Sentences with phrase «of much public debate»

However, he persevered and the questions he was among the first to raise are now the subject of much public debate.»

In the wake of much public debate over the anti-hate provisions of human rights legislation, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission applied to the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal the February 2010 Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decision, William Whatcott v. Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal.

The game's lack of sportsmanship became the topic of much public debate, with each side blaming the other for the lack of civility on the field.

The 12 - country Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), signed in October, is likely to be the subject of much public debate in the new year.

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Since then, additional high - profile studies have come out — including an article, published in the journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, which found no evidence that brain games improve everyday cognition — but the topic is still very much up for debate.

The big lesson of this cycle's debates: Stop underestimating the intelligence of the American public - Looking at the post-debate polls, the Romney that showed up at the debate made a much better impression than the «humanized» Romney of the Republican convention.

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.»

Much of the public debate takes shape around the perceived goals of busing, translated into slogans.

While the public vote has been the focus of much debate about the planned Islamic center and mosque, the commission can not prevent the developers from building such a community center.

As much, perhaps, as any other church - state question, the issue of religious symbols on public property has generated increasing concern and debate within the American Jewish community in recent years.

I am a father of two daughters — their futures are very much dependent on how this public debate pans out — they are my ultimate concern.

But as the debate over well water and lake water escalates, it's become difficult to tell just how much support there is for the Citizens proposal — and how much of a role a Chicago public relations firm hired by Citizens is playing in the promotional effort.

I give them kudos for putting some thoughts out there on a subject that has drawn much debate in the public affairs community as of late; however, I found the seven listed «tips to make sure you're reaching bloggers most efficiently» was walking the line between obvious and odd — «odd,» as in, «disturbingly oblivious to what I think most of us would consider standard good public affairs practices».

If anything, it is to be applauded that the debate has galvanised such high levels of engagement among the Scottish public, culminating in an expected turnout for the referendum of as much as 80 %.

Since that time, there has been much discussion and conjecture over the future of the Islands; however, in public debate at least, seldom have the views of the Falkland Islanders themselves been sought.

She offered a much more powerful and exciting sense of the possibilities of political life than I was getting, even from the communitarians in the liberal - communitarian debate, and certainly more so than the liberals, who are less committed to the public side of politics.

You dp, I think, pretty fairly typologise a new «liberalisms versus communitarians» debate, and the way in which (in public politics right now, perhaps les in theory, about which I know not much) which does seem somewhat different to the liberalism / communitarianism debate of the early mid-90s, though there are many echoes.

Nor do I think (pace Ian & Nina Graham) that useful structural instabilities of the sort I've tried to identify, that the chances for real debate are much diminished by the fact that Clegg and Cameron are both the products of Very Posh Public Schools.

His presence would provide a critical breadth to the debate, ensuring that a good range of voices are represented, as well as reminding a mostly - invisible but always - large swathe of the public that Labour still retains much of its old appeal, & that we are (as we can comfortably be a good 30 years after the Militant tendency) a truly welcoming political family.

«The only thing I can see is that the reality and the responsibility are sobering,» Paul Gioia, who served as chairman of the state Public Service Commission during much of the debate over Shoreham, told the New York Times in 1989.

Renewal of mayoral control will likely come at the end of session, which is scheduled for mid-June, as part of a larger deal and it's unclear how much public debate will take place.

Her period in the department was marked by much public debate about the future of television, about digital broadcasting and the structure and financing of the BBC.

This May will also see much of the public debate centre on the nature of our politics - thanks to the electoral reform referendum.

Jonathan Portes, professor of Economics and Public Policy at King's College London, author of Capitalism: 50 things you need to know, tweets at @jdportes 2016 has been in equal measure fascinating and horrifying for economists like me who believe that our discipline has much to contribute to public dPublic Policy at King's College London, author of Capitalism: 50 things you need to know, tweets at @jdportes 2016 has been in equal measure fascinating and horrifying for economists like me who believe that our discipline has much to contribute to public dpublic debate.

