Sentences with phrase «of wider debate»

Not exact matches

«While his contributions to deep questions in physics were profound, he also contributed to a wide array of extremely important contemporary debates and issues — things such as artificial intelligence, the building of a fair society, pitfalls and problems thrown up by disruptive technologies of tomorrow.
The wisdom of any or all of this is wide open for debate, but it doesn't support the notion that oil has monopolized the Tories» attention.
This raises a number of issues which are the object of vigorous debate at present among monetary authorities world - wide: issues such the appropriate objectives for a central bank and the desirable degree of independence.
Two particular EU policy initiatives worth highlighting in the context of European responses to China's growing economic footprint in the region are: 1) the Europe's Connectivity Strategy and 2) the on - going debate on a potential EU - wide investment screening mechanism.
Dublin's campaign to ratify the eurozone fiscal discipline pact is failing to build momentum against a backdrop of weakening economic growth and a wider European debate about austerity, with almost one - in - five Irish voters still undecided.
Russia is late to the bitcoin party, still debating its legality even as one of the people who helped popularize the digital currency globally says the software that it relies on is too rigid to gain wide adoption.
«I think this rule does touch on this much wider religious freedom debate going on in our country,» said Father John Sims Baker, Chaplin of Vanderbilt Catholic.
A culture of bullying has taken over in this area, and the idea of academic freedom, wide enquiry, and genuine debate and analysis is no longer seen as essential in university life.
I think the conversation between traditional Christian groups and the gay community is much wider than the narrow debate about the biblical view of same - sex relations.
The initiative has sparked a campus - wide debate about biblical interpretation and the roles of women, as well as a second group called Students for Egalitarianism in Marriage.
However, if you should begin to feel that - in the words of your reply to Mr Skarpa - «the debate is going nowhere», just let me know: I too have a concern for the patience of the wider readership.
As a curious side note, this fits in with the wider theology of the New Testament, that of the dramatic inclusion of the Gentiles in God's Kingdom plans — see the debates in the Book of Acts between Paul and Peter, and its refraction in the second chapter of Galatians.
While debate over the understanding of Biblical interpretation lies at the heart of current evangelical discussions concerning women, differences in theological tradition lie at the center of discussions over social ethics, and disagreement over one's approach toward the wider secular culture is surfacing as the focus of controversy regarding homosexuality.
How many times did Mom open it wide to serve a dozen people a holiday meal at which we eagerly stuffed ourselves fuller than she packed the turkey, debated our views of the day's events and laughed as our seemingly meek grandma displayed her sassy side?
In a wide - ranging interview with John Buckeridge, Michael Nazir - Ali, the Anglican Bishop of Rochester encourages Christians in general, and evangelicals in particular, to be more confident about witnessing, debating theology, defending Christian ideals and loving people — whoever they may be.
The pro-con format of the Times feature supplies anecdotes, but it doesn't answer the question of how people are applying the Bible to the debate on a wider scale.
I write not only as one engaged in the wider debate but also as a theologian of one of the communions I hope to see involved in this effort.
Although many of his latter - day prophets ignore this, Smith taught that the social benefit of the free market would be realized only in the wider public sphere, with the populace actively debating matters of common concern and expressing its will through the state.
You do remember, I mentioned, on one of the articles the other day that we were debating on, that at some point, like in «chess,» you often leave yourself wide open....
Paul's letter attempts to rise above the fray, saying that what makes us indispensable to one another, and what distinguishes Christians from the wider world, is not what we eat, or our ability to win a theological debate, or our moral superiority, or the utility of our practices, but our baptism, our unity in the gospel which demands that we remain with one another precisely in those places where we disagree.
The landscape of the missional debate is filled with questions, assumptions, and opinions - along with hard pressed critiques on wider issues such as leadership styles, congregation sizes, vocational / bi-vocational ministry, building church - based or house church - based as well as core theology.
Washington Post: Protests of Va. parish's move away from altar girls reflects wider Catholic debate Mass had just begun at Corpus Christi Catholic Church when Jennifer Zickel, a Sunday school teacher, glanced at the church bulletin and saw something that made her sick to her stomach.
Publications, including this one, sometimes close particular lines of correspondence so as not to wear out the patience of the wider readership, because they are becoming effectively a private dialogue with the same few correspondents and the debate is going nowhere.
The Cappadocian Fathers crystallized the trinitarian debates that followed the Council of Nicaea with formulations that found wide favor in ensuing epochs.
