Sentences with phrase «over debates like»

The steadily improving economy, Falkirk and Tory ascendancy over debates like immigration and welfare had Labour on the back foot throughout the summer.

Not exact matches

Even though Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency, the debate over replacing Obamacare has revealed the unified government to be more like a dysfunctional family at a Christmas dinner.

It sounds like the sort of trivial debate you might have with a friend over drinks at a pub, but here's an actual back and forth I had with my phone the other day while driving.

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.

And while the debate over the impact of unlimited money in politics may seem like an American problem, we probably shouldn't get too smug.

But these technologies are incapable of understanding or correctly responding to more complex conversations, like debating what's the best Beatles album or arguing over a cable bill.

(Yet Trump also likes to play cat - and - mouse with Fox and others over whether he will attend debates, which earns him even more free publicity.)

Xaxis and online ad buyers like it have been at the center of a debate over online privacy, as the effectiveness of the campaigns they run requires anonymously tracking users as they surf the web.

No matter where one stands on the debate over safety - net programs like welfare and food stamps, or massive federal undertakings like Obamacare, everyone agrees that those need taxation to fund them.

Any genuine debate on this point isn't over principle, but enforcement, like setting out what's a reasonable split when family members really do contribute.

Gun makers are again the center of a national debate over how to put an end to mass shootings, and their stocks are trading like things are different this time.

Like the debate over Austin's best BBQ joint, the issue wasn't settled during SXSW.

Like many Canadians we have been taken back by the current debate over the support our government provides, or better still does not provide, to our military and to our veterans.

As President Donald Trump takes the country closer to an economic nationalism that calls for tearing up agreements like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, potentially enacting higher tariffs on imports and obsessing over trade deficits, it is worth reflecting on a similar debate that inflamed the electorate 130 years ago.

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

Central banking and the debate over central planning passed each other like two ships in the night in the early 1900s.

In response to the ongoing debate over H.R. 4015 — a bill that was submitted to the U.S. Senate for consideration after approval by the House of Representatives on December 21, 2017 — Glass Lewis would like to -LSB-...]

The national security is a wrinkle in a larger debate over manufacturing in America: whether the government should intervene to shelter a place like Hawesville from the winds of global trade.

I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?

If you look around you, I think you'll find that the debates we're having are over fundamental aspects of theology — but people are so far from the truth that they seem like hairs to them.

You are correct, if one assumes atheism or a fundamentally different religious cosmology, that the possibility I stated will seem like a false cause (this unemployment came later, therefore that cosmic battle caused it), but again, that would come down to the age - old debate over whether there is a God v. Satan battle in the classical Christian sense (do either God or Satan exist and, if so, how?).

We will have any debate you would like over things you are willing to actually accept when you lose.

Then I read Donald MIller's book «Blue Like Jazz» and it flipped my trajectionary around from trying to know and debate a perfect arguement and win people over through theological submission, to wow, God not only Loves me, but He likes me?

The debate over Calvinism is not so much about theology, but about this question: «What is God like?»

I think that the church has far more pressing and «simple» concerns than a debate over premillenialism and the like.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Ro 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

In that sense, the Presbyterian debates do not feel like friendly arguments over the breakfast table, or even the more heated kinds of exchanges that might take place in the presence of a marriage counselor.

The head of a controversial assisted - suicide group in Switzerland says he will seek legal permission to help a Canadian woman and other healthy people like her kill themselves, raising startling new issues in the emotional debate over euthanasia.

The debates over what documents were to be excluded did not affect the heart of the New Testament at all, but were concerned primarily with the more peripheral writings like James, II Peter, Jude, or Revelation.

The interesting thing about this whole debate is how our ideas of how we interpret what the Bible says about what hell would be like have changed over time.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Romans: And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

[Apparently this post caused quite a stir over at Justin's site, where his readers are currently debating whether or not I'm actually a Christian and whether Justin should have «extended the hand of fellowship» to someone like me.]

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.»

For anyone who isn't sick of the debate over Mel Gibson, anti-Semitism, and whether people who liked The Passion should repent in sackcloth and ashes now that its creator's sheets - to - the - wind sentiments about the Jews have been revealed, I'd recommend dipping into Mark....

«I think the debate over America's moral position comes down to this: Republicans want the best outcomes based on solutions that fit into preconceived notions of what society should look like.

just leave the debate to scholars, you're not convincing people over the internet that you're right... it's not worth arguing... it just makes you look hateful... so... seriously folks like «colin» or «willie» or «laughing» if you're so sure in your beliefs..

The kids were completely disinterested in the Chai Pumpkin Bread, unsurprisingly, and as of late I haven't been baking things that Juliet particularly likes, so I offered to make her something she'd like, and after some waffling over the cookies vs. muffins debate, she made her wishes known: Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins, please.

Just like the folks in North Carolina and Tennessee argue over whether sauce should be tomato - based or made with vinegar and cue fans in Texas and Kansas City carry on the beef versus pork controversy, barbecue's bite is open to debate.

We debated this a lot because we were, like, people are going to look over at us when it's messy and it's going to be terrible!

To extend the analogy to television, the World Series is a serial drama, like True Detective or Homeland, something that can bore you, thrill you, confuse you, make you debate its value and worth over a long span of time.

I truly don't know where you stand on the debate over the knee thing but if you're going to put down info, don't be comparing apples to oranges like you did and don't be saying that there are only 5 teams he's qualified to play for when it's more like 19 assuming that you're even remotely accurate that he couldn't be playing one of the safety positions in a 3 - 4.

- «There will be some debate over whether players like Clint Dempsey, Chris Wondolowski, or Juan Agudelo still have a place in this team.»

Repeat Wenger out all you like, funny how repeating the same phrase over and over is a sign of low intelligence, people with higher intelligence prefer a debate, not to be told something over and over.

Typically, whenever it looks like Nebraska needs to make a coaching search, it ignites debates over how good a coaching job Nebraska actually is.

But for the larger group of casual fans with an outside curiosity about the national championship or the sport in general, the constant hammering over the head with terms like «native sandy areas» (and attendant rules parsing, delay, and debate) will sound like the stuff of a niche sport, and is a turnoff.

Many men, many minds!The debate over the topic «The best player on earth» is something like raising a storm in a teapot.

And if you feel like a debate today, check out the lively discussion on this topic going on over at BlogHer.