Sentences with phrase «national debate on»

Over this time, reconciliation has introduced a greater focus on the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians and opened up a national debate on prejudice, discrimination and racism.

This argument undermines the guns - as - resistance - to - tyranny myth at the heart of the gun rights movement, and it needs to be part of our fevered — and deeply consequential — national debate on the true intent of the Founders.

It also revived a contentious national debate on gun control.

Amid a heated national debate on sexual assault, an Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of sexually assaulting a fellow PhD student, saying the trial judge relied on «rape literature» and his own opinions on sexual assault in his judgment.

Around the same time, another high - profile case led to a major constitutional challenge, and a very national debate on the topic of assisted suicide.

Criminal barristers in particular have a significant contribution to make in any national debate on the CJS.

In a statement issued on January 8, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said that the proposal was «intended» to initiate a national debate on the resiliency of the electric system.

A true national debate on the single most important threat we face would begin.

You and you alone can «re-center» our national debate on issues like the unsustainability of increasing conspicuous per - human over-consumption of limited resources; the unsustainability of skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers; and the soon to become patently unsustainable, seemingly endless growth of large - scale industrial / corporate activities, now threatening to engulf the surface of the planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm.

Several influential people in the national debate on climate said that whatever legislative proposals come next, they must guarantee that polluters pay, while average citizens are protected from the higher energy costs that would unavoidably come with a fast move away from burning fossil fuels.

Don \» t Shoot poster reflects the national debate on the Ferguson, Missouri shooting on August 9, 2014.

An introduction to the New York photographer whose controversial images fuelled a national debate on the boundaries of art

Serrano received international attention for the scandal around his work Piss Christ (1987), igniting a national debate on the freedom of artistic expression and the public financing of controversial artworks.

As a student, she co-founded Free Cooper Union, helping coordinate the lock - in, occupation, and other creative actions which framed Cooper's crisis as part of a national debate on education.

That's because we need to address the process - side questions before we can launch the national debate on the content - side issues that we need to have to bring the economic crisis to an end and to become far more effective investors.

But if, life me, you have wondered for years why his revolutionary findings have not yet launched a national debate on how stock investing really works, I think you will be able to read between the lines and obtain the answer by listening to his words.

I am hopeful that the financial pain that has been caused by this mistake had now grown large enough that we are going to be able to get some responsible people involved in the effort to start a national debate on the realities of stock investing.

French Culture Minister and former publisher Françoise Nyssen has said that a national debate on reading will be held in France next March, and that she... Read more

A number of other landmark cases before and after the Native Title Act have served as the legal forum for a major national debate on the nation's colonial past and the politics of race.

Written by Daniela Mantilla, Program Associate (more about Daniela) The national debate on teacher quality has put a spotlight on teacher evaluation — on its importance and the poor state of the status quo in reflecting an evaluation system...

Parents Across America supports the broadened dialogue and analysis that Chicago teachers and parents have helped bring to the forefront of the national debate on our schools.

It also revived a contentious national debate on gun control.

Its mission is to bring accurate data and careful, objective analysis to the national debate on education policy.

«We are in a period of intense national debate on issues of school performance, one that has been largely critical of our teachers,» said Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, co-author of the report.

Another report, «Pathways to Prosperity,» has added fuel to the national debate on how to help all youth, not just the college - bound, transition successfully from school to work.

A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year for a decade, has sufficed to define the national debate on education; sustain a crusade for a set of mostly ill - conceived reforms; and determine public policy at the local, state, and national levels.

The impact of the opt - out movement has been significant, sparking a national debate on the value of the tests and forcing administrators and policymakers to address it.

With tensions from Ferguson, Mo. stirring yet another national debate on race relations, LA Unified is distributing an informational packet, «Engaging Students in Peaceful Dialogues about Conflict and Bias,» with a goal of helping solicit questions or concerns from students in «a neutral, safe and respectful space for constructive dialogue.»

A national debate on race was triggered last year when a black teenager was killed by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson.

One problem: The landmark document that still shapes our national debate on education was misquoted, misinterpreted, and often dead wrong.

We joined with the K - School to host a national debate on language policy and politics, with Ron Unz and Congressman Mike Honda facing off at the Institute of Politics.

The recent national debate on school reform has made us keenly aware of the gross and systematic disparities that exist in educational opportunity across the United States.

Nashville, Tenn — Mary H. Futrell, president of the National Education Association has told Gov. Lamar Alexander — whose proposal last spring for a statewide «master - teacher» program helped catalyze the national debate on school reform — that by working with the Tennessee Education Association he can develop a «model reform package.»

This «PISA shock» led to national debate on how best to reform Germany's complex education system.

«Dean Murphy has been at the center of the national debate on school reform, and he has encouraged active engagement by faculty and students with critical issues in the field of education.

The heated national debate on complex issues related to health care was ignited by the implementation the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) in January 2014.

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

The Chief Psychiatrist of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Akwasi Osei, has condemned calls for a national debate on the legalisation of marijuana in the country, describing it as «a dangerous call».

Mr Carmichael concluded «it is clear a national debate on road pricing is underway» and called on the incoming prime minister to make his position clear.

It also follows the national debate on discriminatory policing set office when an officer in Ferguson, Mo., Darren Wilson, shot an unarmed Michael Brown.

To make the Tories a smaller target, minimise the potential for distracting internal conflict and focus the national debate on the two areas where David Cameron is confident he has the beating of Ed Miliband: leadership and the economy.

Separately, Vlasto told me the other books are about how New York legalized same - sex marriage, which was a watershed moment in the national debate on that issue, and Cuomo's term as New York attorney general.

Labour must face down the Tories and set its own terms for a national debate on nuclear weapons.

This predicted growth in demand has prompted a national debate on how best to provide more capacity in the future for London and the South East.

We are convinced that this is only a euphemism for the wholesale privatization of both vital state power companies and we urge President Akufo Addo to come clear on the matter to foster proper national debate on the subject.

J.D.S., 23, and her unborn child spent the summer at the center of a statewide scandal over treatment of the developmentally disabled and a national debate on fetal rights.

Your chance is coming to take part in a national debate on fatherhood, based on a major BBC series.

«I don't want to have a national debate on freedom of religion when my purpose is to defend... a city ordinance.»

In a twist on the hotly contested national debate on church - state matters, the Supreme Court will decide whether a teacher at a religious school can sue under a federal law against workplace discrimination.

This doesn't matter when we're trying to ignore a national debate on the color of a blue / gold dress, but it definitely matters when we're scrolling past stories of sexual violence as if they're any other social media moment — intimate, distant, easily discarded.