The survey's broader validity may be up for debate, given the small size of the respondent group, but, if taking into account wider reporting on the snacking trend, it does seem to fall into a general indication of the snack market rising to the fore in place of conventional meals.
«In terms of the wider competition debate, all stakeholders would be well minded to keep what's best for customers at the forefront of their minds.»
A proposal that the college kitchens ditch meat and fish for one day a week was initially put forward at a meeting of the JCR (undergraduate student body) then put to a college - wide vote after a well - attended debate.
If the appointment of former Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay at Wigan Athletic, whilst the Scot is still under an FA investigation over alleged racist, sexist and antisemitic text messages sent to Iain Moody, had brought controversy to the club, new comments from owner Dave Whelan, reported by the Guardian, are set to blow the debate wide open.
NFL scouts endlessly debated Brees's height (again), his arm strength and the possible skewing effect of playing in Tiller's wide - open offense (which would be pedestrian by today's standards, just a decade later).
But for those of you who can perhaps broaden this out a little and see what title winning teams around Europe have been doing for the past 5 seasons, and also acknowledge the shift in emphasis with many teams relying more now on goal - scoring potency from wide forwards, wingers, second strikers and attacking midfielders then I think the debate is a little more subtle than the «cut and paste a # 40M «guaranteed 25 goal» centre forward with no possible downside» proposition.
In the interests of debate, a first XI has also been chosen (in bold)-- although there is a distinct lack of wide players!
The blogging community has a wide and diverse range of views and sometimes one can feel like the lone voice on any given subject but the blog exists to allow debate and the airing of those views.
The margins for error are much wider for David Patino's Pumas, although a third consecutive defeat would get the debate rolling about whether the early season form of the Mexico City club was simply a temporary, and slightly misleading, uplift.
They had been assigned to represent either the Federalist or the Republican party during the political debates of the 1790s, and they covered their posters with slogans and arguments supporting the case for their vision of government, preparing for a class - wide debate.
It was such an emotive debate, with a wide variety of people involved, but it was wonderful to hear all the MPs speak about their own experiences, the experiences of their constituents and also on the fantastic work that the various baby loss charities do.
The issue of giving second chances to offendors who have served their time, Curtin says, is one that deserves wider public debate.
Indeed, although they begin their article with the statement, «Frequent overnights were significantly associated with attachment insecurity among infants,» which is what the headlines captured world - wide, they end their article with, «The present study certainly does not resolve debates about frequent overnights and the wellbeing of very young children.»
What makes him so trenchant is his ability to find himself on the inside of variegated debates, to pass through them with «eyes and ears wide open», and to return «to the outside to think and write».
But the whole process and indeed the wider debate it has triggered, pays little heed to considering the rights of the citizen.
«It has to be a debate elevated to a Europe - wide level, with Britain playing a leading role, not just a negotiation of Britain's terms of membership.»
Although this post did not set out to complete a full linguistic analysis of language around «citizens» and citizenship, its initial descriptive findings do link with some of the debates and conversations already happening in both this series and wider scholarship.
The Lib Dem leader accused Labour and the Conservatives of «colluding» to steer the debate away from the wider issue of Britain in the EU.
The former, the Convention, is used if the amendments seem of wide significance, and would require assembling representatives from a broad range of institutions to deliberate and debate the proposals.
Third, the publicity afforded to the most recent debate could be viewed as part of a wider effort by the Chinese to indirectly warn North Korea and demonstrate to the outside world, especially the US, that China is open to a more public discussion of policy.
Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.
As various debates about employer intimidation and control remind us, we too are well acquainted with a wide range of concerns that labour contracts put workers in relationships of arbitrary power and domination with respect to their employers.
What is fascinating about this evolution — and especially most of the academic analysis (and in some cases advocacy) of it has been the degree to which it has ignored wider debates about presidential versus parliamentary forms of government.
The conference «Fuel Poverty: Our Vision for the Future» is supported by National Grid and Northern Powergrid and will focus on six key vision statements exploring the wider issues of fuel poverty including; energy efficiency programmes, fuel poverty and health, the heat or eat debate, hard to treat properties, energy behaviour and a fairer energy market.
The recent plebiscite on Scottish independence has triggered a much wider debate in the UK about the organisation of state power in institutional and territorial terms.
The break up of a UK wide national minimum wage could see England and Wales which, as we know has an in - built Tory majority, scuppering any attempt to increase it, driving wages down not up with Scottish MPs barred from taking part in debates or votes which don't affect Scotland.
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