Sentences with phrase «much public debate in»

The 12 - country Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), signed in October, is likely to be the subject of much public debate in the new year.

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Since then, additional high - profile studies have come out — including an article, published in the journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, which found no evidence that brain games improve everyday cognition — but the topic is still very much up for debate.

When asked his opinion of Taunton before a public debate, Hitchens said, «If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton had, we'd be living in a much better society than we do.»

Tradition has not carried much weight in public debate for centuries: Why, many will ask, preserve an archaic institution that has long oppressed women, excluded gays, and given free rein to brutes?

As much, perhaps, as any other church - state question, the issue of religious symbols on public property has generated increasing concern and debate within the American Jewish community in recent years.

But as the debate over well water and lake water escalates, it's become difficult to tell just how much support there is for the Citizens proposal — and how much of a role a Chicago public relations firm hired by Citizens is playing in the promotional effort.

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».

If anything, it is to be applauded that the debate has galvanised such high levels of engagement among the Scottish public, culminating in an expected turnout for the referendum of as much as 80 %.

Since that time, there has been much discussion and conjecture over the future of the Islands; however, in public debate at least, seldom have the views of the Falkland Islanders themselves been sought.

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.

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.

«The only thing I can see is that the reality and the responsibility are sobering,» Paul Gioia, who served as chairman of the state Public Service Commission during much of the debate over Shoreham, told the New York Times in 1989.

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.

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.

Jonathan Portes, professor of Economics and Public Policy at King's College London, author of Capitalism: 50 things you need to know, tweets at @jdportes 2016 has been in equal measure fascinating and horrifying for economists like me who believe that our discipline has much to contribute to public dPublic Policy at King's College London, author of Capitalism: 50 things you need to know, tweets at @jdportes 2016 has been in equal measure fascinating and horrifying for economists like me who believe that our discipline has much to contribute to public dpublic debate.

On Thursday, the CFB approved a $ 1.52 million in public funds to be paid to Malliotakis» campaign, bolstering her campaign coffers which held only $ 162,950, giving her a much - needed boost ahead of the debate and the final six weeks of the general election.

Not stop arguing in private: however much I disagree with his views he dopes hold them sincerely and he has a right to promote them in private discussion - but in public debate?

Long notes one finding lost in much of the public debate: Just 6 percent of New Yorkers in this month's Quinnipiac poll said same - sex marriage should be the top issue in Albany.

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.

We feature a small number of dissenting voices in our coverage, not because we seek to be impartial between «scientific fact and sceptic fiction», as Bob Ward suggests, but because reflecting the different sides of an ongoing debate is very much in the public interest.

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.

Ever since the gene for CF was identified in 1989, much debate has centred on whether the general public should be screened to detect carriers, or whether screening should be restricted to affected families.

Although much of the public debate is against it, there are pros associated with allowing cell phones in school.

Few topics stir up as much debate in the education sphere as steering public money in the form of vouchers to pay for students to attend private school.

For example, the much - debated issue of making in - state immigrants ineligible for in - state tuition costs at public colleges and universities.

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.

At the same time, more senior scholars, like Gene Glass, Hank Levin, David Berliner, and Kenneth Zeichner may have been given too much credit by the old ranking system for books and articles that were influential in the past but do not give them as much of a public presence in recent policy debates.

The actual policy was much more nuanced, but that didn't matter in the public debate.

Topics include diversity and free - speech dilemmas, the STEM - humanities debate, sexual assault, the digital future, the crisis in public funding of education and much more.

In a thoughtful essay that kicked off the current round of debate, Robin Lake said her colleagues at the Center for Reinventing Public Education were hearing that «charter authorizers are getting much choosier.»

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 educatioIn 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 educatioin public education.

By: Dr. Scott P. Ardoin, University of Georgia Across the last decade great emphasis and much debate has surrounded the administration of state mandated (SM) tests in public schools.

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.

«There hasn't been so much debate because almost every state has allowed them to exist everywhere,» says Luis Huerta, an associate professor of education and public policy at Teachers College in New York.

Changed votes by two Board members over the approval of two Aspire charter schools at this week's Board meeting gave the public a glimpse at a much larger debate over whether charter schools based in Los Angeles should be allowed to operate their special education programs through a partnership with a far - off district that costs...

Like so much of corporate education reform, its real purpose is not to help the needy, but to steer the educational debate in the preferred direction of more privatization of public schools.

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.

An exhibition of the finalists» work will open at Tate Britain on October 2, stirring much debate and controversy among the general public as to who is, in fact, the best artist, once again making me jealous that we don't have a similarly popular art competition in the US.

The 97 % thing is, as well you know, utter rubbish and it does science, nor the GW case any good in the eyes of the public because they know that not one single meaningful debate is much better than 50/50.

Well, Latif doesn't get much attention in the public debate on climate change, whereas Rose does.

In March he was asked to lead an inquiry into the CRU's main scientific findings, a matter of much debate ever since apparently hacked e-mails from the unit were made public less than five months ago.

Now, that power base looks so much diminished that they are left with debating in the stark light of day in public.

While there is no question that the details of science are critical, and must be debated and discussed with skepticism, those who disagree with the conclusions are given too much weight both here and in the public discourse.

Like so much else in the climate debate the way it's framed to policy makers and in public discourse matters greatly too.

Obviously I can't tell for sure, but I think that the voting public in the US wants a much longer and more thorough public debate before the US devotes resources to the policies advocated by Gavin Schmidt, Alan Leshner, and James Hansen.

Much of the global warming debate is perhaps best described as a constant outbidding by frantic campaigners, producing a barrage of ever - more scary scenarios in an attempt to get the public to accept their civilisation - changing proposals.

Which brings me to the point that surely you can agree with Jennifer on: In general the public debate should involve a lot more looking at the actual data (cf. business & economics reporting) than the «meta - debate» we so often see currently, and specifically that «ultimately, good policy is going to require that a much larger percentage of Australians have a higher level of scientific literacy.»

Though later submitted as an independent bill in response to public pressure, the land reform was discussed in a lightning parliamentary session, which did not allow for much substantive debate.

Through a recent tweet from Omar Ha - Redeye (@OmarHaRedeye), we learned that private member's Bill C - 304, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (protecting freedom) passed third reading in the House of Commons without much media coverage, public attention or debate from the opposition parties.