Sentences with phrase «of political debate»

Last year, the city saw quite a bit of political debate over it.

We really should take religion out of political debates.

To ban one side of a political debate from making its case is to condemn them in advance, denying them an opportunity to speak in their own defense.

Education and the responsibility of our government to provide it have been part of the political debate since our nation's earliest days.

To wit, look at the level of political debate... long forms and death panels.

That's where the focus of the political debate about waste products should be.

After protesters turned away buses of undocumented immigrants bound for a processing center, the town now finds itself at the center of the political debate on immigration.

Finally, since this is becoming more of a political debate than anything else, if you want to respond I would request you move the discussion to chat.

This question is a source or anxiety for seniors — and will become an even hotter source of political debate as people start living longer.

The department's letter comes as school districts across the country are going about the business of educating all their students, regardless of the political debate on immigration reform.

The result is that more decisions have to be made in the public arena of political debate.

And that's what we're doing today, we're giving our clock new time, new life... We oftentimes say things in the heat of the political debate.

But whether increasing government spending will boost or harm the economy is obviously a hot topic of political debate.

They seem to accept the narrow confines of the political debate that are set by the right.

Why, then, is the party rarely at the dinner table of political debate, instead occasionally brought along as the evening's entertainment?

The admission of wrongdoing by a prominent climate scientist is likely to fuel the fires of the political debate around climate science, regardless of what the documents reveal.

It is not the job of a scientist to determine the outcome of political debates.

It is fundamentally authoritarian - whichever side of the political debate it is on and whoever it is directed towards.

The essay is a sign that the fundamental terms of political debate in America are changing.

The less obvious but potentially equally devastating factor is that voters may look to the terms of political debate in countries such as France and conclude that austerity is more of a lifestyle choice than an economic imperative.

Despite two years in which school reform was at the forefront of the political debate in New Jersey, a majority of the state's residents are happy with the education provided by their local public schools, according to a poll released Tuesday.

It puts the Tories bang in the middle of political debate for ordinary people — and makes them even more attractive in the vast numbers of seats that the Tories are currently already viable in.

A galvanizing new work from America's leading economic critic — a book that will set the terms of the political debate for years to come.

The large gap between perception and reality of scientific agreement reflects the heated nature of political debates over policy on the issue, as well as the impact of efforts to raise skepticism about scientific consensus.

The Dems» fractious online army attempted to pull the party to the unelectable margins of political debate.

Together, the black - and - white prints formed one motif that recalled the Palace of the Republic, a building that had just been demolished on that very site after several years of political debate.

These Americans (who are becoming a larger fraction of the electorate every year) have a particularly skewed view of our political debate.

The structure of the political system only accepts these ossified structures of political debate.

Sociology has penetrated the marketplace and the realm of political debate.

Journalists» rights to intrude on people's private lives are at the centre of political debate today.

The polarisation of the political debate using scientific terms is an impediment to understanding the actual arguments being made.

Margaret Thatcher was finally laid to rest after ten days of political debate today, amid extraordinary pomp and ceremony in St Paul's cathedral.

If the UK government chooses to pursue pro-development policies, maintain its powerful and varied role on the word stage, and to make a concerted effort to change the tone of the political debate, then opportunities will emerge.

At the same time, we've heard a lot of political debate about Common Core, mostly about the involvement of the federal government in our classrooms.

The encouraging thing for the Conservative party is not only that these think tanks have additional capacity and quality, but that they are all focused on those issues that are going to be at the heart of political debate in the next few years.

«Within the exhibition the piece also stood out metaphorically to me and the visitors, reflecting the preoccupation of political debates with the ongoings in America.

This is becoming a matter of political debate and threatens to run into a lament at austerity and the narrowing of the public realm.

That favourite British obsession, class, has reared its head once again as a major feature of political debate.

Christians may also he attracted to an approach advanced by former Harvard professor John Hart Ely who argues that courts should not themselves choose substantive constitutional values, but should issue rulings that keep the processes of political debate and decision - making open to all.

The upshot is the suppression of political debate about the common good, which is why thorough - going libertarians are such a destructive force in our political culture, perhaps as much so as contemporary liberals whose main vice is the serene smugness that assumes that all we have left is administration because everybody worth talking to already agrees with them about first principles.

Now, after Ronald Reagan rewrote the rules of political debate, it's backwards: the Democrats find themselves promising to follow Republican market initiatives, only with more heart and less human cost.

In some ways the media spectrum of South Africa is broader than our own, because the churches and universities there are in the mainstream of political debate and their spheres of influence are less narrowly construed than our own.

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.

It needs the philo - Russian parties in Transnistria to be full and legitimate members of the political debate in Moldova, and it needs them to participate more actively in setting the agenda for the future of Moldova.

As the current protest has grown, it has rekindled a desire for change amongst lower - working class citizens, as their daily struggle has finally returned to centre - stage of political debate.

First, anti-establishment forces are slowly but steadily changing the nature and content of political debate overall.

Many of us spent the weekend glued to Twitter, which was simultaneously the fastest source of news, a place to share in outrage and, unfortunately, the staging ground for the worst aspects of political debate.