Sentences with phrase «of robust debate»

Implementing SRM would require overcoming a series of technical, political and ethical challenges, which have been the subject of robust debate for some time.

Why this happens is a topic of robust debate in nutritional circles.

What emerges in Kind of Blue is Ken's enjoyment of robust debate in itself and as a way of refining arguments and seeking a decision.

It's healthy for a democracy, and for a profession that values rights and freedoms, to have these kinds of robust debates.»

Not exact matches

Indeed, there is a robust debate about merits of the policy.

This idea of the Fed switching gears came amid a robust debate over the impasse of fiscal policy.

«You want to have a robust discussion and you want to have competing points of view debated with vigor,» Malek said.

The killings in Florida have also revived the debate over whether teachers should be allowed to carry guns in schools — an idea DeVos, while careful not to outright endorse it, said in an interview last week with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt should «be part of the broader, more robust conversation about how can we avoid these things in the future.»

One of the foundational commitments motivating The Ethics of Interrogation was that robust debate among professionals is central to democratic practice, and so I welcome Mukasey's highly critical assessment of my book.

With interest and debate on these issues growing, FamilyFarmed is taking the lead in presenting a robust discussion of regenerative and organic agriculture on Friday, March 23.

A number of peers belonging to the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) gave a robust defence of the rights of those who do not hold to any religious beliefs during a debate in the House of Lords last night.

«Governor Cuomo is looking forward to a robust discussion of ideas at both debates and we want to thank the sponsors for making these events possible,» said Cuomo campaign spokesman Matt Wing.

I will return to the detail of those legalities because that has occupied much of the afternoon's debate, but it is for that reason and in the interest of avoiding a long judicial process that we concluded that the quickest way to reduce and, we hoped, eliminate cruelty to wild animals in our circuses would be a robust licensing system, which might well result in circuses deciding to stop keeping such animals.»

«The increase in anti-semitic incidents recorded by CST in the early part of last year is deeply troubling and I want to be unequivocal today; I am a proud friend of Israel and welcome a robust debate about how we ensure both a secure Israel and a viable Palestinian state existing side by side,» the prime minister said.

«The independence debate has been robust but overwhelmingly good - natured and it would prove a disservice to those who have participated in it thus far to suggest that with 17 days to go, Scotland is about to disintegrate into absolute carnage on the back of making the most important decision in the country's history.

Following one of the more robust debates so far this year, the state Senate approved legislation that would consolidate state and federal primaries to a single date in August.

«The people of NY deserve a robust, detailed debate on the issues that matter most,» Smith said in a tweet.

A spokesman for Cuomo's campaign says the governor is «looking forward to a robust discussion of ideas at both debates».

They would be in uproar upon learning that a mob had tried to physically force its way into an American television studio and blocked the roads outside, trying to prevent the filming of a political debate which featured a robust and forthright atheist.

«In my view, this Parliament is enhanced when we have people of different experience taking part in our robust debate and when people who have held senior ministerial office continue to contribute to the decisions we have to make,» he added.

Cooper is also planning a more upmarket fundraising push for the good of the party, offering a # 300 - a-head night of «robust debate to define our policy stance» at the lavish Sway restaurant in London.

Let Susan and Randall have a robust and vigorous debate, raise the dialogue, look deeper into issues and how they might be solved for the betterment of our community rather than disenfranchising voters.

They included whether all members should have equal staff budgets, how more robust committee and floor debates could be encouraged and if the terms of the speaker and committee chairs should be limited.

«I welcome the robust debate that can emerge with this wide spectrum of viewpoints among the new members,» he said.

In the end, its staying power may derive from the fact that the debate rests not so much upon numbers as upon an abiding faith in the value of a robust scientific enterprise.

They also argue NE should establish a transparent process for evaluating the various advanced reactor concepts it supports across key performance requirements, in order to enable robust debate on the economic, safety, security and waste implications of various designs.

