Sentences with phrase «point in the debate about»

Others, however, saw it as a turning point in the debate about apportioning responsibility for climate change.

Not exact matches

With the country locked in a national debate about what an appropriate living wage should be, pay — in particular the minimum hourly rate — has become a sticking point for many businesses and their workers.

At one point in the CNN debate, the two candidates actually debated who grew up poorer after a question about raising the minimum wage.

In his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debatIn his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debatin the debate:

They quickly pointed out that Europe is too large simply to assume that the world can absorb large changes in its capital and trade accounts, and as they debated about the ways global constraints would affect the assumptions about European surpluses most of them quickly decided that either the markets would not permit surpluses of this size, perhaps by bidding up the euro, or the impact of these surpluses would be very negative for the world.

This post about the Suzuki - Pembina report is a case in point: both sides of the debate seemed to think that I was offering aid and succor to the cause of the climate change deniers.

I mean if we got back to robust economic growth, maybe we could even talk about it, but at this point in the economy, it just seems crazy to even be debating this.»

At that point, it was about masturbation only (no one had made a comparison to homosexuality), so, without much personal stake in the debate, I thought to myself «See, this is why people don't like the answers, not (always) because it doesn't let them do what they want, but because the answers are sometimes very poor indeed.»

At one point in the recent vice presidential debate, the candidates were asked about the role faith has played in their lives.

«If the Church is ever mentioned» in such debates, he pointed out, «it is in the gratitude expressed that we have not attempted to «appease» the Church or the Church hierarchy, or else in the (unintentionally) patronizing allusion to those who care about the University's relationship to the Church as implicitly conceiving the University along the lines of a seminary.»

I see it as a book about the Kingdom of God, and what life looks like when you live into the «other side» of so many of our missing - the - point gender debates in the Church.

I made a point of asking about this at the conference, and theologian Peter Enns offered a brief response, noting that central to this debate is Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 in which Paul draws his famous parallel between Jesus and Adam.

Even more sad is that this article is about real heroes and the point of the article is lost in this religious debate.

Newman pointed me toward the dynamic development of historical debates about dogma, and to the institutional Church as the context and primary agent in these debates.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Per the Book of Galatians, the question of «sin or not» is a valid point to debate in Elementary School; but we can graduate from elementary debates of the Law, and enter into the great dialog about «how» to live the Law of Christ and «how» to experience the Unity of All Believers.

One of the biggest moments in this second GOP debate was Carly Fiorina deftly taking control of the exchange and pointing it toward the macabre activities at Planned Parenthood — and how the top two leaders of the Democratic party are quite content to defend Planned Parenthood and let them go about....

Its categories — such as «Christ against culture» and «Christ of culture» — have ever since been familiar reference points in the field of Christian ethics and in debates about how Christians and the church should engage matters of politics, society and culture.

It has been pointed out that as long as Christians remain embroiled in endless debates about what women can and can not do for Jesus, we are only utilizing half the Church.

But when we see the people on the other side of the debate as the enemy (by calling them names, labeling them or demeaning their convictions), we miss the point of what «fighting for our faith» is supposed to be about in the first place.

Catholic theologians who have questions about the teaching owe the Church, themselves, and their colleagues something more than liberal posturing and point scoring in intramural debates.

This debate about building a mosque near ground zero will have to be looked at in a different perspective, both from the Muslim and non-Muslim point of views.

Reynolds also highlights some of Akyol's oversimplified rhetoric, as when he calls the Paul / James divide «historical fact,» and questions some of Akyol's debatable assumptions about the prominence of Jewish Christianity in Muhammad's Arabia (a point that Reynolds is especially qualified to debate).

«pointing out» that I don't know what I'm talking about, without actually quoting what I got wrong, or even understanding the conversation topic in no way makes you look intelligent or even nominally good at debating.

ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims has addressed the RBB Economics Conference in Sydney backing competition reforms proposed by the Harper Review Panel - three points were highlighted: (1) need to make a choice about s 46 - clearly preferencing a change to an SLC approach; (2) need to extend the Act to cover more government activities; (3) need to debate and decide the issues around competition advocacy and market studies.

But the point of this article is not to engage in the frankly tiresome debates about whether fat people can be healthy (they can).

Debates about whether DW is good enough to be a fully paid up Arsenal 1st X1 player are missing the point in my opinion — he is a fantastic squad option / player and behind every successful club there is a well structured and balanced squad.

