Sentences with phrase «over the issue of»

Mines minister Norman Moore has attacked South West Greens MLC Lyn MacLaren accusing her of whipping up hysteria over the issue of a proposed coal mine in Margaret River.

Colin Barnett didn't win any friends at a rally over the issue of local content on resources projects.

In a debate hosted by City AM last week, Khan and Goldsmith clashed over the issue of race, amid allegations by the latter that Khan had given «platforms, oxygen and even cover» to religious extremists.

The campaign to become London's next mayor intensified last week when Khan and Goldsmith clashed over the issue of tube and bus fares.

Chinese state media also praised May for her wisdom and pragmatism in sidestepping calls to challenge Beijing over issues of human rights and Hong Kong's sovereignty.

So it's advisable you ponder over the issue of control carefully before making up your mind on the source of capital to pursue.

Before the Dominion Elections Act (1920), voting in Canadian federal elections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recommend it).

Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, two presidential candidates who sparred over the issue of Texas vaccinations, may be floundering in the polls, but the topic of Merck's controversial Gardasil is heating up — with an Austrian physician who studied the drug saying it is not only dangerous, but useless in reducing cervical cancer, the stated reason it was administered to young girls at the behest of Gov. Perry.

One of the country's most influential churches has signalled it is prepared to step back from the Church of England over the issue of sexuality.

In our age, when there is so much confusion over issues of ethics that are family issues in one way or another, the Enlightenment and its adherents have little to say.

It makes perfect if unfortunate sense, then, that the Anglicans are today imploding over the issue of homosexuality.

It is difficult, however, not to fall into the cynical suspicion that the «deliberation» was merely the usual bureaucratic jockeying over issues of institutional prestige, resources, and the avoidance of blame.

The main problems with the religious right, Harris says, include disregard for poverty and international justice (particularly for women), obsession over the issues of abortion and gay marriage, and a mindset that generally embraces greed - centered capitalism.

But it is over the issues of abortion that the good doctor stumbles most egregiously.

from what i've learned from the history, the acts 29 thread, and the emergent thread both were part of the young leaders network, and were all together until they split — primarily over the issue of women in leadership.

So we argue and condemn people over the issue of infant baptism vs. adult baptism, baptism by sprinkling vs. baptism by immersion, and whether a person should be baptized in the name of Jesus vs. in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Cindy, I share your grief... especially remembering how Southern Baptists, Southern Presbyterians, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South separated from their northern sisters and brothers over the issue of slavery in the 19th century.

Especially in a country in which folk wisdom and popular religion have diverse cultural sources, the appeal to these is often highly divisive, as today over issues of abortion and homosexuality and religious practices in the schools.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich quickly jumped in to push back on Romney, siding more with Cain over the issue of Islam.

He did experience some controversy with Martin Luther over the issue of consubstantiation, but even this controversy with Martin Luther — the «father» of the Reformation itself — only solidified Calvin's position of prominence in the minds of many.

The NALC officially formed in 2010 from congregations, laypeople, and clergy that broke away from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (and of Canada) over issues of scriptural authority.

In 1977 the chief counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the late John Baker, warned of a coming crisis for the church over the issue of property taxation.

Internal Pentecostal relationships are more complex — with splits along racial lines, according to commitment to the Holiness doctrine of sanctification, and even more deeply over the issues of the «Jesus only» doctrines of the Trinity.

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

The gender wars are nowhere more in evidence than over the issue of divorce.

A long and engaged effort at Communion - wide consultation over the issue of women in the episcopacy gave rise to a report, endorsed by the Communion's archbishops, to maintain communion as far as possible even while various churches carried on with different practices.

The task of confronting the nonevangelical world over the issue of Biblical authority is being undercut by the desire to challenge fellow evangelicals» notions of inspiration What is distinctively evangelical needs again to be forcefully presented to the wider Christian community.

As an example, he relates a time he was in a denominational meeting and tempers began to flare over the issue of women in ministry.

For the first time since the Christian church split into West and East in 1054 over issues of papal authority and the source of the Holy Spirit, a Roman Catholic pope and the heavyweight of the Eastern Orthodox Church will sit down together.

In the early decades of the second century, the Jerusalem community was itself divided and in painful conflict over the issue of Hellenism, from the priesthood on down.

It is a shame therefore that at the Reformation the church split over the issue of justification by faith.

GAFCON said while the Primates» Meeting has been portrayed as «good disagreement» over issues of sexuality, and that the theological convictions underlying the different positions can be set aside for the sake of institutional unity, this was false.

Martin Luther, for example, that great reformer who battled the Catholic church over the issue of how to receive eternal life, called the book of James, «a right strawy epistle» meaning that there was nothing in it but wood, hay and stubble.

For example, over a decade and a half ago Process Studies contained a well - known exchange between Charles Hartshorne and Peter Bertocci over the issue of personal identity (see P1, HPI).

Christians are increasingly divided over the issue of the acceptance and inclusion of gay persons into the church.

Friends, It really troubles me when I see people fighting over issues of God and Christianity.

A tension exists within the movement over the issue of latent utilitarianism.

We are now even, so will you stop burning things over the issue of Islam being denigrated?

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

Now, the Catholic Church of the 1980s was nothing like as potent a force as it had been in the age of Cardinal Spellman, when it could count on the solid electoral support of most of its faithful, and it already faced major revolts over issues of gender and sexuality.

Jewish representative Barney Frank, for example, in Massachusetts retained his seat in a heavily Roman Catholic area despite late, strongly directed attacks by the conservatives and the Roman Catholic Archbishop in the area over the issue of abortion.

The result is a readable, intelligent, and highly competent survey of the intense sectional controversies that arose over the issue of the extension of slavery to the western territories from the 1840s until the outbreak of war.

There is a lot of debate over the issue of eating breakfast.

The NCAA nearly ruptured in 1950 over the issue of pay - for - play.

It would be disingenuous if I were to skirt over the issue of Chelski fans and their appalling behaviour in Paris, it would be irresponsible to simply join the bandwagon and condemn a single club and their fans (distasteful as they are, with their list of racist incidents is as long as my arm) over the despicable behaviour they exhibited.

I am NOT a man that would ever be unfaithful OR break up my family over the issue of her weight, nor do I hound, whine, or degrade her because of it.

-LSB-...] on his D.C. school district over the issue of rebates and volume discounts, originally discussed here on The Lunch Tray.

Ed Bruske, school food blogger and former WashPo reporter, continues to put pressure on his D.C. school district over the issue of rebates and volume discounts, originally discussed here on The Lunch Tray.

Since Kelly «s departure, the park board has been split over the issue of giving the job and title to Madison.

I also have sympathy for schools over the issue of wasted fruit and the impact on already strained budgets.