Sentences with phrase «national debate questioning»

The former Sheffield United forward's proposed move back into football after he was convicted and served two and a half years behind bars for rape has been a particularly divisive and controversial one with an almost national debate questioning whether anyone who has committed such an abhorrent sex crime should be allowed to return to a lucrative and privileged position in football.

Not exact matches

«After years in which Republicans were more confident than Democrats in debating gun - control questions, the issue now energizes each side's coalition,» political analyst Ron Brownstein wrote in the National Journal in January.

Earlier this year, he notoriously tussled with U.S. National Security Agency director Michael Rogers over the question of whether law enforcement should have access to peoples» private communications, a debate now raging between Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley.

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

A national strike by the nation's millions of working mothers would shift the debate from whether mothers should work to an intriguing question: whether the nation can get along without their contributions in the workplace.

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As I do so I want to stress now that these are not policy prescriptions; they are questions that we as a country need to ask in a sensible national debate.

As the three candidates vying to replace Angus Robertson as Scottish National party deputy leader appear at crowded hustings events across the country, one question is dominating the debate: when should the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, call another independence referendum?

As oil accounts for 95 % of Libya's export earnings, and the industry contributes to over 70 % of national GDP, these questions will surely dominate the debate over Libya's future over the months to come.

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OurKingdom continually covers the shaping constitutional and democratic implications of the UK's national question, but this was a moment for a dedicated high intensity debate, as we welcomed «The Scottish Spring».

As the debate unfolded the questions consisted of too much historical and philosophical minutia seemingly tailor - made to make Libertarians seem hopelessly eccentric to a national audience, far too little dealing with the news and concerns of the 2016 election.

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The debate comes as the presidential campaign and the national debate writ large are convulsing over questions of race and gender in the United States.

We open with a conversation with Deb Hughes, CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House, about the GOP debate's question regarding putting a woman on the $ 10 bill.

Bill Weihl, Google's «clean energy czar,» said his company undertook the study out of a combination of self - interest, commitment to cleaner energy, and frustration with a national energy policy debate that seems to ask a lot of wrong questions.

October 30, 2015 • Cutting a debate tie with NBC News, the Republican National Committee cites «inaccurate or downright offensive» questions during Wednesday night's debate on CNBC.

The development of voucher programs in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida has fostered a serious national debate over a question that once could be discussed only on the outer margins of politics.

National debates over teaching of evolution or global warming, as well questioning funding for contraception show the US to be out of step with other developed countries.

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Union of Teachers (NUT) and National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) have joined together to question the academy plans and welcome the Labor Party's move to secure a debate in the House of Commons.

Much of the current national debate regarding the recent inflow of unaccompanied minors from Central America has focused on questions of shelter and removal.

With the Common Core State Standards Initiative likely to release the final version of its English and mathematics standards in early June, and states having to decide whether or not to adopt them, a crucial question has been neglected in the public policy debate: Is there good reason to believe that national standards will improve educational outcomes?

One of the most - hotly debated questions is how strong is the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers compared to the school reform movement.

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.»

How much homework is appropriate for students is a question that's sparked national debate over the years.

But now, as we move to the next level of accountability, this reform «miracle» is being called into question by discrepancies leading to allegations of fraud in dropout reporting as well as the preliminary results of the new, more rigorous, Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, which, depending on your perspective, reflect either a lack of true student achievement progress in many areas or a backsliding in progress previously reported.Recently, this debate was sharpened with the release of the results in five major U. S. cities of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, in which Houston participated on a voluntary basis, and the results were mixed at best.

«After the horrific events in Charlottesville and the desecration of The New England Holocaust Memorial and the ensuing national debate about political extremism, many students have returned to their classrooms with questions and concerns,» said Roger Brooks, President and CEO of Facing History and Ourselves.

The authors looked to national surveys of charter and private schools and interviews with leading charter and private school networks for their answers to major questions that animate the current debates over teacher pay in public schools.

Next, the panel debates whether the U.S. should make the pickup truck the «national vehicle», and they try to help two viewers with tire questions.

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.

The event produced written questions and answers in the House of Commons and a tirade of abuse from the national press, not to mention a topic for debate on the radio programme Any Qquestions and answers in the House of Commons and a tirade of abuse from the national press, not to mention a topic for debate on the radio programme Any QuestionsQuestions.

Sherald's portrait of Obama, revealed last month at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has been the subject of debate, with some critics arguing that the portrait doesn't resemble the former First Lady at all and others arguing that Sherald's point was to question the way black women have been represented throughout art history.

Given the AAMD's awkward past experience in imposing sanctions on New York's National Academy of Design for its deaccessions in 2008, the question of how the association should treat scofflaws was much debated.

We explore these questions through the lens of contemporary arts practice; creating a space for difference, debate and imagination in Ireland's year of national reflection.»

The organizers of the debate have been accumulating thousands of endorsements — including those of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science — and hundreds of possible questions, as well, which can be explored on their Web site.

A leading question in the debate over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska is whether wilderness can coexist with oil wells on America's only Arctic coast.

Because debates about climate change policy formation at the national level have often ignored questions of equity and fairness, there is a need to publicize how debates at the national level about proposed climate change policies acknowledge or ignore questions of equity, ethics, and distributive justice.

The ongoing debate about its impact raises questions about the the vested interests of climate science by Kevin Libin, National Post

From his viewpoint, this cooperation is the right way «to move the whole debate [about the relationship between the ECJ and national constitutional courts] forward», which is «actually more important» than these conceptual questions [about the scope of primacy of EU law] that are really only of interest to professors at universities» but that «do not make much of a difference in actual practice».

But as the healing effort begins, one question is whether Google and other Silicon Valley companies will be even more vocal in the ongoing national debate over gun control.

According to the annotated programme of work issued in early March, the meeting will open on Monday, 13 April with a general exchange of views for delegations to highlight questions from the 2014 CCW experts meeting and share their positions on the development of national policy and legal provisions as well as «expectations regarding the international debate.»

An avid supporter of the National Rifle Association, he did not mention the renewed debate over gun violence, ignoring a shouted question about gun laws.

The scandal reminded some viewers of the time interim Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile shared debate questions with Hillary Clinton ahead of the March 2016 Democratic primary debate that aired on CNN.