Sentences with phrase «of debating societies»

- Usable in virtually any subject after customisation - Perfect for starting philosophical debates and discussions Designed and used by an experienced P4C instructor and organiser of debating societies.

This works best with a smaller group of students and could be used as part of a debating society.

However, I'm prepared to accept your claims that you believe this group to constitute nothing more than a sort of debating society of like - minded folk, and that the similarity of your positions is merely a case of happy coincidence.

CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT AND VOLUNTEER WORK • Active member of the science and business clubs • Worked as a community server at the SOS Children's Village for three months • Active member of the debating society • Managed workshops for educational development • Captain of the university soccer team

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Reasonable people can debate the costs to society of the current federal government shutdown.

Silicon Valley VC Says Debates About Work - Life Balance Are «Concerns of a Society That Is Becoming Unhinged»

It was aimed at critics of the deal known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, including left - leaning politicians in Europe as well as the clamouring anti-trade civil society movement, as an «unambiguous statement» to assuage concerns over «provisions that have been the object of public debate and concerns.»

«While his contributions to deep questions in physics were profound, he also contributed to a wide array of extremely important contemporary debates and issues — things such as artificial intelligence, the building of a fair society, pitfalls and problems thrown up by disruptive technologies of tomorrow.

Manet, Monet, Degas, Cezanne, their peers, mentors, and legacies — to pick one of countless lineages — provoked discussion and debate in their time and affected society and culture forever.

The debate over migrants has polarized society right across Italy, ahead of its election this weekend.

What disaster will result from the normalization of stupid lies and nonsense as a benchmark for debate over how society should function?

Fake news, filter bubbles, the «post-truth society,» and the decline of trust in the media are dominating the public debate.

In a sign that tragedy often does not move the polarized debate over guns in society, Florida's House of Representatives voted Tuesday to kill a bill banning AR - 15 rifles, assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

That's why the recent debate about tweaking it to tackle online sex trafficking pitted some of the biggest online players against the interests of some of the most vulnerable victims in our society.

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during -LSB-...]

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during renegotiations.

On February 9th, 2017, the Runnymede Society of McGill University's Faculty of Law held a debate on the patent system, whether it encourages or stifles innovation.

I do not debate any longer with members of the «Flat Earth Society» either.

He's on one side of a long - standing debate in the church about how to build a decent society.

This seems to be one of those issues, increasingly prevalent in our society, about which debate is not possible: The answer depends on one's overarching worldview.

Ongoing debates about the role of women in society and the Church show that Christianity and feminism have always been uneasy bedfellows.

Following the victory of the French resistance over the Nazi collaborationist Vichy regime in 1944, Albert Camus and the Catholic novelist François Mauriac debated how society should deal with the collaborators.

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.»

Similarly, MacIntyre has come up with a metaphor to explain exactly why it is that moral debate in today's society is so shrill and so rarely leads to consensus — why, in other words, society seems utterly incapable of coming to enough basic agreement in matters of ethics to enable it to deal with the moral chaos that surrounds us.

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

Members of the Society were responding with full force saying they were ready for an academic debate, not childish hysterics and name calling.

There is no doubt that the perfectionist ethics of the Sermon on the Mount have caused centuries of problem and debate within Christian churches and societies» but they also are indispensable to Christianity.

May we find Catholic bishops who have the courage and intellectual gifts to take the debate into the heart of our society, as Pope Benedict strives to do.

Applied to the question at hand, the debate thus proceeds on the unquestioned assumption that either human beings definitely are naturally religious, and so religion will always persist in human societies, or they are not naturally religious, and so modernity will inevitably secularize people and society as we shed the accidents of our cultural past.

We need to build appealing subcultures rather than advance our own version of the Great Society or spend all of our energy on roiling national debates that stand far apart from the everyday experience of those Americans who could most benefit from what we have to offer.

It is in this context that academic freedom finds meaning — it supports a plurality of voices and traditions (past and present) when debating what vision of human life maximizes flourishing, which is the ongoing project of any society that seeks to perpetuate itself.

I found Mgr Burke's article on justice to be a very relevant and thought - provoking topic of debate and discussion for our society at the moment.

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

On this matter see my debate with Angus Kerr - Lawson in «Overheard in Seville» The Bulletin of the Santayana Society, 1 (1984).

The church needs to be part of the debate about the relative investments that society should make to day care and tax relief as means of supporting the postmodern family.

You're certainly correct that we need to be clear about the terms we are talking about, for example the first two «we's in this sentence refer to you and I specifically, or generally anyone who is engaging in a debate / discussion — but when I said «If war is wrong, then it follows that we should never go to war» the «we» meant Christians, when I'm talking to you I agree that we are talking about what we as followers of Jesus should do, not just generally members of a given country or society should do.

George N. Boyd argues against the traditional position of the opponents of capital punishment that no crime ever «deserves» the death penalty, and suggests that the debate is not over what murderers deserve, but rather about how society should express and defend its fundamental values.

Thus, differing visions of the relationship of sex and society form one of the deep structures of the abortion debate.

In a series of articles and editorials that appeared in both magazines during 1977, differences of opinion over the church's involvement in society were defined and debated with little resolution.11 Although both sides refrained from labeling it merely a contemporary version of the debate between sixteenth century Anabaptism and sixteenth - century Calvinism, both recognized the importance their historical antecedents played in the discussion.

For the past few years I've been hearing a lot about gender roles as evangelicals debate the place of women in the home, church, and society.

The consortium describes the Templeton Foundation as having «made up to $ 3 million available for research grants to stimulate and sponsor new research insights directly pertinent to the «great debate» over purpose in the context of the emergence of increasing biological complexity, ranging from the biochemical level to the evolution of life andthe emergence of society and culture.»

The authors proclaimed that in this situation the long debate among Christians as to the more Christian way of ordering society is ended, and it is time now both to endorse corporate capitalism and to devote our Christian energies to working in and with it.

The first debate has to do with whether God ought to be considered a single actual entity or a personally ordered society of actual entities.

Its categories — such as «Christ against culture» and «Christ of culture» — have ever since been familiar reference points in the field of Christian ethics and in debates about how Christians and the church should engage matters of politics, society and culture.

The long record of racial mixing under slavery between masters and female slaves (as in the much - debated case of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings) produced populations that were so lightskinned that they passed into white society (as several of Sally Hemings» children did) and populations so darkskinned that they lost all memory of the white European genes they inherited.

problematic and a subject of individual opinion, that the Church has turned into an open debating society.

But I do wonder how much longer our society will stay trapped in a futile debate on sexuality limited to the moralists and the medicalists, neither of whom has much sense of the moral wisdom, compassionate understanding and sense of ambiguity available to us from the biblical tradition.

Without getting into the debate of homosexuality, we have become an extremely selfish, narcissistic society that demands we be «treated fairly».

The «agnostic society» is a society in which every man is his own arbiter of what is «reason» or «nature», and in which the only certainties to draw from in this unending debate are scientific, positivist, facts.

There is, as we have noted, a debate between those who define the last end of the Church individualistically as salvation of souls and those who think of it as the realization of the redeemed society.