Sentences with phrase «policy debates ever»

The concept has been influential in policy debates ever since, pretty much across the ideological spectrum.

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People should realize it simply isn't that easy to enact policy and our two - party system does a wonderful job of providing a forum to debate proposed policy before it ever can possibly go into law.

Ever since the 1965 Moynihan Report on «The Negro Family,» the rate of children born in African - American homes without fathers has been a key statistic in social science discussions and policy debates.

Watch as BBC Daily Politics host Andrew Neil gets his hat handed to him — ever so politely - by a 10 - year - old girl named Charlotte in a debate over soda taxes and policies to curb unhealthy foods in... [Continue reading]

The fact that anyone would ever simply assumes that the debate about Labour and its leadership is a debate solely or mostly about policy only shows how unusual — well, weird — people active in politics tend to be.

Arguably now's the time if he's ever going to do it to use the assets he's got a bit more wisely and apply them to things like the debate on tuition fees that they're having at the moment about what the policy is, how they're going to pay for it.

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

So the international Committee on Space Research (called COSPAR) has debated and refined the details of a planetary protection policy that meets the treaty's requirement ever since.

In a posh hotel not far from Central Park, a small group of lobbyists, administrators, and legislators gathered to consider an interesting question: Does anybody in the public schools ever hear the policy debates that rage back and forth at the state level?

One of the reasons I love working on education policy is that academic research on education is ever - evolving, and chock - full of hotly - debated issues.

His hilarious send - up of the Bush administration's horrendous decision to turn the tragedy of Sept. 11 into a reckless and nonsensical invasion of Iraq was acknowledged to be, as one Salon writer put it, not just a blistering critique of Bush's policies but also a ridicule of the «ever - cheapening discourse that passes for political debate» about those policies.

For example, who has worked to stop sensible progress restraining carbon emissions and oil demand, muzzled an open scientific debate on on these issues, kept secret the participants in high level meetings to develop energy policy, vetoed one measure after another that would have advanced his country ever so little in a direction towards climate restraint.

As the policy debate around western water and climate change intensifies, it'll be ever more important to discriminate spin from science in assessing factors shaping droughts, as Roger Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado has been trying to stress.

If anything the role of sustainable development has taken on an ever - increasing footprint in climate policy debates, which may render untenable a narrow focus on emissions.

In turn, «scandals» accusing various scientists of falsifying data or colluding for political reasons have ever since arisen at critical decision - making moments, such as during governmental debates on policies like cap - and - trade.

We are now four decades removed from the energy turmoil of the 1970s, events that profoundly shaped energy debates and policies ever since.

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change has been, ever since, cited in debates about climate policy, the world over, and Nick Stern has become the climate alarmist's chief guru.

Until we have reasonably trustworthy answers to (A) and / or (B), the serious policy debate will continue to be over how much to spend on general precaution and specific preparation for things we don't know will ever happen — let alone when they might occur in the next 100 years.