Sentences with phrase «policy debates without»

Is it possible to get taken seriously in a domestic - policy debate without at least joking about how you lost your job as New York's tough - on - crime governor because of your involvement in an illegal prostitution ring?

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Too often in the debate, the leaders would give laundry lists of policies and priorities, without giving the viewer enough details or time to be able to follow the conversation.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

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.

While this debate has provided fodder for policy wonks, it has not had much influence on Capitol Hill which seems poised to allow federal unemployment benefits to lapse without much of an alternative strategy for getting the long term jobless working again.

He explains that while that «sincere, personal opposition» can not be «enacted law and public policy» without harming gay couples and violating the Fourteenth Amendment, he favors a continued «open and searching debate» between those who favor and oppose same - sex marriage.

Without the cover and pampering by the press, last night's debate clearly showed your faux liberal god for what he truly is... a man clearly in over his head and incapable of distinguishing between talking points, policies, and facts.

«I have always lived my life with dignity, integrity and honesty; and I can say without hesitation that I brought those same characteristics everyday when I proposed bills, passed legislation, debated public policy, and fought tooth and nail to protect western New York on the floor of the New York State Senate for the past 38 years.»

But it's also raising alarms from critics who worry that key decisions about state energy policy are being rushed without enough public debate.

Iain, I agree with your sentiments and in an ideal world politics should be clean and all about parties being civil, debating issues and policies with the press reporting on it without bias, but British politics is a dirty business.

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.»

From the color of lights on an iconic building to a $ 15 minimum wage to a family - leave policy he signed into law without public debate, Cuomo's control of New York is unlike anything seen in recent times.

People * are * concerned about the junking of long - standing policy without warning during the leadership campaign or debate subsequent to it.

It is disappointing to see how quickly many U.S. policy makers have settled on the cap - and - trade approach without permitting a proper debate to occur on the use of taxes.

«Twenty - two brilliant and experienced leaders coming from the scientific community, policy - makers, industry, and NGOs from both sides of the Atlantic, sitting together in a small room for a day, engaging in a lively, open debate without any taboos, and coming up with recommendations on the do's and don'ts in providing science - based advice to policy - makers.

In polarised and divisive policy debates, as we have seen with climate change, it is all the more important that scientifically accurate and rigorous advice is given freely and without fear or favour.

But these conditions do require serious policy debates: How do you create meaningful autonomies for schools with or without charter statutes?

Because discussions about teacher pay rarely reference these data, the policy debate on education reform has proceeded without a clear understanding of these issues.

But he's long argued that policy issues should not be added into the budget process and this legislation addresses concerns about automatic expansion without proper debate,» says Michael Boerger, an aide to Ellis.

The debates rage on about grammar schools, free schools and funding, but without dealing with teacher recruitment and retention, those policy debates are largely irrelevant.

Healthy Paws quickly covered the costs of all procedures in accordance with the terms of our policy without any hassle or debate.

You write, «It should be possible to discuss such issues without immediately having those discussions projected onto the highly politicized debate concerning approrpiate policy responses.»

It should be possible to discuss such issues without immediately having those discussions projected onto the highly politicized debate concerning approrpiate policy responses.

Part of the reason that elements of the climate change debate take on religious proportions — by the activists for and against policy — is that folks have so dug in around almost every aspect of the debate that it is hard to raise a question about some uncritically accepted element of the religious canon without folks first attacking you as an untrained heathen.

He would have done better to focus also of the unbridled growth of the super-consuming U.S.A., where we debate immigration policy without considering population policy — Paul

But for goodness sake I assume you are just sparking debate, and do actually realise the foreign policy history of «both» America and Russia is not without some failings?

And then there's the issue of hypocrisy when, as observed earlier by Judith Curry, «employees of green advocacy groups can participate as authors of the IPCC reports (without apparent criticism), but a non-advocate scientist [like Lennart Bengtsson] can not participate in a (non-green) think tank without censure from scientist colleagues... Honest brokers are to be preferred over advocates; but the real problem arises when advocates seek to stifle scientific and policy debates.»

Such actions further motivate me to expose the scientific, policy, and moral fallacies perpetrated by such climate «alarmists»: 1) in corrupting the scientific method, 2) in imposing «mitigation» without fully evaluating and debating «adaptation», and 3) in coercively imposing tyrannical totalitarian government to worship «Mother Nature».

Many of the biggest disconnects in the policy debate occur where climate science crosses over into climate engineering — the rules for engineers are very different, it can't be merely plausible that your bridge won't fall down or your grid won't strand people without power when it's 40 degrees below zero.

2.10.2 Intellectual freedom includes: (a) the rights of all Staff to express opinions about the operation of the University and higher education policy more generally; (b) the rights of Staff to pursue critical open enquiry and to discuss freely, teach, assess, develop curricula, publish and research within the limits of their professional competence and professional standards; (c) the right to participate in public debates and express opinions about issues and ideas related to their discipline area; (d) the right of all Staff to participate in professional and representative bodies and to engage in community service without fear of harassment, intimidation or unfair treatment; and (e) the right to express unpopular or controversial views, although this does not mean the right to vilify, harass or intimidate.

And the funniest part is that «skeptics» regularly claim some vast difference in moderation policies without realizing that the distinctions they make are completely aligned with orientation in the debate.

This is the course I've been following, trying to get a feel for the state of the science (without attempting to contribute) so as to better inform my opinions on the policy debate (where I can properly contribute).

The concerns of residents likely to be displaced notwithstanding, environmental policies which will have adverse consequences for the entire UK population have, as we have long been arguing here, gone through the House of Commons almost entirely unopposed and without debate, yet environmental politics have never been tested by the UK democratic process.

Well, (and this is a forlorn hope) it would be helpful to report on the ongoing debate over science and policy without treating climate change like a rancorous «he said, she said» political debate.»»

He does not deviate from the road indicated by Pringle: he keeps the distinction of monetary and policy measures short without engaging in the debate on the historic flaws of the Economic and Monetary Union.

«It is inconceivable that this group could fairly debate and recommend tax policy on Internet retail transactions without a retail representative.»