Sentences with phrase «of local debates»

It's no longer a focused national debate about high standards; it's hundreds of local debates, about everything from student privacy rights to cursive handwriting to computerized testing to the value of Shakespeare.

There has also been a lot of local debate about whether global activist funds will increasingly eye entering the Australian market.

Not exact matches

«This review will look at the sustainability of the national, regional and local press, how content creators are appropriately rewarded for their online creations, and ensure that the UK has a vibrant, independent and plural free press as one of the cornerstones of our public debate.»

«As Nextdoor has become one of the places where neighbors talk about how to make their local communities better, it is natural for the issue of race to be discussed and debated,» Tolia writes in the post.

Researchers, tech companies, academics — both local and foreign — debate how these policies will affect the evolution of the business environment in China.

Over the weekend, in a debate on local television, Ms. Lesko called for an investigation into the claims of sexual misconduct by Mr. Trump, a striking statement from a candidate who had otherwise praised the president.

The debate got louder Thursday when members of Iron Workers Local 86 showed up at a rally in front of Amazon headquarters called by a socialist city council member.

Generally there are a number of larger issues that will shape the larger debate, like (hopefully an end to the never ending debate about) the closure of the City Centre Airport or the financing of Daryl Katz «s downtown arena — but so much about municipal politics falls under the old adage «all politics is local.»

Finally, this session I spent considerable time debating the changes that the Christy Clark government was making to the legislation on the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.2 million.

The conservatives love to put this in to a «local» and «neighborhood» kind of debate and apply it to the national level.

Arthur Paul Boers focuses on pastoral leadership; Lillian Daniel offers a moving reflection on liturgy, a congregation's division over a war - resolution debate, and a surprising instance of local church triumphalism; and Eugene McCarraher argues that the church is the political community within which Christians must debate war and peace.

However, I'm honestly scared of suggesting to a local preacher that we have a «debate» where it's actually a long homily on how we can try to prepare for a supposed heaven but should still make the NOW a happy place.

It laid the foundation for a debate of the situation facing communications, drew up lines for its democratic development and stimulated strengthening and self - development of local cultures.

Thus the most heated debates in recent General Councils of the Assemblies of God have centered on efforts to qualify local sovereignty in favor of district and national councils.

They should provide hanging spaces for artists, venues for music of all types, forums for discussions and debates, classes for expectant mothers... whatever gifts there are in the local community, the church should be the place where these gifts can be exchanged or shared.»

yea, we have been having a lot of debate about this at our local Atheist Association.

CNN: Twitter blocks content of German neo-Nazi group Twitter will withhold content from a neo-Nazi account at the request of German authorities, the first time it has put into action a policy of local censorship it adopted in January and a step that will probably reignite debate over freedom of expression on the Internet.

Networks are under constant pressure from their affiliate stations to provide programming which is uncontroversial for each affiliate's local viewing area and which will not involve the affiliate station in debates that could involve the provision of expensive answering time under the FCC equal - access requirement.

After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.

«We continue to hear from many people on the debate over sexuality that our current Discipline contains language which is contradictory, unnecessarily hurtful, and inadequate for the variety of local, regional and global contexts,» the proposal said.

Fueled by local prejudice and nativist traditions, it continued to deepen the divide between the heirs of the Reformation debates.

(CNN)- Twitter will withhold content from a neo-Nazi account at the request of German authorities, the first time it has put into action a policy of local censorship it adopted in January and a step that will probably reignite debate over freedom of expression on the Internet.

I was at my local grocery store debating a purchase of coconut oil because of you - but found myself confused with all the options.

An hour of current affairs background and debate from Australia and the world every Monday to Friday, 12:05 pm, ABC Local Radio and Radio National.

We'll we want to open up a couple of heated debates here at COS, and we're hoping the local commentariat can help us settle the score.

Precisely why they're nicknamed the Grecians is the subject of some debate, though according to Exeter Memories the «likeliest explanation is that the local boys of St Sidwell's fought the boys of the city during the annual beating of the bounds... Because the St Sidwell boys were outside the city wall the were referred to as though they were Greeks outside the walls of Troy.»

Senior writer Richard Hoffer wrote in SI's 50th Anniversary Issue, in 2003, that sports «evolved from a local flavor to a national appetite... and suddenly, all sorts of people could talk to one another, volatile debates defused by a shared passion for sports.»

The author claims that ITSSD's analyses were an effort to inject «rational discourse into the heated emotional and ideological debate that Baby Milk Action has fomented, with the help of local UN agency offices, to frighten the public into believing what the organization and the UN wishes them to believe.»