Re: The Truth About the County's Capital Project Budget for Parks Dear Mr. Potanavic, Thank you for inviting me and my fellow candidates to last night's debate, and for giving us the opportunity to present our views to an involved public who cares so much about the environmental issues that affect all of us.

On Thursday, the CFB approved a $ 1.52 million in public funds to be paid to Malliotakis» campaign, bolstering her campaign coffers which held only $ 162,950, giving her a much - needed boost ahead of the debate and the final six weeks of the general election.

Public Advocate James, who brought Brawley to the general election mayoral debate on Tuesday night as her guest, has also recently started calling for a much more ambitious overall program of building new affordable housing, putting forth ideas like building more over rail yards across the five boroughs.

Long notes one finding lost in much of the public debate: Just 6 percent of New Yorkers in this month's Quinnipiac poll said same - sex marriage should be the top issue in Albany.

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

The scientists believe that a public debate is now necessary to determine how much responsibility the state should accept and how much should remain with the residents of areas at risk of flooding.

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

We feature a small number of dissenting voices in our coverage, not because we seek to be impartial between «scientific fact and sceptic fiction», as Bob Ward suggests, but because reflecting the different sides of an ongoing debate is very much in the public interest.

There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.

Although much of the public debate is against it, there are pros associated with allowing cell phones in school.

Having built up such an on screen chemistry with fellow presenter Johnny Vaughan, Denise Van Outen's departure and Kelly Brook's arrival was of much trivial public debate.

Few topics stir up as much debate in the education sphere as steering public money in the form of vouchers to pay for students to attend private school.

For example, the much - debated issue of making in - state immigrants ineligible for in - state tuition costs at public colleges and universities.

Much of the debate about public and private schools suggests two monolithic armies poised to engage in bitter and decisive conflict on the field of battle.

The whole point is to encourage discussion and debate about the nature of responsible public engagement, how different folks fare, how much these things matter, and how to accurately measure a policy scholar's value.

At the same time, more senior scholars, like Gene Glass, Hank Levin, David Berliner, and Kenneth Zeichner may have been given too much credit by the old ranking system for books and articles that were influential in the past but do not give them as much of a public presence in recent policy debates.

Topics include diversity and free - speech dilemmas, the STEM - humanities debate, sexual assault, the digital future, the crisis in public funding of education and much more.

In a thoughtful essay that kicked off the current round of debate, Robin Lake said her colleagues at the Center for Reinventing Public Education were hearing that «charter authorizers are getting much choosier.»

By: Dr. Scott P. Ardoin, University of Georgia Across the last decade great emphasis and much debate has surrounded the administration of state mandated (SM) tests in public schools.

Much of the public debate over tenure has focused on whether it is possible to fire tenured teachers who are no longer making the grade.

«There hasn't been so much debate because almost every state has allowed them to exist everywhere,» says Luis Huerta, an associate professor of education and public policy at Teachers College in New York.

Changed votes by two Board members over the approval of two Aspire charter schools at this week's Board meeting gave the public a glimpse at a much larger debate over whether charter schools based in Los Angeles should be allowed to operate their special education programs through a partnership with a far - off district that costs...

Like so much of corporate education reform, its real purpose is not to help the needy, but to steer the educational debate in the preferred direction of more privatization of public schools.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

Rather than confront the long - term, gritty challenges of implementing changes needed to fundamentally improve public education, there is a tendency to turn inward to squabbles and debates over the latest new idea — a much less difficult task.

The dramatic change to the publishing landscape brought about by the mushrooming of self - publishing has led to concerns, with the editor of publishing news site Good e-Reader, Michael Kozlowski, saying there needs to be a debate around what constitutes being an author, because «calling everyone authors who put words on a document and submits them to the public devalues the word so much, it makes it meaningless».