In a brand new series of talking point articles we will be introducing topics which will hopefully begin debate on issues and subjects that you will want to «Have Your Say» about.

As a companion piece to Keith Cronin's excellent article on the use of PRP in which the both sides of the debate about PRP are presented, and based on a point - counterpoint debate conducted via email between the two experts whose views are expressed in Keith's piece, Dr. Nathan Mall, associate physician for the St. Louis Cardinals and Director for the St. Louis Center for Cartilage Restoration and RepairRegeneration Orthopedics, and Andrew M. Blecher MD, a Primary Care Sports Medicine physician and Medical Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine at the Southern California Orthopedic Institute in Van Nuys, California, here are what Drs. Mall and Blecher have to say about the current state of the research on PRP.

Having written about the debate in the recent past, I don't see much point in rehashing the controversy in detail.

2 Another great point about this «environmental equals» when looking at the diapering debate that Mindy Pennybacker and Aisha Ikramuddin make in their book, Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet.

The chairman pointed to a confidential Weinberg Group document published in 2006, in which the firm suggested to DuPont de Nemours & Company several ways it could help «shape the debate» about one of its chemical products.

Tempting as those options are for politicians, the question really is, why on earth didn't we have that debate about just how valid those points were that Ken Macdonald was raising back in 2009?

You will clearly notice this in interviews and debates, where a candidate asked about topic X will very frequently give generic non-committal response to X and somehow turn the answer into how it relates to campaign point Y.

Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

The point about class was well made in the Commons debate establishing the Speakers Conference by Tony Wright MP, which I reported on it on LC at the time http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/11/13/speakers-conference-on-diversity-in-parliament/

[158] In a statement, Brooks said that «my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate» and stated that she would «concentrate on correcting the distortions and rebutting the allegations about my record».

In that case, why is the debate so emphatic about «humans aren't culpable» (which seems irrelevant) and not on the takeaway point that you'd expect to be held, which is «sorry, humans can't do anything about it»?

Finally, Hein could go point - by - point against Astorino in a debate about how state programs and mandates play out on the local level.

Though Clinton has a steady lead of about a dozen points in polls of New York Democrats, she also may move in the debate to blunt Sanders» momentum from his recent wins.

«Too often in debates about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only global warming in excess of 2 °C represents a threat to humanity,» says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, College Park.

The agency's findings could be a turning point in the heated national debate about whether contamination from fracking is happening, and are likely to shape how the country regulates and develops natural gas resources in the Marcellus Shale and across the Eastern Appalachian states.

There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.

In its statement, IWC points out its reviews and reports «have been widely debated and referenced by parties on all sides of the [scientific whaling] debate including the 2014 ruling of the International Court of Justice,» which found that Japan's whaling program was not about science.

The debate centres on the finer points of flower architecture, but points to a broader concern about using statistical models and large data sets to tackle biological questions, says Pamela Soltis, a plant biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

In doing so, she was wading into a debate about eastern box turtle variation that has lasted more than 80 years, with some scientists suggesting that fossil and modern box turtles are all the same species, while others — pointing to a distinction in size or shape — hypothesizing that some fossils represented a separate, extinct specieIn doing so, she was wading into a debate about eastern box turtle variation that has lasted more than 80 years, with some scientists suggesting that fossil and modern box turtles are all the same species, while others — pointing to a distinction in size or shape — hypothesizing that some fossils represented a separate, extinct speciein size or shape — hypothesizing that some fossils represented a separate, extinct species.

I feel like maybe a magazine article about a single woman's opinion doesn't quite hold the same weight in a debate as the body of medical research done over the decades pointing to plants as the dietary indicator of health and longevity, across all factors like gender, nationality, or level of activity.

Many women have spent ages on different forums learning about what works, and debating how many calories should be eaten at any given point in time.

No one at the end of 1917 was debating whether the directing debut of John Ford or the first appearance of Vittorio de Sica augured longer careers to come (in fact, both would be making films for the next five - plus decades) or weighing the industry impact of Mary Pickford's box - office smash Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm or (to the point of my own research) speculating about the future of slapstick star Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle's new sidekick, a vaudeville refugee named Buster Keaton.

It has points to make about screen violence, but whether it succeeds in making those points is open to debate.