«I welcome a robust debate in Congress on this issue, and I welcome scrutiny of the details of this agreement,» U.S. President Barack Obama said today.

All of the reports on genome editing call for robust public debate, but the simple fact is that embryo research has proven highly divisive and resistant to consensus, and it is far from clear how to know when there is enough thoughtful deliberation to make policy choices.

The purpose of our publications is to present scientifically robust knowledge in a form accessible to any reader, and thus to serve all those who wish to engage actively and knowledgably in debate on the issues surrounding marine science.

This pre-assessment will allow for placement of individuals into groups that will perhaps challenge their beliefs or preconceptions and stimulate a robust discussion or bring together like - minded individuals for a strong debating side.

With controversy swirling around President Trump's critique of these actions, reactions from school officials, parents, and the wider community will undoubtedly vary, from total support to tolerance to disapproval and threats of discipline (about which, itself, there is robust debate).

The post generated a robust dialogue about the topic, a lot of interesting philosophical debate.

This report brings data from the newly - released 2016 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) to the robust policy and research debate over the extent to which differences in aggregate special education participation rates over racial and ethnic groups represent differences in underlying needs for special education.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

Missing from this debate is a robust discussion or examination of the role of local school boards.

While we didn't get the legislation we wanted this time around, the robust debate and tireless work of our Democratic champions on Senate Bills 187 and 188 has brought this important topic to the forefront like never before.

Australian educators should be part of an informed debate looking at why we are borrowing faulty policy models from the United States, instead of more robust policy ideas from other countries like Finland.

Debate over what it means to be «intelligent» and whether or not the IQ test is a robust tool of measurement continues to elicit strong and often opposing reactions today.

As a simple report on the charter community, the data won't settle any debates over demographics, backfilling, or network vs. independent charter school performance, but it does help paint the picture of NYC's robust charter sector.

The whole point of this debate is this: As we begin to pick up steam in this new generation of gaming, the experiences are becoming more and more lifelike; more and more robust.

As intended, the project has set off a healthy and robust debate about the realities of race, class, and gender privilege within the art world, culminating in the decision of the Yams Collective to withdraw from the Biennial.

But there's a large, robust community of people that have accepted the science for a long time, and have interesting debates over the best way to proceed.

There's nothing there — unless we're talking about some recycled quasi-pseudointellectual garbage from the early days of the global - warming debate, stuff that was rotting in the landfill of rejected ideas even before the superannuated George Bush the Elder was forced, in consequence of his own robust incompetence, to give up the perks and comforts of his presidential lifestyle to tough it out in the chilly autumn of his old age.

What lags what might seem like a good debate to have and one that has to be answered to as the skeptics for good scientists to set up sites like this to argue the cause but come on the evidence is clear, it is not the SUN that has caused the current warming and we have a perfectly robust argument for stating that it is greenhouse gases (all of which has increased).

Whether or not Mann's work shows all that he has claimed is not the question, for the First Amendment protects robust discussion and debate of scientific matters and the freedom to express wrong - headed opinions in inartful ways.

Despite the robust debate over its merits, however, the proposal went down to defeat with only 41 percent of the vote.

It's not that he doesn't inform the debate with robust argument; it's not that Monbiotists too, lack coherent and powerful arguments; it's that an army of ciphers exists, merely to overwhelm them.

That case is supported by multiple, robust lines of evidence, including several that are completely independent of the climate reconstructions debated in the emails.»

In a speech on the Senate floor this past June, he said, «Climate change is one of two or three of the most serious threats our country now faces, if not the most serious, and the silence that has enveloped a once robust debate is staggering for its irresponsibility.»

In an interview with Time Magazine last week, Pruitt said he planned to model his red - team, blue - team debate on Cold War - era discussions of the Soviet nuclear threat and suggested that he believed his agency did not «engage in a robust, meaningful discussion» about the threat posed by carbon dioxide before adopting the endangerment finding.