As land west of Orland Park becomes ready for development, the village «s effort to define «a one - acre lot «is quickly escalating into a heated debate among builders, residents and local officials.

Rather, ITSSD's publishing of its analyses was an effort to inject rational discourse into the heated emotional and ideological debate that Baby Milk Action has fomented, with the help of local UN agency offices, to frighten the public into believing what the organization and the UN wishes them to believe.

Emerging arenas of contestation will likely be driven by territorialism and identity that will redefine the tone and tenor of political debate both within the House of Commons and in local constituencies.

Questions - Communities and Local Government, including Topical Questions Motions - Relating to the Backbench Business Committee, Committee on Standards and Committee of Privileges, Code of Conduct, All - party groups, Scrutiny of certain draft orders Adjournment debate - Provision of Traveller sites in Bournemouth and Poole, Dorset

Questions - electoral register and young people, Severn Barrage, European Development Fund Debate - local government finance settlement Debate - impact on families of changes to tax and benefits Short debate - use of online tools, including social media, to combat youth unemplDebate - local government finance settlement Debate - impact on families of changes to tax and benefits Short debate - use of online tools, including social media, to combat youth unemplDebate - impact on families of changes to tax and benefits Short debate - use of online tools, including social media, to combat youth unempldebate - use of online tools, including social media, to combat youth unemployment

«After months of discussion and debate in Washington, I feel even more strongly today that any final tax plan that strips away our ability to deduct state and local taxes is a bad deal for New York,» Flanagan said.

For local policy geeks, yesterday's debate over government consolidation was the Ali - Frazier of Syracuse.

One of the most striking aspects in the current debate on devolution in the North of England is that the main actors (local governments, leaders» boards, political parties, business organisations, etc.) seem to work in isolation — each devising their own plans, often irrespective (or wary) of the positions of the others.

«There are few parts of this bill that have caused such concern at local level and, indeed, where the impacts are so serious,» Kerslake said during the debate.

Federal and local authorities have arrested and deported hundreds of suspected MS - 13 members since four young men were killed in the woods behind a Central Islip soccer field a year ago, thrusting the community into the national immigration debate.

Trump's threat to veto funding for a new rail tunnel into New York City is showing — as it did in last year's tax debate — that Republicans from the region don't necessarily have the ear of a president whom they consider a local.

At 11:30 a.m., in advance of debate on the 2018 Farm Bill, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney will convene dozens of Hudson Valley hunger organizations to discuss his priorities for hunger programs in the bill and seek input from local experts, Fishkill Farms, 9 Fishkill Farm Rd., Hopewell Junction.

Instead, on 2 December 1987 in committee, Conservative MP David Wilshire proposed an amendment to the new Local Government Bill, as not yet passed, debated as Clause 27 and later as Clause 28, intended to be equivalent to the Earl of Halsbury's Bill.

During the one - hour event — the first of at least 10 debates and forums that the Faso campaign has agreed to — Faso highlighted his record as a fiscal hawk, his deep roots in the district and outlined a series of policy proposals to streamline government, eliminate burdens on business to kick - start the local economy and reform Washington's fiscal chaos.

In the major debates of the past two or three years, the Orange Book tendency has whittled away at broadly centre - left policies on, for example, public spending, income - tax rates and the role of local government in education.

[8] In 2011, Turley founded a consultancy and online forum ProgLoc (Progressive Localism) for progressive debate of key issues affecting local government, [9][10][11] and became an associate researcher for the NGO Future of London.

«We picked somebody that transcends a lot of the partisan debates,» said local Republican operative Rich Crist, who managed McLaughlin's run for county executive.

While leading the debate on the motion, Senator Danjuma La'ah said, «on the 23rd December, 2016 and even as we speak, communities of Ambam, Gaska, Dangoma, Tsonje, Pasankori, Gidan Waya and Farin Gada of Jama'a and Kaura local government area have been under serious attack by the herdsmen, resulting in several deaths, injuries, and wanton destruction of properties worth billions of naira».

These shrines are venerated by local Muslims, although there has always been a debate within Islam in west Africa about the place of shrines and saints in religious observance.

For those looking for more nuance, detail and depth in analysing the changing position of China and Africa in the international system, I recommend visiting the website of the Oxford University China - Africa Network, which I convene and is currently hosting a series of debates between African public intellectuals on what Chinese investment means for local economic conditions from Mauritania to South Africa.

Devolution in Scotland followed a decade - long debate involving a wide range of organisations in civil society; «devo Manc» is the result of confidential bargains between the Treasury and a small group of local deal - makers, mostly on the City Council.

The most popular questions that emerge from the various group sessions would then be put up for debate as a live hustings by local representatives of the presidential candidates» parties in front of all the attendees.