Sentences with phrase «much public debate about»

There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.

Her period in the department was marked by much public debate about the future of television, about digital broadcasting and the structure and financing of the BBC.

There has been as much public debate about our tax codes as there have ever been.

Not exact matches

February 3, 2011 Usage - based billing opens up a much larger debate about public broadband: i - Canada Chair, Bill Hutchison speaks out

While the public vote has been the focus of much debate about the planned Islamic center and mosque, the commission can not prevent the developers from building such a community center.

You dp, I think, pretty fairly typologise a new «liberalisms versus communitarians» debate, and the way in which (in public politics right now, perhaps les in theory, about which I know not much) which does seem somewhat different to the liberalism / communitarianism debate of the early mid-90s, though there are many echoes.

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Still, those groups criticized much about the process — particularly that there was very little public debate surrounding what are major changes to the elected office.

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

Much of the debate about public and private schools suggests two monolithic armies poised to engage in bitter and decisive conflict on the field of battle.

The whole point is to encourage discussion and debate about the nature of responsible public engagement, how different folks fare, how much these things matter, and how to accurately measure a policy scholar's value.

In debates over how much funding is needed to achieve certain outcomes, it has become increasingly apparent to some state leaders that the issue is mostly about how much money lawmakers are willing to invest in public education.

All their talk about creaming and hedge funds is just so much propaganda that they have focus grouped and determined works in the public debate.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

Ongoing public debate about whether the United States, specific states, and local communities spend too much or too little on education and whether those dollars are spent correctly can be traced through the case law history associated with various school finance law suits.

The dramatic change to the publishing landscape brought about by the mushrooming of self - publishing has led to concerns, with the editor of publishing news site Good e-Reader, Michael Kozlowski, saying there needs to be a debate around what constitutes being an author, because «calling everyone authors who put words on a document and submits them to the public devalues the word so much, it makes it meaningless».

The public debate about the alleged «warming pause» was misguided from the outset, because far too much was read into a cherry - picked short - term trend.

But technocracy abolishes competing accounts of the world: it says that hoi - polloi is not competent, either to form a view of the world, or to make decisions about their own lives or public matters; and as the climate debate shows, unofficial interpretations of The Science are waved away as so much «motivated reasoning» and the such like.

It would be much harder to say that about wind energy, if there had been a public, democratic, transparent debate about our energy policy, and the values which inform it.

The movement towards whole of government approaches across the public service has not received much attention during debates about the introduction of the new arrangements.

... The perspectives of young children, although compelling, have not had much influence in public policy debates about custody and visitation.