the rear - view mirror.

More recent polls suggest that most of the public want and expect debates at the 2015 election, now that the precedent has been set.

However, by the third debate, Nick Clegg had lost his joint equal first place with David Cameron in terms of being seen as most trusted to make any necessary cuts to public services.

An important fact always get lost amidst all the visceral anti-statism of the US healthcare debate: that it is the PRIVATE provision of health services that creates the most administrative waste, not the public.

Congestion pricing has died multiple deaths in public policy debates, most recently 10 years ago when the Assembly declined to take a vote on a plan backed by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

One of the big debates on the economy is how to get the most out of public money that is being spent.

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.

Hawkins added during the debate that the state public schools fail because they are the most segregated state in the U.S.

If MPs decide that want to spend extra time debating something they all say they broadly agree on and at the same time think the public have no interest in, I'm sure they'll take the suggestion they should do it in their own time most illuminating.

First Astorino wanted a debate anytime, anywhere including with others — now he won't show up to a one - on - one debate with the Governor on the most listened to public radio station in the country.

E.J. McMahon, research director for Empire Center for Public Policy, said he believes the debate over the millionaires» tax has gained the most attention out of the executive budget.

Bizarrely, nearly a dozen public forums and debates since Election Day have featured all or most of the eight City Council speaker wannabes.

Lack of debate on casino issue Why have there been no public hearings on one of the most important legislative

Clegg the outsider seizes his moment in the TV spotlight The Guardian - Patrick WintourLiberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg appeared to win the most public support in the historic televised party leaders» debate last night after he pitched for change from the two old parties with their combined record of failure.

«What I find most offensive,» Mr. Paladino wrote, referring to his call for a debate, «other than the arrogance toward the public by your lack of a public answer, is the idea that this is somehow your decision.

Technology is improving faster than public policy can keep up, and that fault line is arguably most obvious in the national debate over drones.

SAN JOSE, California — Most scientists support engagement in public policy debates related to science and technology, and many believe that engaging with the public and news media can advance their careers, according to a new survey.

This might take us beyond the limits of most previous public - engagement exercises, and it could help ensure a more democratic process in which different visions of what is desirable are debated before particular ones become entrenched and hard to modify.

As the UK's most trusted media outlet, the BBC is vital to the public debate, which is why the criticisms, published this week by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in its Communicating Climate Science report, are so important.