Sentences with phrase «of political debate in»

Fairness in policy has come to the fore - front of political debate in Australia in the face of 2014 budget proposals which were perceived to have been unfair in that they would adversely affect disadvantaged groups in the Australian community.

Unfortunately and shockingly, health has not been in the forefront of political debate in India and hence has never been the govt's priority.

Hitting back at Gandhi for the tweet, Prasad said judiciary has never been made part of any political debate in the country.

Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for the tweet, Ravi Shankar Prasad said judiciary has never been made part of any political debate in the country.

One of my biggest problems with the nature of political debate in Australia at the moment is Tony Abbot's invocation of his «mandate» as a reason for the Australian Labor Party and other minor parties to support his repeal of the carbon tax.

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.

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.

What both the nationalist and anti-capitalist visions have in common, however, is their framing of the political debate in terms of «us» versus «them».

Indeed, almost paradoxically, Europe forms a big part of the political debate in the run up to the European elections of 2014.

To conclude, the quotes that Keith Vaz fed to the press regarding the report encapsulate the nature of the political debate in the country, in particular the consensus between the main parties in terms of stated political goals and values on immigration.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, as various pundits and historians across the globe debate if and how Trump's surprising political ascendancy will shift the overall tone of U.S. politics going forward, the candidate himself feels like only a win in November will make a difference.

While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

«In recent months, there have been complaints about the political sensibilities of speakers invited to address a corporate audience; debates over the appropriate length of paternity leave or work - life balances,» Moritz wrote.

The group said the «Autumn of Discontent» is «set to bring the issue of Brexit and remaining in the EU to the forefront of political debate.»

Despite the fact that Trump was widely viewed as having lost the recent debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the election itself is just over a month away, the candidate chose to tweet not about the political issues in the campaign but about his dislike of former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado.

Trump, known for his use of Twitter to drive political debate, tweeted about an Indiana air conditioner maker he featured in his election campaign as an emblem of trade deals he said were unfavorable to American workers.

This «fantasy speech» by Joe Oliver and the high likelihood that all political leaders will indulge themselves in a bit of «fact fantasy» suggests to us that there is a need for an «official fact checker» to keep a little bit of honesty in the political debate.

April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

«We'd prefer to just be helping people get from point A to point B, but when the company starts to succeed, in a city, or in a country, or around the world, you start to get brought into more and more of these political debates.»

It's worth keeping in mind, though, that because Facebook is so dominant, the question of its governance is ultimately a political question, and to that end the shifts in the terms of debate, if not yet its outcome, have been striking.

The political calendar in Washington — where Republicans are occupied with a make - or - break debate over tax legislation — means there is little prospect of a dramatic breakthrough or angry walkout in Mexico City this week.

After more than seven hours of emotional debate that hit the sensitive political subjects of gun control, education and race, the House voted 67 - 50 in favor of the bill, sending it to Gov. Rick Scott.

The promise of «no new taxes, no service cuts» has put Alberta's Tories in an unenviable political bind and set the tone for this year's provincial budget debate.

Both politicians are in need of a big political wins and both sides of this debate have continued to dig in their heels.

While many are willing to concede that they agree with the basic definition of feminism — «belief in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes» — debate soon moves on to the finer points of specific beliefs and campaigns.

In the Arizona case you had a deranged man who did not seem connected to any political movement and who was uninterested in the partisan debates of our timIn the Arizona case you had a deranged man who did not seem connected to any political movement and who was uninterested in the partisan debates of our timin the partisan debates of our time.

Moreover, Cruz's supposedly killer argument, that once the subsidies begin in January the political possibility of repeal is likely lost, because you know, no entitlement has ever been taken - back, just seems extremely weak — it has a freshman - debate - practice aroma.

Opposing views of right and wrong are best addressed and accommodated in a democratic political debate, with the judiciary serving the vital but secondary role of ensuring that basic rights are protected to prevent oppression of minorities by majoritarian rule.

You don't think the «elephant in the room» of OUR time is the fact that we awkwardly pretend affirmative action isn't racist; abortion isn't murder; people compare the gay marriage debate to 300 + years of black slavery, oppression, and / or murder; and the major political parties act like Ron Paul doesn't exist?

What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

2 There is an ancient debate regarding whether all human action (and, therefore, all political action) is solely in pursuit of self - interest.

But because of political circumstances and the way Gingrich parried a question about the accusation during Thursday's CNN debate, the episode may cause relatively little fallout among evangelical voters, who are expected to make up about 60 % of the vote in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

But the charge puts me in mind of the colloquium discussion in the January issue of First Things which treated the debate between so - called «liberal» and «radical» Catholics, perhaps because my contribution to that discussion has elicited similar accusations of political irresponsibility or moral cowardice from people sympathetic to the liberal line of thought.

The willingness to classify political views which should be respected, such as leaving or staying in the EU, as «extreme», shows the danger of focusing the extremism debate on beliefs we may find uncomfortable or disagree with, rather than on actions that threaten lives.»

So last night our own Peter Lawler debated leading Darwinian Conservative Larry Arnhart here at RIT over the explanatory power of Darwinian evolution to capture to the totality of human experience in general and American political experience in particular.

The point here is not to debate the relative merits of Hobbes and Locke, but to stress the atomistic individualism of modern political theory in both these forms.

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

This book breaks new ground both in Jewish thought and in larger debates about the philosophical and religious grounding of political theory.

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism By Wendy Steiner University of Chicago Press, 232 pages, $ 24.95 It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars»» the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied....

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

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Publication of The Black Book of Communism in November 1997 in France stirred up a major political and intellectual debate, propelling this academic study of the nature of tyranny onto the best - seller list.

The great political genius of Federalist polemics in the ratification debate was the manner in which they appropriated this concept to deflect claims to state sovereignty, discount Anti-Federalist charges that they were undemocratic, and render the Constitution an expression of popular will.

These activities include, of course, the expression of political views and participation in debates over the issues of the day.

We are closer to the truth, I believe, if we acknowledge that the debates in which we are embroiled are the products of moral, cultural, and political change.

Although there have been some clever moves in political philosophy to explain why the religious voice should not be a part of our public debates, such theories wind up describing debates from which deeply religious people are simply absent.

Back in the «70s, when evangelicals were debating Reformed - versus - Anabaptist perspectives on faith and politics, I participated in a forum in which a self - proclaimed «radical Christian» urged all of us to «stand over against everything this American political system stands for.»

First off, let me alert you that we're having a debate between Jay Cost and Sean Trende (the two most prominent and astute of the young and constantly online political analysts) on the current presidential nomination system at Berry next Thursday, December 1 at 5:30 in Krannert.