Sentences with phrase «much political debate»

While climate change is a topic of much political debate these days, buildings and tenants have decided to plan for the unexpected, rather than argue over it.

The FBI yesterday recommended there be no criminal charges against Clinton, a decision that has led to much political debate.

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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.

The sources of Trump's political support have been much debated, but his argument that trade deals were a «very bad deal» for Americans was compelling to a swath of voters across the political spectrum.

It's much dodgier for conventional news reporters to treat this year's political debate as one between «normal» and «abnormal,» as the Vox editor in chief Ezra Klein put it recently.

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.

In determining the proper balance between civil society and government, there is much room for political debate.

Today much of our debate about marriage comes from a similar hope to score political points.

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

The upshot is the suppression of political debate about the common good, which is why thorough - going libertarians are such a destructive force in our political culture, perhaps as much so as contemporary liberals whose main vice is the serene smugness that assumes that all we have left is administration because everybody worth talking to already agrees with them about first principles.

But just as political debate has much to learn from a continual return to the Republic, so, too, Newman's Idea of a University never ceases to inspire, cajole, admonish, delight — and depress.

The present political situation in Latin America has generated so much heated debate about the Church, the «sects,» and religious freedom that it has become necessary to take a closer look at the existing religious scene, including Pentecostalism, if we are to build a coherent theological overview of the region capable of generating serious ecumenical dialogue.

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.

It's not just something I treasure − it's a book I return to when I feel boxed in by the narrowness and lack of vision that characterises so much of the modern political debate.

The debate over Scotland's future has, especially recently, served up the incongruous (and unromantic) image of a nation of «bean - counters» basing its decision about independence on the expected profitability of either outcome, yet calculating this expectation (on either side) off the back of political and economic assumptions that resemble nothing so much as declarations of blind fear or faith.

The first is that legislation is likely to be much more open to amendment and debate than it is in normal political times.

By the time of the Civil war, the political divide is about how much power should be given to various levels of government in a federal system (a debate which still rages).

If only because his arguments have been so influential, shaping the debates that surround much of contemporary Anglo - American political theory.

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.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

His presence would provide a critical breadth to the debate, ensuring that a good range of voices are represented, as well as reminding a mostly - invisible but always - large swathe of the public that Labour still retains much of its old appeal, & that we are (as we can comfortably be a good 30 years after the Militant tendency) a truly welcoming political family.

In war and peacetime, it has generally been accepted that major foreign policy issues were taken secretly and that foreign policy was not open to much party - political conflict, but was national, and therefore above party - political debate («securitised»).

The way in which the manifesto is able to exploit much of the racist rhetoric about «bogus» refugees used by government and mainstream party political spokespeople during the debates on the Asylum and Immigration Act illustrates the impact of such debate in legitimising the views of fascist and far right groups.

Leaving aside the debate about just how much influence Britain has within the EU anyway, would a Brexit really result in a diminution of power greater than the end of empire, or that which states like Greece gave up when they joined the Euro, or when Poland chose paralysis as its political system in the eighteenth century, leading to it disappearing from the map altogether for well over a century?

The pros and cons of Nolan chart vs the others listed in the Wiki is a topic for debate, but pretty much any of them is orders of magnitude better than «left - right», whose main purpose in modern politics is largely «how can I better equate my political opponents to some historical monster».

Topics included his recent public forum in Oswego, the healthcare debate in Washington, President Trump's proposed federal budget, his own political future, and much more.

No issue has dominated the news and political debates as much as small firms» troubles accessing finance.

Lib Dem president Simon Hughes opened the debate, saying the motion represented a «significant step» and was not so much about political correctness but «political engagement», allowing the party to reach more voters.

«Both of those will have a much higher prominence in the political debate in the next few years as, I believe, certain issues like the health service get in to a different place.»

Much of today's political debate is taking place behind closed doors, but chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander underlined all three parties» commitment to Lords reform before the 2010 general election at the Electoral Reform Society's annual conference.

The Jill Stein / Ajamu Baraka Green Party campaign could become much more than a protest vote, impacting the 2016 political debate, and securing ballot status in more states.

Political debate in Britain — and much of the wider western world — is toxic and angry.

In a heated Commons debate on the issue last night, the party's shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne admitted that Labour need to do «much more work» to tackle anti-Semitism and vowed: «No political party has the monopoly on vice or virtue but we will put our house in order.»

For all the dead - on jabs at society, bystanders debating the political theories of intervention as two people beat each other's brains out, or the sang - froid meeting in the penthouse debating how best to dispose of the rebellion's wild - eyed ringleader (Luke Evans), there are tantalizing riffs whose interpretation is as much about our own pre-conceived notions as anything else.

After fruitlessly seeking new sponsors to take on the potential «orphans» — eligible organizations feared the political, financial, and legal - liability risks — and after much internal soul - searching and debate, Fordham decided in 2004 to apply to become a school authorizer and by June 2005 we found ourselves occupying that hot seat.

«Binders full of women,» the phrase uttered by Mitt Romney in a presidential debate, illuminates the social - political attitudes of viewers as much, or more, than those of the candidate who made the gaffe.

Yes, the political debate is very much alive, but it remains tilted against choice.

However, Rajan (2009) debates this breaking down of the financial model while underestimating the political, social and economic risks should not have been very much of a surprise while the models relied entirely on hard information and ignored soft control variables such as the incentives of lenders to collect information about borrowers, which was one of the fundamental causes for their failure (Rajan et all., 2009).

Although some grassroots parents undoubtedly did support the bill, it was the product of powerful political figures, backed by the wealthy foundations that shape much of the country's debate over education reform.

At the same time, I believe that it is appropriate for states to debate this question, and we should expect some states to pull out, especially once the testing starts, and we — as we expect — if the test scores come out and kids do much worse on these new tests than the old tests, then there's going to be huge political pressure for some other states to pull out and it won't be the end of the world.

During the debate in the U.S. Senate over the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, much of the focus centered on partisan political differences and intense opposition from special interest groups.

Although Farnham's Freehold sparks much debate among hardcore Heinlein fans and general SF readers alike for its political and sociological views, it was not my favorite of Heinlein's works by far.

Jordan's emphasis on the intersection of art and politics in the twentieth century informs much of her academic research, and she is currently working on a book that places the aesthetic and political conflicts of Picabia's era in dialogue with more contemporary political debates.

As much as it is a significant challenge, I see artists playing a huge role in shaping dialogue around issues affecting our environment and political processes — and South Florida is at center stage of many of those debates.

A useful political debate centered on science would center on just how much of the taxpayers dollar should go to NASA, the NIH, our state universities, Fermilab, corporate research, and of course, our military.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political «cause» rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.

Instead, knowledge of a consensus over how much we already know or a rough estimate of how long it will take to learn a greed deal more could very well lead to public and political reactions quite different from those created by a noisy, angry, and dichotomized debate.

I think it would be much better if all participants in the climate debate were much clearer about their political motives.