Sentences with phrase «of civil conversation»

For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and women.

But in his Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990)-- where he notes that a university represents a «universe» of discourse only where rival and antagonistic views are afforded the opportunity both to develop their own positions and to debate other viewpoints — he implies that his quasi-Benedictine community will be one of civil conversation across the barricades.

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After a civil conversation, it became apparent that the two of us had different visions of how this relationship was going to work out, and thus had completely different expectations.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has long been a force in American politics, but it wasn't always the kind of organization that came up in everyday conversation.

Cayton helped Alvin, in turn, deal with his anger, and over a period of months the father and son were able to start having civil, if strained, conversations.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

Senate Democrats tracked down a career Justice Department employee named J. Gerald Hebert, who testified, albeit reluctantly, that in a conversation between the two men Sessions had labelled the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) «un-American» and «Communist - inspired.»

«Starbucks has sought engagement and counsel to ensure it has a broad historical view on race; access to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experts; views from civil rights leaders; and deep conversation and engagement with a wide number of diverse communities.»

When I talk to people of faith in the real world, I try to keep it respectful in the hope that the conversation remains civil.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was so in the culture, we could have a conversation about this, a substantive, civil, sober conversation on the meaning of life and the nature of reality.

The resulting dialogs represent some of the most productive and civil conversations on the blogosphere.

So if that is the case, why do I have such a humanitarian heart, compassion to those that are even of evil doing, forgiving to those who do wrongs against me, and why is my conversations on issues in my life with Christ the utmost civil and peaceful?

The NFL Players» Union issued a statement defending its members right to free speech, saying «It is a source of enormous pride that some of the best conversations about these issues have taken place in our locker rooms in a respectful, civil and thoughtful way that should serve as a model for how all of us can communicate with each other.

The most effective voices we can bring to this conversation will come from women who are funny, smart, civil and so informed about the content and context of Scripture that they can respond with wit and wisdom whenever it is used against them.

As they move toward what they thought was the center of culture, which turns out to have no center, they have become recognized partners in the conversation that passes for civil discourse.

Civil conversation has become uncivil argument and hatred, on both sides of so many discussions.

Employers and their HR departments should be cognizant of the possibility that employees» conversations on these polarizing topics, which are also closely intertwined with protected classes under civil rights laws, can elicit emotional reactions from employees and customers alike.

The beauty of the Internet is that it can encourage conversations — civil conversations — from various viewpoints.

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It can be really easy to relax our hold on civil conversation in the heat of the moment and hard to make up for it afterward.

This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.

A senator who did attend last night's meeting said it the conversation was civil and «mature,» unlike Cuomo's get - together with the Assembly Democrats, which apparently got a little heated on the topic of the millionaire's tax.

(Airs 5/10/18 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock in a 2010 encore conversation with the late Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist Syndey Schanberg and Actor Sam Waterston about the Killing Fields, the movie inspired by Schanberg's coverage of the civil war in Cambodia during the 1970s.

At 6 p.m., Sen. Liz Krueger will host a conversation with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, discussing his work to challenge Trump Administration policies on a host of issues from immigration to the environment to civil and voting rights.

The Akim Oda MP, William Quaitoo, tendered in his resignation in August 2017, following pressure from the Minority, and some civil society groups for making ethnocentric comments, which was triggered during a conversation on how government has dealt with the fall army worm invasion in the three regions of the North.

The Akim Oda MP tendered in his resignation on Thursday, following pressure from the Minority, and some civil society groups for making ethnocentric comments, which was triggered during a conversation on how government has dealt with the fall army worm invasion in the three regions of the North.

Participating in the conversation were Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; Joan Steitz, a molecular biophysicist at Yale University who studies RNA; Shirley Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system.

Bertolaso was implicated by a recording of a phone conversation between himself and a regional civil protection officer that took place a week before the earthquake.

We welcome this opportunity for dialogue and expect that our conversation will follow the general rules of respectful civil discourse.

Some highlights of the conversation include the Joel Silver cameo, the notion that Roger Rabbit is a film about civil rights, and the fact that Steven Spielberg paved the way for an unprecedented cooperation between Disney and Warner Brothers to gain access to so many cartoon characters.

In it, T'Challa reminisces about the conversation he had with his father about inheriting both the throne and the Panther's duties with Zuri, unable to quite let go of the regret he feels about his father's untimely passing in Captain America: Civil War.

He had the pulse of the mid-decade sea change from the relative conservatism of the»50s, having clearly been cognizant of the long burn of the Civil Rights conversation and the constant, fraying wear - and - tear of HUAC and the Cold War.

Some of Morgan's best writing lies here, within a conversation shared between Elizabeth and the abdicated Edward; where he describes the nature of a ruler as, «half - people... the two sides within us, human and crown engaged in a fearful civil war, which never ends.»

«As we were doing the movie and we were in post and [the Russos] were getting ready to head out to Atlanta to do «Civil War,» we had a lot of conversations,» said Reed.

One night during a routine evacuation, she overhears a conversation about a plot to assassinate the dictator of a civil war - torn African nation.

In A Quiet Passion, the «deepening menace» of death creeps around the outer edges of the frame, butting its way into casual conversation and sometimes interrupting the flow of events, as during a quick tally of the Civil War's inconceivable body count.

Try as they might to understand one another or even have a civil conversation, the lack of a common grammar keeps them perpetually on edge.

Extension Activity: You might have students work on their own or in their groups to use some of the new vocabulary to write a brief conversation that might have taken place on or near the Civil War battlefield.

Similarly, No Child Left Behind's left - leaning supporters like the Education Trust, Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, and Council of the Great City Schools, which are all concerned about the achievement gap, do not enter the Winerip conversation either.

The ideas in the poem started a conversation about current and historical civil rights movements and how the disparate concepts of playgrounds and elegies could relate.

They fear Congress will strip core provisions of the law but hope that the national conversation about race sparked by recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City will help keep a spotlight on civil rights.

So while it's tempting to frame the fight in New York as a perilous fight between Democratic education reformers and «the de Blasio wing» of the party, public charter schools are just too local to drive a national political conversation — let alone a serious civil war within the Democratic party.

An array of education leaders had a hard - hitting but remarkably civil conversation about race and school reform at AEI this week.

The campaign «will run through the end of 2016 and focus on elevating Black voices and stakeholders from the civil rights and charter communities, dispelling myths and putting the focus of this conversation back on what works for children.»

Many of my conversations with our elders, especially people of color who were active through the Civil Rights era, have been grounding.

Meanwhile the federal government wished to stay out of the civil rights conversation altogether.

In this conversation Dr. Fuller — a civil rights activist and champion for the people of New Orleans, spoke candidly about education reform in New Orleans and the need to empower the communities most impacted by reform efforts over the past 10 years.

Perhaps most offensive of all, we equate the need for high stakes testing, and command - and - control policies, with the obligation to ensure the protection of the civil rights for our most at - risk children without any conversation about the funding, or even more necessary, accountability for those holding others accountable.

Liz King, senior policy analyst and director of education policy for The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said «All children deserve to be safe and treated fairly in schools, but that goal can not be achieved by undermining their civil rights or excluding their communities from conversations about their saCivil and Human Rights, said «All children deserve to be safe and treated fairly in schools, but that goal can not be achieved by undermining their civil rights or excluding their communities from conversations about their sacivil rights or excluding their communities from conversations about their safety.

During their roundtable discussion with Secretary DeVos, civil rights advocates expressed their frustration about the absence of diverse communities in the conversation, their continued objection to anti-civil rights actions by the department, and their continued support for vital guidance on nondiscrimination in school discipline.