Sentences with phrase «now in political debates»

Yet, the idea that a machine can tell us whether someone is telling the truth is a persistent idea, reflected on television and now in political debates.

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.

The pressure is now on CNN, according to Sesno, to ensure that next week's debate questions move beyond America's fascination with Trump's personality to take a harder look at candidate Trump's actual political plans, while also giving his rival candidates more time in the spotlight.

If you think political debate in this country is poisoned and acrimonious now, wait until the next recession.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

Kennedy's decision, now the law of the land, forces us to ask a series of critically important questions: Are citizens» whether Protestants, Catholics, Jews, or Mormons» who seek to apply transcendent moral values to public life welcome in political, legal, and cultural debates?

We will be devoting future posts to discussing the biblical and political aspects of this issue, at which time we are free to whip out our Bibles and constitutions and engage in civil debate... but now is not the time.

Now, more than ever, we need you to stay loud, as political debate about live export intensifies in the lead up to the election.

Economists, though, now say that soaring global wheat and corn prices will soon be felt in Japan, potentially complicating the country's economic recovery and forcing debate on a complex set of social and political issues.

And, as the party's state director Bill Lipton writes in a fundraising email, the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 is now at the forefront of the national political dicussion.

The United States Political eras are called «Party Systems» and it is presently debated if we are in the Fifth, Sixth, or even Seventh Party System (basically, we are between an old and new era, but experts aren't quite sure if the Fifth system ended and the Sixth System occured or if the Fifth System was really long and the Sixth System is just now forming).

Washington (CNN)- As two of the three candidates in a special election to fill a vacant congressional seat in upstate New York get ready to debate, another major national political organization has jumped into the ad wars, another sign that a once semi-obscure local election is now firmly in the national spotlight.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

It is also the only political force that proposes radical solutions to climate change, a problem that is here with us now and can no longer be debated in the abstract.

The debate about whether we should have positions reserved for religious figures in the House of Lords is for another day but for now the fact remains, until we have women bishops, women in the UK do not have full political emancipation.

They are now set to launch a concerted campaign to brand Cameron as a «recognisably rightwing» leader in a move that will inevitably inflame political debate.

«They rarely succeed in electing a candidate to office, but they broaden political debate and thus test mainstream assumptions... For the most part, they would go on losing in June just as they now lose in November.»

But now, at the point in the political cycle where they have most leeway, the reluctance to debate and resolve differences limits their influence within the Coalition.

Following months of lively debate among education, civic, and political leaders, the Massachusetts board of education approved plans Tuesday to replace the state's own English / language arts and mathematics standards with a common set of teaching guidelines now being approved in states across the nation.

The continued debate over charter schools, which are now permitted in 40 states and the District of Columbia, has political overtones.

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series, now in paperback, grounds Lawrence's work in the cultural and political debates that shaped his art and demonstrates its relevance for artists and writers today.

«This is not a technical book on climate change, as others have said, however if you want your opinion on the AGW debate to be an informed one or are interested in the political forces even now shaping the future global climate, this is essential reading.»

Let me repeat — the same scientific debates, political responses, and policy issues that are on the table now have been in the public record for more than a DECADE.

CAGW was a political debate then, it was a political debate in 1988, and it is a political debate now.

They are in a different realm, one where they must now win the political debate.

A climate researcher for decades, he had long been in the midst of political and scientific debates over global warming, tirelessly urging political leaders and the public to take action now to avoid disasters such as rising sea levels in the future.

Climate sensitivity is an interesting discussion, but completely irrelevant in terms of the current political debate, because even the lowest remotely plausible climate sensitivity would fully justify the most aggressive mitigation now under discussion.

The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).

Supporters said the accord puts off for now fierce political debates about how or even whether to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that collect in the atmosphere and create a greenhouse effect that warms the earth's surface.

On the plus side, countries like Britain now have something like a «mainstream» politics of climate — mainstream in the sense that the major political parties compete in pledging their commitment to green growth, and the issue is extensively debated in the news media.

Three leading constitutional scholars will debate campaign finance reform in a live webcast Friday, April 11, 7 p.m. Scheduled to participate are Bruce Ackerman, Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale University Law School, and Kenneth Starr, former independent counsel and now adjunct professor at the NYU School of Law and partner at Kirkland & Ellis, Washington D.C. Douglas Kmiec, dean and St.Thomas More professor of law at the Catholic University School of Law, will moderate the event.

Three leading constitutional scholars will debate campaign finance reform in a live webcast Friday, April 11, 7 p.m. Scheduled to participate are Bruce Ackerman, Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale University Law School, and Kenneth Starr, former independent counsel and now adjunct professor at the NYU School of Law and partner at -LSB-...]

Now they're expanding that to include anyone who buys an ad about «issues» — as in, political topics debated across the country.

Facebook VPs Rob Goldman and Alex Himel wrote in a post to the company's blog that in addition to their previously announced plan to only let verified users run electoral ads, that requirement will now be extended «to anyone that wants to show «issue ads» — like political topics that are being debated across the country.»

As regular readers of this blog now, there is an on - going debate about balancing Social Emotional Learning interventions with ensuring that these practices don't act as a replacement for needed economic, social and political policy changes (see The Best Resources Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn't Enough and, in particular, my Washington Post piece, The Manipulation of Social Emotional Learning, to learn more about this discussion).